From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Mon Feb 18 19:54:04 2019 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:54:04 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=27Inner_West_Council_Philosophy_Talk=27=2C_?= =?utf-8?q?Millicent_Churcher_=28USyd=29=3A_=E2=80=9CAdam_Smith=3A_A_philo?= =?utf-8?q?sopher_for_our_time=3F_=22=2C_Thursday=2C_February_21=2C_6=3A30?= =?utf-8?q?pm-7=3A45pm=2C_Leichhardt_Library=2E?= References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <3F66D512-DBA7-4338-8398-4A138BD39821@unsw.edu.au> Details of the Next ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?Adam Smith: A philosopher for our time?? Speaker: Dr Millicent Churcher (Philosophy, University of Sydney) Abstract: Adam Smith (1723-1790) occupies an ambivalent place in contemporary thought. Lauded for his work on economics and sympathy, Smith also stands accused of racism and sexism, and as having championed the kind of free market capitalism responsible for rising inequality and civil unrest. In this talk I dispel some of the common myths surrounding Smith?s moral and economic outlook, and explore the value and limits of his work as a resource for addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time. Thursday, February 21 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/ZrtgCMwvLQTygoxNtwiYEO?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. BIO Dr. Millicent Churcher is a postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy at the University of Sydney. Upcoming talks: "What is Critical Theory?? Thursday 21 March 6.30-7.45 pm: Marrickville Library John Grumley (Uni of Sydney) ?Beauty, Art and Democracy? Thursday 18 April 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library Luke Fischer (Uni of Sydney) "Philosophy of Happiness? Thursday 16 May 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library Caroline West (Uni of Sydney) Simon Lumsden (Inner West Council philosophy talks program coordinator) Simon Lumsden | Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of New South Wales | Sydney | NSW 2052 | Australia work + 61 2 9385 2369 s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/simon-lumsden/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the early 19th century, the British began one of their most ambitious irrigation projects in India. As British engineers started to dig the Doab canal, they realised that there existed an medieval system of canal networks. In the course of the excavations, ancient canals appeared indistinguishable from old riverbeds and geomythical rivers and the lines between the monument and the terrain or the 'natural' and the 'historical' become imperceptible. Rivers moved, legends moved with them; dead riverbeds became canals, canals became natural channels of water and mythical rivers were traced in the landscape. In the process, the landscape, the legends, and the monuments became part of this colonial antiquarianism in which the history of a medieval canal was recounted as one of deep history. 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In the early 19th century, the British began one of their most ambitious irrigation projects in India. As British engineers started to dig the Doab canal, they realised that there existed an medieval system of canal networks. In the course of the excavations, ancient canals appeared indistinguishable from old riverbeds and geomythical rivers and the lines between the monument and the terrain or the 'natural' and the 'historical' become imperceptible. Rivers moved, legends moved with them; dead riverbeds became canals, canals became natural channels of water and mythical rivers were traced in the landscape. In the process, the landscape, the legends, and the monuments became part of this colonial antiquarianism in which the history of a medieval canal was recounted as one of deep history. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 (NEW) ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO CITY ROAD CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 25TH FEBRUARY START: 5.30PM All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2016* *Unit for HPS, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences<*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*> or unsubscribe from this list<*|UNSUB|*> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizagoddard at aap.org.au Tue Feb 19 11:00:10 2019 From: elizagoddard at aap.org.au (Eliza Goddard) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:00:10 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] The University of Notre Dame Australia: Truth, Lies, Fake News and Moral Education - CFP Message-ID: Abstracts are invited for the World Conference of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy, COMIUCAP Conference 2019, to be hosted by The University of Notre Dame Australia, School of Philosophy and Theology, Sydney. Participants are invited to contribute to the following themes: 1. The concept of truth and what makes something true. 2. Lying, exaggerating, and fake news: their moral implications 3. Cultivating a love of truth and its implications for moral education 4. Democratic government, political advertising, multimedia and the role of truth 5. Truth, ideology and the interpretation of data. 6. Truth and the aims of education 7. Objectivity in journalism and reporting the news. Other papers may be accepted at the discretion of the Conference Committee Conference theme: Truth, Lies, Fake News and Moral Education Fake news, the use of marketing to put a positive gloss on results and outcomes that are less than optimal and downright lies are commonplace on social media, as well as in journalism. Intolerance of, and active persecution of, opinions divergent from one?s own are normal in a society that has lost its sense of the importance of truth. The first question this conference seeks to consider is how to retrieve the concept of truth and examine what resources are available, particularly in the Catholic Intellectual tradition, that might assist in elucidating this issue. Secondly, given the disregard for truth evidenced through fake news, the deliberate misrepresentation of data and outright lying, the question of what is to be done to cultivate a love of truth will also be examined. This latter question raises the issue of how moral education can be deployed in order to re establish a commitment to truth. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts of 250-350 words to be received by: 1 March, 2019. Please send your abstracts to Professor John Ozolins. Email: john.ozolins at nd.edu.au Abstracts should be sent as Word Documents. Participants should provide a five line biographical note. Acceptances of presentations will be notified within 2 weeks of receipt of Abstracts. 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Keynotes include; Elizabeth Harman (Princeton), Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) and Alison Wylie (UBC) who will also deliver the 2019 Alan Saunders Lecture. 2019 Streams; - Assessing Practical Ethics - Bayesian Cognitive Science - Open Challenges and Future Directions - Combatting Gender Inequalities in Philosophy - Gender Balancing the Philosophy Curriculum - Minimal Cognition - Model-Based Explanation Across the Sciences - Multicultural Philosophy - Shared Intentionality and Social Minds The Postgraduate Presentation Prize and Postgraduate Subsidy are also now open. 2019 Deadlines - Postgraduate Prize May 3 - Abstract Submissions May 3 - Early Bird Registration May 10 - Postgraduate Subsidy May 10 Registration Form, Abstract Submission Form, Postgraduate Prize & Subsidy Application Forms and further general information can be found on the official conference website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WTWyCBNZwLiXWlzWczzbfy?domain=aap.org.au All conference related enquiries to conference at aap.org.au Chris Lawless Administrative Officer Australasian Association of Philosophy *My office hours are 9.00am - 5.00pm ACT/ACDT Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Thu Feb 21 15:30:02 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 04:30:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne)**Please note change of ti... @ Wed 27 Feb 2019 15:30 - 17:30 (AEDT) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000893ed205825fed6b@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne)**Please note change of time* Women-only spaces and the right to exclude The ?right to exclude? is much-discussed in the political philosophy literature on immigration. Theorists argue that a nation has the right to self-determination, and that a significant part of self-determination is the freedom to associate (and to not associate) at will. Thus, it is up to nations whether and to what extend they admit would-be migrants. In pushing back against this claim, opponents tend to draw distinctions between groups of different kinds, from intimate associations like marriages, through expressive associations like religions, to political associations like nations. Intimate and expressive associations, they concede, may have the right to self-determination and so a right to exclude; but political associations do not. I draw on this discussion over immigration to assess two different claims made by gender critical feminists, first, that female people are entitled to female-only spaces (to the exclusion of all male people, regardless of gender identity), and second, that lesbians are entitled to lesbian-only spaces (to the exclusion of all male people, regardless of gender identity). I include under the broad category of ?spaces? both identity terms like ?woman?, ?female?, and ?lesbian?, and also categories like women?s sports and women-only shortlists. The right to exclude premised upon national self-determination is undermined by a difficulty in specifying what the ?self? in ?self-determination? is supposed to be, but this difficult does not cross over to the category of ?women? or the category of ?lesbian?, even though both terms are politically contested at present. I argue that for the same reasons some people think you cannot be racist against dominant racial groups, we should also think there is no problem in excluding members of dominant groups. Nations? right to exclude is at its most controversial precisely because of the vulnerability of would-be migrants (e.g. refugees, ecological migrants, and economic migrants). But transwomen are not made vulnerable by exclusion from female-only spaces, in particular when there are third spaces available. So the two cases are not parallel. Women, and lesbians, have the right to exclude. 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