From michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com Mon Jul 30 10:07:14 2018 From: michael.david.kirchhoff at gmail.com (michael kirchhoff) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:07:14 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] UOW Philosophy Research Presents (Dr. Richard Menary) Message-ID: UOW Philosophy Research Presents Fighting Entropy: How to Understand Life-Mind Continuity *Speaker*: Associate Prof. Richard Menary (Macquarie) *Title*: Fighting Entropy: How to Understand Life-Mind Continuity *Time*: 3.30-5.00 *Date*: Wednesday 1 August *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 nicholas.smith at sydney.edu.au Mon Jul 30 12:55:50 2018 From: nicholas.smith at sydney.edu.au (N.J.J. Smith) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:55:50 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Markus Symposium References: Message-ID: From: John Grumley Subject: Markus Symposium Gy?rgy M?rkus Memorial Symposium Gy?rgy M?rkus came to Sydney in 1978 and from that time was known as ?George?. He had already taught in Hungary for over twenty years and had been a leading member of the so-called Budapest School that had formed around the great Marxist thinker Gy?rgy Luk?csduring the early sixties. The Budapest School sought to develop a ?humanist socialism?: the renaissance of an authentic Marx in both theory and praxis. After participating in an international protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this group increasingly came into conflict with the Kadar regime and most were ultimately dismissed from their academic positions. During his time in Hungary,M?rkus had already taught a whole generation of philosophers that were to become the major thinkers of the post-communist period. In Sydney, George very quickly established himself as a towering philosophical figure: a rare combination of conceptual rigor and an unmatched knowledge of the history of philosophy. Rather than concentrate on analytical philosophy, which had previously been his specialty, he taught a wide range of courses, which encompassed German Idealism, Marxism, philosophy of history, 17thcentury rationalism and modern political philosophy. Many of his students went on to successful careers in Australia and overseas. Following George?s retirement in 1998, he continued to live and work in Sydney until his death on the 5thOctober 2016. A symposium will be held to commemorate George M?rkus?life in Sydney and to celebrate his philosophical achievements. All those who share George?s wide interests in the history of philosophy and critical theory are warmly invited to attend. Date: Friday5thOctober 2018 Place:Sydney Teacher?s College Room 436, Manning Road, University of Sydney Campus Time: 9.30am-5.00 pm Provisional Program All papers will be 20 to 30 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Opening9.30am Opened by John Grumley with a short address by George?s son Andras M?rkus . Morning session 9.50 am Emeritus Prof. Paul Redding (Philosophy, University of Sydney) Being the Rope in a Tug of War: Markus and Rorty as Readers of Hegel in the 70ies and 80ies 10.30 am Assoc. Prof. Paul Jones (Research School, ANU) Markus and the Retrieval of the Sociological Adorno 11.10 am Morning Tea (coffee, tea and pastries) 11.30 am Visiting Professorial Fellow Arthur Glass (Law, UNSW) Markus on Legal Reasoning 12.10 am Assoc. Prof. John Grumley (Philosophy,University of Sydney) The Road Not Taken: Markus On Habermas Break for Lunch 12.50 to 2.20 pm Afternoon session 2.20 pm Dr Harriet Johnson (Philosophy, University of Sydney) Markus on the End of Art 3.00 pm Assoc. Prof. Robert Sinnerbrink (Philosophy, Macquarie University) A Philosophy of Cultural Modernity: On Markus?s Aesthetics 3.40 pm Prof. Vrasidas, Karalis. (Dept of Greek, University of Sydney) Culture, Language and their Ontological Grounding in the work of Gyorgy Markus 4.20 pm Dr James Dorahy (Philosophy, University of Sydney) What is the Question to which Cultural Pragmatics is the Answer? Western Marxism, Ideology Critique and the Commodity Session closes 5.00 pm Dinner in Newtown at 6 pm <> Please contact John (John.Grumley at sydney.edu.au or mobile 0411214199) if you would like to attend dinner. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.hadley at iinet.net.au Tue Jul 31 07:35:00 2018 From: john.hadley at iinet.net.au (John Hadley) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:35:00 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Philosophy@westernsydney seminar Message-ID: <10630DD9-D6A0-476D-825C-457A3AF49B90@iinet.net.au> Anik Waldow, University of Sydney The Rational Animal: Hume on Sympathy, Reflection and Communication In this paper I argue that, for Hume, the human capacity to reflect and communicate through language is grounded in a far more basic form of affective communication that enables us to tune in to the feelings and thoughts of others. What this means more generally is that the ability to sympathise can in principle be regarded as a precondition for the possibility of developing a rational grasp of the world. This world opens up to us when we no longer simply respond in an instinctual, animal-like fashion to the causal impact of our sensory impressions, but learn to stand back and integrate the many different ways in which things appear to us from our continually changing perspectives. Given that, for Hume, the crucial step in this development occurs when we are sympathetically connected with others, we can say that, on a Humean account, being rational is not only not contrary to being responsive and passionate?a point he explicitly states?but also formulate the much stronger claim that rationality cannot even be comprehended without understanding it as a product of well-functioning affective capacities. Wednesday August 8, 2018 3.30pm-5pm Western Sydney University, Bankstown Campus Building 3, Room 3.G.54 To get to the Bankstown Campus: take the Airport line to Revesby and then the free university shuttle bus to the campus. 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However, the world could be structured so as to punish learning with respect to certain topics; i.e., by coming into possession of new information, an agent's situation could be made worse than it otherwise would have been. In this paper, we investigate whether the world is structured so as to punish learning with respect to moral nihilism. We ask: If an ordinary human agent had the option to learn whether or not moral nihilism is true, then ought she to take it? We argue that, given intuitively plausible and empirically grounded assumptions about ordinary human preferences, she (probably) should not. When: Wed 1 Aug 2018 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Sydney Uni, Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Luara Ferracioli- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gmbuCr8DLRto2lyBH7cHNE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nPcGCvl0PoCKAzJkCXz3Zn?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/nPcGCvl0PoCKAzJkCXz3Zn?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/7pMdCwVLQmi9y35wf9siJ2?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When: Thu 2 Aug 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WWcyCjZrzqHPA8gMHWorVE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/VaGrCk8vAZt149g6IVImkY?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/VaGrCk8vAZt149g6IVImkY?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/ePpzClxwB5CpkxL5Fy3vy2?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au Thu Aug 2 10:31:36 2018 From: anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au (Anik Waldow) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 00:31:36 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Conference: Rethinking Autonomy Message-ID: <9061C2B7-F3ED-4D86-823B-C82ED4EEFD8A@sydney.edu.au> Conference Announcement Rethinking Autonomy 10-11 September, 2018 CCANESA Board Room, Madsen Building (F09), University of Sydney This workshop will explore a variety of non-Kantian conceptions of autonomy that consider affect and emotional responsiveness as constitutive elements in self-determining agency. To put into perspective the specific way in which deliberation and reflection matter to autonomous agency, we will ask to what extent these capacities are in themselves dependent on the existence of a specific set of emotional dispositions. While the focus of the workshop is put on the early modern context where the Cartesian conception of the self as a thinking thing provides the backdrop for discussions on autonomy, we will branch out from here to investigate the perspective of eighteenth-century female philosophers and their ideas on what it means to be a self-realizing thinker and agent. What is of particular interest in this context is the question of how education can be used to become a ?thinking thing? that satisfies the demands of self-realization. This theme complex leads over to reflections on the place of autonomously thinking individuals in civil society and their relationship to autonomy-inhibiting governmental practices. Confirmed speakers: * Peter Anstey (Sydney) * Jacqueline Broad (Monash) * Deborah Brown (University of Queensland) * Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney) * Moira Gatens (Sydney) * Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie) * Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser) * Ariane Schneck (Humboldt) * Anik Waldow (Sydney) All welcome, no registration. Contact: anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Thu Aug 2 15:33:42 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 05:33:42 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Seminar: Miranda Fricker (CUNY), "Ambivalence About Forgiveness", Macquarie, 16 August Message-ID: Hi all, The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) will host a seminar by Miranda Fricker (The Graduate Center, CUNY), entitled "Ambivalence About Forgiveness." Date: Thursday 16 August Time: 4pm - 6pm Venue: Australian Hearing Hub Lecture Theatre, University Avenue, Macquarie University (T14 on campus map) Ambivalence About Forgiveness Abstract: Our ideas about forgiveness seem to oscillate between idealization and scepticism. One might think this simply indicates disagreement, or indecision, but I suspect not. I see these different attitudes as representing opposing moments of a collective moral ambivalence about forgiveness that is well grounded, and I aim to show that there is a philosophical angle on forgiveness capable of vindicating both of our opposing perspectives simultaneously. Once we are correctly positioned, we shall see an aspect of forgiveness that recommends precisely this ambivalence. For what will come into view will be certain key psychological mechanisms of moral-epistemic influence?other-addressed and self-addressed mechanisms of moral social construction?that enable forgiveness to function well when it is well-functioning, but which are also intrinsically prone to deterioration into one or another form of bad faith. Thus forgiveness is revealed as necessarily containing seeds of its own corruption, and ambivalence is proved a permanently appropriate attitude. Moreover, where the moral protagonists are relating in the context of asymmetries of social power, the practice of forgiveness is further compromised. All welcome, no registration needed! Kelly Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But I defend the position by (i) articulating a conception of knowledge as rational sensitivity and (ii) articulating a conception of practical reasoning within the course of an action where the fact that one is doing what one is doing is a reason for doing the things that eventually mean one is doing the action. -- Karola Stotz Senior Lecturer, TWCF Fellow Philosophy Department Macquarie University karola.stotz at mq.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/yZBBCyoNVrckYpjQTZcqoK?domain=karolastotz.com [image: Macquarie University] Honorary Associate Unit for History and Philosophy of Science University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Fri Aug 3 08:05:17 2018 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 22:05:17 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=27Inner_West_Council_Philosophy_Talk=27=2C_?= =?utf-8?q?Nicholas_H=2E_Smith_=28Macquarie=29=3A_=E2=80=9CWork_in_a_Free_?= =?utf-8?b?U29jaWV0eeKAnCwgVGh1cnNkYXksIEF1Z3VzdCA5LCA2OjMwcG0tNzo0NXBt?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_Leichhardt_Library=2E?= References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: Details of the Next ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?Work in a Free Society? Speaker: Prof. Nicholas H. Smith (Macquarie), Abstract: Many people are anxious about work. Some are worried about the increasingly demanding nature of work, the lack of secure, meaningful employment, and others by the prospect of robots taking all the jobs. The changing character of work invites us to rethink the place of work in our lives, and to ask how work would look in a genuinely free society. Thursday, August 9 6:30pm - 7:45pm 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/E7qyCzvOWKi9vygmU49o9q?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: August 23, Sarah Sorial (Macquarie), ?Free Speech and Responsibility? Sept 20, Matthew Kearnes (UNSW) "A Crisis of Expertise? Science, Environment and Democracy? November 8, Dalia Nassar (Sydney) "German Romanticism" 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... 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When: Thu 9 Aug 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GjJ6CXLKZoi07NrKU6fL-q?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rpaECYWL1viOoZBlFGhSFs?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/rpaECYWL1viOoZBlFGhSFs?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/a3suCZYM2VF2nRBguK0JOg?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, Kev Dr Kevin Walton | Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean (Professional Law Programs) The University of Sydney The University of Sydney Law School Rm 404, Law School Building | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 2 9351 0286 kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au | sydney.edu.au/law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: