From administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Tue Feb 6 11:31:19 2018 From: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au (Chris Lawless) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:01:19 +1030 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?REMINDER_-_ENTRIES_CLOSING_SOON=3A_AAP_Media?= =?utf-8?q?_Prize_=E2=80=93_Call_for_Entries_-_Closes_midnight_28th?= =?utf-8?q?_February=2C_2018=2C_AEDT?= Message-ID: REMINDER - ENTRIES CLOSING SOON - Closes midnight 28th February, 2018, AEDT. *AAP Media Prize ? Call for Entries* The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) offers an annual prize of $500 for the best philosophical piece(s) published by a professional philosopher in the popular media in Australasia during the previous calendar year. First awarded in 1999, the main criterion for the award of the prize is the ability of the piece(s) to engage the interest of the general public in philosophy or some philosophical issue. Consideration is also given to the quality of the philosophical discussion and to the size of the audience reached. Previous winners of the AAP Media Prize include Russell Blackford (2017), Matthew Beard (2016), Henry Martyn Lloyd (2015), Patrick Stokes (2014), Damon Young (2013), Paul Biegler (2012), Peter Slezak (2011), Caroline West (2010) and John Armstrong (2009). The prize will be awarded at the annual Alan Saunders Lecture which takes place as part of the annual AAP conference in July. This Prize is sponsored by Taylor and Francis, publisher of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and the Australasian Philosophical Review. *Applications* The AAP invites entries/nominations for media work from *professional philosophers* in Australasia (including postgraduates and also retired academic philosophers) published in *2017*. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. The closing date for entries is *28th February 2018 at midnight AEDT*. Please note: late entries will not be accepted. 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URL: From richard.menary at mq.edu.au Wed Feb 7 09:46:50 2018 From: richard.menary at mq.edu.au (Richard Menary) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 22:46:50 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Prof. David Spurrett (UKZN) talk at Macquarie 16/2/18 Message-ID: Dear All, Professor David Spurrett will be giving a talk at Macquarie University at on the 16th February at 11am in room 5.212 on the fifth floor of the Australian Hearing Hub. The Descent of Preference Reconsidered (or ?What Preferences are For?) Abstract More philosophical attention has been devoted to providing evolutionary scenarios accounting for the development of beliefs, or belief-like states, than for desires or preferences. Here I articulate and defend an evolutionary rationale for the development of psychologically real preference states. (Such states token or represent the expected values of perceptual states, available actions, or action-state pairings. Whether they amount to desires depends on your theory of desire, and I?m silent on this question.) The argument is based on a version of the ?environmental complexity thesis? found in Godfrey-Smith and Sterelny, although my conclusions differ from Sterelny?s. More specifically, I argue that tokening expected utilities can, under specified general conditions, be a powerful design solution to the problem of allocating the capacities of an agent in an efficient way. Preferences are for efficient action selection, and can be a ?fuel for success? in the sense urged by Godfrey-Smith for true beliefs. They will tend to be favoured by selection when environments are complex in ways that matter to an organism, and when living agents themselves have complex behavioural repertoires with heterogenous returns and costs. The rationale suggested here is conditional, especially on contingencies in what design options are available to selection and on trade-offs associated with the costs of generating and processing various kinds of representations. While the efficiency rationale for preferences on its own indicates that living organisms should represent expected utilities in a consistent way, the fact is that they don?t. In the final stages of the paper I consider some of the ways in which design trade-offs compromise the implementation of preferences in animals that have them. Cheers, Richard 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: From john.sutton at mq.edu.au Thu Feb 8 11:21:47 2018 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 00:21:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Fw: Jean Decety Public Lecture - 14th March In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: ________________________________ From: Robyn Langdon Sent: 07 February 2018 11:25 To: CCD Everyone-Google-Group Subject: [CCD MQ] [CCD Everyone] Jean Decety Public Lecture - 14th March Dear CCD members As you are aware the CCD will be hosting a series of public lectures over the course of 2018. I am pleased to announce that the first in the series is hosted by the Belief Formation Program on Wednesday 14th March, 2-4 pm, Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University. Professor Jean Decety, from the University of Chicago, will be presenting "Empathy and morality: An interdisciplinary perspective". More information about Professor Decety and the event can be found at https://www.ccd.edu.au/events/public/2018/lecturedecety/, where you can also register for this event. Please circulate to your network of colleagues and/or relevant societies. -- Robyn Langdon, Leader of the Belief Formation Research Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, and Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Tel: +61 2 98506733; Fax: +61 2 98506059 **Please note I work reduced hours, mainly on Wednesday and Friday, and may be slow responding to emails.*** -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCD Everyone" group. To post to this group, send email to ccd.everyone at mq.edu.au -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCD Macquarie Node Everyone" group. 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The author of the winning essay will receive ? 500,- with their submission being published the Journal of Social Ontology (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JvPECD1jy9tn1OGJt55466?domain=degruyter.com). International Social Ontology Society - Home isosonline.org Social ontology. What are social groups? What are corporations and institutions? What is money, language, and the law? Social ontology is the branch of philosophy ... Submissions may address any issue, problem or debate within the field of social ontology. They may deal with, e.g., social facts, social action, group agency, collective intentional states, or social kinds; and they may address their topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including moral, social and political philosophy, anthropology, cognitive science, economics, history, law, political science, and psychology. Submissions will be subject to blind review, following the guidelines of the Journal of Social Ontology (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Lqd_CGvmB5i0mLXOsQvOOv?domain=mc.manuscriptcentral.com). The essays should be submitted through the journal?s editorial management system and labelled as entries to the competition. In order to facilitate a fair review process, authors are asked to state their affiliation, (expected) date of receipt of their PhD and the names of their committee members in the information they provide with their submission. The closing date for receipt of submissions is 31st March 2018. The winning essay will be published in the Journal of Social Ontology as soon as possible thereafter. For further inquiries regarding the essay competition, please contact David P. Schweikard (david.schweikard at uni-flensburg.de). ________________________ Prof. Dr. David P. 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Call for Entries* The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) offers an occasional award of $500 to journalists and other media professionals for excellence in the presentation of philosophy or philosophical issues in the media in the previous calendar year. The main criterion for the award of the prize is the ability of the piece to engage the interest of the general public in philosophy or some philosophical issue. Consideration is also given to the quality of the philosophical discussion and to the size of the audience reached. Previous winners of the AAP Media Professionals' Award are Kyla Slaven (Short and Curly radio show), Zan Boag (New Philosopher Magazine), Scott Stephens and Waleed Aly (The Minefield), Tim Dean (The Conversation), Antonia Case (New Philosopher), Natasha Mitchell (All in the Mind) and Alan Saunders (Philosopher's Zone). The prize will be awarded at the annual Alan Saunders Lecture which takes place as part of the annual AAP conference in July. This Prize is sponsored by Taylor and Francis, publisher of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and the Australasian Philosophical Review. *Applications * The AAP invites entries/nominations for media work from *journalists and other media professionals* based in Australasia published in *2017*. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. The AAP Media Professionals' Award is offered no more than once each year, and may not be made every year. The closing date for entries is *28th February 2018 at midnight AEDT*. Please note: late entries will not be accepted. Entries should be *submitted online* through the following form: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0hvZCK1qJZtBl9ogcMZJbp?domain=airtable.com Further information about the AAP Media Professionals' Award, including conditions of entry, can be found at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2LxGCL7rK8tmAXWxFqbXF2?domain=aap.org.au The AAP reserves the right not to award the prize in any given year if a suitable candidate is not nominated. For general enquiries relating to the AAP Media Professionals' Award, please contact Chris Lawless: ao at aap.org.au Chris Lawless Administrative Officer Australasian Association of Philosophy www.aap.org.au ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: