From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Mon Apr 30 15:22:55 2018 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:22:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Encountering the Author: Diego Bubbio, 'God and the Self in Hegel', 23 May 2018 Message-ID: <38B636AA-B15F-42C3-AF23-832EE346246A@westernsydney.edu.au> Philosophy @ Western Sydney is pleased to invite you to the next Encountering the Author seminar: Paolo Diego Bubbio (Western Sydney University)?God and the Self in Hegel: Beyond Subjectivism (SUNY Press, 2017) God and the Self in Hegel proposes a reconstruction of Hegel?s conception of God and analyzes the significance of this reading for Hegel?s idealistic metaphysics. Paolo Diego Bubbio argues that in Hegel?s view, subjectivism?the tenet that there is no underlying ?true? reality that exists independently of the activity of the cognitive agent?can be avoided, and content can be restored to religion, only to the extent that God is understood in God?s relation to human beings, and human beings are understood in their relation to God. Focusing on traditional problems in theology and the philosophy of religion, such as the ontological argument for the existence of God, the Trinity, and the ?death of God,? Bubbio shows the relevance of Hegel?s view of religion and God for his broader philosophical strategy. In this account, as a response to the fundamental Kantian challenge of how to conceive the mind-world relation without setting mind over and against the world, Hegel has found a way of overcoming subjectivism in both philosophy and religion. Discussants: Associate Professor Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University) and Dr Simon Lumsden (UNSW). Chair: Dr Jennifer Mensch Paolo Diego Bubbio is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University, Australia. His books include Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition, also published by SUNY Press. Date/Time: Wednesday 23 May 2018, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm ? All Welcome Place: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.55 [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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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/J6ANCmOxDQtv25ozUGPFbQ?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 calendar-notification at google.com Tue May 1 12:59:58 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 02:59:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Stephanie Collins @ Wed 2 May 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <0000000000006b83ab056b1c2abd@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Stephanie Collins Blameworthiness and Obligation in Non-Agent GroupsWhat's the moral status of groups that are not agents -- groups like 'carbon emitters', 'the international community', or 'upholders of patriarchy'? This paper will argue that groups that are not agents cannot have obligations, but that they can be blameworthy. 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. When: Wed 2 May 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/yChNCmOxDQtv2VXzhGKTDt?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sfeACnxyErCn54wvHJXQro?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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This prize is offered to encourage postgraduates to present at the AAP Conference, and to recognise the philosophical contributions from excellent Australasian postgraduate students. The AAP invites entries from *postgraduate philosophers* in Australasia. *The closing date for entries is Friday 4th** May, 2018 at 6:00pm AEST. Please note: late entries will not be accepted.* For full details including eligibility requirements and judging criteria: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/U7WWCxnMRvtZyxqAh8rCqq?domain=aap.org.au To submit an entry: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xlutCyoNVrcYgLmMHMlBE-?domain=aap.org.au For further information please email 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 h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Wed May 2 14:31:01 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 04:31:01 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy Seminar | Harriet Johnson: The Reification of Nature - Reading Adorno in a Warming World | 8 May - 12.30 pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CECoC0YZWVFjpnwghw7m1F?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Philosophy Seminar The Reification of Nature: Reading Adorno in a Warming World Abstract: Recent scholarship in the environmental humanities celebrates hybridity. Theorists draw attention to forms of life that blur the distinction between nature and society. In the 1940s, Theodor Adorno contended with a further problem: nature and history are already combined in troubling ways. For him, reification names how, under capitalism, naturalized histories and historicized natures spin in a carousel of fused parts. He explains that ?all reification is a forgetting?. Failure to keep track of this movement of capitalist hybridization instigates real-world consequences. In this article, I examine how Adorno?s critique of reification issues a challenge to the terms of environmental political thought. I then draw out his proposal to discern other kinds of stories where the biophysical universe is leavened with social history. About the speaker: Harriet Johnson studied in Germany and Australia and holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Sydney, where she is a sessional lecturer in the Departments of Philosophy and Government and International Relations. Her current book project is titled 'Late Nature: Adorno and the Perplexities of Immanent Critique'. [cid:image002.jpg at 01D3E202.11E9BFE0] Date: 8 May 2018 Time: 12.30 ? 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... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31013 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2327 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2431 bytes Desc: image004.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The talk explores such politics in the context of attitudes toward animals: what sorts of emotions do Western cultures teach one to feel toward pigs, pigeons, fishes and cows, and how does this impact our take on their moral standing? It also maps out the philosophy of empathy, joy and wonder via reference to thinkers such as Simone Weil and Baruch Spinoza, and suggests that these emotions offer a viable and vital foundation for a new animal ethic, capable of highlighting animal perspectives. Elisa Aaltola, PhD, works as a Senior Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Eastern Finland. She has worked on animal ethics/philosophy for a number of years, and most recently has focused also on the moral psychology of our treatment of other animals. Her books include Varieties of Empathy: Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics (Rowman & Littlefields Int. 2018), Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture (Palgrave MacMillan 2012), and Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy (co-edited with John Hadley, Rowman and Littlefields Int. 2014). When Wednesday 9th May 1-2pm Where New Law Annexe, Seminar Room 340 More information Dr Dinesh Wadiwel ? dinesh.wadiwel at sydney.edu.au To find out more, visit sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn/news_events/events.shtml?id=10508 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On *Saturday May 19*,?Peter Godfrey-Smith, ?Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. will give a talk on ?TOLERANCE AND THE INTOLERANT? when he will ask whether there is a limit to being tolerant.? Does over-tolerance towards disruptive elements in our society cause?a collapse of western society? The Blackheath Philosophy Forum meets at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at a nearby wine bar.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My focus is instead on the liberal aspect of self-determination and the surprising ways in which liberal principles constrain the state?s right to both include and exclude prospective new members. When: Wed 9 May 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/Q6sFCgZowLH8E4OqsNxusD?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/k2ivCjZrzqHgoZKYiRBYI3?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/k2ivCjZrzqHgoZKYiRBYI3?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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I show that Davidson's triangulation argument can be much more appropriately construed in a framework of a certain version of dynamic epistemic logic, a logic of actions in character, which will be able to deal explicitly with the transition of both the speaker and the hearer's epistemic states. When: Thu 10 May 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/C6wXC6X13RtXjOVYSpFtKG?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/XFdfC71ZgLtL4pE1HWv5A4?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/XFdfC71ZgLtL4pE1HWv5A4?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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The current focus is on how the theory can be institutionalised in various ways through ?mini-publics?, including in citizen?s juries, citizen?s assemblies, and deliberative polls, to name a few, and how these institutions can be better designed to compensate for existing inequalities between speakers. Institutions should no doubt be designed to ensure a diversity of views are represented, that participants have an equal opportunity to speak, and to have their views seriously considered. However, in focusing on how small scale institutions can be better designed, the importance of informal and less regulated deliberative sites seems to have dropped out of the discussion, together with ways in which these deliberative sites can be more democratic. In this paper, I suggest that one of the ways in which problems of exclusion from deliberation and inequality within deliberation can be ameliorated if to pay closer attention to the responsibilities speakers have in facilitating inclusive and equitable deliberative exchanges, especially those speakers who occupy positions of social privilege or advantage. 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 Adam Hochman | Lecturer in Philosophy Department of Philosophy | 2nd Floor, Australian Hearing Hub Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Staff Profile | http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/adam_hochman/ Academia.edu Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0CcLCL7rK8tLyDyOcqKy_O?domain=mq.academia.edu Philpapers Page | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sBjFCMwvLQTjMyM8HJ1kbu?domain=philpapers.org Personal Website | adamhochman.com T: +61 2 9850 8859 | arts.mq.edu.au [Macquarie University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 4605 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: