From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Oct 30 12:59:55 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:59:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Daniel Stoljar (ANU) @ Wed 31 Oct 2018 13:00 - 14:30 (AEDT) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000c49b010579688a9a@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Daniel Stoljar (ANU) Pessimism about Progress in Philosophy?Why is it so Widespread? Abstract. A lot of people think that philosophy does not make progress in the way that other fields do. Famous scientists often express a pessimistic position about this, as indeed do some well-known philosophers. In *Philosophical Progress* (OUP, 2017) I argued against this position, and in favour of a reasonable or qualified optimism. In this talk I ask a follow up question: what explains the widespread belief that there is little or no progress in philosophy? I explore various answers to this question, focusing in particular on the hypothesis that the institutional setting of philosophy encourages a pessimistic attitude about its progress. When: Wed 31 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/kGQ7CZYM2VF3jDx7SzRdok?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1u29C1WZXri7ZkO6UGTNfE?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/1u29C1WZXri7ZkO6UGTNfE?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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If such entities are accepted the question of what they ?point beyond? to must be answered. If they are rejected, the proper truthmakers must be identified. I argue that the most obvious candidate for the job is a logical consequence of the presentist?s position: merely past objects have an alternative mode of being. When: Thu 1 Nov 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/L4RVCZYM2VF3qOGACzKG1P?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AEEgC1WZXri7AvRxUGSpmM?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/AEEgC1WZXri7AvRxUGSpmM?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Speaker: Dr Dalia Nassar (Philosophy, University of Sydney) Abstract: In this talk, Dalia Nassar will look at one of the most fascinating moments in European cultural history, asking the question: what, after all, do we mean by "Romanticism"? By homing in on the "first" Romantics, she will shed light on the concerns that motivated these thinkers, and explain how fundamental philosophical questions led them to develop new literary and artistic forms, which remain innovative (and relevant) today. Thursday, November 8 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/fDnkCJyp0qh73kAlCV543e?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. 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We export this approach from the classical paradigm to modal many-valued logics by defining general A-frames over a given residuated lattice A (i.e., the usual frames with a collection of admissible A-valued sets). We describe in details the relation between general Kripke and neighborhood A-frames and prove that, if the logic of A is finitary, all extensions of the corresponding logic E of A are complete w.r.t. general neighborhood frames. Our work provides a new approach to the current research trend of generalizing relational semantics for non-classical modal logics to circumvent axiomatization problems. 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(2011) ?Silence, Sound, Noise, and Music? from: Gracyk, Kania (eds) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music Routledge. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/D125CNLwM9i2Qql9umNAWJ?domain=routledgehandbooks.com https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/833LCOMxNyt6gLRwHvf8E3?domain=eventbrite.com.au The group is convened by Goetz Richter (http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/thinkmusic/ ) Contact for further questions goetz.richter at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: