From sjd at cybersydney.com.au Mon Apr 16 08:05:59 2018 From: sjd at cybersydney.com.au (Sandra Darroch) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:05:59 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] blackheath philosophy forum april 21 Message-ID: <662d9fba-6588-a602-0881-2f517fc06b9e@cybersydney.com.au> *BLACKHEATH PHILOSOPHY FORUM* blackheathphilosophy.org ** 4pm Saturday April 21, 2018 Second talk in our series for 2018. *CIVILISATIONAL CHALLENGES AND THE RESHAPING OF POLITICS* In his 1996 book 'The Clash of Civilizations' the American political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that cultural and religious identities will be the main drivers of conflict in the present century. In a bizarre twist, the rise of identity politics in the West has led to fundamental schisms within one of the main cultures identified by Huntington - the post-Enlightenment West. How is this reshaping political debates in Western societies? *Speaker:* Peter Baldwin was a minister in the Hawke/Keating governments. He chairs the Blackheath Philosophy Forum. *Come and join us for a stimulating talk and lively discussion *at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at a nearby winebar.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome!** For more program details please go to blackheathphilosophy.org --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dGq5C71ZgLt27vwptWzJ1N?domain=avast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Apr 17 13:00:03 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 03:00:03 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: David Miller @ Wed 18 Apr 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11454f06f63f19056a0288ae@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: David Miller The Nature and Limits of the Duty of Rescue Virtually everyone believes that we have a duty to rescue fellow human-beings from serious danger when we can do so at small cost to ourselves ? and this often forms the starting point for arguments in moral and political philosophy on topics such as global poverty, state legitimacy, refugees, and the donation of body parts. 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/8G2dCyoNVrcKWDjWfZmCTK?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UDEdCzvOWKiEBDPBCX3aV5?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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URL: From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Wed Apr 18 00:10:25 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:10:25 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy & Practical Justice Initiative Seminar: David Coady (UTas) on 'Climate Change, Personal Responsibility, and Carbon Footprints', 24 April, 12.30-2 pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/voEyCOMxNytljA3VSEs5dI?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Philosophy & Practical Justice Initiative Seminar Climate Change, Personal Responsibility, and Carbon Footprints Speaker: David Coady, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Tasmania Abstract: I argue that, contrary to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and a number of other authors, climate change gives rise to personal, not just political, obligations. Almost all reasonably affluent people (especially those living in the industrialised world) are obliged to limit their own carbon footprint. This is not an obligation that can readily be offset through political activity or any other kind of activity. The precise nature and extent of our obligation to limit our carbon footprint will depend to some extent on government policy. About the speaker: David Coady is Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Most of his current work is on applied philosophy, especially applied epistemology. He has published on rumour, conspiracy theory, the blogosphere, expertise and democratic theory. He has also published on the metaphysics of causation, the philosophy of law, climate change, cricket ethics, police ethics, and the ethics of horror films. He is the author of What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues (2012), the co-author of The Climate Change Debate: an Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry (2013), the editor of Conspiracy Theories: the Philosophical Debate (2006) and the co-editor of A Companion to Applied Philosophy (2016) and the Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology (forthcoming in 2018). [cid:image007.jpg at 01D3D58B.6674AFD0] Date: 24 April 2018 Time: 12.30 pm -2.00 pm Location: Chancellery Building, Committee Room 3, UNSW Kensington Campus map: view. Registration: Not Required Map reference: C22 Contact: e: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au t: (02) 9385 2373 All interested welcome, no RSVP necessary UNSW Arts & Social Sciences UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia arts.unsw.edu.au CRICOS Provider Code 00098G, ABN 57 195 873 179 [Facebook] [Twitter] [Linked In] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Location: Macquarie University, Australian Hearing Hub Building, Level 5, Seminar Room 212 (AHH 5.212) Date: Thursday, 26 April from 12:00-2:00pm [Please note that this is during semester break] The Plague of Fascination Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University) This talk will explore some historical roots and contemporary outcomes of a widespread cultural bias against spectatorial rapture in response to cinema: performance and its vicissitudes; the suspicion of pleasure and its substitution by ?cinephilia?; illumination as manipulation of belief; asceticism and effect. Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University and the author of numerous volumes, most recently The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI 2016) and Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance (Rutgers 2016). His book A Dream of Hitchcock is forthcoming. He has edited or co-edited Close-Up, Hamlet Lives in Hollywood, Cinema and Modernity, A Little Solitaire, and more than two dozen other books. He edits the ?Horizons of Cinema? series at SUNY Press and ?Techniques of the Moving Image? at Rutgers. For further details on Professor Pomerance see: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DQB0Cr8DLRt7YkDxh7LzzK?domain=ryerson.ca https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oEHXCvl0PoCq5YyvuXnwko?domain=en.wikipedia.org For further information about this presentation please contact A/Prof. Robert Sinnerbrink (robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au) We look forward to seeing you there! 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According to some this is a genuine explanation while others deny this. One particularly interesting way of denying that there is an explanation here is offered by our own Nick Smith, who claims that what we have in such cases is the end of explanation and this should not be confused with an explanation. One motivation for such a view comes from counterfactual accounts of explanation. 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/4-lDCYWL1vim77xoF0w7KJ?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pla7CZYM2VFA66NnhjkDcb?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. 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On November 20, there will be Postgraduate Day followed by the official opening to the conference, a keynote address and a reception. Keynote Speakers: - Peg Birmingham (DePaul University) - Walter Brogan (Villanova University) - Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University) - Plenary Panel on the work of Genevieve Lloyd Please submit your papers by June 15. For more information and for submission of papers, please go to: www.westernsydney.edu.au/westernascp In order to foster the lively exchange of ideas, we encourage the submission of the proposal of papers, panels, or streams of panels on any topic in philosophy. We particularly encourage submissions in areas that have had little attention in previous ASCP conferences, such as, but not limited to, comparative philosophy, philosophy of race, ancient philosophy, and the history of philosophy, as well as to interdisciplinary connections with literature, political science, and gender studies. For further information, please email philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Regards, Dimitris Vardoulakis [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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The changing character of work invites us to rethink the place of work in our lives, and to ask how work would look in a genuinely free society. This talk will look at some options for thinking about this question. Thursday April 26 6:30pm - 8pm Leichhardt Library (Piazza Level - Italian Forum, 23 Norton St, Leichhardt) Free event - All welcome - Light refreshments provided Bookings online or call 9367 9266 Full details as well as registration for the event are available from this link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2XktCoVzGQi5gW2yS1jHpX?domain=eventbrite.com.au Upcoming talks: May 31, Markos Valaris (UNSW),?Your Brain and You? register at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WvJLCp8AJQtqV64RSDfEZs?domain=eventbrite.com.au Simon Lumsden (Inner West Council philosophy talks program coordinator) Simon Lumsden | Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of New South Wales | Sydney | NSW 2052 | Australia work + 61 2 9385 2369 s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/simon-lumsden/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au Sun Apr 22 13:42:36 2018 From: Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au (Stephen Matthews) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 03:42:36 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] ACU Philosophy Seminar Series: Kerstin Astrid Knight Message-ID: Friday April 27, 2.30pm - 4 pm Kerstin will speak at ACU?s Melbourne campus (address below) and the presentation will be video-conferenced to other campuses: Brisbane: 212.2.19; Ballarat: 100.1.04; North Sydney: 532.12.24 (8 Napier Street N. Syd, Level 12 of Tenison Woods House.) Location for Melbourne: Room 460.7.03 (250 Victoria Parade, Level 7) Narrating the end Those who advocate advance care planning largely do so based on ideas of life as a whole. They hold that our identity is based on critical values and interests which form the skeleton of our life narrative and that we have a vested interest in maintaining this narrative, even when we lose the capacity of being competent life narrators. Being a life narrator on their account is not simply someone who tells how one's life goes, but someone who creates the story, which extends into the future. The significance of directing the 'last chapter' lies in giving expression to a unified whole with particular emphasis on having a say in what should be the end to this whole. We should therefore have a right to maintain our narrative beyond mental incapacity by means of advance care planning. My paper examines the tight connection between ideas of identity, autonomy and life holism and how the coherent interplay of these concepts is important for the ethical and practical framework of advance care planning. I will briefly start by defending the view that a narrative identity account is the best identity account in overcoming ethical problems associated with the 'identity problem' of advance care planning. I will then discuss, why the successful solution to this problem is nonetheless insufficient to overcome significant problems associated with advance care planning. My argument is based on the insight that a conceptual frame work for advance care planning which is based on narrative identity forces us to adopt a corresponding idea of narrative autonomy and that such an account of autonomy is inconsistent with (and undesirable for) our current medico-legal practice. Kerstin Astrid Knight (SHAPS and SSPS, University of Melbourne Department for Bioethics, and Monash university) ALL WELCOME! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: