From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Mon Oct 8 15:43:58 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 04:43:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy Seminar Series | Peter Anstey: Civil Disorder and the Separation of Powers | Tuesday, 16 October 2018 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/70ilCvl0PoCGK9o2IQXL44?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Civil Disorder and the Separation of Powers UNSW Philosophy seminar Abstract: This paper charts the manner in which the theory of principles was applied to the problem of civil disorder in Montesquieu and the founding fathers of the American Constitution. It is well known that an effective solution to the problem of civil disorder, namely, the Separation of Powers, derives, in part, from Aristotle?s Politics. This paper takes the Aristotelian influence a step further by arguing that the early moderns framed the problem of civil disorder and the theory of the Separation of Powers in terms of the theory of knowledge acquisition that is set out in Aristotle?s Posterior Analytics. There is a very real sense then, in which The Constitution of the United States of America is an Aristotelian legacy. Bio: Peter Anstey FAHA is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He specializes in early modern philosophy with a focus on John Locke and the French Philosophes. He is the author of John Locke and Natural Philosophy(Oxford, 2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 2013). From 2012 to 2016 he was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow working on a project entitled ?The nature and status of principles in early modern philosophy?. His collection on The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought: Interdisciplinary Perspectives was published by Routledge in 2017. [cid:image006.jpg at 01D45F18.BCB8F9C0] Speaker: Peter Anstey FAHA, Professor of Philosophy, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney. Event Details: Tuesday, 16 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... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31015 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The practical implications of my argument should be clear: in a world where not all refugees will be settled in a safe state, and hard choices have to made, this gives states a compelling reason to prioritize the permanent settlement of refugee children. DAY and TIME: Friday October 12, 2.30pm - 4 pm WHERE: Luara 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 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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In this talk, I will set out the Problem of Universal Generalization and provide some background on the views of Fine and Cellucci. I will argue that these views leave out some related devices of generalization, such as modal operators. I will present an alternative account that uses the notion of informational screening. I will explain this notion, provide examples of how it works, and argue that it can accommodate Cellucci's proposal while also applying more broadly. Finally, I will close by considering some objections to the proposal. 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The judging panel will consider and score entries on: ? Overall impression of merit ? Originality ? Scholarship ? Clarity of expression *Applications* The AAP invites entries/nominations for female professional philosophers who are actively engaged in an Australasian higher education and/or research institution. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. Entries must appear in print (or in final form if the publication is online only) in *2018* to be eligible. The prize is open to published papers or book chapters (i.e. chapters in edited anthologies) in any area of philosophy. Entries must be submitted as a PDF for blind review with all names, contact details, publication name and other identifying features redacted. The closing date for entries is* January 31, 2019 at 6.00pm AEDT*. Please note: late entries will not be accepted. Entries should be *submitted online* through the form available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/t0ZiC1WZXri117MPcLgRek?domain=aap.org.au Further information about the AAP Annette Baier Prize, including conditions of entry, can be found on the same page. The AAP reserves the right not to award the prize in any given year if a suitable candidate is not nominated. For general enquiries relating to the AAP Annette Baier Prize, please contact Chris Lawless: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Chris Lawless Administrative Officer Australasian Association of Philosophy www.aap.org.au ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Wed Oct 10 06:43:13 2018 From: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au (Robert Sinnerbrink) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 19:43:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Ethics and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Fabulation, Macquarie University, October 16 Message-ID: Dear All, The following item may be of interest. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Fabulation Tuesday, October 16, 2018 10HA189 (Screen Studio, MMCCS) Macquarie University MQ Uni campus map: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/maps Travel info (not Macquarie University station currently closed): https://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/getting-to-macquarie A workshop organised by Dr Ilona Hongisto (MMCCS) and A/Prof Robert Sinnerbrink (Philosophy) This workshop explores the conceptual genealogy of the idea of ?fabulation? and its role in audiovisual practices with the aim of responding to the challenges posed to concepts of truth and falsity by developments in the current media environment. It focuses on the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of media ecology, where audiovisual narrative forms no longer rely on a strict division between ?the true? and ?the false? but rather engage with belief and disbelief, affective transformation, and the provocation of thought. The keynote address will be delivered by Gregory Flaxman, Associate Professor and Director of Global Cinema Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (abstract and bio below). Program: 10?10.15am Welcome 10.15?11.45am Session 1 Dr Lisa Trahair (UNSW): TBA Philip Martin (PhD Candidate, Macquarie University): The Unimagined Life is Not Worth Living: Imagination, Repetition, and the Hidden Animation of History Dr Tom Murray (Macquarie University): Future ghosts: Elcho Island histories drawn into the present, a Mokuy story 11.45am?12.45pm Lunch break 12.45?2pm Keynote A/Prof Gregory Flaxman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): The Evolution of Images 2?2.15pm Break 2.15-3.45pm Session 2 Dr Ilona Hongisto (Macquarie University): Pedagogy of Perception: Fabulation and the documentary frame in Sergei Loznitsa?s ?Austerlitz? (2016) A/Prof Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University): Truth, performance, and appearance: the paradox of cinematic candour Adam Daniel (PhD Candidate, University of Western Sydney): Being There: The Problem of Immersion, Subjectivity and Point of View in Narrative VR Cinema 3.45?4.15pm Final discussion Keynote abstract and bio: Gregory Flaxman: The Evolution of Images Abstract: Over the past twenty years, critics and scholars have pursued the study of new media to an ever more distant??archaeological,? ?geological,? and even ?elemental??past. This talk considers the image in an even longer dur?e: specifically, I argue that the nature of the screen, which dominates contemporary visual culture, ought to be grasped in an evolutionary and even astrobiological history. More profoundly still, my lecture contends that the introduction of moving-image technology (?kinema?) marks an evolutionary event, namely, the possibility of fabulating images of evolution (of images). Hence, I conclude by looking at Terrence Mallick?s two ?prehistoric? films?The Tree of Life (2011) and The Voyage of Time (2016)?to grapple with the imbrication of moving images and cosmogenesis. Biography: Gregory Flaxman is Associate Professor and Director of Global Cinema Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy, the editor of The Brain is the Screen, and the co-author of a forthcoming book on film, faith, and philosophy (from Edinburgh University Press). He is currently writing a book with Anne Sauvagnargues on "Control Societies." 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The Madrid Economic Society was one among the c. 500 patriotic societies aimed to produce and spread useful knowledge that mushroomed in Europe from the 1730 onwards. Yet, what contemporaries meant by useful knowledge and the economic consequences of this knowledge is still controversial (Stapelbroek and Marjanen, 2012; Mokyr, 2016; Roberts, 2017; Stewart & Whitmer, 2018). In fact, useful knowledge included multifarious practices that ranged from experimenting in farming and rural economy, to quantifying industrial productions, to the meticulous observation of nature. However, economic societies admitted women only occasionally. Except in the Spanish case, we do not know of female branches of economic societies. My paper explores how and why in Spain the European improvement movement crystalized in a local female society. I will argue that upper-class women, in spite of all the limitations their gender imposed, were considered by a substantial portion of Spanish reformers to be legitimate actors in producing and circulating useful knowledge. Moreover, women were needed to be co-opted for implementing their reformist agenda. The paper deploys this Spanish outlier to investigate how women negotiated a new civic role through a re-articulation of femininity. Where and When: Monday 15th October, 5:30pm, New Law Annexe 446 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Wed Oct 10 11:56:00 2018 From: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au (Chris Lawless) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 11:26:00 +1030 Subject: [SydPhil] AAP Media Prize - Call for Entries Message-ID: *AAP Media Prize ? Call for Entries* The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) offers an annual prize of $500 for the best philosophical piece(s) published by a professional philosopher in the popular media in Australasia during the previous calendar year. First awarded in 1999, the main criterion for the award of the prize is the ability of the piece(s) to engage the interest of the general public in philosophy or some philosophical issue. Consideration is also given to the quality of the philosophical discussion and to the size of the audience reached. Previous winners of the AAP Media Prize include Daniel Halliday (2018), Russell Blackford (2017), Matthew Beard (2016), Henry Martyn Lloyd (2015), Patrick Stokes (2014), Damon Young (2013), Paul Biegler (2012), Peter Slezak (2011), Caroline West (2010) and John Armstrong (2009). The prize will be awarded at the annual Alan Saunders Lecture which takes place as part of the annual AAP conference in July. This Prize is sponsored by Taylor and Francis, publisher of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and the Australasian Philosophical Review. *Applications* The AAP invites entries/nominations for media work from *professional philosophers* in Australasia (including postgraduates and also retired academic philosophers) published in *2018*. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. The closing date for entries is *February 28, 2019 at 6pm AEDT*. Please note: late entries will not be accepted. Entries should be *submitted online* through the form available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NdYSCNLwM9iAzqQ7CmV_wu?domain=aap.org.au Further information about the AAP Media Prize, including conditions of entry, can be found on the same page. The AAP reserves the right not to award the prize in any given year if a suitable candidate is not nominated. 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The closing date for entries is *February 28, 2019 at 6pm AEDT*. Please note: late entries will not be accepted. Entries should be *submitted online* through the form available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/D82aCr8DLRtpmP6Eh7B4X5?domain=aap.org.au Further information about the AAP Media Prize, including conditions of entry, can be found on the same page. The AAP reserves the right not to award the prize in any given year if a suitable candidate is not nominated. For general enquiries relating to the AAP Media Professionals' Award, please contact Chris Lawless: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Chris Lawless Administrative Officer Australasian Association of Philosophy www.aap.org.au ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I suggest an alternative, counterpart-theoretic analysis of the relevant attitude reports that does not license these conclusions. When: Wed 17 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/ngJmCmOxDQtZyN8RUGlNyi?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kmsbCnxyErCz9Ng6fJRTF6?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/kmsbCnxyErCz9Ng6fJRTF6?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. 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Macquarie University railway station is closed so please use the Pink Station Link buses: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/getting-to-macquarie The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading experts in aesthetics, cognitive theory, and philosophy of film to explore new interdisciplinary research focusing on key aspects of our engagement with cinema and other arts. Audiovisual narratives are a pervasive feature of our cultural environment; but the precise manner in which perception, emotion, cognition, and imagination are integrated in our experience of cinema remains a relatively unexplored area of research. What light can cognitive psychology, evolutionary aesthetics, neurocinematics, and phenomenological theory bring to our understanding of how cinematic narratives work? How do these perspectives help us to analyse key aesthetic elements of cinematic art? What insights can they bring to the understanding of cinema?s psychological, cultural, and ethical effects? What implications do these theoretical perspectives have for practices of filmmaking? This workshop explores these questions drawing on a variety of approaches to the aesthetics and ethics of film narrative, with a focus on empirical psychological research, cognitive and evolutionary theory, and phenomenology of cinematic experience. PROGRAM 9.30 - 10 arrival 10 ? 11am: Dr. Joerg Fingerhut (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin), ?Twofoldness in Film Perception? 11 - 11.15am: coffee 11.15 - 12.15pm: Dr Karen Pearlman (MQ), ?Beyond Continuity, Creative Editing and Kinesthetic Imagination? 12.15 - 1.15pm: A/Prof. Robert Sinnerbrink (MQ), ?Imagining cinema: notes on the embodied imagination? 1.15 - 2.15pm: lunch 2.15 - 3.15pm: Mr Graham Thomas and A/Prof. Richard Menary (MQ), ?Fictional Narrative and Aesthetic Niche Construction? 3.15 - 4.15pm: Dr Anton Killin (ANU), ?Music Pluralism, Realism, and the Archaeological Record? 4.15 - 4.30 coffee 4.30 - 5.30pm: Prof. Jenny McMahon (Uni. of Adelaide), ?Insight or Rhetoric? The Lasting Impact of Cinematic Narratives? The workshop is free to attend, but please contact Yves Aquino for registration purposes: yves.aquino at mq.edu.au Richard Richard Menary Head of the Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics academia.edu site Phil Papers Profile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Fri Oct 12 15:00:10 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:00:10 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Sam Baron @ Thu 18 Oct 2018 15:00 - 16:30 (AEDT) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <000000000000aea4900578001fb8@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Sam Baron Title: What?s So Spatial About Time Anyway? Abstract: Skow ([2007]), and much more recently Callender ([2017]), argue that time can be distinguished from space due to the special role it plays in our laws of nature: our laws determine the behaviour of physical systems across time, but not across space. In this work we assess the claim that the laws of nature might provide the basis for distinguishing time from space. We find that there is an obvious reason to be sceptical of the argument Skow submits for distinguishing time from space: Skow fails to pay sufficient attention to the relationship between the dynamical laws and the antecedent conditions required to establish a complete solution from the laws. Callender?s more sophisticated arguments in favour of distinguishing time from space by virtue of the laws of nature presents a much stronger basis to draw the distinction. By developing a radical reading of Callender?s view we propose a novel approach to differentiating time and space that we call temporal perspectivalism. 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