From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Apr 10 13:00:00 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 03:00:00 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Tom Hurka @ Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <94eb2c18fd40dd66d0056975b7b4@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Tom Hurka The Intrinsic Values of Knowledge and AchievementThis paper explores the idea that knowledge and achievement are intrinsic human goods ? more specifically, that they?re objective or perfectionist goods, whose value doesn?t depend on our wanting or getting pleasure from them. It discusses what knowledge and achievement are, what makes them objectively good, and what distinguishes their more valuable from their less valuable instances. A central theme is that the two are parallel goods, with similar grounds and similar factors affecting their value.  When: Wed 11 Apr 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/iuGxC91ZkQtA3jR4toyQwo?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ONKZC0YZWVFQozJNiDswEX?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/ONKZC0YZWVFQozJNiDswEX?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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We have three meetings planned as follows: Tuesday, 24th April, 2.30-4pm Tuesday, 1st May, 2.30-4pm Tuesday, 8th May, 2.30-4pm (with Elisa Aaltola) If you are interested in attending, please contact Greg Murrie- gmur8046 at uni.sydney.edu.au by COB Monday 16th April. Reading and venues will be sent to confirmed participants Warm regards Dinesh Dr Dinesh Wadiwel Senior Lecturer, Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights School of Social and Political Sciences Room 413, Old Teachers College The University of Sydney Tel. +61 2 9351 4811 email: dinesh.wadiwel at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Tue Apr 10 17:37:44 2018 From: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au (Chris Lawless) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:07:44 +0930 Subject: [SydPhil] Call for Abstracts - 2018 AAP NZAP Conference Message-ID: The 2018 AAP NZAP Conference is now accepting registrations and abstract submissions. The 2018 conference is a joint collaboration between the Australasian Association of Philosophy and the New Zealand Association of Philosophy. This year the conference will be hosted by Victoria University of Wellington from Sunday 8 to Thursday 12 July 2018. 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/ihlSC5QZ29F3vwxXczcPWn?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 richard.menary at mq.edu.au Tue Apr 10 19:34:51 2018 From: richard.menary at mq.edu.au (Richard Menary) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:34:51 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Fri 13th: Workshop on Co-ordination, Co-operation and Evolution Message-ID: <792E546F-1035-466B-97CC-365B7333425D@mq.edu.au> Dear All, With the visit to Macquarie University of John Michael and Richard Moore, we are holding a workshop this Friday (13th April). All are welcome. 10.30 - 11.30 AHH Cognitive Science Seminar room level 3 (3.610) The Chains of Habit: Repeated Coordination in Joint Decision-Making Boosts Cooperation by Eliciting a Sense of Commitment John Michael (Warwick) We tested the hypothesis that repeated coordination with a partner can elicit a sense of commitment, leading people to resist tempting alternatives and thereby sustaining cooperation through fluctuations in individuals? interests. In our paradigm, participants performed a repeated joint decision-making task with the same partner in one block (Partner Condition), and with a different partner on each trial in a separate block (Stranger Condition). When both players coordinated on the same option, both were rewarded. On some trials, participants were offered outside options presenting varying degrees of temptation to defect. Participants were informed that they were coordinating with a partner or partners who were in the lab with them. The results of their choices, as well as the trajectories of their mouse movements, indicated that participants in the Partner Condition were more resistant to the temptation to defect. I discuss these results against the background of recent theorizing about the ultimate and proximal mechanisms of human cooperation. 11.40 - 12.40 AHH Cognitive Science Seminar room level 3 (3.610) Communication, Coordination, and the Evolution of the Stag Hunt Richard Moore (Humboldt-Berlin School of Mind and Brain) In this talk I will develop an account of the foundations of coordination in communication. I will argue against two hypotheses about Gricean communication defended by Tomasello (2008). They are (1) that Gricean communication is a form of joint action, and (2) that inferring communicative goals requires cooperative reasoning. Against these claims I will argue for a weaker view, namely that Gricean communication is made more effective when used by interlocutors who can engage in joint action and joint attention, and who do reason cooperatively. I will illustrate my arguments via a discussion of Stag Hunt coordination studies of children and great ape subjects. My revisions to Tomasello's account are important because they make it possible to explain how simple forms of communicative coordination could support the emergence of more complex ones in phylogeny. Moreover, they suggest that the evolution of human language was enabled less by radical changes to hominin social cognition in phylogeny than by small tweaks to social attention, environmental changes, and a better diet that supported the development of superior domain general reasoning capacities. 2 - 3 AHH Seminar room level 5 (5.212) Cultural Evolution and Emotion Development Penny van Bergen (MQ) and Richard Menary (MQ) In this review we highlight a new perspective on children's emotion development: the cultural evolutionary perspective. Past research shows that parent-child reminiscing has important benefits not only for children's memory development, but also for the understanding of emotions, emotional perspective-taking, and theory of mind. By reminiscing about emotional past events, both mundane and influential, parents have the opportunity to scaffold and extend children's understanding of their own emotional experiences at a time when children are no longer in a state of high arousal. They also can consider the emotional perspectives of other people present at the event, such as siblings, friends, or strangers, and explore the ways in which these peoples' mental experiences differ from one?s own. While individual differences in parents' scaffolding approaches are well known, no research to date has considered possible generational differences in how scaffolding is used to enhance children's emotion. Taking a cultural evolutionary perspective, we provide a sketch of a framework for understanding the cultural inheritance of emotional scaffolding. Cheers, Richard Dr. Richard Menary Head of the Department of Philosophy ARC Future Fellow Macquarie University Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics academia.edu site Phil Papers Profile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A campus map can be found here: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/maps With the visit to Macquarie University of John Michael and Richard Moore, we are holding a workshop this Friday (13th April). All are welcome. 10.30 - 11.30 AHH Cognitive Science Seminar room level 3 (3.610) The Chains of Habit: Repeated Coordination in Joint Decision-Making Boosts Cooperation by Eliciting a Sense of Commitment John Michael (Warwick) We tested the hypothesis that repeated coordination with a partner can elicit a sense of commitment, leading people to resist tempting alternatives and thereby sustaining cooperation through fluctuations in individuals? interests. In our paradigm, participants performed a repeated joint decision-making task with the same partner in one block (Partner Condition), and with a different partner on each trial in a separate block (Stranger Condition). When both players coordinated on the same option, both were rewarded. On some trials, participants were offered outside options presenting varying degrees of temptation to defect. Participants were informed that they were coordinating with a partner or partners who were in the lab with them. The results of their choices, as well as the trajectories of their mouse movements, indicated that participants in the Partner Condition were more resistant to the temptation to defect. I discuss these results against the background of recent theorizing about the ultimate and proximal mechanisms of human cooperation. 11.40 - 12.40 AHH Cognitive Science Seminar room level 3 (3.610) Communication, Coordination, and the Evolution of the Stag Hunt Richard Moore (Humboldt-Berlin School of Mind and Brain) In this talk I will develop an account of the foundations of coordination in communication. I will argue against two hypotheses about Gricean communication defended by Tomasello (2008). They are (1) that Gricean communication is a form of joint action, and (2) that inferring communicative goals requires cooperative reasoning. Against these claims I will argue for a weaker view, namely that Gricean communication is made more effective when used by interlocutors who can engage in joint action and joint attention, and who do reason cooperatively. I will illustrate my arguments via a discussion of Stag Hunt coordination studies of children and great ape subjects. My revisions to Tomasello's account are important because they make it possible to explain how simple forms of communicative coordination could support the emergence of more complex ones in phylogeny. Moreover, they suggest that the evolution of human language was enabled less by radical changes to hominin social cognition in phylogeny than by small tweaks to social attention, environmental changes, and a better diet that supported the development of superior domain general reasoning capacities. 2 - 3 AHH Seminar room level 5 (5.212) Cultural Evolution and Emotion Development Penny van Bergen (MQ) and Richard Menary (MQ) In this review we highlight a new perspective on children's emotion development: the cultural evolutionary perspective. Past research shows that parent-child reminiscing has important benefits not only for children's memory development, but also for the understanding of emotions, emotional perspective-taking, and theory of mind. By reminiscing about emotional past events, both mundane and influential, parents have the opportunity to scaffold and extend children's understanding of their own emotional experiences at a time when children are no longer in a state of high arousal. They also can consider the emotional perspectives of other people present at the event, such as siblings, friends, or strangers, and explore the ways in which these peoples' mental experiences differ from one?s own. While individual differences in parents' scaffolding approaches are well known, no research to date has considered possible generational differences in how scaffolding is used to enhance children's emotion. Taking a cultural evolutionary perspective, we provide a sketch of a framework for understanding the cultural inheritance of emotional scaffolding. 3.30 - 4.30 AHH Seminar room level 5 (5.212) Minimal Collective Intentionality in Evolution and Development Glenda Satne (UOW and Alberto Hurtado University) One important application of theories of collective intentionality concerns the evolution of human specific cognitive capacities (Tomasello 2014). A promising idea behind this explanatory attempt is the Cooperative Evolutionary Hypothesis (CEH), namely, the idea that humans? capacity for social cooperation is at the heart of their ability to understand others? mental states and behavior, leading to an explanation of how humans came to share thoughts and language. However, some of the most popular defenses of CEH face important problems. After identifying some of the central problems of the leading views, I propose and defend an alternative way of understanding shared intentionality that can help substantiate CEH: the Minimal Collective View. Psychological capacities for minimal collective intentionality are discussed vis ? vis evidence of their developmental and evolutionary trajectories. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But how are we to explain this duty, and within what limits does it apply?  It cannot be subsumed under a wider consequentialist requirement to prevent harm.  Nor can it be understood as a duty of social justice that citizens owe to one another under a social contract for mutual protection.  Instead it is a sui generis duty of justice that arises from the direct physical encounter between rescuer and victim, and is accordingly limited in scope.  It is unconditional, in the sense that it cannot be voided either by reckless behaviour on the part of the rescuee, or by her unwillingness to reciprocate if called upon to do so.  However the simplicity of the duty evaporates when multiple potential rescuers are present.  Here responsibility lies with the collective as a whole until it is assigned by a fair procedure to individual members.  Each individual is required as a matter of justice to discharge that share, but not more, though in the case that others do not comply, he will have a reason, and sometimes a humanitarian duty, to take up the slack.   When: Wed 18 Apr 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/cRDJCr8DLRt7O2vyC7gsmm?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/juwPCvl0PoCqZA6JtXAajn?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/juwPCvl0PoCqZA6JtXAajn?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/vfROCwVLQmikny15H9Ir7s?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Apr 12 13:08:17 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 03:08:17 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Reading Group: Dementia, agency, personhood, and care Message-ID: Hi all, There?s a new reading group on dementia, agency, personhood, and care, as part of a new project on dementia. All welcome, but please contact Daphne to let her know that you?re coming. Her email: daphne.brandenburg at students.mq.edu.au First meeting: Monday 23 April 2018 (future meetings to be determined at the meeting) Time: 14:00 Venue: Australian Hearing Hub 2.320. The group will be discussing the following two papers: - Kitwood, T., & Bredin, K. (1992). Towards a Theory of Dementia Care: Personhood and Well-being. Ageing and Society, 12(3), 269-287. doi:10.1017/S0144686X0000502X - Jaworska, A. (1999). Respecting the Margins of Agency: Alzheimer's Patients and the Capacity to Value. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 28(2), 105-138. Retrieved from https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vcW6CWLJY7iZ8P2Mu6FK3M?domain=jstor.org 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... 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According to such accounts, we look for the nearest possible world in which the circle can be squared and check whether my attempts succeed there. But because there is no possible world in which the circle can be squared, we do not have an explanation. In short, counterfactual accounts of explanation do not permit impossibilities as explanations. There is, however, a natural extension of counterfactual accounts of explanation that allow counterpossibles (and hence impossible worlds). Such accounts do deliver the result that impossibilities can be explanatory. For some this is a welcome result but it comes with a challenge. Once we allow impossible worlds we need a substantive account of why impossibilities are never actualised (e.g. why the impossible world where the circle is squared is not the actual world). In this paper I will discuss this challenge and defend the counterpossible account of explanation. When: Thu 19 Apr 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: The Muniment Room Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LitMCMwvLQTDpRO0Swbzzd?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lvcCCNLwM9iJYElrs4nhb2?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 Current Projects. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lvcCCNLwM9iJYElrs4nhb2?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/yVj9COMxNytlD0R9FkPkBb?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: