From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Mon May 28 20:49:54 2018 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 10:49:54 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] JSI Seminar (14 June): Daniel Wodak Message-ID: Dear all The next Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence seminar will take place at 6pm on Thursday 14 June in the Common Room on the fourth floor of Sydney Law School. Daniel Wodak from Virginia Tech will present a paper entitled "Fake News and Echo Chambers". You can find out more and register (for free) here. If you would like to join us for dinner after the seminar, please let me know. For information about future JSI events, see here. Best wishes, Kev DR KEVIN WALTON Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0286 E kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au W www.sydney.edu.au/law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Tue May 29 09:48:35 2018 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 23:48:35 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar: David Macarthur, Wittgenstein: Philosophy as Imaginative Therapy, 6 June 2018 Message-ID: <1300B6D0-EA07-4BF5-8714-A890E2193DC1@westernsydney.edu.au> Philosophy @ Western Sydney ? Seminar David Macarthur (The University of Sydney) ? ?Wittgenstein: Philosophy as Imaginative Therapy? A widespread image of Wittgenstein in the secondary literature is of a philosopher who produced some remarkable ideas and thought-experiments but whose methodological commitment to theoretical quietism ? that is, philosophy?s aim being to describe rather than explain ? stood in the way of his developing these ideas into any kind of worked-out theoretical system. The ideas are, by now, very familiar ? what following a rule consists in, family resemblance concepts, seeing-as, non-descriptive uses of concepts, the normativity of concept use, anti-essentialism, etc. But since these promising ideas are wielded into no general theory or system of constructive philosophy many have had the sense that, as Simon Blackburn puts it, ?Wittgenstein seems to leave unfinished business?. Indeed many philosophers see a tension between the development of these ideas ? which appear to them to be proto-doctrines of a proto-theory ? and Wittgenstein?s explicitly avowed quietism. The present paper aims to present an entirely different conception of Wittgenstein?s philosophy ? a different way of looking at it ? against the background of which his quietism appears much less paradoxical than it might otherwise seem. From the new point of view there is no integration problem. The conception that I shall defend is of Wittgenstein as, in fundamental respects, a philosopher of the imagination and of his philosophy as taking the form of imaginative exercizes or therapies ? a conception that stands in stark contrast to the standard vision of Wittgenstein as a philosopher concerned to make explicit (what is supposed to be) the more or less fixed system of implicit rules of ordinary language as a way of countering philosophical misuses of language. David Macarthur is Associate Professor in Philosophy at The University of Sydney, Australia. His research is mostly in the areas of contemporary pragmatism, skepticism, liberal naturalism, the continuing relevance of Wittgenstein?s thought in resisting scientistic attacks on ordinary life, and the philosophy of art (especially architecture, film and photography). Date/Time: Wednesday 6 June 2018, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm ? 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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/SulzCyoNVrcEDL4qcZybIb?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/27m_CzvOWKivD4rQcXGEZM?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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Difficult though it might be for some to believe, the period since 1945 is arguably the most peaceful in recorded history:?the ?long peace? between the major powers is now an unprecedented seventy two years. Can the long peace survive the global challenges emerging in the 21st century? *Bob Howard *is currently Research Associate in the department of Government and International Relations at Sydney University. *Date:*? Saturday June 2 *Time:* 4pm-6pm *Place:* The Blackheath Philosophy Forum meets at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, (entrance at back of Hall) 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at a nearby pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 provides 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 & Society conference 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. Our speakers will include: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Roy Baumeister ? The University of Queenslandand Florida State University * Hannah Maslen ? University of Oxford * Eric Racine ? Institut de recherches cliniques de Montr?al * Michael Valenzuela ? The University of Sydney FEATURED SPEAKERS * Nicholas Agar ? Victoria University of Wellington * Adrian Carter ? Monash University * Cynthia Forlini ? University of Sydney * Jeanette Kennett ? Macquarie University * Kate Rossmanith ? Macquarie University The conference program will also include six panels, symposia, and sessions on the following topics: * Panel on Mental Privacy After Cambridge Analytica * Panel on The Brain and the Screen * Panel on Remorse in Criminal Law * Panel on Dementia and Crime * Australian Neurolaw Database highlights and information about enhancements * Book Symposium on Neuro-Interventions and The Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity In addition to the above speakers and participants in the special panels, symposia, and sessions, the program will also include selected talks and a poster session drawn from this call for papers. We invite the submission of abstracts from scholars, scientists, technology designers, policy-makers, practitioners, clinicians and graduate students, interested in presenting talks or posters related to the above or following topics: * 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 Abstracts of 300 words should be emailed to Cynthia Forlini > in Microsoft Word format by Thursday, 7 June 2018. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and authors of successful submissions will be notified via email by Monday, 18 June 2018. 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URL: From amcc4688 at uni.sydney.edu.au Tue May 29 18:26:39 2018 From: amcc4688 at uni.sydney.edu.au (amcc4688 at uni.sydney.edu.au) Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 08:26:39 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Neuroscience and society conference Message-ID: <03FDDB33-BBCD-49BE-8E4A-9B47122390E8@uni.sydney.edu.au> Extended deadline for abstracts: Thursday, 7 June 2018 NEUROSCIENCE & SOCIETY: Ethics, Law, and Technology 24-25 August 2018 Sydney, NSW, Australia https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LJNtCmOxDQtGXnmPtGHN4B?domain=neuroethicsconference.org.au Abstracts due: 7 June 2018 Advances in brain scanning and intervention technologies are transforming our ability to observe, explain, and influence human thought and behaviour. 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 provides 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 & Society conference 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. Our speakers will include: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Roy Baumeister ? The University of Queenslandand Florida State University * Hannah Maslen ? University of Oxford * Eric Racine ? Institut de recherches cliniques de Montr?al * Michael Valenzuela ? The University of Sydney FEATURED SPEAKERS * Nicholas Agar ? Victoria University of Wellington * Adrian Carter ? Monash University * Cynthia Forlini ? University of Sydney * Jeanette Kennett ? Macquarie University * Kate Rossmanith ? Macquarie University The conference program will also include six panels, symposia, and sessions on the following topics: * Panel on Mental Privacy After Cambridge Analytica * Panel on The Brain and the Screen * Panel on Remorse in Criminal Law * Panel on Dementia and Crime * Australian Neurolaw Database highlights and information about enhancements * Book Symposium on Neuro-Interventions and The Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity In addition to the above speakers and participants in the special panels, symposia, and sessions, the program will also include selected talks and a poster session drawn from this call for papers. We invite the submission of abstracts from scholars, scientists, technology designers, policy-makers, practitioners, clinicians and graduate students, interested in presenting talks or posters related to the above or following topics: * 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 Abstracts of 300 words should be emailed to Cynthia Forlini > in Microsoft Word format by Thursday, 7 June 2018. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and authors of successful submissions will be notified via email by Monday, 18 June 2018. For enquiries about matters other than abstract submission, please email Adrian Carter > or Jeanette Kennett > 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. Sent from my iPad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Wed May 30 09:27:00 2018 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 09:27:00 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Commentaries=3A_APR_2=2E3=3A_M=2E_M?= =?utf-8?q?=2E_McCabe=2C_=22First_chop_your_logos=E2=80=A6Socrates_?= =?utf-8?q?and_the_sophists_on_language=2C_logic_and_development=2E?= =?utf-8?q?=22?= Message-ID: Abstract submissions for APR 2.3 are due on **13 July 2018**. --------------------- Call for Commentaries: Australasian Philosophical Review (APR) 2.3 Theme: Ancient Philosophy Lead Author: M. M. McCabe "First chop your logos?Socrates and the sophists on language, logic and development." Curator: Fiona Leigh Invited commentaries from: Nicholas Denyer, Russell E. Jones & Ravi Sharma, Nils K?rbis. Committee: Fiona Leigh, Hugh Benson, Tim Clarke ====================================================== The APR is seeking proposals for commentaries on M. M. McCabe's "First chop your logos?Socrates and the sophists on language, logic and development." To view the article you must register as an online commentator with the APR : https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UatjC4QZ1RFG1BMPfO7mH-?domain=australasianphilosophicalreview.org Abstracts should be brief (100-500 words), stating clearly the aspects of the lead 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/NWtTC5QZ29FOGZ58UO26Gr?domain=australasianphilosophicalreview.org Abstract submissions for APR 2.3 are due on *13 July 2018*. Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued on 27th July 2018. Full-length commentaries will be due on 21st September 2018. Australasian Philosophical Review https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UatjC4QZ1RFG1BMPfO7mH-?domain=australasianphilosophicalreview.org APR at aap.org.au -- Dr Eliza Goddard Executive Officer, Australasian Association of Philosophy GPO BOX 1978, Hobart 7001, Australia www.aap.org.au ACN 152 892 272 ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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/9iIeCP7yOZtqxLXKSzuVp7?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qcu8CQnzP0tmWwPkfPntF9?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/qcu8CQnzP0tmWwPkfPntF9?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Here I want to raise some questions about the relationship of eugenics to both history and philosophy, drawing my experience working in constructing oral histories with survivors of Canadian eugenics over the past 10 years. This will allow us to discuss received views of eugenics, the enthusiasm for aspects of eugenics in the philosophical bioethics community, and some topics in the philosophy of disability. 5PM - Please join us for Drinks and Canapes to celebrate Georg's recent graduation and all our achievements. RSVP: hps.admin at sydney.edu.au [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/D4tOC2xZYvCAq8lJcBWLwO?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Copyright ? *|2016|* *|Unit for History and Philosophy of Science|*, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: *|hps.admin at sydney.edu.au|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences<*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*> or unsubscribe from this list<*|UNSUB|*> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.sutton at mq.edu.au Thu May 31 09:33:23 2018 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 23:33:23 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] talk on memory in social networks, Macquarie, Tuesday 5 June Message-ID: Contact: Amanda Barnier (amanda.barnier at mq.edu.au) Cognition in (social) context: A psychologically-grounded approach to the formation of collective memory Speaker : Dr Alin Coman, Department of Psychology, Woodrow Wilson School , Princeton University. Date : 5th of June 2018, 11:00AM until 12:00PM Location : Australian Hearing Hub (16 University Avenue), 3.610 (main seminar room, Level 3), Macquarie University. Communication is a fundamental feature of creatures as social as humans. It helps us exchange information, jointly solve problems, and coordinate our actions. Using a social-interactionist approach I will show how communication allows for community-wide synchronization of memories. To illustrate this approach, I will start from a well-established cognitive phenomenon, then investigate how it is influenced by the social context in which it is manifested, and finally explore how dyadic-level influences facilitated by this cognitive phenomenon propagate in social networks to give rise to large-scale outcomes. Using this framework, we have mapped how the conversational remembering of past events leads to the formation of collective memories in social networks. This approach, I claim, could be applied more generally to bridge between micro-level cognitive processes and large-scale social outcomes. Alin will be visiting until late June and is happy to meet and chat with colleagues. 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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? (Tonight) 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/Lbd9C71ZgLt9DMAli8_PlR?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? August 23, Sarah Sorial (Wollongong), ?Free Speech and Responsibility" 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 calendar-notification at google.com Thu May 31 13:00:12 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 03:00:12 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Russ Shafer-Landau @ Wed 6 Jun 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <0000000000007aec73056d77aa4f@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Russ Shafer-Landau Moral Conceptual Truths Consider this proposition: wanton torture is morally wrong. Unless you deny that any moral propositions are true, you'll likely sign on to this one. But you probably don't regard it as a conceptual truth. I do. In this talk, based on work I'm doing with John Bengson and Terence Cuneo, I'll defend the claim that there are a range of substantive moral propositions that are conceptual truths. The key element of the case for this view is notion of essence, and an essence-based conception of conceptual truth. Much of the talk will be given over to elucidating the relevant essentialist notions and then, with their aid, defending the view that some substantive moral propositions are conceptual truths. When: Wed 6 Jun 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/iwrzCvl0PoCoYvW9hQSJN2?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-g3eCwVLQmiXqoLjcq2fNd?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/-g3eCwVLQmiXqoLjcq2fNd?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/04KCCxnMRvtK7ZJlcYGUHJ?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Jun 1 15:00:16 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 05:00:16 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Daniel Wodak @ Thu 7 Jun 2018 15:00 - 16:30 (AEST) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <000000000000b33e88056d8d758b@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Daniel Wodak Is Hume?s Law a Threat to Positivism and Naturalism? Hume?s Law?roughly, that one cannot derive an ?ought? from an ?is??has long been baldly declared to pose a serious problem for legal positivism and moral naturalism. We point out that there is a gap between Hume?s Law (understood as a logical thesis about entailment relations between sentences) and positivism or naturalism (understood as metaphysical theses about grounding relations between facts), such that the former cannot imperil the latter all on its own. We then offer the most plausible and direct route to bridge this gap, via two defensible, albeit controversial bridge principles, which link grounding to necessitation and necessitation to entailment (respectively). We show why Hume?s law coupled with these bridge principles does pose a threat to positivism and naturalism. But we then argue that it also, surprisingly, poses an equally serious threat to many existing forms of anti-positivism and non-naturalism. The dialectical upshot here is two-fold: first, one must sign up for and defend some very strong views about the relationship between entailment and grounding in order to maintain that Hume?s Law is a problem for positivism or naturalism; and second, that in doing so one may well end up undermining one?s preferred alternative to positivism or naturalism. 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