From calendar-notification at google.com Wed Nov 22 15:00:03 2017 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:00:03 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Laura Kotevska @ Thu 23 Nov 2017 15:00 - 16:30 (Current Projects) Message-ID: <94eb2c191856b328b8055e8a5ae3@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Laura Kotevska The Non-Mathematical Ambitions of Antoine Arnauld This paper will examine the Nouveaux ?l?ments de G?om?trie of 1667, a seemingly unlikely intervention in the mathematical culture of the mid-seventeenth century for Antoine Arnauld, a firebrand theologian and author of works on topics in logic and grammar. The aim of this paper is to examine Arnauld?s reasons for penning a revised edition of Euclid?s Elements particularly given the hostile attitudes of fellow theologians who insisted that the practice of mathematics was a futile, trivial, and vainglorious misuse of time. In this talk I show that Arnauld created a geometry that he hoped would serve in the cultivation of moral, spiritual and intellectual virtues. In order for geometry to serve these propaedeutic goals, Arnauld believed a new edition of Euclid was required, one that was cleaved of the epistemological, methodological and mathematical confusions he thought were common in contemporary editions. The account of Arnauld?s mathematical interventions I offer connects his mathematical treatise to concerns in moral philosophy, theology and epistemology. These reflections, I argue, are indispensable to developing any account of mathematical practice in the early modern era. 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URL: From richard.menary at mq.edu.au Fri Nov 24 10:59:32 2017 From: richard.menary at mq.edu.au (Richard Menary) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:59:32 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Predictive Engines: Andy Clark and Predictive Processing at Macquarie 11-13 December 2017 Message-ID: <1F371318-2A90-466A-AAD5-0A59A893F82C@mq.edu.au> Second Announcement: Philosophers of mind and cognition are warming up to the consequences of the predictive processing framework for how we should explain the structure and function of the brain, cognitive processes and even consciousness. The unique selling point of the framework is that it will unify perception, cognition and action within a single explanatory framework (Friston and Stephan 2007, Hohwy 2013, Clark 2016). Even more astonishing is the claim that a single principle, the free energy principle, is the ultimate explanation for all of the above, as well as the evolution of the brain as a predictive engine (Friston 2013). In amongst the empirical applications of predictive processing, a diverging set of philosophical accounts of the framework have recently emerged. In particular Andy Clark?s (2013, 2016) action oriented account of the framework which gives more emphasis to the role of embodied action and Jakob Howhy?s (2013) account of the framework as largely a matter of internal predictive processes in the brain (Howhy 2013, Fabry 2017). These are important statements that frame predictive processing and the free energy principle in terms of externalism and internalism about the mind. This conference explores both the philosophical and empirical consequences of the predictive turn and brings together Clark and Hohwy at a conference in Australia for the first time. Conference venue: Monday 11th 9.30 - 12 The Incubator Macquarie University, 13.00 - 17.00 Macquarie Theatre. Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th The Incubator Macquarie University 9.30 - 16.30 Schedule of talks: Monday 11th The Incubator Macquarie University (can easily be found on google maps) 9.00 Opening remarks and welcome to country 9.30 ? 11.00 Andy Clark (Edinburgh/Macquarie) Only Predict: On the Nature, Scope and Limits of Predictive Processing 11.00 ? 12.00 David Kaplan (Macquarie) Bayesian Modelling, Constraints, and Unification 12.00 ? 13.00 Lunch (not provided) Macquarie Theatre: C5C T1, Wally?s Walk. 13.00 ? 14.00 Regina Fabry (Giessen) Into the Dark Room: A Predictive Processing Account of Major Depressive Disorder 14.00 ? 15.00 Michael Kirchhoff (Wollongong) Nested Markov Blankets and the Boundaries of Mind 15.00 ? 15.30 ? Coffee 15.30 ? 16.30 ? Richard Menary (Macquarie) Predictive Engines and the Free Energy Principle 16.30 ? 17.00 Discussion led by John Sutton (Macquarie) Tuesday 12th The Incubator Macquarie University 9.30 ? 11.00 Jakob Hohwy (Monash) Prediction Error Minimisation vs. Embodied Cognition 11.00 ? 12.00 Phillip Gerrans (Adelaide) SADness and Precision 12.00 ? 13.00 Lunch (not provided) 13.00 ? 14.00 Rachael Brown (ANU) Bridging the Gap: Plausibility, Enculturation and Cognition 14.00 ? 14.15 Coffee 14.15 ? 15.15 Sidney Carls-Diamante (Auckland) Predictive Processing in the Octopus: Issues and Implications 15.15 ? 16.15 Ken Cheng (Macquarie) Embodied, Extended, and Enactive Cognition in Animals: Varieties of Situated Cognition 19.00 Conference Dinner, registration required. Wednesday 13th The Incubator Macquarie University 9.30 ? 10 Coffee 10 ? 11.30 Jennifer Windt (Monash) Bodily Self-sampling & the Body-Brain-Body Problem: A Predictive Processing Perspective on Dreams & Sleep 11.30 ? 12.30 Dan Hutto (Wollongong) Getting Into Predictive Processing's Great Guessing Game: Bootstrap Heaven or Hell? 12.30 ? 1.30 Lunch (not provided) 1.30 ? 2.30 Colin Wastell (Macquarie) Responding to novel problems: Complex Emergent Modularity and Predictive Processing 2.30 ? 3.00 Coffee 3.00 ? 4.00 Colin Klein (Macquarie) Belief and Desire, Credence and Value, The Good and The Typical, and Other Pairs you Probably Shouldn?t Identify. 4.00 Final remarks ? Richard Menary (Macquarie) Attending the conference is free, but spaces are limited. Please contact Alex Gillett if you would like to attend: alexander-james.gillett at students.mq.edu.au Dr. Richard Menary Associate Professor ARC Future Fellow Macquarie University Department of Philosophy ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: