From john.sutton at mq.edu.au Mon Apr 23 09:46:43 2018 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 23:46:43 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Fwd: Capgras delusion: MQ Cog Sci Seminar Tomorrow (24th April) @ 11 am, 3.610 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Contact nicolas.badcock at mq.edu.au From: Nicholas Badcock Dear Cog Sci, Tomorrow we're excited to greet our first invited speaker for the seminar series, Gary Young from the Uni of Melbourne who will be talking about: Challenging the revisionist model of the Capgras delusion: An argument for the role of patient experience in delusional belief formation. Where: Marri = large meeting room, south side 3.610, Level 3 of the Aus Hearing Hub [16 University Avenue, Macquarie Uni] When: 11 to 12, Tuesday the 24th of April Like each of the seminars this year, the presentation will be followed by pizzas in the foyer. 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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 Campus Map: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/maps [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 Hitchcockis 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/hRBeC4QZ1RFrJ1E2cOegwP?domain=ryerson.ca https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3qU4C5QZ29FA0G3PsOfk2O?domain=en.wikipedia.org For further information please contact me at robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Dr Robert Sinnerbrink Associate Professor & Australian Research Council Future Fellow Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Arts Level 2, The Australian Hearing Hub 16 University Avenue Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 9935 | F: +61 2 9850 9394 | robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Staff Profile Academia Page New Book: Cinematic Ethics [Macquarie University] CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. Think before you print. 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URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Tue Apr 24 14:56:20 2018 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:56:20 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Call for Commentaries: APR Vol 2 Issue 4: Haslanger 'Cognition as a Social Skill' Message-ID: Abstract submissions for APR 2.4 are due on *15 May 2018*. --------------------- Call for Commentaries: Australasian Philosophical Review (APR), Vol 2 Issue 4 Theme: Political Philosophy Lead Author: Sally Haslanger, "Cognition as a Social Skill" Curator: Natalie Stoljar Invited commentaries from: Elizabeth Anderson, Erin Beeghley, Victoria McGeer and Charles Mills. Committee: Natalie Stoljar, Mari Mikkola, Jennifer McKitrick ====================================================== The APR is seeking proposals for commentaries on Sally Haslanger's, "Cognition as a Social Skill" To view the article you must register as an online commentator with the APR : https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Nd11Cr8DLRtxD41vc7TUCo?domain=australasianphilosophicalreview.org Abstracts should be brief (100-500 words), stating clearly the aspects of the target article that will be discussed, together with an indication of the line that will be taken. More details are available at the APR website, including the online submission form for abstracts: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/PUL4Cvl0PoCvyr26tXmSGs?domain=australasianphilosophicalreview.org Abstract submissions for APR 2.4 are due on *15th May 2018*. Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued on 29 May 2018. 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This unlikely pair of conclusions arises because of the different functions that obligations and blameworthiness play in our moral and political practices. Obligations function as inputs into the practical deliberation of the entity that bears the obligation. Groups that are not agents cannot reason, so they cannot have obligations. By contrast, blameworthiness functions as a reflection of the esteem or disesteem with which others (should) hold the blameworthy entity. Non-group agent groups are -- sometimes -- appropriate objects of esteem or disesteem. I give conditions under which non-agent groups are irreducibly blameworthy. 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The aim of this paper is to examine Arnauld?s reasons for penning a revised edition of Euclid?s Elements particularly given the hostile attitudes of fellow theologians who insisted that the practice of mathematics was a futile, trivial, and vainglorious misuse of time. In this talk I show that Arnauld created a geometry that he hoped would serve in the cultivation of moral, spiritual and intellectual virtues. The account of Arnauld?s mathematical interventions I offer connects his mathematical treatise to concerns in moral philosophy, theology and epistemology. These reflections, I argue, are indispensable to developing any account of mathematical practice in the early modern era. ---------- Contact: Adam Hochman (adam.hochman at mq.edu.au) or Mike Olson (michael.olson at mq.edu.au) A calendar of other events in this series is available here. 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