From michael.olson at mq.edu.au Thu Mar 1 09:35:45 2018 From: michael.olson at mq.edu.au (Michael Olson) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:35:45 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 6th of March in Moot Court Room: Ammon Allred (Toledo) Message-ID: <6525FA47-EDE5-4FBA-8F53-8EFAA400CBFF@mq.edu.au> Islands of Sense in the Open World Ammon Allred (University of Toledo) Date: Tuesday, 6th of March Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Moot Court Room, W3A (6 First Walk) 328 * All welcome *Note the changing venues this semester Abstract: I explore some issues in aesthetics related to discourse about fictional worlds in order to develop an open-ended approach to talking about worlds. My purpose is to indirectly defend the the plausibility of fictionalism as an ontological position by showing an alternative which can be taken as reason to reject fictionalism, particularly the normative constraint on consistency as a key necessary architectural principle of fictional worlds. I begin by looking at some examples of popular companies related to fictional canons, particularly as a feature of world that are taken to be the same across multiple works of fiction, often by multiple authors. The questions that I identify lead me to examine what I call palimpsestic worlds, worlds taken to be layered on top of other worlds. I develop a concept of islands of sense. Parts of fictional worlds that are particularly well filled out, but that are also open-ended. I end with a brief example to show how these concepts could be informative for understanding forms of discourse that we do not necessarily take to be fictional, such as legal discourse. Contact: Adam Hochman (adam.hochman at mq.edu.au) or Mike Olson (michael.olson at mq.edu.au) A google calendar with details of other events in this series is available here. --- Dr Michael Olson Lecturer, Modern European Philosophy Department of Philosophy | 2nd Floor, Australian Hearing Hub Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 6895 | arts.mq.edu.au | www.michael-olson.com [cid:0A2B6DFB-5CD1-4783-9F76-DE022B68184D at mqauth.uni.mq.edu.au] CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this talk I will make the case that social constructionism is best understood as the view that race is a social kind, but that this view should be rejected on both normative and metaphysical grounds. There are no races, biological or social, only groups interpreted and treated as if they were races: racialised groups.  When: Wed 7 Mar 2018 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Muniment Room, Sydney Uni Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WQ3WCD1jy9tMRN6juWmuyC?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/l_6iCE8kz9tnQVA1iws3qb?domain=google.com You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Seminars. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/l_6iCE8kz9tnQVA1iws3qb?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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In this group we will revisit Millikan?s early work through some key publications, and her philosophical impact through papers in the volume Millikan and her Critics and Millikan?s responses in that volume. After the now thoroughly non-aligned mid-semester breaks of NSW universities we will read Millikan?s recent and likely final monograph, Beyond Concepts. Interested philosophers from the Sydney region are invited to meet in N492, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney at 3.30 on Wednesday March 7th, and weekly thereafter. This is 30 minutes after the end of the Sydney departmental philosophy seminar, leaving time for a recovery beverage. Please contact paul.griffiths at sydney.edu.au for a draft reading list, which will be renegotiated at the first meeting. References Ryder, Dan, Justine Kingsbury, and Kenneth Williford. Millikan and Her Critics. Wiley, 2012. Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information. OUP, 2017. 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