From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon Mar 5 15:38:55 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 04:38:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: Relational Autonomy and Vulnerability, 23 March, MQ Message-ID: Hi all, Lise Barry and Therese MacDermott have organised a Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) workshop on Relational Autonomy and Vulnerability, to be held in the Blackshield Room on 23 March 2018. There will also be a reading group held in advance on Wednesday 21st March. If you would like to attend the workshop and/or the reading group, please email your confirmation (with any dietary requirements) to Therese MacDermott by Monday 12 March. All welcome! Relational Autonomy and Vulnerability Date: Friday 23 March Venue: Blackshield Room, Macquarie Law School [Q14 on campus map] Time: 08:30 - 16:30 Program: Wednesday 21 March 15:00 - 16:30: Workshop reading group: participants will discuss two readings in preparation for the workshop: Margaret Hall ?Mental Capacity in the (Civil) Law: Capacity, Autonomy and Vulnerability? (2012) 58 McGill Law Journal and Wendy Rogers, Caitriona Mackenzie & Susan Dodds (2012) 5(2) ?Why Bioethics Needs a Concept of Vulnerability? International Journal of Feminist Approaches To Bioethics 11. If you cannot access these readings please email Lise Barry for a copy Friday 23 March 08:30 - 09:00: Welcome and Coffee Session 1: 09:10 - 09:50: Margaret Hall (Thomson Rivers University), "Relational Autonomy, Vulnerability Theory, and Making it Real: Rethinking guardianship as a re-calibration of the relationship between context and self" 09:50 - 10:20: Terry Carney, "People with Dementia and other Cognitive Disabilities: Relationally vulnerable or a source of Agency and care?" 10:20 - 10:40: Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie) and Wendy Rogers (Macquarie), Discussants 10:40 - 11:00: Q&A 11:00 - 11:20: Break Session 2: 11:25 - 11:45: Nicole L. Asquith (Western Sydney), "Policing precariousness: Accounting for ontological and situational vulnerability in policing encounters" 11:45 - 12:05: Nola Reis (UTS), "Involving People with Dementia in Research: Insights from Surveys of Researchers and Older People and Implications for Law and Ethics" 12:05 - 12:25: Belinda Bennett (QUT), "Vulnerability, New Technologies, and Health Care" 12:25 - 13:00: Questions and Discussion 13:00 - 14:00: Lunch Session 3: 14:00 - 14:20: Eileen Webb (Curtin Law School) and Leigh Smith (Curtin Law School), "Vulnerability, Elder Abuse and Unfair Dismissal in Australian Residential Aged Care" 14:20 - 14:40: Suzanne Jarrad (Flinders University), "A relational approach to decision-making for vulnerable older people" 14:40 - 15:00: Esther Erlings (Flinders University), "Transferable knowledge? Using insights from elder law in parent- child dispute resolution" 15:00 - 15:30: Questions and Discussion 15:30 - 15:45: Break 15:45 - 16:30: Margaret Hall (Thomson Rivers University), Closing remarks and final discussion Abstracts available soon on www.mq.edu.au/cave/events 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 Mon Mar 5 16:31:20 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 05:31:20 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: The ethics of pathologising ugliness, 19 March, MQ Message-ID: Hi all, The next Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) workshop is on 19 March. All welcome, but please contact Yves for catering purposes. INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON THE ETHICS OF PATHOLOGISING UGLINESS 19 March 2018, Monday 10:00-16:30 The Incubator (8 Hadenfeld Ave), Macquarie University [S8 on campus map] The aim of the workshop is to foster an interdisciplinary discussion on the ethics of pathologising ugliness. By ?pathologising ugliness? we mean the process of reframing physical features deemed unattractive as disorders. Pathologisation of ugliness arises from the interplay of aesthetic, socio-cultural, legal and medical norms. Medical and surgical procedures that modify physical attributes purely for cosmetic reasons are increasing in scope and frequency, fostering the belief that ugliness can and should be treated as a medical problem. The pathologisation of ugliness has serious ethical implications regarding the goals of medicine, as well as our understandings of health and disease. In this workshop, we hope to examine the extent to which gendered, able-bodied and racial norms merge in the pathological framing of ugliness. Workshop speakers include experts in the fields of philosophy, law, medicine and gender and cultural studies, who will explore various norms that inform our understanding of ugliness and the factors that promote its pathologisation. Speakers * Prof Anand Deva (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Macquarie University Hospital): "Motivations behind medical aesthetic practice and their consequences to the health and well-being of the patient and the system" * Yves Saint James Aquino (Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University): "Ugliness as disease: Ethical conflicts between cosmetic surgery and the goals of medicine" * A/Prof Robert Sinnerbrink (Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University): "Body aesthetics: Physical beauty, cultural biases, and moral confusions" * A/Prof Joanna Elfving-Hwang (Asian Studies, University of Western Australia): "Beauty as a moral imperative? Cosmetic surgery in South Korea" Please email yves-saint-james.aquino at students.mq.edu.au for catering purposes. 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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/kyYlCYWL1vig21x7I0UKaX?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-hYnCZYM2VFx94N6hj2GyY?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/-hYnCZYM2VFx94N6hj2GyY?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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For information about conference events, keynote speakers, streams, and to register and submit an abstract online, visit the conference website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4LlOCANZvPiVAqO8fGvr4w?domain=aap.org.au Applications are also now open for the AAP Postgraduate Presentation Prize and the Postgraduate Subsidy. Specific details can be found and applications can be made through the ?Postgraduates? section of the above conference website. Deadlines to bear in mind: - Postgraduate Presentation Prize Submission ? 6.00pm AEST Friday 4 May - Abstract Submission ? 6.00pm AEST Friday 1 June - Early Bird Registrations ? 6.00pm AEST Friday 8 June - Postgraduate Subsidy Application ? 6.00pm AEST Friday 8 June For general enquiries in the first instance, please email 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 philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Wed Mar 7 10:13:51 2018 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 23:13:51 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar: Bernardo Ainbinder, Ways of Being and Form of Life, 28 March 2018 Message-ID: Philosophy @ Western Sydney ? Seminar Bernardo Ainbinder (Diego Portales University, Chile)??Ways of Being and Form of Life? IThe precise meaning of the expression "way of being" in Heidegger has raised an interesting discussion (McDaniel 2009, 2012, Boeneker 2005, Hartmann 1972, Golob 2014, Dos Reis 2015). The Ways-of-Being (WOB) debate is mainly focused on two questions: (1) Is the distinction between modes of being a metaphysical distinction, so that everything that has a way of being is numerically different from everything that has another? And (2) does the question about ways of being coincide with the question about the way in which the entity is apprehended or conceptualized? Bernardo Ainbinder is Lecturer at the Institute for Humanities, Diego Portales University, Chile, since 2015. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong and the President of the Iberoamerican Heidegger Society (SIEH). He was previously Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (Conicet), Argentina, and Visiting Researcher (2012-2014) at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests are Neokantianism and Phenomenology and their import for contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind and philosophy of action. Date/Time: Wednesday 28 March 2018, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm ? All Welcome Place: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The contributors address the following questions: How relevant is the loss of common sense in schizophrenia? How can the study of schizophrenia contribute to the study of common sense? How to understand and explain this loss of common sense? They also consider: What is the relationship of practical reasoning and logical formal reasoning with schizophrenia? What is the relationship between the person with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and social values? Chapters examine such issues as rationality, emotions, self, and delusion. In addition, one looks at brain structure and neurotransmission. Others explore phenomenological and Wittgensteinian theories. The book features papers from the Schizophrenia and Common Sense International Workshop, held at New University of Lisbon, November 2015. It offers new insights into this topic and will appeal to researchers, students, as well as interested general readers. *Available here:* https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/69JvCANZvPiVQq77cGIwUa?domain=springer.com *Also in Amazon:* https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/j0I1CBNZwLiAG2EEs6FhdP?domain=amazon.co.uk -- 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... 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Scientific and technological advance is pushing the limits of what we have understood of our existence. Some have termed this the age of the 'post-human', where tumultuous changes - social, political and technological - are rewiring our lives. It might appear a moment of great promise and liberation. Yet an underside of injustice and exclusion stubbornly remains, exacerbated on a global scale by climate change. In this predicament how might a new affirmative notion of the human arise to meet the challenges of the third millennium? Thinking Out Loud is presented by the Philosophy group at Western Sydney University in conjunction with ABC RN and Fordham University Press. Monday, April 16, Lecture 1: What counts as the human right now? Wednesday, April 18, Lecture 2: The human after humanism Friday, April 20, Lecture 3: Is the proper study of mankind man? The opening of this year's lecture series will be conducted by Professor Moira Gatens. The respondent to the lectures is Associate Professor Chris Peterson. The lectures will be held at Theatrette of the Powerhouse Museum from 5.30 to 7.30. Cost: $10 per lecture; $25 for the series. Bookings essential. For booking and further details go to: www.westernsydney.edu.au/thinkingoutloud Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) is a ground-breaking scholar in both materialism, Continental philosophy and gender studies. She is the author of numerous books, including Nomadic Subjects (2011) and The Posthuman (2013). [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information about the Research Initiative, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yet despite Sartre?s fame and the Critique?s intrinsic interest, the social ontology presented therein has rarely been studied closely, let alone mobilised by contemporary scholars. In this paper, I will show how Sartre?s methodological individualism ? his attempt to derive of all the basic forms of sociality from different modalities of individual action ? allows him to retain the individual as the efficient cause, or constitutive power, of society, even in situations where the individual appears as the plaything of forces that infinitely surpass them. Certainly, for Sartre, there is no individual in abstraction from social forms ? no individual whose action is not characterised by the different degrees of activity and passivity, or structured by the distinct modalities of rule-following, implied by the social forms they act within. Yet there is also no social form without an individual producing it through their praxis. For Sartre, praxis is a form of activity proper to individual organisms alone and not to any sort of hyperorganism or non-human entity. His aim in the Critique is thus to show that it is at once necessary and sufficient for understanding the constitution of collective life. In this talk, will attempt to defend Sartre?s project and show how it renders many concepts drawn on by both Liberal and Marxist thinkers to account for society either superfluous or misleading in their metaphoricity. 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. 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Dr. Sulmasy is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and holds a joint appointment at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics. He is the inaugural Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, with co-appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Medicine at Georgetown. He is editor-in-chief of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Daniel will speak at ACU?s North Sydney campus and the presentation will be video-conferenced to other campuses: Brisbane: 212.2.19; Ballarat: 100.1.04; North Sydney: 532.12.24; Melbourne: 460.2.80 (Strathfield: no room available) If you wish to attend the Sydney location and you are unsure of where to go, contact me directly and I will arrange to meet you in the Foyer of Tenison Woods House (around 2.20pm). Or just turn up?it?s on Level 12 in the videoconference room. Steve Matthews (Stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) ALL WELCOME! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: