From mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au Mon May 21 09:23:19 2018 From: mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au (Matthew Del Nevo) Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 23:23:19 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Beauty conference Message-ID: <874A2EFF78B57C418696905D7762A9850215B55E4E@CISS04.CIS.local> To SydPhil A reminder of the multi-institutional Biennial Conference on Beauty and Tradition hosted at the Catholic Institute of Sydney 28-30 Sept. http://www.cis.catholic.edu.au/news-a-events/biennial-conference. The deadline for proposals is 20 June. All the details are on the website. Please forward this notice as appropriate to those who may be interested. 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URL: From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Mon May 21 15:07:40 2018 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 05:07:40 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: Encountering the Author: Diego Bubbio, 'God and the Self in Hegel', 23 May 2018 Message-ID: <57B49BE9-C2D5-4020-B268-B663F56B05C8@westernsydney.edu.au> Philosophy @ Western Sydney is pleased to invite you to the next Encountering the Author seminar, which will be held on Wednesday, May 23: 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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I therefore defend the moral importance of equal social status for all adult human beings, partly via an analysis of Sally Haslanger's account of ideology.  When: Wed 23 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/PGwLC91ZkQtP53m1iokDYd?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KLqjC0YZWVFlRo28fDZeAa?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/KLqjC0YZWVFlRo28fDZeAa?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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That is, many theorists hold that there is something fundamentally normative about epistemology, and it ought to issue in some sort of guidance or implementable advice for real people deliberating about what to believe. In this paper I consider whether such an attitude necessarily amounts to endorsing an ought implies can principle for epistemology. I suggest the answer depends on what concept is expressed by the can relatum of the principle. I consider three different senses of an epistemic can - a metaphysical can, a voluntaristic can, and a psychological can - and argue that each importantly changes both the content and plausibility of a epistemic ought implies can principle. When: Thu 24 May 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: Muniment Room, University of Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QVJWCq7BKYtGvKjNFZ7n65?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pvFdCr8DLRtXOPlZIzhKYn?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/pvFdCr8DLRtXOPlZIzhKYn?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/pah-Cvl0PoCoZpz8szL4hD?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elena.walsh at sydney.edu.au Wed May 23 16:44:10 2018 From: elena.walsh at sydney.edu.au (Elena Walsh) Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 06:44:10 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: Invitation to "Perspectives on the Eugenic Mind" Symposium, May 25 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: From calendar-notification at google.com Thu May 24 12:59:48 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 02:59:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Nic Southwood @ Wed 30 May 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <0000000000002cfb3b056cead8dc@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Nic Southwood Feasibility and Normative Entanglement (with Matthew Lindauer) Feasibility is a central theme in contemporary political philosophy. What we call ?normative entanglement? ? whereby certain not-obviously-normative judgements turn out to systematically co-vary with our normative judgements ? is a central theme in contemporary experimental philosophy. In this paper we aim to connect these hitherto unconnected issues and the very different methods associated with work on them by considering whether our feasibility judgements are subject to normative entanglement and, if so, what follows from it. First, we present the results of three experimental studies that provide evidence that our feasibility judgements are indeed subject to normative entanglement ? more precisely, to a special and neglected form of it that we call ?normative contamination.? Second, we argue that our experimental results have significant, surprising, and by no means straightforward implications for our understanding of both feasibility and normative entanglement, respectively. When: Wed 30 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/wiQiCk8vAZtZDALzS2Uu2o?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wo30ClxwB5CDWm9NH9Xk0H?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/wo30ClxwB5CDWm9NH9Xk0H?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/Ps6NCmOxDQtGV80NSBSxXE?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.olson at mq.edu.au Fri May 25 09:35:55 2018 From: michael.olson at mq.edu.au (Michael Olson) Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 23:35:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Talk: Tuesday, 29 May, 1-2pm, Blackshield room: Patrick McGivern (UOW) Message-ID: <7033AC44-37E8-4F67-B335-B98A170CED48@mq.edu.au> Toy Models and Understanding Patrick McGivern (Wollongong) Date: 29 May Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: Blackshield Room, W3A (6 First Walk) 501* All welcome *Note the changing venues this semester Abstract: Many sciences make use of drastically simplified ?toy models?, such as the Schelling model of residential segregation. A key problem in accounting for the use of such models is to make sense of how they can be informative despite these drastic simplifications. A prominent suggestion is that such models can be used to develop understanding, rather than providing genuine explanations. The idea behind the suggestion is that understanding is a unique epistemic category that is not-factive: understanding a particular phenomenon doesn?t require an account of how that phenomenon actually develops, but instead requires some other kind of information, such as information on essential features, counter-factual behaviour or something similar. Obviously, the value of this suggestion depends on how plausible the associated account of understanding is. Accordingly, in this paper I assess this suggestion about how to understand toy models by evaluating it with regard to several prominent accounts of understanding from recent epistemology. 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 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. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And I try to suggest a new way forward, which draws insights from thinking about the irrationality of akrasia. One central lesson is that discussions of the motivation problem should move away from the focus on moral judgment specifically. A more tentative and controversial conclusion is that the problem can de dissolved, as the connection between judgment and motivation requires no special explanation. When: Thu 31 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/uSl0CD1jy9tQGYXAIWZfRv?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-guACE8kz9tKX4BxTwV64J?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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Speaker: Dr Markos Valaris (UNSW) Abstract: When Descartes in his Meditations confronted the question ?what am I??, he famously answered ?a thinking thing?, or a mind. He took this answer to be incompatible with the mind being a material thing at all. These days we are much more comfortable with taking our minds to be material, and essentially identifying them with our brains. This talk will examine both of these steps. Should we think of our minds as material? And, if so, should we think of them as exhaustively realised in our brains? Thursday, May 31 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/IKGlCjZrzqHkN8o4FWtmbs?domain=eventbrite.com.au If the event booking says that it is fully booked please still attend as many people who register do not show up on the night. Upcoming talks: July 26, Heikki Ik?heimo (UNSW) "What is ?recognition? and why isn?t there enough of it?" Aug 9, Nicholas H. Smith (Macquarie), ?Work in a Free Society? 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