From calendar-notification at google.com Tue May 8 13:00:05 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 03:00:05 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Luara Ferracioli @ Wed 9 May 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a11481a80b42201056ba8fb3a@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Luara Ferracioli Liberal Self-Determination and Immigration In this essay, I aim to develop one of the building blocks of a complete liberal theory of immigration by defending an account of the state?s right to exclude which has the resources to explain what is wrong with discriminatory exclusion in the area of immigration?that is, exclusion on the basis of morally arbitrary features, such as gender and race. Like other liberal partialists, I appeal to a right to self-determination to justify a state?s right to exclude. But unlike these theorists, I do not appeal to the alleged psychological harm of insult. 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/2GHaCD1jy9tXz5NyIWCTXh?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QGePCE8kz9tB23VYtwx_Fq?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/QGePCE8kz9tB23VYtwx_Fq?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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Potential applications of such technologies (e.g. brain-based pain detection in civil lawsuits, medications to help criminal offenders become less impulsive, prediction of future behaviour through neuroimaging) and their ethical, clinical, legal, and societal implications, fuel important debates in neuroethics. However, many factors beyond the brain ? factors targeted by different emerging technologies ? also influence human thought and behaviour. Sequencing the human genome and gene-editing technologies like CRISPR Cas-9 offer novel ways to explain and influence human thought and behaviour. Analysis of data about our offline and online lives (e.g. from fitness trackers, how we interact with our smartphone apps, and our social media posts and profiles) also provide striking insights into our psychology. Such intimate information can be used to predict and influence our behaviour, including through bespoke advertising for goods and services that more effectively exploits our psychology and political campaigns that sway election results. Although such methods often border on manipulation, they are both difficult to detect and potentially impossible to resist. The use of such information to guide the design of online environments, artifacts, and smart cities lies at the less nefarious ? and potentially even socially useful and morally praiseworthy ? end of the spectrum vis ? vis the potential applications of such emerging ?moral technologies?. At this year?s Neuroscience & Societyconference we will investigate the ethical, clinical, legal, and societal implications of a wide range of moral technologies that target factors beyond, as well as within, the brain, in order to observe, explain, and influence human thought and behaviour. Topics will include, but are not limited to: * cognitive and moral enhancement * neurolaw and neuro-evidence * brain-computer interfaces * neuro-advertising * neuromorphic engineering and computing * mental privacy and surveillance * social media and behaviour prediction/influence * implicit bias and priming * technological influences on human behaviour * nudging, environment and technology design, and human behaviour * artificial intelligence and machine learning * technology and the self * (neuro)technology and society We invite abstracts from scholars, scientists, technology designers, policy-makers, practitioners, clinicians and graduate students, interested in presenting talks or posters on any of the above or related topics. Abstracts of 300 words should be emailed to cynthia.forlini at sydney.edu.au in Microsoft Word format by Thursday, 31 May 2018. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and authors of successful submissions will be notified via email by Friday, 15 June 2018. In addition to keynote presentations (to be announced shortly), contributed talks, and a poster session, the conference program will also include three sessions on the following topics: * Australian Neurolaw Database https://neurolaw.edu.au highlights and enhancements * book symposium on Neuro-Interventions and The Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity * panel on the topic of remorse For enquiries about matters other than abstract submission, please email adrian.carter at monash.edu.au or jeanette.kennett at mq.edu.au Neuroscience & Society is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function Neuroethics Program, and the Centre for Agency Values and Ethics at Macquarie University. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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/bspfCK1qJZtLGr0YHMiiWA?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MJ7RCL7rK8tLZY5gHqNhMO?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/MJ7RCL7rK8tLZY5gHqNhMO?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/PaEBCMwvLQTjA6GLHJ2tZb?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Moreover, the dimensions of social life regulated by local government are important sources of a life well lived, an antidote to the ?neutralist? preoccupations of much contemporary political theory. One example of controversy in local jurisdictions is the ?NIMBY? problem, a term used to characterise resistance to development policies by local inhabitants as a matter of personal, selfish interests being put ahead of the public good. In this paper I argue that the NIMBY appellation mischaracterises the issues at stake in the fights of community activists against unwanted development. NIMBYs? actions are usually rational and reasonable, and far from being at odds with the public good, they in fact may seek to ward off public bads, and thus shed light on the complex nature of human flourishing in communities. When: Wed 16 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/zbuQClxwB5CLJ08KUGvbXM?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bTFwCmOxDQtvwB3YuOAl5p?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/bTFwCmOxDQtvwB3YuOAl5p?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/cMddCnxyErCn0A2LsNNl3J?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From patrickm at uow.edu.au Thu May 10 13:25:39 2018 From: patrickm at uow.edu.au (Patrick McGivern) Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 03:25:39 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?UOW_Philosophy_seminar=3A_Jordi_Fernandez_?= =?utf-8?q?=28Adelaide=29=2C_=E2=80=9CThe_Functionalist_Theory_of_Memory?= =?utf-8?b?4oCd?= Message-ID: UOW Philosophy is pleased to welcome Jordi Fernandez (Adelaide) for next week?s Philosophy Research Seminar. All are welcome. Where: LHA Research Hub (room 19.2072), UOW Main Campus When: 15:30-17:00, Wednesday, May 16th Title: The Functionalist Theory of Memory Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to determine what is to remember something, as opposed to imagining it, perceiving it, or introspecting it. First, I will discuss the two main existing conceptions of the conditions that a mental state must satisfy to count as an episode of remembering. The first of these approaches is backward-looking. It puts forward conditions that strictly concern the aetiology of the mental state. I will argue that the conditions offered by the backward-looking approach are both too strong and too weak: They rule out mental states which, intuitively, count as memories while including mental states which, intuitively, do not qualify as memories. The second approach is forward-looking. It puts forward conditions that only concern the use that the subject makes of the mental state while forming beliefs about their own life. I will argue that the conditions proposed by the forward-looking approach are both too weak and too strong as well. However, the discussion of the two approaches will allow us to extract some helpful lessons on the constraints that any proposal about the nature of remembering should respect. I will draw on the literature on functionalism to offer an alternative approach. I will argue that this approach can, on the one hand, accommodate as memories those mental states which indicate that the backward-looking approach and the forward-looking approach are too strict while, on the other hand, excluding those mental states which suggest that the two alternative approaches are too permissive. Accordingly, I will conclude that construing memory along functionalist lines is the most satisfactory approach to the nature of remembering. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But unlike these theorists, I do not appeal to the alleged psychological harm of insult. 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. ---------- 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. Updates are also posted on Twitter @MQPhilWiP --- 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. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. 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Two of them stand out, in terms of influence: Jonathan Bennett and Nomy Arpaly. I?ll argue that the lessons that Bennett and Arpaly extract from AHF are not supported by a careful reading of AHF. This becomes apparent when we consider the final part of the book, referred to by literary scholars as ?the evasion?. I extract a new lesson from AHF. On my interpretation, Huck is well positioned to question his presuppositions that racism and slavery are morally acceptable, which he has acquired as a part of his upbringing. But because, inter alia, he decides to forego conscious moral deliberation, he fails to question these presuppositions. AHF illustrates how we can miss opportunities to overcome the influences of wrongful moral assumptions that we acquire from our society when we forego conscious moral deliberation. Steve will speak at ACU?s Melbourne campus (location below) and the presentation will be video-conferenced to other campuses: Brisbane: 202.1.07; Ballarat: 100.1.04; North Sydney: 532.12.24 (Level 12, 8-12 Napier Street, Tenison Woods House) Strathfield: 640.1.16 Location for Melbourne: Room 460.2.80 (250 Victoria Parade) Non-ACU attendees please contact the convenor (stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) if you plan to attend North Sydney. I'll be in Melbourne for this talk. ALL WELCOME! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elena.walsh at sydney.edu.au Fri May 11 17:41:32 2018 From: elena.walsh at sydney.edu.au (Elena Walsh) Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 07:41:32 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Invitation to "Perspectives on the Eugenic Mind" Symposium, May 25 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to perceived threats of criminality, moral degeneration, feeble-mindedness, and ?the rising tide of color,? eugenic laws and social policies aimed to better the human race by regulating reproductive choice through science and technology. In his new book The Eugenic Mind Project, Rob Wilson examines eugenic thought and practice ? from forced sterilization to prenatal screening ? drawing on his experience working with eugenics survivors. Using the social sciences? standpoint theory as a framework to understand the intersection of eugenics, disability, social inclusiveness, and human variation, Wilson focuses on those who have lived through a eugenic past and those confronted by the legacy of eugenic thinking today. By doing so, he brings eugenics from the distant past to the ongoing present. In this symposium Australian scholars offer their perspective on eugenics, its history and its contemporary relevance. Presented by the ARC Laureate project ?A Philosophy of Medicine for the 21st Century? & the Politics, Governance and Ethics theme, Charles Perkins Centre Speakers: Professor Robert A. Wilson Professor of Philosophy Department of Politics and Philosophy LaTrobe University Author of The Eugenic Mind Project, MIT Press 2018 Co-Director of Surviving Eugenics Professor Lynette Russell President, Australian Historical Association Director, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre Monash University Author of Hunt Them, Hang Them: 'the Tasmanians' in Port Phillip 1841-42, 2016, Justice Press Professor Evelleen Richards Honorary Professor of History and Philosophy of Science School of History and Philosophy of Science The University of Sydney Author of Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection University of Chicago Press, 2017 A/Professor Hans Pols Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science School of History and Philosophy of Science The University of Sydney Author of Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Dr Adam Hochman Lecturer in Philosophy and Macquarie University Research Fellow Macquarie University Representative publications: ?Replacing Race: Interactive Constructionism about Racialized Groups? Ergo, 2017 ?Race: Deflate or Pop?? Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2016 Download program. All welcome. Click here for info, program, and registration. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: