From alex.lefebvre at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 6 11:09:59 2018 From: alex.lefebvre at sydney.edu.au (Alexandre Lefebvre) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 01:09:59 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] George W Bush, Anger, and the Iraq War of 2003 Message-ID: <1BB3F6B9-2A0B-4088-B553-F43A3E064262@sydney.edu.au> Hi everyone, This seminar offered in Government and IR at the University of Sydney may be of interest. All the best, Alex A/Prof Alexandre Lefebvre Coordinator, Dalyell Scholars Program Department of Government and International Relations, and Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY S205 Quadrangle | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 4945 New from Duke University Press: Human Rights and the Care of the Self. Purchase it at a 30% discount with coupon code E18CARE. GIR COLLOQUIUM SERIES | GEORGE W. BUSH, ANGER, AND THE IRAQ WAR OF 2003 9 August, 2018 1:00pm - 2:30pm Location: Merewether Room 498, Butlin Avenue, the University of Sydney http://sydney.edu.au/arts/government_international_relations/News_and_Events/events/?id=10724 Abstract A vast majority of scholars now agree to say that the Iraq War of 2003 has been an important failure for the United States. Then, the question is: How political science could account for this failure? Or, to put it differently: How political actors, supposedly ?rational,? could have taken such a misguided decision? The aim of this presentation is to have a better understanding of such a decision. I will argue that the study of emotions ? which might be one of the most promising cross-disciplinary themes in social sciences ? is useful to supplement interpretations based on rationality and material interests. As the decision process has been documented by Bob Woodward, by the actors themselves in their memoirs and by various historians, it is now possible to make assumptions about the emotional dimension. Here, I will claim that ?anger,? which is directly connected to the Greek notion of thumos, has played an important role during the run-up to the war. About the speaker Benjamin Brice is a Research Affiliate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He has completed in 2015 a doctoral dissertation entitled ?The End of War? The Ambiguities of ?Democratic Peace?: interests, passions and ideas? at the Centre d??tudes Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron from l??cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales (CESPRA-EHESS). In English, he has recently published ?A Very Proud Nation: Nationalism in American Foreign Policy? in The SAIS Review of International Affairs (2015) and ?Equality or Superiority? 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After decades of ruthless stigmatisation and pathologisation, the psychiatric profession has recently converged on a new way of characterising transgender people and the purpose of medical interventions such as cross-sex hormone treatment and gender confirmation surgery ? one that deliberately aims to be progressive. According to the DSM-5 and the soon-to-be-released ICD-11, transgender people's experienced gender is incongruent with their natal sex or their natal gender, and the stated purpose of such medical interventions is to reduce that incongruence. However, I will argue that, firstly, not only is this "incongruence thesis" and its framing of the purpose of such medical interventions conceptually incoherent but, secondly, that this way of characterising transgender people and the purpose of such medical interventions is not progressive but deeply though insiduously regressive, and that it threatens to marginalise sex, gender, and sexuality minorities, and to eliminate diversity. DAY and TIME: Friday August 10, 2.30pm - 4 pm WHERE: Nicole will speak at ACU?s North Sydney campus and the presentation will be video-conferenced to other campuses (details below). Address for North Sydney: Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier St N. Syd. Take the lift to Level 12, and proceed to the Vidconference room (or email me - stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au - and I will meet you in the foyer of the building). Other campuses: Brisbane: 202.1.07; Ballarat: 100.1.04; Strathfield: 640.1.16 Melbourne: 460.2.80 (250 Victoria Parade) ALL WELCOME! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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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Drawing on feminists? conceptualization of relational autonomy, the article highlights the close relationship between women?s autonomy and social justice. In order to refute to a conservative neo-Confucian standpoint on the role of modern Chinese women, the article proposes a new interpretation of Confucian ethics which takes gender autonomy as a derivative good for social harmony and welfare. Therefore it argues that for both Confucians and feminists who value relationships, the goal of creating a caring society need not be contradictory with the pursuit of social justice and gender autonomy. On the contrary, these values should be realized collaboratively. Please email Karola Stotz (karola.stotz at mq.edu.au) with questions or if you wish to give a talk in 2019. -- Karola Stotz Senior Lecturer, TWCF Fellow Philosophy Department Macquarie University karola.stotz at mq.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/R6XtCNLwM9iX6WwpTmIbJf?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... 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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. (Tonight) 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/XnTXCq7BKYtlY013iZqlBA?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... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Thu Aug 9 13:00:03 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 03:00:03 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Claudia Passos (NYU Center for Bioethics) @ Wed 15 Aug 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000dbb0fb0572f7d261@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Claudia Passos (NYU Center for Bioethics) "Are Infant Conscious?" Are infants conscious? What is infants? conscious experience like? 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Applications will be evaluated and ranked by an Evaluation Panel on their philosophical merits, and funding from the Fund will be distributed in line with these rankings. The total fund in 2018 is AUD4000 - no successful proposal will be allocated more than 50% of the Fund. Full details and Eligibility here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wKZqCwVLQmi95wnDCV4DkR?domain=aap.org.au A seperate call for proposals will go out when applications open in September. Deadline for applications: Tuesday 16th October 2018 -- 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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Furthermore, it has been argued that this account of mental awareness would in principle allow you to send a faster-than-light signal, directly contradicting special relativity. I argue that the Bohmian solution to the measurement problem requires no special account of mental awareness, and does not permit superluminal signaling. In short, there is no distinctive Bohmian philosophy of mind. When: Thu 16 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/ahYOCq7BKYtlKoqpTZuzSc?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Xop3Cr8DLRtoPGg5HzE9d2?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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