From michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com Tue Jun 5 08:12:58 2018 From: michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com (michael kirchhoff) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 08:12:58 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] UOW Philosophy Research Presents (Prof. Robert A. Wilson) Message-ID: UOW Philosophy Research Presents The Staying Power of Eugenics *Speaker*: Prof. Robert A. Wilson (La Trobe) *Title*: The Staying Power of Eugenics *Time*: 3.30-5.00 *Place*: Research Hub 19.2072 Aimed at staff and postgraduates, but open to all. Best wishes Michael *Dr. Michael D. Kirchhoff * Lecturer in Philosophy School of Humanities and Social Enquiry Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au Tue Jun 5 10:15:06 2018 From: benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au (Ben Brown) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 00:15:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] 2018 Ritchie Lecture with Professor Simon Goldhill, Thursday 26 July 2018 References: Message-ID: <741DCAE5-BD2C-4C28-9D4E-31FAA13C4806@sydney.edu.au> Having trouble viewing this email? View online version. [The University of Sydney] Department of Classics and Ancient History 2018 Ritchie Lecture with Professor Simon Goldhill [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/2112/20988/images/custom/94605_Sebastien_Norblin_Antigone_et_Polynice.JPG] Antigone and the Autocrats Professor Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University There is no play from antiquity which has had a more significant impact on the discourse of autocracy than the Antigone, especially since the hugely influential arguments of Hegel. This paper suggests that the play's understanding of autocracy has been systematically misunderstood in 20th and 21st century criticism ? including my own! ? and suggests a different way of understanding the drama's dynamics. This very discussion will open out into a debate about how feminism and other contemporary political readings of the play are complicit with a misguided notion of heroism at the heart of the discourse of autocracy and its resistance. Thursday 26 July 2018 6:30pm Eastern Avenue Auditorium Building F19 Click here for map The lecture will be followed by a reception at CCANESA. Click here for map RSVP Please RSVP to: ccanesa.general at sydney.edu.au [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/2112/20988/images/logo/university_sydney_logo_footer.png] Copyright ? 2018 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. Phone +61 2 9351 2222 ABN 15 211 513 464 CRICOS Number: 00026A To make sure you continue to see our emails in the future, please addccanesa.general at sydney.edu.au to your address book or senders safe list. To unsubscribe, reply to this email with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line Disclaimer | Privacy statement | University of Sydney DR BEN BROWN Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator Classics and Ancient History | FASS (SoPHI) THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Ph.: 9351 8983; Office: Main Quad J6.07 E benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/staff/profiles/benjamin.brown.php Recent Book -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Jun 5 12:59:45 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:59:45 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Russ Shafer-Landau @ Wed 6 Jun 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <00000000000015be66056ddc3e60@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/diYyCxnMRvtqRE8kC83gAC?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LiolCyoNVrcm2ODZfMkaOM?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/LiolCyoNVrcm2ODZfMkaOM?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/j15pCzvOWKiNwWD6IgUTEP?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Wed Jun 6 09:51:55 2018 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:51:55 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Research project: Redesigning the book publishing process: a user-centred approach Message-ID: You are invited to participate in a research project being held at the University of Sydney. The project aims to discover what are the current book publishing experiences, attitudes, behaviours and expectations among the academic staff in humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) in Australia in order to improve scholarly publishing operations in Australia, their publishing strategy and the skills required from their staff. The study is being carried out by the following researchers: ? Dr Agata Mrva-Montoya, University of Sydney ? Mr Edward Luca, University of Sydney ? Dr Bhuva Narayan, University of Technology Sydney The project involves a survey to be completed by HASS academic staff who have published at least one book in the past, as well as a second phase that includes interviews at a later date. Full details of the research project are included in the Participant Information Statement included in the online survey. Participation is completely voluntary and will take up to 10 minutes. You can access the survey here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NpfRCzvOWKiNnBN9t4wofe?domain=redcap.sydney. edu.au/surveys/?s=93WR9TXWW8 If you have any questions about this project or would like to know more before distributing the information about the survey, please feel free to contact Dr Agata Mrva-Montoya . This study has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee, The University of Sydney 2018/180. The survey will be open until 31 July. AGATA MRVA-MONTOYA | Publishing Manager Sydney University Press | University Library THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Fisher Library F03 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | Australia T +61 2 9114 1456 | F +61 2 9114 0620 | M 0414 432 631 E agata.mrva-montoya at sydney.edu.au | W sydney.edu.au/sup Blog: blogs.usyd.edu.au/sydneypublishing Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-Australia/Sydney- University-Press/43181205017 Twitter: @SydneyUniPress Twitter: @agatamontoya CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. -- 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... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Wed Jun 6 15:00:07 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 05:00:07 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Daniel Wodak @ Thu 7 Jun 2018 15:00 - 16:30 (AEST) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <00000000000064c29e056df20a95@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. When: Thu 7 Jun 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DdjMCROAQotPyZk0i9js0k?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lH3nCVAGXPtjzQLkFzkqqu?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/lH3nCVAGXPtjzQLkFzkqqu?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/pvOFCWLJY7iwNogXfKA7DX?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjd at cybersydney.com.au Thu Jun 7 17:21:39 2018 From: sjd at cybersydney.com.au (Sandra Jobson Darroch) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:21:39 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] BLACKHEATH PHILOSOPHY FORUM Message-ID: Blackheath Philosophy Forum 7 - Sat 16 June *SEX AND DEATH IN FREUD'S 'CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS'* Disillusioned about human nature after the Great War, Freud amended his theory that we are primarily motivated by sexual desires, proposing that we are equally motivated by aggression and desires for destruction. Although an admirer of civilization, Freud realizes it is not an expression of human inherent goodness, but rather a system of control, keeping violence at bay ? with partial success. Civilization protects us from ourselves, but also causes us constant frustration, unhappiness, and neurosis. In this talk our speaker will present Freud?s main ideas in his celebrated and relevant book 'Civilization and its Discontents'. *Talia Morag ***is Adjunct Fellow at the University of Western Sydney. Her specialties include the philosophical foundations of psychoanalysis. *Date:*? Saturday June 16 *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... Name: bpf logo.png Type: image/png Size: 6650 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sjd at cybersydney.com.au Thu Jun 7 20:25:13 2018 From: sjd at cybersydney.com.au (Sandra Jobson Darroch) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 20:25:13 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] corrected announcement Message-ID: <6a348e96-bec4-a5b1-dce5-d9ae1b735286@cybersydney.com.au> BLACKHEATH PHILOSOPHY FORUM : SATURDAY JUNE 16 NOTICE: In our previous announcement today of Dr Talia Morag's talk we inadvertently posted an incorrect biography of her. Her correct biographical details are: Dr. Talia Morag is postdoctoral fellow at Deakin University working on?a project on implicit bias. Her main research interests are philosophical psychology, especially the philosophy of emotions, ethics, and the philosophical foundations of psychoanalysis, as well as philosophy of television. ?DR MORAG WILL BE SPEAKING ON: *SEX AND DEATH IN FREUD'S 'CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS'* Disillusioned about human nature after the Great War, Freud amended his theory that we are primarily motivated by sexual desires, proposing that we are equally motivated by aggression and desires for destruction. Although an admirer of civilization, Freud realizes it is not an expression of human inherent goodness, but rather a system of control, keeping violence at bay ? with partial success. Civilization protects us from ourselves, but also causes us constant frustration, unhappiness, and neurosis. In this talk our speaker will present Freud?s main ideas in his celebrated and relevant book 'Civilization and its Discontents'. *Date:*? Saturday June 16 *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... Name: bpf logo.png Type: image/png Size: 6650 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Thu Jun 7 21:09:15 2018 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 11:09:15 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] JSI Seminars: Daniel Wodak (14 June) and Hillary Nye (21 June) Message-ID: Dear all A reminder: 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. Then, on Thursday 21 June in the same place, Hillary Nye from the LSE will speak on "The One-System View and Dworkin's Anti-Archimedean Eliminativism". See here. If you would like to join us for dinner after either or both of these seminars, 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 calendar-notification at google.com Fri Jun 8 15:00:01 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 05:00:01 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Caroline West @ Thu 14 Jun 2018 15:00 - 16:30 (AEST) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <000000000000bb2c92056e1a4514@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Caroline West Free Speech and Duties of Consideration There is a traditional picture of free speech with which most of us are familiar. On this picture, free speech is a matter of not being prevented from producing meaningful sounds and script (diagrams, etc.), and not being prevented from distributing these sounds and script to the eyes and ears of anyone who cares to listen. Correspondingly, the only or primary duty that goes with free speech is the duty of third parties not to interfere coercively with this process of sound and script production and distribution. In this talk, I argue that there are duties of free speech that go beyond this traditional duty of non-interference with production and distribution: specifically, an imperfect duty of consideration. For what is the point of free speech if ideas are systematically and dogmatically ignored? I explore some practical implications of recognising duties of consideration. When: Thu 14 Jun 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Where: The Muniment Room, Main Quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/p-lMC81Zj6t8nXGYsnj1Cw?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TkvMC91ZkQtVoz02TEe5lS?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/TkvMC91ZkQtVoz02TEe5lS?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/YPAqC0YZWVF06kxmF2PbTe?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Fri Jun 8 15:14:58 2018 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 15:14:58 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Call for Commentaries: APR 4.1 Hartry Field - Properties, Propositions and Conditionals Message-ID: Abstract submissions for APR 4.1 are due on **6** July 2018**. --------------------- Call for Commentaries: Australasian Philosophical Review (APR) 4.1 Theme: Logic Lead Author: Hartry Field "Properties, Propositions and Conditionals" Invited commentary from Zach Weber & Reply from Hartry Field Curator: Ed Mares ====================================================== The APR is seeking proposals for commentaries on Hartry Field's "Properties, Propositions and Conditionals" To view the article you must register as an online commentator with the APR : https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WmXRCmOxDQtLERq0fGw16J?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/id2nCnxyErCpM6VySJwwlV?domain=australasianphilosophicalreview.org Abstract submissions for APR 4.1 are due on *6 July 2018*. Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued on 20th July 2018. Full-length commentaries will be due on 14th September 2018. -- Australasian Philosophical Review https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WmXRCmOxDQtLERq0fGw16J?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... URL: From mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au Fri Jun 8 16:06:45 2018 From: mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au (Matthew Del Nevo) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 06:06:45 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Beauty conference Message-ID: <874A2EFF78B57C418696905D7762A9850215B6A841@CISS04.CIS.local> Call for Papers BIENNIAL CONFERENCE IN PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND CULTURE "Beauty and Tradition" The theme is to be interpreted broadly and from within philosophy, theology, history, social science, literature and the arts. The conference has been going since 1977, it bridges between theological colleges from all denominations and universities; submissions from young scholars are encouraged. For further details, including proposal submission (deadline 20 July 2018), see website: Web: http://www.cis.catholic.edu.au/news-a-events/biennial-conference Or contact Matthew Del Nevo: mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au WHEN? Friday 28th to 30th September 2018 WHERE? Catholic Institute of Sydney, 99 Albert Rd, Strathfield NSW 2135 Keynote Speaker on the Friday night: Vrasidas Karalis, Sir Nicholas Laurantos Chair in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. The University of Sydney. Author of Reflections on Presence (2016) and Realism in Greek Cinema (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cejQuREMC4 "Only Beauty Will Save the World" By discussing a variety of sources, from the Parthenon sculptures, the Byzantine Resurrection of Christ, Vladimir Soloviev, Patrick White's The Vivisector, the films of Carl Dreyer and the art of Bret Whitley we will try to explore what legitimises the quest for beauty and why its definition remains so elusive and ambiguous. Does beauty save us or we save beauty? Do we search for beauty because we want to seem beautiful? Are there beautiful things and moments or beauty as a universal principle? Or maybe beauty is temporal quality of convergence and consilience? Convenors: Peter Forrest (UNE), Jim Harrison (SCD), Shane Mackinlay (CTC/UD), Matthew Del Nevo (CIS), Vicki Petrakis (Centre for Early Christian Studies), Richard Colledge (ACU), Angus Brook (UND), Ian Tregenza (Macquarie), John McDowell (UD). Emeritus Conference Patron: Andrew Murray sm Matthew Del Nevo Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Catholic Institute of Sydney 99 Albert Rd Strathfield NSW 2135 Australia Phone: + 612 9752 9504 Fax: + 612 9746 3998 http://www.cis.catholic.edu.au/faculty/faculty-staff-whos-who/99 A Member Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity SCD CRICOS Registration 02948J -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: