From john.sutton at mq.edu.au Mon Sep 24 10:25:49 2018 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:25:49 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Fw: Next Macquarie Uni CEPET Colloquium: Susanne Ravn on improvisation and agency in dance, Tues Oct 2, 2:30-3:30pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. All welcome. John ________________________________ From: Kirk Olsen Sent: 18 September 2018 23:35 Subject: Next CEPET Colloquium: October 2, 2:30-3:30pm, Hearing Hub, Level 3, Room 3.610 Dear CEPET Members and Friends, Please find below details of our next colloquium to be held on Tuesday October 2 at Macquarie University?s Hearing Hub. CEPET members Dr Kath Bicknell and Prof John Sutton are hosting A/Prof Susanne Ravn from Denmark and we are delighted that Susanne has made time to speak about her research. Macquarie Uni, Australian Hearing Hub, Level 3, Room 3.610 (Dept Cognitive Science main seminar room), Tues Oct 2, 2.30-3.30pm. For more information, see details below or visit the CEPET events website by clicking here. See you then! Kirk Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise and Training (CEPET) ? Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training (CEPET) 2018 Colloquia Series Associate Professor Susanne Ravn, University of Southern Denmark Susanne Ravn is Associate Professor and Head of the research unit ?Body, Culture and Society? at the Department of Sports Science, University of Southern Denmark. Her doctoral work (2008) focuses on the phenomenological approaches to skilled movement in dance practice. She has published widely on the phenomenology of dance, the phenomenology of sport & learning performances and on research methodologies ? especially on the integration of qualitative research methodologies into phenomenological analysis, and. She has also been the leading investigator on several funded research projects on topics such as dance practice and skilled performance in sport. Click here to read more about A/Prof Ravn's research. * Title: Improvisation and sense of agency: The case of dancers * Where: Room 3.610, Level 3, Hearing Hub Building, Macquarie University * When: Tuesday October 2, 2018 * Time: 2:30-3:30pm * Enquiries: Kirk Olsen (kirk.olsen at mq.edu.au) * Abstract: In accordance with current dance scholars and phenomenologists discussing the non-static context which in different degrees characterize the live performance, this paper is grounded in the argument that we should think of any dance as improvised - albeit in different ways and degrees (Bresnahan 2014; Benson 2003). At the same time, however, we should also recognize that for decades dancers have emphasized that their experiences of engaging deliberately in improvisation are very different compared to performing in a choreographed piece (e.g. De Spain 2014; Albright and Gere 2003). Thus, the aim of this paper is to phenomenologically investigate the deliberate practices of improvising in dance. On a methodological level I contend that the best way to understand the experiences ? and the mind ? of the athlete or artist is to pair an empirical, ethnographic, interview-based direct encounter with him or her, with a phenomenological and/or enactive theoretical perspective that takes the integrity of the first-person perspective as a seriously first step for a phenomenological analysis (e.g. Ravn and H?ffding, 2017). On this empirical foundation, I argue that expert improvisers are masters of certain oscillations of their intentionality and sense of agency (Ravn 2016, 2018) and that enactivism (Di Paolo, Buhrmann and Barandiaran 2017; Gallagher 2017) helps us to understand the transition of a sense of personal agency to an interactive and processual sense of agency. In a wider phenomenological perspective, I suggest that expert improvisers in dance thereby help us understand the way in which the mind can be present in movement. ? Dr. Kirk N. Olsen Postdoctoral Researcher and Web Developer, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences Associate Member & Centre Manager: Research & Engagement, Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise & Training Lab Manager, Music, Sound & Performance Research Group Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Sydney, Australia Room: Hearing Hub, 3.410 Phone: +61 2 9850 9430 Web: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/OJZ-CzvOWKiLoAD4cXf1BD?domain=kirkolsen.weebly.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Tue Sep 25 13:59:40 2018 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 03:59:40 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE/Law School Seminar by Prof William Lucy Message-ID: Hi all, This is a friendly reminder about our a special seminar, co-hosted by CAVE and the Law School, on the Abstract Nature of Law?s Judgement. Our speaker will be Prof William Lucy from Durham University. Date: Tue, 25 Sept, 3-4pm Venue: 06 First Walk (Law Building), room 501 (Blackshield Room), Macquarie University [Q15 on campus map] Abstract: In Law?s Judgement (Oxford: Hart 2017) William Lucy elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is the abstract nature of law?s judgement and its three components show that, when law judges us, it often does so in ignorance of our particular characters and abilities, on the one hand, and in ignorance of our context and circumstances, on the other. Modern law?s judgement is thus abstract in this sense: it is insensitive to all or much that makes us the particular people we are. The book explores various connections between this mode of judgement and some of our most important legal and political values. It shows that law?s abstract judgement is closely related to important juristic conceptions of personhood, responsibility and impartiality, and that these notions are not without moral significance. The book also examines the connections between law?s abstract judgement and three of our most important political values, namely, dignity, equality and community. It argues that, if we value particular conceptions of dignity, equality and community, then we must also value law?s judgement. Illuminating these connections therefore serves a double purpose: first, it makes a case against those who counsel liberation from law?s abstract judgement and, second, it redirects attention to the task of morally evaluating law?s abstract judgement in its own terms. Bio: William Lucy is a Prof at Durham Law School with research expertise in private law and legal philosophy. He previously worked at the University of Manchester, Cardiff University, Keele University and the University of Hull Law School (where he was almost the inaugural HK Bevan Professor of Law). He holds an undergraduate degree in law and postgraduate degrees in jurisprudence and in political philosophy. He is the author of Understanding and Explaining Adjudication (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999) and Philosophy of Private Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2007), and Law's Judgement (Hart Publishing, 2017). All welcome. No RSVP required. 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 karola.stotz at gmail.com Wed Sep 26 17:02:28 2018 From: karola.stotz at gmail.com (Karola Stotz) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:02:28 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Talk: Tuesday, Oct 2, Daniel Burnston, Moot Court Message-ID: *Causal and Semantic Relationships between Cognitive and Sensorimotor States* Daniel Burnston Date: Oct 2 Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: Moot Court, W3A (6 First Walk) All welcome *Abstract*: Several popular theses posit causal relationships between cognitive and sensorimotor states. The cognitive penetration thesis holds that the content of perceptual states is influenced, in specific ways, by one?s background beliefs. Modern interpretations of the causal theory of action suggest that actions begin with a process of propositional practical reasoning, which culminates in a discrete intention. The content of the intention must then be ?propagated? to the motor representations that actually implement the action. These views posit ?content preserving causal processes? that begin with cognitive states and culminate in sensorimotor ones, where the content of the sensorimotor state comes to closely ?match? the content of the cognitive one. I argue that perception and cognition should be distinguished in terms of their representational format ? cognitive states have a lexically structured content, whereas perceptual and motor states embody dimensions that represent the structure of their referents. I then draw on data from cognitive linguistics to argue that, while there are causal relationships between cognitive and sensorimotor states, content ?matching? is an implausible view of the semantic relationships between them. The actual semantic relationships are too diffuse, probabilistic, and associationist to support cognitive penetration and the causal theory. Finally, I apply these arguments to perceptual expertise and skill learning. Contact: Karola Stotz (karola.stotz at mq.edu.au) Dan will be at MQ all day that day, so please contact me if there is interest to meet him. Show less -- Karola Stotz Senior Lecturer, TWCF Fellow Philosophy Department Macquarie University karola.stotz at mq.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/VWPFCgZowLHk7Kj7hNslL4?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 calendar-notification at google.com Thu Sep 27 13:00:05 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:00:05 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University) @ Wed 3 Oct 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <0000000000002cf7df0576d18941@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University) Socializing the Individual: Relating Poulain de la Barre to Descartes It is clear that Fran?ois Poulain de la Barre adopts Cartesian philosophy to defend the equality of the sexes and develop mechanisms to achieve that equality. My aim in this paper is to examine just how Poulain leverages Cartesian philosophy, as well as how he develops it. I will be focused on the first of his three essays On the Equality of the Two Sexes, and argue that even while he accepts an aspect of Cartesian individualism about thinking things, he uses basic premises of Cartesian epistemology skeptical method, and a causal principle ? to resituate those individuals in a social context. I conclude by suggesting that this socialization of Cartesian individuals ultimately has implications for the Cartesian account of a thinking thing, which are developed more clearly in On the Education of Ladies. When: Wed 3 Oct 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/zWxECq7BKYtWA4AQFZh0Lp?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xDuZCr8DLRt9KNKqszBxJy?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/xDuZCr8DLRt9KNKqszBxJy?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/9PssCvl0PoCXmBm9Izsb9W?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cvklein at gmail.com Thu Sep 27 13:05:14 2018 From: cvklein at gmail.com (Colin Klein) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:05:14 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2018: Program and Registration Available! Message-ID: Dear all, I?m very pleased to announce that the ASPP 2018 website is now live! We have a preliminary program and a link to registration available online. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Azm4CWLJY7ik7lJNT68CKl?domain=theaspp.org A direct link to registration can be found here: https://events.mq.edu.au/ASPP2018 Early bird registration ends October 31, so be sure to register early The inaugural ASPP conference will be held at Macquarie University, 5-7 December 2018. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists to engage on topics of common interest. With six keynotes, forty papers, and ten symposia, there will be a wide range of exciting talks available that span the whole scientific study of the mind. We have over 40 speakers 10 symposia, and a poster session scheduled over 3 days, including keynotes from Donna Addis (University of Toronto), Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Peter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney), Michael Richardson (Macquarie University), Kate Stevens (Western Sydney University), and John Sutton (Macquarie University). Please distribute this to your networks, and thanks! Colin Klein ======================= A/Prof Colin Klein School of Philosophy colin.klein at anu.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/F3uWCXLKZoiJvpwkIV7Ezs?domain=colinklein.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Thu Sep 27 16:51:24 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 06:51:24 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy Seminar Series | Michaelis Michael: How Descartes Dances around the Circle with Aristotle | Tuesday, 2 October 2018 In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9Sn7CMwvLQTlN04DfwFlf-?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] How Descartes Dances around the Circle with Aristotle UNSW Philosophy seminar Abstract: In her magisterial book on Descartes, Margaret Wilson calls the circularity objection raised by Descartes' commentators the ?classic objection? to his attempt to engage with scepticism. I?m going to try to show why Descartes is not guilty of circularity by showing how his engagement with scepticism is very much more nuanced and careful than we tend to think. And I'll be trying to show how his response to the sceptical challenge owes a great debt to, and is shaped by, Aristotle?s conceptualization of understanding. Bio: Michaelis Michael is senior lecturer in philosophy at UNSW Sydney. He studied zoology and philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne before doing a PhD in philosophy at Princeton University. He works across a broad range of topics in philosophy, from human rights to formal logic. He has recently published on the role of non-cognitive factors in religious conversion, on arguments on the metaphysics of mind, and against the idea that we need to adopt deviant logics to deal with inconsistent theories in science. A recent focus in his work has been the way Big Data has changed the way we do science and the possible costs of those changes. Michaelis Michael has recently published a book on the conceptual and empirical aspects of the theory of natural selection. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZkgSCNLwM9iR4rmJI4LlqM?domain=crcpress.com Michael?s UNSW page: https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/michaelis-michael/ [cid:image006.jpg at 01D4566F.2489B470] Speaker: Michaelis Michael (UNSW Sydney) Event Details: Tuesday, 2 October 2018 12:30-2:00pm Room 209, Level 2 Morven Brown building Kensington Campus, UNSW Map reference: C20 RSVP: not necessary 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] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image006.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4135 bytes Desc: image006.jpg URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Sep 28 15:00:05 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:00:05 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Preston Green @ Thu 4 Oct 2018 15:00 - 16:30 (AEST) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <0000000000002cbec40576e754c4@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Preston Green The Real Problem with Prepunishment Postpunishment legal systems convict people of crimes that they have committed, while prepunishment legal systems convict people of crimes that they will or would commit. This paper debunks two assumptions in the philosophical literature: 1) that prepunishment exists only in science fiction, and 2) that prepunishment is unproblematic for deterrence theorists. First, I show that the differences between the actual world and hypothetical cases of prepunishment ? even those presented in Philip K. Dick?s ?Minority Report? ? are nothing but smoke and mirrors. In fact, there is no morally relevant difference between what happens in ?Minority Report? and what often happens in the real-world punishment of ?attempt? offenses. Therefore, if prepunishment is morally wrong, as non-consequentialist moral philosophers have argued, then vast reforms to current legal theory are required. Second, I reveal severe problems with prepunishment that stem from purely consequentialist considerations. Most importantly for deterrence theorists, prepunishment systems have no deterrent power. These conclusions call for changes in our thinking about both the philosophical importance and moral status of prepunishment. When: Thu 4 Oct 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Q745CmOxDQt2QG7JIGh4Ip?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ir-YCnxyErC5RQ1OsJtaz7?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/Ir-YCnxyErC5RQ1OsJtaz7?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/bHNECoVzGQi4yJ1qhVLjUE?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: