From dalia.nassar at gmail.com Mon Nov 26 10:50:57 2018 From: dalia.nassar at gmail.com (Dalia Nassar) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:50:57 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Society for German Idealism and Romanticism - Sydney Dec 6-7 Message-ID: Conceptions of Life in German Idealism and Romanticism Annual conference of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism Hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney 6-7 December 2018 All sessions will be held at the CCANESA Boardroom, Level 4, Madsen Building, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown NSW 2006, Australia For the full program: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gQDhCXLKZoiWzr13U6hc7h?domain=nebula.wsimg.com For registration, please contact Inja Stracenski inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Tue Nov 27 15:59:29 2018 From: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au (Chris Lawless) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:29:29 +1030 Subject: [SydPhil] Call for Entries - AAP Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize Message-ID: *Call for Entries - AAP Innovation in Inclusive Curricula Prize * The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) awards an annual prize of $500 for the development of innovative approaches to teaching philosophy. First awarded in 2014, the prize is offered with a view to exploring ways in which undergraduate courses in philosophy can build the understanding and practise of an inclusive discipline, concerned to foster equal participation in the profession. The aims of the prize are to encourage professionals developing and improving their teaching portfolios to consider critically how philosophy is presented, and to be innovative in implementing practices of teaching that off-set well-known disparities of participation in the discipline, for instance along race and gender lines. Previous winners include Alexandre Lefebvre (University of Sydney), Ruth Boeker (University of Melbourne) and Michelle Sowey (The Philosophy Club). The prize will be awarded at the opening 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. *Criteria of evaluation* ? Significant innovation in curriculum that successfully promotes equity and diversity within the discipline, particularly with respect to underrepresented or marginalised groups in the profession. ? Innovation in pedagogy that successfully promotes broader participation in the discipline. ? Adoption of strategies for engaging with real-world issues and justice in the classroom. ? High quality in course design and delivery framed by the concern that philosophical education is also educating agency for valuing human diversity beyond the discipline and the classroom. *Applications * The AAP invites entries/nominations for *individuals, or groups of individuals*, teaching undergraduate philosophy courses in Australasian Universities. Entries/nominations may come from the creator or facilitator of courses or from others. Applications are only open for courses taught in *the previous five years *(2014 - 2018 inclusive). The closing date for entries is *28th February 2019 at 6pm AEDT*. Please note: late entries will not be accepted. 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(45min) Cat Moir (University of Sydney), ?The Politics of Life in the Work of Helene St?cker? (30min) *3-3:30pm: Musical Interlude * David Larkin and Rosie Riebl (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), ?In Search of Agnes: The Woman behind Wagner?s *Wesendonck Lieder*? (20min) *3:30-4:30pm: Panel Three* Sophie Frazer (University of Sydney), ?George Eliot and Spinoza: Toward a Theory of the Affects? (20min) Linda Moctezuma (University of Sydney), ?The Singularity of a Single Heroine: Trollope?s Miss Mackenzie? (20min) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Wed Nov 28 15:00:00 2018 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 04:00:00 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: John Huss @ Thu 29 Nov 2018 15:00 - 16:30 (AEDT) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <0000000000009c006b057bb1992b@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: John Huss Rocks, clocks, and robustness: evidential integration and timescale calibration The geologic timescale is a relative timescale based on physical and biological sequences and discontinuities in the rock record thought to record events in the history of the earth and of life. In some sense going beyond relative dating, absolute dating of rocks, fossils, and evolutionary events (such as branching events on the tree of life) can be accomplished through the use of radiometric dating, chronological signals extractable from fossil growth patterns, astrochronology, and the ?molecular clock.? Sometimes these different methods, which start from largely independent assumptions and evidentiary bases, converge in their temporal estimates, resulting in a consilience of inductions. At other times they fail to agree, either because fossils and molecules are giving temporal information about different aspects of nature and should not be expected to agree, or because of flawed assumptions that give rise to an inaccurate estimate. The dispute over which kinds of evidence are more reliable is sometimes called the ?rocks vs. clocks debate.? I argue that, despite the fact that it can be difficult to integrate disparate kinds of evidence, the principle of total evidence should be applied to the dating of evolutionary events. One complication, however, is that various putatively independent lines of evidence for the dating of past events have had their independence compromised in the way that dating methods are calibrated, resulting in pseudorobustness. I propose a return to the robustness analysis of William Wimsatt which emphasizes learning from failures of robustness in the ongoing effort to improve method. When: Thu 29 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/xJdWCJyp0qhnqP2DTVv0O0?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MSwfCK1qJZt120YGhv9dVz?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/MSwfCK1qJZt120YGhv9dVz?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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The Colloquium Series provides an opportunity for national and international researchers to present talks and meet with staff, HDR and senior undergraduate students, and aims to promote collaborative research links across Faculties within the University and with industry. Date: Monday, 17 December 2018, 2.00pm - 3.00pm Venue: The Australian Hearing Hub, Level 3, Room 3.610, Macquarie University Speaker: Emeritus Professor Tom Wasow, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University Host: Professor Mark Johnson Topic: Why are natural languages so ambiguous? Abstract When computational linguists in the 1970s started building systems big enough to test on corpora of actual usage, they found that the systems were getting far more parses than they had expected for all but the simplest sentences. Most of these turned out to be linguistically justifiable parses, although the meanings assigned were often bizarre. Linguists and philosophers of language have generally assumed that ambiguity hinders efficient communication, as expressed most explicitly and succinctly in philosopher Paul Grice's maxim, "Avoid ambiguity". Since languages are constantly changing, why haven't languages become unambiguous or at least much less ambiguous? One reason may be that language has some uses that favor ambiguity. Another is that eliminating ambiguity would slow down communication. This talk examines various types of ambiguity in English and considers their possible functions. Bio Tom Wasow is Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus and Academic Secretary to Stanford University. After completing undergraduate work in mathematics at Reed College and spending a year in Germany on a Fulbright, he began graduate study in linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he wrote his dissertation under Noam Chomsky. At Stanford University, he was involved in founding the Center for the Study of Language and Information, an interdisciplinary research institute, and the Symbolic Systems Program, an undergraduate major combining computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. He has also been heavily involved in administration, serving as a dean, department chair, program director, and director of a research institute, and is currently Academic Secretary to the University, in which he oversees the operations of the Stanford Faculty Senate and the major university committees. Emeritus Professor Wasow's early research was devoted largely to elaborating and supporting ideas put forward by Chomsky through the detailed investigation of various phenomena in English syntax. Later, he was involved in the development of a theory of grammar called Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and co-authored the first textbook on that theory. In the last twenty-five years, he has focused more on studying how language is used, collaborating with psycholinguists and sociolinguists to answer the question of why people say things one way, rather than using a different construction that seems to convey the same meaning. Emeritus Professor Wasow is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rosemary Eliott Administrator, Centre for Language Sciences, Child Language Lab Department of Linguistics | Level 3, Australian Hearing Hub 16 University Avenue Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia Please note my working days are Tues/Wed M: + 61 412 792 626 | mq.edu.au CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. 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Genevieve Lloyd Spinoza: A Philosopher of the Sublime? 11.00 ? 11.30am Morning tea 11.30 ? 12.30pm Moira Gatens and Anthony Uhlmann To Be Done with Hatred: Art as a Plan for Living 12.30 ? 1.30pm Lunch 1.30 ? 2.30pm Christopher Thomas Spinoza on Music and Melancholy 2.30 ? 3.30pm Aurelia Armstrong Spinoza?s therapeutic aesthetics 3.30 ? 4.00pm Afternoon Tea 4.00 ? 5.00pm Closing keynote ? Warren Montag The Power of Imagining Nonexistent Things as Being Present: Spinoza's Fictions Website https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/writing_and_society/research/current_research_projects/spinoza_and_literature_for_life_a_practical_theory_of_art/spinoza_and_aesthetic_concepts_conference/ All welcome. This conference is a free event. Information about the Female Orphan School, including travel, is available here. 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