From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Mon Mar 26 09:07:29 2018 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:07:29 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar (Reminder): Bernardo Ainbinder, Ways of Being and Form of Life, 28 March 2018 Message-ID: <3F231628-E394-4C85-BB83-9D61264BAE4B@westernsydney.edu.au> Philosophy @ Western Sydney ? Seminar Bernardo Ainbinder (Diego Portales University, Chile)??Ways of Being and Form of Life? The 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? In this presentation, I will approach these two questions by focusing on Heidegger?s discussion of Life as a mode of being in 1929/30 Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. I will do so by taking a somewhat heterodox path and bringing into the picture two important distinctions to be drawn from the literature on generality that - if not strictly Heideggerian - will prove to be extremely illuminating: the difference between accidental and categorial generality (Ford 2011) and the idea of life and forms of life as a specific (Fregean) form of thought different from objects and concepts (Thompson 2007). I will claim that Heidegger (at least partly) draws his attention to organic life because it exhibits paradigmatically the impossibility of thinking of ways of being as genera in the usual sense (question 1 in the WOB debate) and because it shows the intrinsic connection between mode of apprehension and mode of being (question 2 in the WOB debate). 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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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/ORpECROAQotypvO0f9YHjf?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/XsboCVAGXPtzExZkHzh6fQ?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. 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(Final details of time and place to follow.) A provisional list of presenters is included below, with commentators to be arranged. A majority of the presentations will focus on Sterelny?s most recent work, with others addressing contemporary implications of some of his older work. Speakers: Jonathan Birch Lindell Bromham Fiona Cowie Michael Devitt Peter Godfrey-Smith Russell Gray Cecilia Heyes Peter Hiscock Liz Irvine Jessica Isserow Pete Richerson We hope you can join us! Best, Colin Klein, on behalf of Ronald Planer & Matt Spike (organisers) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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BA is a good argument for realism, NMA is dubious one. In light of this, realists should forget about NMA and settle for BA. Why has BA been ignored? Experience suggests that philosophers find it too close to science and mistakenly hanker after a ?more philosophical? justification for realism. No such justification is needed or desirable. 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. 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Details: Date: 5 May 2018 (Saturday) Time: 1pm onwards Location: Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Newtown (behind Courthouse Hotel) RSVP: Accept FB invite or email Tracy Llanera - tracy.llanera at gmail.com Camperdown park is a lovely place to gather, so please feel free to bring snacks, refreshments and picnic blankets. Louise Richardson-Self (UTAS) will bring vegan kitchen goodies, and Yves Aquino (MQ) and I plan to share Filipino goodies with everyone. The book is available for purchase via: OUP: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mGKCCgZowLHKxArlF2TVkq?domain=global.oup.com & Amazon Link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kqtKCk8vAZtA6O7nIJDjvT?domain=amazon.com.au The Macquarie University library now has an electronic copy of the book as well. Please spread the word. I look forward to seeing you in May! Very best, Tracy Llanera https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mTX_CmOxDQt8KjZ5TNV2CM?domain=tracyllanera.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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