From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Mon Dec 3 19:55:40 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 08:55:40 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?windows-1252?q?UNSW_Philosophy_Seminar_Series_=7C__D?= =?windows-1252?q?r_Tracy_Llanera=3A_=27The_Law_of_the_Land_has_God=92s_An?= =?windows-1252?q?ointing=92=97Rorty_on_Religion=2C_Language=2C_=26_Politi?= =?windows-1252?q?cs__=7C_Tuesday=2C_11_December_2018?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/THBoC6X13RtW72x7Up4f3H?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] 'The Law of the Land has God?s Anointing??Rorty on Religion, Language, & Politics UNSW Philosophy seminar Abstract: In his writings on religion and American politics, Richard Rorty emphasizes how religious language functions as a conversation-stopper. Dr Llanera approaches the issue from a different angle. While acknowledging Rorty?s claim that the language of religion and the practice of democratic politics are often in tension with one another, she draws attention to the fact that the politics of religious language is more complicated than Rorty's conversation-stopper model suggests it is. Llanera develops this argument by examining recent sociological work on the pernicious use of religious language by militant Christian groups to support the Philippine Drug War. Her analysis of pernicious harm bolsters Rorty?s case against the irresponsible employment of religious language in the public sphere. It also offers insights on the fraught relationship between religion and politics today. Bio: Dr Tracy Llanera is an Assistant Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Her areas of specialization are philosophy of religion, social and political philosophy, and pragmatism. She is working on her first book entitled Outgrowing Modern Nihilism and on two research projects on nihilism and conversion. [cid:image002.jpg at 01D488CB.2F5204F0] Speaker: Tracy Llanera, University of Connecticut Event Details: Tuesday, 11 December 2018 12:30-2:00pm Room 310, Level 3 Morven Brown building Kensington Campus, UNSW Map reference: C20 RSVP: not necessary Contact: Heikki Ik?heimo 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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We ascribe two different kinds of properties to fictional entities: internal properties (those authors ascribe to them by their fictive utterances) and external properties (those ascribed in discourse about fiction). Although fictional entities are not the kinds of things that can have most of the internal properties ascribed to them, I argue that fictive utterances create an intensional context, and so are not to be interpreted as claiming that abstracta possess these internal properties. I argue that the identity and individuation conditions for fictional entities are determined by their external properties. Many anti-realist objections to the possibility of providing adequate identity and individuation conditions for fictional entities result from wrongly taking those conditions to be determined by their internal properties. 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While many have written about gratitude, forgiveness, and love, hurt feelings is a lonely outlier, with nary a single philosophical paper on it. This puzzling elision is made more puzzling by the fact that, as I intend to argue, considering it carefully has very significant implications for our theorizing about responsibility. Indeed, it may well reveal a stark methodological divide in the field. I will begin by developing a psychologically-informed understanding of the nature of hurt feelings, and then I will explore their excusing and exempting conditions, a la Strawson. To account for them in a theory of responsibility will, as we shall see, require a dramatically different approach than any that have thus far been offered. 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URL: From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Fri Dec 7 17:04:06 2018 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 06:04:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?windows-1252?q?UNSW_Philosophy_Seminar_Series_=7C_Ma?= =?windows-1252?q?rina_Bykova=3A_On_Hegel=92s_Account_of_Selfhood_and_Huma?= =?windows-1252?q?n_Sociality_=7C_Friday=2C_14_December_2018?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4jxvCE8kz9tqY8JWhNebS3?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] On Hegel?s Account of Selfhood and Human Sociality Joint seminar of the UNSW Philosophy Program and the Australian Hegel Society Abstract: The essay will focus on Hegel?s conception of the self as a social construct. Traditionally, this topic is almost exclusively discussed in terms of mutual recognition on the basis of the dialectic of ?lordship and bondage? in the Phenomenology of Spirit. These discussions rightly emphasize the distinctive feature of Hegel?s account of the self that lies in the idea that the self is a mutual project, something that only arises through interaction with like beings. Yet, what often escapes the scholars? attention is that Hegel?s account of selfhood is much richer than just interaction with other selves and is not limited to only mutual recognition. Hegel?s notion of ?socially constructed? self indicates as well that the self is also constituted by specific historical settings and social, and political conditions, which indelibly affect the self?s identity. These topics Hegel discusses in the Encyclopedia Objective Spirit in terms of ethical life. As the system of shared customs and social institutions, ethical life appears as the actual milieu, in which the self achieves its true identity by participating in the family and civil society, and by exercising its rights, privileges, and obligations as a member of the state. Bio: Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University (USA). Her area of scpecialization is German idealism, with a special focus on Hegel, and recently also on Fichte. She has written Hegel?s Interpretation of Thinking (1990), Absolute Idea and Absolute Spirit in Hegel?s Philosophy (1993, co-authored), and The Mystery of Logic and the Secret of Subjectivity (1996). She has also edited a new Russian edition of Hegel?s Phenomenology of Spirit (2000) with a new commentary, and most recently, Hegel?s Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide (Cambridge UP) and The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses and Legacy (Bloomsbury), both forthcoming in 2019. Currently, she is co-editing (with Kenneth Westphal) The Palgrave Hegel Handbook, which is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. [cid:image002.jpg at 01D48E42.82944D90] Speaker: Marina F. 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