From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon Aug 13 10:11:55 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:11:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Seminar: Miranda Fricker (CUNY), "Ambivalence About Forgiveness, " Thursday, Macquarie Message-ID: Hi all, A reminder that 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... URL: From law.jsi at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 14 11:13:51 2018 From: law.jsi at sydney.edu.au (Law JSI) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 01:13:51 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Julius Stone Address 2018 (3 September): Hans Lindahl Message-ID: Dear all This year's Julius Stone Address will take place at 6pm on Monday 3 September in Sydney Law School. It will be delivered by Hans Lindahl of Tilburg University, who will speak on the topic "Inside and Outside Global Law". For more information, see the attachment and here. At 1pm on Tuesday 4 September in the Common Room on the fourth floor of Sydney Law School, there will be an opportunity to discuss the lecture with Professor Lindahl in more depth than will be possible on the Monday evening. If you would like to attend the seminar, please let us know by emailing law.events at sydney.edu.au. 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I propose a methodology for investigating infant consciousness, and I present two approaches to determining whether infants are conscious. First, I consider behavioral and neurobiological markers of consciousness. Second, I discuss what the leading theories of consciousness, including both philosophical and scientific theories, predict about infant consciousness. Finally, I discuss the phenomenal structure of infant consciousness. When: Wed 15 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/5HkHCVAGXPt960l3iGsK6E?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0J5wCWLJY7iGKzjOUxQt33?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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URL: From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Tue Aug 14 13:25:05 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 03:25:05 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy Seminar | Jessica Whyte: Neoliberalism, human rights and the sweetness of commerce | Tuesday 14 August 2018 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0v_1CwVLQmi9mV5JFVHl13?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Neoliberalism, Human Rights and the sweetness of commerce UNSW Philosophy Seminar Abstract: In his classic 1977 book The Passions and the Interests, Albert Hirschman identified a distinctive argument for the 'civilizing' effects of the market. On Hirschman?s telling, in the lead-up to the French Revolution, the argument that commerce was a source of ?sweetness, softness, calm and gentleness? (douceur) appealed to Europeans who longed to be free of warring passions. This celebration of the moral virtues of commerce became difficult to sustain in a context marked by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the social dislocation of the industrial revolution; the subsequent period was dominated by anxieties that, far from promoting morality and ?civilization?, the market was undermining moral virtues, disrupting traditional forms of life and producing widespread anomie, atomization and class conflict. By the twentieth-century, Hirschman concludes, no observer could contend that the hopeful vision of the market had been borne out by events. This paper shows, in contrast, that, in the most inauspicious circumstances of the early twentieth-century, neoliberalism was founded on an attempt to revive the argument for the civilizing and pacifying role of the market. For Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman, an unrestrained competitive market would replace violence, force and coercive colonial rule with peaceful, mutually-beneficial, voluntary relations, and foster individual liberty and human rights. Against this background, the paper further considers the relation between the rise of international human rights NGOs and the consolidation of neoliberalism in the 1970s. I argue that, if neoliberal thinkers and human rights activists could find common cause, as I suggest they could, this is largely because the concerns of twentieth-century neoliberals were far less narrowly economic than existing accounts tend to allow. What set the early neoliberals apart from earlier defenders of the sweetness of commerce was not their narrow vision of homo economicus but their belief that the market is a highly-fragile, artificial order that requires a moral foundation, a legal order and powerful state capable of securing what the German Ordoliberal Wilhellm R?pke called ?respect for the rights of others.?[1] Bio: Jessica Whyte is senior lecturer in cultural and social analysis at Western Sydney University, and an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow. She has published widely on human rights, humanitarianism, and neoliberalism, and on contemporary European philosophy. Her first monograph was Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben (SUNY, 2013). Her forthcoming book, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, will be published by Verso in 2019. She is currently working the Australian Research Council-funded project ?Inventing Collateral Damage: The Changing Moral Economy of War?, which aims to produce a novel philosophical account of the invention of the discourse of collateral damage. [cid:image007.jpg at 01D433B3.095C3F30] Speaker: Jessica Whyte, senior lecturer in cultural and social analysis at Western Sydney University Event Details: Tuesday, 21 August 2018 12:30-2:00pm Room 209, Morven Brown building Kensington Campus, UNSW RSVP: not required Map reference: C20 Contact: Heikki Ikaheimo e: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au UNSW Arts & Social Sciences UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia arts.unsw.edu.au CRICOS Provider Code 00098G, ABN 57 195 873 179 [Facebook] [Twitter] [Linked In] ________________________________ [1] Wilhelm R?pke, Economics of the Free Society, trans. Patrick M. Boarman (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963), 25. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image007.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6422 bytes Desc: image007.jpg URL: From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Tue Aug 14 13:27:01 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 03:27:01 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy Seminar | Jessica Whyte: Neoliberalism, human rights and the sweetness of commerce | Tuesday 21 August 2018 In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Correction to the previous message: the date of this event is August 21 (not August 14). ________________________________ From: Heikki Ikaheimo Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 1:25 PM To: sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au Subject: UNSW Philosophy Seminar | Jessica Whyte: Neoliberalism, human rights and the sweetness of commerce | Tuesday 14 August 2018 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/r9nBCr8DLRtoYnMzh7SkYc?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Neoliberalism, Human Rights and the sweetness of commerce UNSW Philosophy Seminar Abstract: In his classic 1977 book The Passions and the Interests, Albert Hirschman identified a distinctive argument for the 'civilizing' effects of the market. On Hirschman?s telling, in the lead-up to the French Revolution, the argument that commerce was a source of ?sweetness, softness, calm and gentleness? (douceur) appealed to Europeans who longed to be free of warring passions. This celebration of the moral virtues of commerce became difficult to sustain in a context marked by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the social dislocation of the industrial revolution; the subsequent period was dominated by anxieties that, far from promoting morality and ?civilization?, the market was undermining moral virtues, disrupting traditional forms of life and producing widespread anomie, atomization and class conflict. By the twentieth-century, Hirschman concludes, no observer could contend that the hopeful vision of the market had been borne out by events. This paper shows, in contrast, that, in the most inauspicious circumstances of the early twentieth-century, neoliberalism was founded on an attempt to revive the argument for the civilizing and pacifying role of the market. For Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman, an unrestrained competitive market would replace violence, force and coercive colonial rule with peaceful, mutually-beneficial, voluntary relations, and foster individual liberty and human rights. Against this background, the paper further considers the relation between the rise of international human rights NGOs and the consolidation of neoliberalism in the 1970s. I argue that, if neoliberal thinkers and human rights activists could find common cause, as I suggest they could, this is largely because the concerns of twentieth-century neoliberals were far less narrowly economic than existing accounts tend to allow. What set the early neoliberals apart from earlier defenders of the sweetness of commerce was not their narrow vision of homo economicus but their belief that the market is a highly-fragile, artificial order that requires a moral foundation, a legal order and powerful state capable of securing what the German Ordoliberal Wilhellm R?pke called ?respect for the rights of others.?[1] Bio: Jessica Whyte is senior lecturer in cultural and social analysis at Western Sydney University, and an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow. She has published widely on human rights, humanitarianism, and neoliberalism, and on contemporary European philosophy. Her first monograph was Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben (SUNY, 2013). Her forthcoming book, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, will be published by Verso in 2019. She is currently working the Australian Research Council-funded project ?Inventing Collateral Damage: The Changing Moral Economy of War?, which aims to produce a novel philosophical account of the invention of the discourse of collateral damage. [cid:image007.jpg at 01D433B3.095C3F30] Speaker: Jessica Whyte, senior lecturer in cultural and social analysis at Western Sydney University Event Details: Tuesday, 21 August 2018 12:30-2:00pm Room 209, Morven Brown building Kensington Campus, UNSW RSVP: not required Map reference: C20 Contact: Heikki Ikaheimo e: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au UNSW Arts & Social Sciences UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia arts.unsw.edu.au CRICOS Provider Code 00098G, ABN 57 195 873 179 [Facebook] [Twitter] [Linked In] ________________________________ [1] Wilhelm R?pke, Economics of the Free Society, trans. Patrick M. Boarman (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963), 25. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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By way of a case study, I consider race. Racial kinds figure in generalizations across the socials sciences, so there is some reason to think they are in some sense real. But what explains this? I consider possibilities for understanding the causal power of racial kinds as socially constructed: psychological and historical or material mechanisms. I then go on to consider what the case of race might reveal about the possibilities of constituting human kinds, drawing on theories of natural kinds and parallels with developments in thinking about biological kinds. WHERE: SEMINAR ROOM 446 NEW LAW ANNEX CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 20TH AUGUST START: 5.30PM All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Next Seminar: Monday 3rd September Professor Stephen Gaukroger - Science Fiction and the Revival of Wonder. Copyright ? *2016* *Unit for HPS, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? 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In my talk, I discuss the role of argumentation in the circulation and production of epistemic resources, relying on insights from social exchange theory, social epistemology, and argumentation theory. In particular, I address the conflicting evidence available on the effectiveness of argumentation for the transfer of epistemic resources and to change people's minds, which requires a nuanced account of what argumentation can and cannot do for us as epistemic agents in social contexts. Please contact Karola (karola.stotz at mq.edu.au) for questions or if you like to give a talk yourself. -- Karola Stotz Senior Lecturer, TWCF Fellow Philosophy Department Macquarie University karola.stotz at mq.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8s15CoVzGQiZRxXlF1u2Af?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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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/xUX8Cvl0PoCK1kgRuQ_jyP?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/h7dBCwVLQmi96wQ2uqk3Md?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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URL: From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Wed Aug 15 15:13:23 2018 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:13:23 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=27Inner_West_Council_Philosophy_Talk=27=2C_?= =?utf-8?q?Sarah_Sorial_=28Macquarie=29=3A_=E2=80=9CFree_Speech_and_Respon?= =?utf-8?q?sibility=E2=80=9C=2C_Thursday=2C_August_23=2C_6=3A30pm-7=3A45pm?= =?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: Assoc. Prof. Sarah Sorial (Macquarie), Abstract: Discussions of rights to free speech tend to be concerned with three issues: (1) if speakers have the right to say what they want, (2) whether this includes the right to vilify or denigrate others, and (3) if governments can censor some kinds of speech. There is, however, surprisingly little discussion in both public discourse and theoretical debates on free speech about the duties or responsibilities that speakers have in exercising the right to free speech with respect to other speakers. In this talk the suggestion will be made that there are duties that obligate speakers with an explanation of what those duties are. Thursday, August 23 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/v1mDCK1qJZtmG2J9tMGlaV?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: 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 s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Wed Aug 15 15:32:15 2018 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:32:15 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?Correction=3A_=27Inner_West_Council_Philosop?= =?utf-8?q?hy_Talk=27=2C_Sarah_Sorial_=28Macquarie=29=3A_=E2=80=9CFree_Spe?= =?utf-8?q?ech_and_Responsibility=E2=80=9C=2C_Thursday=2C_August_23=2C_6?= =?utf-8?q?=3A30pm-7=3A45pm=2C_Leichhardt_Library=2E?= References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <0FF53730-0EE8-4444-8D8C-9517018FD167@unsw.edu.au> Details of the Next ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?Free Speech and Responsibility? Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Sarah Sorial (Macquarie), Abstract: Discussions of rights to free speech tend to be concerned with three issues: (1) if speakers have the right to say what they want, (2) whether this includes the right to vilify or denigrate others, and (3) if governments can censor some kinds of speech. There is, however, surprisingly little discussion in both public discourse and theoretical debates on free speech about the duties or responsibilities that speakers have in exercising the right to free speech with respect to other speakers. In this talk the suggestion will be made that there are duties that obligate speakers with an explanation of what those duties are. Thursday, August 23 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/M1WlCOMxNyt4yNJ8CEKCSK?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: 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 john.sutton at mq.edu.au Thu Aug 16 18:21:19 2018 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:21:19 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Macquarie Cog Science seminar Tues 11 Sept: Joel Krueger (Exeter), 'Empathy, Externalism, and Mental Disorders' Message-ID: All welcome. Enquiries: John Sutton, john.sutton at mq.edu.au Date: 11th of September 2018, 12:00PM until 1:00PM Location: Cognitive Science 3.610, Level 3, Australian Hearing Hub (16 University Avenue), Macquarie University. Empathy, Externalism, and Mental Disorders Speaker : Dr Joel Krueger, University of Exeter (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/srAXC6X13Rt85GQLfprRF2?domain=socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk and https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/fMrIC71ZgLtoDW3GtWul_X?domain=joelkrueger.com) Dr Krueger will be visiting the department from September 10 to 26. Abstract (http://www.ccd.edu.au/events/seminars/abstract.php?abstract=719) A family of recent externalist approaches in philosophy and cognitive science argues that our psychological capacities cannot be understood by looking at the brain alone. We must also attend to features of our embodiment, as well as the complex ways we interact with our social and material environments. This is because our psychological capacities are synchronically and diachronically ?scaffolded? by environmental resources ? objects, artifacts, tools, practices, institutions, and other people ? that grant access to otherwise-inaccessible forms of thought and experience. In this talk, I apply an externalist framework to mental disorders. I argue that this approach is explanatorily useful in two ways. First, it illuminates how we can be said to empathize with others suffering from psychiatric disorders in that we can directly perceive aspects or features of their disorder partially ?externalized? via the character of their embodiment, as well as their concrete engagements with the people, things, and institutions around them. Second, using autism as a case study, I argue that an externalist perspective indicates how we may at times play a regulatory role in shaping the character and development of their disorder ? a recognition that engenders certain moral responsibilities and also indicates possibilities for novel treatment and intervention strategies. 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Aug 17 14:59:55 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 04:59:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Catarina Dutilh Novaes @ Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:00 - 16:30 (AEST) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <0000000000003ba27b05739a6e68@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Catarina Dutilh Novaes The beauty (?) of mathematical proofs Mathematicians often use aesthetic vocabulary to describe mathematical proofs: they can be beautiful, elegant, ugly etc. In recent years, philosophers of mathematics have been asking themselves what these descriptions in fact mean: should we take them literally, as tracking truly aesthetic properties of mathematical proofs, or are these terms being used as proxy for non-aesthetic properties, in particular epistemic properties? Starting from the idea that one of the main functions of mathematical proofs is to explain and persuade an interlocutor, I develop an account of the beauty (or ugliness) of mathematical proofs that seems to allow for a reconciliation of these apparently opposed accounts of aesthetic judgments in mathematics. I do so by discussing the role of affective responses and emotions in the practice of mathematical proofs, thus arguing that the aesthetic and the epistemic are intrinsically related (while not entirely coinciding) in mathematical proofs. When: Thu 23 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/YA3PC1WZXri5Q6k7iLLNv6?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qI8MC2xZYvCODVRNt1z9FI?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/qI8MC2xZYvCODVRNt1z9FI?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/K78GC3Q8Z2F0rXG5c2DM3a?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: