From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Mar 20 12:59:49 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 01:59:49 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: James Lancaster @ Wed 21 Mar 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEDT) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000fa450d0567ce6d24@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: James Lancaster From Matters of Faith to Matters of Fact: The Problem of Priestcraft in Early Modern EnglandThis paper details philosophical responses to the problem posed by the existence, whether real or perceived, of ?priestcraft?, a problem that boiled down to a fear that, if the custodians of God?s tabernacle were corrupt, so too were the contents of the tabernacle. It first explores the attempts of Edward Herbert and Thomas Hobbes to guarantee the truth of revealed matters of faith in response to their perception of widespread priestcraft, arguing that while each sought to undermine sacerdotal authority, they ultimately exempted matters of faith from the litmus test of reason. This resulted in a less-than-satisfactory solution to the problem. It turns next to Locke?s Essay (1690) and Reasonableness of Christianity (1695), exploring how empirical notions of evidence, fact, and probability, as framed in these works, enabled a radical re-evaluation of the grounds of Christian faith, which subsequently influenced the writings of John Toland, Anthony Collins, and Peter Annet between the 1690s and 1740s. These ?Lockean free-thinkers?, I argue, were in fact closer to the position of the Essay and Reasonableness than to the deism of Edward Herbert in their efforts to tackle priestcraft. Concluding, I propose that the problem of priestcraft served as a catalyst for early modern philosophers to increasingly narrow the grounds of faith, until faith was deemed legitimate only when grounded upon fact. When: Wed 21 Mar 2018 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hM1MCq7BKYtJ0yJyCZLkJd?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kQv2Cr8DLRt4VR4Rszuxj7?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/kQv2Cr8DLRt4VR4Rszuxj7?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. 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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; 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: From inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au Wed Mar 21 11:10:10 2018 From: inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au (Inja Stracenski) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:10:10 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Collaborating with Nature: The Environmental Public Art Message-ID: Hi All, You are welcome to attend the upcoming workshop in March - to register, please email: inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au Collaborating with Nature: The Environmental Public Art of Turpin + Crawford [cid:373FC22B-9F67-4256-935A-295D4A9AD7A7] Exploring environmental art and its impact in the Anthropocene What is the role of environmental art today, and what does it take to create it? How can art raise awareness of the environmental crisis, and in what ways does it inspire action? And most importantly, if environmental art is not solely representational??representing nature, for instance??then what can it be? This workshop aims to consider these questions in light of the major public art of collaborative artists, Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford. By investigating the site-specific, restorative, and educational works of Turpin + Crawford, this workshop will explore the meaning of artistic collaboration on a number of levels??between the two artists, between artists and engineers, and between art and nature. What model does this collaboration serve for future inter-disciplinary work between the arts and the sciences? In what ways can non-representational environmental art ?collaborate? with the natural world? And how can such a collaboration invite environmental awareness and action? This workshop is co-sponsored by the FCRS grant ?Concepts and Theories of Life From the Nineteenth Century to the Present? and the Sydney Environment Institute. When: Monday 26 March 2018 Where: MECO Room, Woolley Building, Science Road, University of Sydney When: 8:30am ? 6pm More information: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/german/research/fcrs.shtml Organised by: Prue Gibson, Cat Moir and Dalia Nassar, Research assistant: Inja Stracenski I N J A S T R A C E N S K I Research Assistant and PhD Candidate Philosophy Department | School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F S Y D N E Y E inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Collaborating with nature.png Type: image/png Size: 459926 bytes Desc: Collaborating with nature.png URL: From miguel.segundo.ortin at gmail.com Wed Mar 21 11:46:41 2018 From: miguel.segundo.ortin at gmail.com (Miguel Segundo Ortin) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:46:41 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] WORKSHOP: "Minimal Cognition. From Biology to Mind" - University of Wollongong - 11th April 2018 Message-ID: <73768138-c13d-a5ba-3c36-a9b3e06bd3da@gmail.com> The University of Wollongong is hosting the workshop *"Minimal Cognition. From Biology to Mind"* that will take place on the *11th of April 2018* at the *Research Hub of the Arts Building (Building 19, Room 2072B)* This workshop aims to explore recent empirical discoveries on minimal forms of intelligence in order to set up the basis for an empirically informed philosophical discussion on the origins of cognition. The focus of the discussion will be on instances of minimal cognition (plant learning and signalling, decission making in brainless organisms), phylogenetic and ontogenetic factors in the emergence of cognition, the relation between cognition and other (biological and non-biological) processes, explanatory models and approaches, and minimal forms of subjectivity and agency. The Schedule is as follows: 10.00 - 11.00 *??? Madeleine Beekman* (University of Sydney) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?? ?? ? "Information transfer in swarming honeybees. From brainly individuals to brainless collective" 11.00 - 12.00 ***Patrick McGivern *(University of Wollongong) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? "Cognition without life? Active matter and minimal cognition" 12.00 - 1.00? ??? ??? ??? ??? Lunch 1.00 - 2.30 ??????? Postgraduate Sessions ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1.00 - 1.45 *Jules Smith-Ferguson* (University of Sydney) ??? ??? ??? ?? ???? "Who needs a brain? Minimal cognition in the slime mould" ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1.45 - 2.30 *Lachlan Walmsley *(Australian National University) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? "Marginal mechanisms and minimal cognition" 2.30 - 3.00??? ??? ??? Coffe/Tea/Refreshments 3.00 - 4.00 *Monica Gagliano *(University of Western Australia) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?? "Inside the vegetal mind: On the cognitive abilities of plants" * Attendance is free but registration is required*. To register, please send an email to Miguel Segundo-Ortin (*mso693 at uowmail.edu.au*) before 5th of April. This event is supported by the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong, and it is partially funded by a grant from the Australasian Association of Philosophy (APA). -- *Miguel Segundo-Ortin* Ph.D Candidate School of Humanities and Social Inquiry Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts University of Wollongong (Australia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Thu Mar 22 09:00:45 2018 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:00:45 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Fwd: firestone talk tomorrow at 3 References: <33EF2D82-132C-4A51-BF62-4C47DF057889@sydney.edu.au> Message-ID: <2B011DD1-E6D0-4493-B678-D2284A977DE4@yahoo.com> Chaz Firestone of Johns Hopkins University is a philosophy-influenced cognitive psychologist and will speak tomorrow Friday 23 March at 3pm in Heydon Laurence LT217. There will be drinks after. He will present: Seeing Stability: Physical understanding is rooted in automatic visual processing We can readily appreciate whether a tower of blocks will topple or a stack of dishes will collapse. How? How are we able to interpret observable physical events in terms of the unobservable physical forces underlying them? Both classic and contemporary work on this question has typically treated this sort of physical understanding as a species of higher-level cognition ? akin to deriving the solution to a physics riddle through reasoning and calculation. This talk will explore a very different possibility: that such inferences (such as whether a tower of blocks will topple) are rooted in automatic visual processing, such that understanding a physical scene may work less like working through a problem in physics class, and more like seeing a color. I will present experimental evidence that physical scene understanding is spontaneous (occurring even when irrelevant to one?s task), fast (arising ?fully formed? in less than 100ms exposure to a scene), reflexive (being surprisingly intransigent to one?s explicit beliefs), attention-grabbing (determining what we may become aware of), and even phenomenologically distinctive (creating illusions of motion, such that a precarious tower may subtly appear to be falling over). I conclude that we can not only calculate, reason about, and simulate physical forces, but also see them. Associate Professor Kristie Miller ARC Future Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room S212, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8oV8ClxwB5C6MprGfGpY4_?domain=kristiemiller.net > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Alex Holcombe > Subject: firestone talk tomorrow at 3 > Date: 22 March 2018 at 6:55:27 am AEDT > To: Kristie Miller > > Hi Kristie, I hope you might be interested in attending this and know some people to send this announcement to: > Chaz Firestone of Johns Hopkins University is a philosophy-influenced cognitive psychologist and will speak tomorrow Friday 23 March at 3pm in Heydon Laurence LT217. There will be drinks after. He will present: > Seeing Stability: Physical understanding is rooted in automatic visual processing > We can readily appreciate whether a tower of blocks will topple or a stack of dishes will collapse. How? How are we able to interpret observable physical events in terms of the unobservable physical forces underlying them? Both classic and contemporary work on this question has typically treated this sort of physical understanding as a species of higher-level cognition ? akin to deriving the solution to a physics riddle through reasoning and calculation. This talk will explore a very different possibility: that such inferences (such as whether a tower of blocks will topple) are rooted in automatic visual processing, such that understanding a physical scene may work less like working through a problem in physics class, and more like seeing a color. I will present experimental evidence that physical scene understanding is spontaneous (occurring even when irrelevant to one?s task), fast (arising ?fully formed? in less than 100ms exposure to a scene), reflexive (being surprisingly intransigent to one?s explicit beliefs), attention-grabbing (determining what we may become aware of), and even phenomenologically distinctive (creating illusions of motion, such that a precarious tower may subtly appear to be falling over). I conclude that we can not only calculate, reason about, and simulate physical forces, but also see them. > > > > -- > Alex Holcombe, Professor > Honours coordinator, > School of Psychology | Faculty of Science > THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Web , Twitter , Map > Co-director, the Centre for Time > Associate Editor, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science > PsyOA.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And surely everyone expects experimental systems to be empirical tests for hypotheses, and not a surrogate or representation of any sort, don?t they? I will discuss these and other objections, with special attention to how organismal and experimental model systems can interact with mathematical models. These interactions give indications of the special modelling properties organisms and experiments are meant to have. These properties might mean we need to supplement our views of what models are. When: Wed 28 Mar 2018 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Sydney Uni, Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WbpnC2xZYvC0Q0BMunIZXh?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mUb-C3Q8Z2FWvWynUqwEOn?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/mUb-C3Q8Z2FWvWynUqwEOn?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Y1jGC4QZ1RFRxRDXhBq3WS?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au Thu Mar 22 14:36:23 2018 From: benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au (Ben Brown) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:36:23 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?Utility_and_Refuge_in_Sophocles=E2=80=99_Oed?= =?utf-8?q?ipus_Plays?= Message-ID: <7FEA48BA-18F0-4A54-925E-04C69F7563AD@sydney.edu.au> The following event will be of some interest to subscribers to the list: Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney invites you to attend the next instalment in our seminar series. Please join us on Thursday 29th of March to hear Tristan Bradshaw, a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, who will deliver a paper entitled: ?Utility and Refuge in Sophocles? Oedipus Plays? The paper will commence at 4.15pm at the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) boardroom, Madsen Building, University of Sydney. The seminar will be followed by refreshments. If there are any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact either me or Daniel Hanigan (daniel.hanigan at sydney.edu.au). all best, Ben DR BEN BROWN Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator Classics and Ancient History | FASS (SoPHI) THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Ph.: 9351 8983; Office: Main Quad J6.07 E benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/staff/profiles/benjamin.brown.php Recent Book -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.olson at mq.edu.au Fri Mar 23 08:24:23 2018 From: michael.olson at mq.edu.au (Michael Olson) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:24:23 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Talk: Tuesday, 27 March, 13:00, Blackshield room: Brian Hedden (Sydney) Message-ID: <9E2C07BD-A634-4097-A118-F99D219835ED@mq.edu.au> Hindsight Bias is not a Bias Brian Hedden (Sydney) Date: 27 March Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: Blackshield Room, W3A (6 First Walk) 501* All welcome *Note the changing venues this semester Abstract: Hindsight bias is the phenomenon of being more confident that some body of evidence supports a hypothesis when one knows that the hypothesis is true, than when one doesn't. Psychologists tell us both that we often display hindsight bias, and that this is irrational. After all, evidence can be misleading, and the fact that the hypothesis is true doesn't affect whether it was supported by the evidence available ex ante. Hindsight bias is of particular concern in tort lawsuits, where jurors may be asked to determine negligence, which requires judging what would have been reasonable to believe based on the evidence available at the time, before the outcome became know. Legal scholars worry that hindsight bias makes jurors ill-suited to accurately determine negligence. I argue that hindsight bias is consistent with, and often required by, ideal rationality. In particular, the fact that some hypothesis is true gives evidence about relations of evidential support. I also connect hindsight bias with current debates about the role of higher-order evidence. 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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