From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Mon Feb 12 20:30:08 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:30:08 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Ludwig Siep (University of Muenster) at the UNSW Philosophy Seminar, February 20 Message-ID: Philosophy Seminar - ?The Making of history?Hegel and the early German constitutionalists? When: 20 Feb 2018, 11:30am - 1pm Venue: Room LG06, AGSM Building, UNSW Kensington Campus (G27 of campus map) Who: Philosophy Seminar - School of Humanities & Languages ?The Making of history?Hegel and the early German constitutionalists' Speaker: Ludwig Siep (University of M?nster) Abstract: Two of the most important questions of a philosophy of history are whether there is progress in history and what or who the driving forces of historical development are. The second point, in short the question who ?makes? history, was hotly debated throughout the 19th century. If ?making? means the execution of a plan and in case of success the fulfilment of a purpose, then there are only very few candidates for the role of ?maker? of history. The maker of universal history could either be God ? a single god in monotheism or several gods, either together or in conflict ? or human beings, either individually or in a group. The present age is confronted with new global responsibilities regarding the preservation of the human race ? for instance concerning climate change ? or the duty to fight extreme poverty in a great part of the un-industrialized world. These tasks require global collective action in a hitherto unknown way. And this in view of individual and minority rights, democratic and regional self-government and the soft international law not enforceable by a central power. Thus a look into the 19th century debate about the degree to which man is able to ?make? history may be useful for the new tasks ahead. I will discuss the ?making of history? according to Hegel?s philosophy in the first part of my talk (1.). I will sketch the split of the Hegelian syntheses and especially the anthropological turn among the left-Hegelians in the second part of my paper (2.). The main interest of my lecture, however, is a turn from philosophy of history to anthropology which radically differs from the Left Hegelian one (3). It took place in the development of early Liberalism or early Constitutionalism especially in Southern Germany. They regarded the Left Hegelians as heirs of Hegel?s ?theological? view of history governed by an absolute subject, replacing reason by the human species. Furthermore, the materialistic turn of the Hegelian Left in their view resulted in a deterministic view of history. Such a view left no room for personal freedom and group efforts to change existing power structures and institutions. Instead, history should be seen as a series of collective experiences on the way to modern constitutionalism. This conception of historic experience seems to me of special interest for contemporary practical philosophy. But let us try to remember the Hegelian answer first About the speaker: [Philosophy Seminar, February 20, 11.30am-1pm] Ludwig Siep is one of the leading Hegel-scholars in the world, and his expertise and publications range from German Idealism, through history of practical philosophy, to general and applied ethics. He is professor emeritus at the Westf?lische Wilhelms-Universit?t M?nster, and holds a Senior Professorship at the German cluster of excellence Religion und Politik. He has held numerous visiting appointments around the world, and is currently co-editor of Hegel-Studien, and chair of the Hegel Commission of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. 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In one sense the point of the class will be a simple lesson on the hermeneutic circle. The first part of chapter 7 is frequently used as evidence to support claims about Marx?s belief in the universality of labour and its normative importance, or to distinguish normatively (as so many philosophers have done before and after) between the labor of animals and the unique labor of humans. In this class we will place those well-worn passages in context by working carefully on the set-up (in the form of Chapter 6?s discussion of labour-power as a commodity) and the completion (in the form of Marx?s own contrast between the ?labour process? and the ?valorization process?). This approach may lead to an unexpected result: that the middle dozen are the least important pages, and that they don?t really say what they?ve been taken to mean. About Samuel Chambers Samuel A. Chambers is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches political theory, cultural politics, and political economy. He co-edits the journal Contemporary Political Theory and is series co-editor of Routledge's Innovators in Political Theory. His interests are broad and interdisciplinary ? ranging from central issues in social and political theory, to engagements with contemporary feminist and queer theory, to contributions to critical television studies. All of his work maintains a core concern with a sort of "glue" that holds together things ? e.g. political regimes, sex/gender identities, pedagogical relations ? in a way that is neither narrowly political (in the traditional sense of legislation or public policy), nor reductively socio-biological, nor grounded in ethics or morality ? la so-called normative political philosophy. He has authored five books, edited four more, and published more than thirty journal articles, along with numerous chapters and essays. His monograph There?s No Such Thing as The Economy: Essays on Capitalist Value will be published by Punctum Books in mid-2018. Advanced students and early career academics from all disciplines welcome. You are expected to read the text for the class in advance. Free admission, but due to limited seating please email the organizer if you would like to attend: Heikki Ik?heimo, UNSW Sydney, h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/how-not-to-read-marx-masterclass-by-samuels-chamber/ Note also the symposium ?Marx 2.0?, February 22-23 (PDF) [85 Kb] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, despite Marx?s own self-understanding he is nowadays increasingly read as a social and political philosopher, even if certainly of a very critical kind. The younger generations now read Marx with fresh eyes untainted by the bitterness of those engaged in bygone battles, and the latter (on both sides) have a chance for a new reception of and critical reflection on the theory and philosophy of Karl Marx, its influences, its problems, and its contemporary relevance. ?Marx 2.0? brings together philosophers and political theorists from Germany, United States, Canada and Australia, and presents a range of contemporary approaches to Marx?s work and to thinkers closely related to it. Thursday, February 22 9.30 Welcome 9.45-11.00 Michael Quante (University of Muenster): Positive liberty as realizing the essence of man 11.00-12.15 Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa): Marx as Post-Kantian Perfectionist? Reconsidering Left-Hegelian Debates 12.15-1.45 Lunch 1.45-3 Thomas Gutmann (University of Muenster): Marx, Alienation, Individual Rights? 3-4.15 Heikki Ik?heimo (UNSW Sydney): Rehabilitating Species Essence 4.15-4.45 Coffee 4.45-6.00 Charles Barbour (Western Sydney University): The Young Republican: Marx Before Communism Friday, February 23 9.00-10.15 Samuel Chambers (Johns Hopkins): As The Hart Pants?; Or, Money is Not a Commodity: Marx?s Unorthodox Account of Money, and Why it Matters 10.15-11.45 Carleton Christensen (Australian National University): Abstractly Human Labour and the Reduction to Concrete Labour 11.45-1.00 Lunch 1.00-2.15 Andy Blunden (Independent, Melbourne): Capital and the Ur-praxis of the fight for socialism 2.15-3.30 Robyn Ferrell (Australian National University): Free world (a lyric essay) 3.30-4.00 Coffee 4.00-5.15 Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University): Marx in the age of automation 5.15-6.30 Thomas Meyer (University of Muenster): Was Engels the first causal interventionist? Free admission, but due to limited seating please email the organizer if you would like to attend: Heikki Ik?heimo, UNSW Sydney, h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Flyer: https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/HALFile/1_Marx_symposium_flyer_Updated_20180210.pdf Click here to view the program (PDF) [134 Kb] Note also a masterclass ?How (not) to read Marx? by Samuel Chambers, February 20, 2-5pm (PDF) [175 Kb] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Tue Feb 13 14:13:39 2018 From: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au (Chris Lawless) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:43:39 +1030 Subject: [SydPhil] REMINDER - ENTRIES CLOSING SOON! AAP Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize - call for entries Message-ID: REMINDER - ENTRIES CLOSING SOON - Closes midnight 28th February, 2018, AEDT. *AAP Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize - call for entries* The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) awards an annual prize of $500 for the development of innovative approaches to teaching philosophy. First awarded in 2014, the prize is offered with a view to exploring ways in which undergraduate courses in philosophy can build the understanding and practise of an inclusive discipline, concerned to foster equal participation in the profession. The aims of the prize are to encourage professionals developing and improving their teaching portfolios to consider critically how philosophy is presented, and to be innovative in implementing practices of teaching that off-set well-known disparities of participation in the discipline, for instance along race and gender lines. Previous winners include Alexandre Lefebvre (University of Sydney), Ruth Boeker (University of Melbourne) and Michelle Sowey (The Philosophy Club). The prize will be awarded at the opening 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. *Criteria of evaluation* - Significant innovation in curriculum that successfully promotes equity and diversity within the discipline, particularly with respect to underrepresented or marginalised groups in the profession - Innovation in pedagogy that successfully promotes broader participation in the discipline - High quality in course design and delivery *Applications * The AAP invites entries/nominations for *individuals, or groups of individuals*, teaching undergraduate philosophy courses in Australasian Universities. Entries/nominations may come from the creator or facilitator of courses or from others. Applications are only open for courses taught in *the previous five years *(2013 - 2017 inclusive). 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 form available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MET2Cvl0PoC2V1RySQXt3p?domain=aap.org.au Further information about the AAP Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize, including conditions of entry, can be found on the same page. 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 Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize, please contact Chris Lawless: administrativeofficer 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: From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Wed Feb 14 08:06:11 2018 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:06:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] 'Inner West Council Philosophy Talk': John Hadley (Western Sydney University), "What's all the fuss about animal rights?", Leichhardt Library, Thursday Feb 22, 6:30-8:00pm References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <0CD85BB2-AC64-4537-8B4A-C483A19BA50D@unsw.edu.au> Details of the next ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?What?s all the Fuss about Animal Rights?" Speaker: Dr John Hadley (Philosophy, Western Sydney University) Abstract: I will present an overview of the philosophy of animal rights. Topics for discussion include: the ethics of pet keeping, eating meat, using animals in biomedical research and visiting zoos; the difference between animal welfare and animal rights; the distinction between causing pain and painlessly taking life; the status of invertebrates, fish and so-called feral species; the conflict between animal rights and biodiversity conservation; recreational hunting and so-called conservation hunting; human-animal friendships; the analogy between racism, sexism and 'speciesism'. All the rival philosophical positions on these topic will be explained. Thursday, 22 February, 2018 6:30pm - 8pm Leichhardt Library (Piazza Level - Italian Forum, 23 Norton St, Leichhardt) Free event - All welcome - Light refreshments provided Bookings online or call 9367 9266 Full details as well as registration for the event are available from this link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/m6bDCYWL1viNlzVrf0qeqA?domain=eventbrite.com.au Upcoming talks: March 22, Tim Rayner (UTS), ??Stoicism as a way of life?. Registration open: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/HyzqCZYM2VFDg3KJhjqv_6?domain=eventbrite.com.au April 26, Nicholas H. Smith (Macquarie), ?Work in a Free Society? May 31, Markos Valaris (UNSW), TBA Simon Lumsden (Inner West Council philosophy talks program coordinator) Simon Lumsden | Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of New South Wales | Sydney | NSW 2052 | Australia work + 61 2 9385 2369 s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/simon-lumsden/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hipolito.ines at gmail.com Wed Feb 14 19:15:12 2018 From: hipolito.ines at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?In=C3=AAs_Hipolito?=) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:15:12 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?The_Mind-Technology_Problem_-_Investigating_?= =?utf-8?q?Minds=2C_Selves_and_21st_Century_Artifacts_CFP_=E2=80=93?= =?utf-8?q?_extended_deadline?= Message-ID: *The Mind-Technology Problem - Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artifacts* *CFP ? extended deadline* We invite chapter contributions for the volume ?The Mind-Technology Problem ? Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artifacts? forthcoming in the book series *Studies in Brain and Mind *(Springer). This book explores the relation between philosophy of mind and emerging technologies. Technologies that only recently seemed to be science fiction are becoming part of everyday life. Our life is increasingly saturated with 'smart' artifacts. The ubiquitous and mobile Internet amounts to a radically new epistemic and cognitive environment which we already inhabit. This smart environment is saturated with artificial intelligence systems that not only guide us to information on the Internet, but are transforming the way we inhabit the non-virtual realm: the home, the urban environment and beyond. In the process, these technologies may be viewed as a form of rapidly evolving cognitive enhancement (Schneider, 2016, Heersmink, 2015). They may also be radically changing the human cognitive profile (Schneider and Mandik, 2016, Clowes, 2015; Clark, 2007) including the possibility of mind uploading (Corabi and Schneider, 2012). Some see these trends as deeply worrying, undermining a raft of our cognitive and social capacities (Carr, 2010; Turkle, 2011). Others see the relationship as a more of a continuum with the long history of artifactually led, cognitive evolution of human beings (Malafouris, 2013; Clark, 2003). These technologies appear to have important implications for the human mind, sense of identity and even perhaps what we think human beings are. Other technological tendencies may stretch our ideas further toward super-intelligence, (within the skin) cognitive enhancements, and more distantly perhaps, machine consciousness. Yet while ideas of artificial general intelligence, cognitive enhancements and a smart environment are widely commented on, a serious analysis of their philosophical implications is only now getting started. In this edited volume, we seek the best philosophical analysis of what current and near future 21st technology means for the metaphysics of mind. Some of the questions still open include: Should the adoption or incorporation of current technologies, such as smart phones or wearable gadgets be viewed as enhancements or diminishments of the human mind? Or is such a framework too restricted? Might they transform the sorts of self-knowledge available to us, or what self-knowledge is? Might the use of such gadgetry force us to rethink the boundary between human beings and technology, or indeed enduring philosophical questions such as personal identity or what the self is? According to various theories of personal identity, are radical cognitive enhancements even compatible with personal survival? In thinking about minds, there is a common tendency to define the ontological status of the mind in terms of whatever is the latest technology. The computational model of mind has certainly been one of the most influential and is currently undergoing important challenges and challenging reinventions (Schneider and Mandik, 2016). Is the notion that the mind or self as a program, which often guides public and philosophical discussions, metaphysically well founded? Whether or not our minds are actually computational, our ability to interface with machines, from virtual reality technologies such as Oculus Rift to our smart-phones and wearable gadgetry, are undergoing a profound shift and are rapidly reshaping the metaphors and concepts philosophers use to think about minds and the conclusion they draw (Metzinger, 2009; Chalmers, 2007). As a follow up of our ?Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology? meeting in Lisbon ( https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7eX2CwVLQmiA4k3LsV0tJm?domain=mindandcognition.weebly.com, we seek high quality submissions that investigate the philosophical implications of the engagement between 21st century technology, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. We are especially interested in submissions that do not indulge in extensive futuristic speculation but focus on current or near-ready technologies which are already changing the shape of the human (and machine) cognitive landscape and our philosophical understanding of mind. The book will be published in the Springer Series Studies in Brain and Mind (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8batCxnMRvt9gDoJTvDlg7?domain=springer.com). Research question include the following: *Extended Mind, Extended Cognition, Distributed self*: ? How should we think of distributed and extended memory in the context of 21st century technology? ? Can artifacts make possible new forms of extended self-knowledge? What are the consequences of artifacts?for instance, the ubiquitous smart-phone?for notions such as the minimal self, the narrative self, or the distributed self? ? What is the role of cognitive artifacts in the cognitive enhancement debate? *Metaphysics of the mind*: ? Does the current state of the art of machine consciousness, brain enhancement or smart ambient technology warrant predictions and extrapolations on questions like personal identity, privacy, super intelligence, etc. many want to make? ? Does current work in this realm tell us anything about phenomenal consciousness? The organization of mind? The possibility of artificial minds? ? Do hierarchical predictive processing systems support the theoretical literature on the metaphysics of mind (mind, big data, minds online, deep minds)? *Radical Brain Enhancement and Uploading:* ? Would an uploaded mind be me? Is mind uploading a myth? ? Does radical brain enhancement challenge our sense of self, personal identity and / or humanity? *Confirmed authors* Susan Schneider (University of Connecticut) Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri ? St. Louis) Mark Bickhard (Lehigh University) Paul Smart (University of Southampton) Ron Chrisley (University of Sussex) Georg Theiner (Vilanova University) Keith Frankish (University of Crete) Gerald Vision (Temple University) Papers should not exceed 8,000 words. For further questions please contact the editors: Robert W. Clowes ( robert.clowes at gmail.com), Klaus G?rtner (klga at gmx.de), or In?s Hip?lito ( hipolito.ines at gmail.com) Please send your contributions to hipolito.ines at gmail.com. Deadline:* 1st of March 2018* *References* Carr, N. (2010). *The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember*. London: Atlantic Books. Chalmers, D. (2007). Forward to Supersizing the Mind *Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Clark, A. (2003). *Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence.* New York: Oxford University Press. Clark, A. (2007). Re-inventing ourselves: The plasticity of embodiment, sensing, and mind. *Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 32*(3), 263-282. Clowes, R. W. (2015). Thinking in the cloud: The Cognitive Incorporation of Cloud-Based Technology. *Philosophy and Technology, 28, Issue 2,*(2), 261-296. Corabi, J., & Schneider, S. (2012). Metaphysics of Uploading. *Journal of Consciousness Studies, 19 (7)*:26. Heersmink, R. (2015). Extended mind and cognitive enhancement: moral aspects of cognitive artifacts. *Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences*, 1-16. Malafouris, L. (2013). *How Things Shape the Mind*: MIT Press. Metzinger, T. (2009). *The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self*: Basic Books. Schneider, S. (Ed.). (2016). *Science fiction and philosophy: from time travel to superintelligence*. John Wiley & Sons. Schneider, S., & Mandik, P. (2016). *How philosophy of mind can shape the future. Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries*. London: Routledge. Turkle, S. (2011). *Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less from Each Other*. New York: Basic Books. -- In?s Hip?lito School of Humanities and Social Inquiry Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts, 19.2064 University of Wollongong , NSW 2522 Australia Phone. (+61) 04 100 176 20 *Call for Papers: The Mind-Technology Problem - Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artifacts * Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group , Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal Hilbert's 24th Problem, (FCT funded project), Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal Hip?lito, I. Gon?alves, J., Pereira, J. G. (eds.) (2018) Schizophrenia and Common Sense: explaining the relation between madness and social values. Studies in Brain and Mind (Springer). Hip?lito, I., & Martins, J. (2017). Mind-life continuity: A qualitative study of conscious experience. *Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology* . 2017 JPBMB Focused Issue on Integral Biomathics: The Necessary Conjunction of Western and Eastern Thought Traditions for Exploring the Nature of Mind and Life www.ineshipolito.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Thu Feb 15 16:11:10 2018 From: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au (Chris Lawless) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:41:10 +1030 Subject: [SydPhil] REMINDER - ENTRIES CLOSING SOON - AAP Annette Baier Prize Message-ID: REMINDER - ENTRIES CLOSING SOON - Closes midnight 28th February, 2018, AEDT. *AAP Annette Baier Prize ? Call for Entries* The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) offers an annual prize of $500 for an outstanding philosophical paper or book chapter published by an Australasian woman during the previous calendar year. The prize was first awarded in 2016 to Monima Chadha (Monash University) and then in 2017 to Miriam Bankovsky (La Trobe University). The prize will be awarded during the Presidential Address at 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. *Criteria of evaluation* The sole criterion for the prize is philosophical merit. The judging panel will consider and score entries on: ? Overall impression of merit ? Originality ? Scholarship ? Clarity of expression *Applications* The AAP invites entries/nominations for female professional philosophers who are actively engaged in an Australasian higher education and/or research institution. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. Entries must appear in print (or in final form if the publication is online only) in *2017* to be eligible. The prize is open to published papers or book chapters (i.e. chapters in edited anthologies) in any area of philosophy. 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 form available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_qbFC3Q8Z2FGkvpPIg2MYU?domain=aap.org.au Further information about the AAP Annette Baier Prize, including conditions of entry, can be found on the same page. 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 Annette Baier Prize, please contact Chris Lawless: administrativeofficer 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... 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If you are interested in joining, or learning more about the committee and its work, please contact Cathy Legg From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Feb 15 21:03:54 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:03:54 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: Mental Health and Agency, Feb 28 - March 1, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, The first CAVE Workshop for this year is on mental health and agency. To register to attend, please contact Kelly at arts.cave at mq.edu.au. All welcome! Mental Health and Agency Date: Wednesday 28 February - Thursday 1 March 2018 Time: Wednesday 13:00 - 17:25; Thursday 09:20 - 13:20 Venue: TBC, Macquarie University This workshop aims at exploring the interrelation between mental health and agency in psychopathological populations (e.g., autism or schizophrenia) with respect to (i) cognition, (ii) therapy, and (iii) moral implications. It is connected to Dr. Anika Fiebich?s visit whose aim is to evaluate and develop aspects of her current project ?Mental Illness and Cooperation? in Milan, particularly with respect to (failures) of moral commitments. Preliminary Program Wednesday 28 February 13:00 - 13:20 : Registration 13:20 - 13:30 : Welcome Session 1: Cognition * 13:30 - 14:20 : Dominic Murphy (University of Sydney), "Delusions Across Cultures" * 14:25 - 15:15 : Anike Fiebich (University of Milan), "Pluralism, social cognition and interaction in autism" 15:15 - 15:40 : Coffee Break Session 2: Therapy * 15:40 - 16:30 : Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong), "How narratives matter to mental health" * 16:35 - 17:25 : Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis), "DBS, OCD, the 4Es and the 4As" 19:15 : Conference Dinner Thursday 1 March Session 3: Moral Implications * 09:20 - 10:10 : Anne Schwenkenbecher (University of Perth), "Do group agents resemble psychopaths and if so, what does that mean for moral responsibility?" * 10:10 - 11:05 : Neil Sinhababu (University of Singapore), "Emotional perception and blameworthy psychopaths" 11: 10 - 11:30 : Coffee Break * 11:30 - 12:20 : Daphne Brandenburg (Macquarie/Radboud), "A case study of Strawsonian exemption" * 12:25 - 13:15 : Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie University), "Moral security, mental agency, and mental health" 13:20 : Conference Close All welcome! Kelly Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Fri Feb 16 09:40:53 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:40:53 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Bioethics Reading Group: 7 March, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, The CAVE Bioethics Reading Group is starting up again for the year on 7 March. The contact person for this year is Hojjat, so if you're interested in participating or would like to be on the mailing list, please contact him. All welcome! Details for the first bioethics reading group in 2018 are as follows: When: 7 March 2018, Wednesday What time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Where: ART-AHH 2.364 North Meeting Room, Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University (Note the change of venue for sessions in 2018). [T14 on campus map] For this session, I suggest going through Higgs & Gilleard?s ?Interrogating personhood and dementia?, which invites us to reconsider the promise of recent attempts to improve dementia care through person-cantered approaches. The authors are affiliated with University College London and together published a number of books exploring contemporary social imaginary of old age. Abstract: Objectives: To interrogate the concept of personhood and its application to care practices for people with dementia. Method: We outline the work of Tom Kitwood on personhood and relate this to conceptualisations of personhood in metaphysics and in moral philosophy. Results: The philosophical concept of personhood has a long history. The metaphysical tradition examines the necessary and sufficient qualities that make up personhood such as agency, consciousness, identity, rationality and second-order reflexivity. Alternative viewpoints treat personhood as a matter of degree rather than as a superordinate category. Within moral philosophy personhood is treated as a moral status applicable to some or to all human beings. Conclusion: In the light of the multiple meanings attached to the term in both metaphysics and moral philosophy, personhood is a relatively unhelpful concept to act as the foundation for developing models and standards of care for people with dementia. Care, we suggest, should concentrate less on ambiguous and somewhat abstract terms such as personhood and focus instead on supporting people?s existing capabilities, while minimising the harmful consequences of their incapacities. Look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Hoji Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: