From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Mar 5 15:29:56 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:29:56 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Renee Jorgensen Bolinger (ANU) @ Wed 6 Mar 2019 15:30 - 17:00 (AEDT) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000467ba205835153ea@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Renee Jorgensen Bolinger (ANU) Title: Contested Slurs and the Linguistic CommunityAbstract: Sometimes speakers within a linguistic community use a term that they do not conceptualize as a slur, but which other members of that community do. Sometimes these speakers are ignorant or na?ve, but not always. This paper explores a puzzle raised when some speakers stubbornly maintain that a contested term t is not derogatory. Because the semantic content of a term depends on the language, to say that their use of t is semantically derogatory despite their claims and intentions, we must individuate languages in a way that counts them as speaking our language L, allows t a determinately derogatory content in L, and still accommodates the other features of slurs? linguistic profile. Given the difficulty of doing this, there is some reason to give a non-semantic analysis of the derogatory aspect of slurs. Along the way, I suggest that rather than dismissing the stubborn as semantically incompetent, we would do better to appeal to expected uptake as moral reasons for the stubborn to adjust their linguistic practices.NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 6 Mar 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room, University of Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Luara Ferracioli- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TNBTCyoNVrcG0WAKCZ-nx5?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/d4m-CzvOWKiXxBOEHXapvA?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/d4m-CzvOWKiXxBOEHXapvA?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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Or, to use terms favoured by liberal political philosophers, what would it mean for liberalism be a depicted as its own comprehensive doctrine: not in the sense of being an offshoot of some other kind or worldview (whether religious or secular), but as itself an ethos and system of moral beliefs that encompasses the whole of one?s life and which needs no other source or support? In this talk, I argue that one version of liberalism ?as a way of life? can be found in John Rawls?s work, and more particularly, in what is basically the only under-explored area of his philosophy: the moral psychology developed in Part III of A Theory of Justice, along with a series of unpublished essays and lectures from his papers archived at Harvard University. My goal will be to sketch a liberal way of living that, while not for everyone, and very clearly not for use as a political or constitutional blueprint, is ambitious, attractive, and available for us today. When: Thu 7 Mar 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gZ0tCgZowLHvK0JkfN5eMB?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dm5qCjZrzqHzD509fRjtC2?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/dm5qCjZrzqHzD509fRjtC2?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RrCdCk8vAZtDAWvNHQNJ6e?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 13 Mar 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room, University of Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Luara Ferracioli- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4ADoCmOxDQtVLAjBhGk9nw?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AxxbCnxyErC4pK7AFJMzRY?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/AxxbCnxyErC4pK7AFJMzRY?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/y0jPCoVzGQiApBrjuVmmH9?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.Bubbio at westernsydney.edu.au Thu Mar 7 17:38:11 2019 From: D.Bubbio at westernsydney.edu.au (Diego Bubbio) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 06:38:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar: Millicent Churcher, Designing for Epistemic Justice, 13 March 2019 Message-ID: <02474EBF-BF47-40A8-9D70-9FA4445EEC05@westernsydney.edu.au> Philosophy @ Western Sydney ? Seminar Millicent Churcher (The University of Sydney)??Designing for Epistemic Justice? This paper has two main aims: first, it seeks to offer a fuller picture of the workings of affect in our everyday epistemic practices; second, it seeks to elaborate on the role of institutions and institutional reforms in both perpetuating and meliorating patterns of ?epistemic injustice? (Fricker 2007) by strengthening or weakening affective dynamics that undermine virtuous epistemic agency. The growing literature on epistemic injustice has tended to overlook the cluster of affects that strongly influence our epistemic practices, and on the norms of emotional management that help to keep noxious epistemic practices in place. At the same time, the role of institutional arrangements and policies in reinforcing, modifying, and challenging affective dynamics that bear on patterns of collective epistemic agency has received marginal attention in favour of a purely individualistic or purely structural approach to achieving epistemic justice. This paper brings work in institutional theory, social imaginary studies, and newer research on affect and embodiment into conversation with epistemic (in)justice scholarship with the aim of developing a deeper understanding of the resources for, and barriers to, designing for epistemic justice. Millicent Churcher is a postdoctoral research associate in philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her main areas of research comprise early modern sentimentalist philosophy and contemporary social and political philosophy. Millicent?s latest research project examines the relationship between imaginaries, affect, institutions and social justice, particularly in relation to sexual, racial, and settler colonial violence. Her book, Reimagining Sympathy, Recognizing Difference: Insights from Adam Smith, will be released with Rowman and Littlefield International in 2019. Date/Time: Wednesday 13 March 2019, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm? All Welcome Place: Western Sydney University, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In the following lecture I introduce some key thinkers and ideas in this revolutionary and influential approach. My aim will be to elaborate the main features of this approach to philosophy and society and consider why it has a contemporary relevance amongst its competitors. Thursday, March 21 6:30pm - 7:45pm N.B Venue change for March only ? Marrickville Library (CNR Marrickville & Petersham Roads) 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/aFvWC71ZgLtr3w22U8PMXj?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 John Grumley taught for many years in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney. He is now Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books and edited collections on critical theory. He is the Director of the Markus Archive and has published widely in the area of social and political philosophy, critical theory and biopolitics. Upcoming talks: ?Living in a Fine Tuned Universe: A User?s Guide?, Tuesday 16 April, 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library, Mark Colyvan (Uni of Sydney) "Philosophy of Happiness?, Thursday 16 May, 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library, Caroline West (Uni of Sydney) ?TBA?, Thursday July 18, 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library, Melissa Merritt (UNSW) 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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Developing ideas from Greg Restall (and, earlier, Christine Ladd-Franklin and Peter Strawson), I will put forward a theory on which incompatibility is taken as primary, and the other notions are seen to be derivative. It's been argued that such an approach cannot make good sense of entailment in particular, essentially because incompatibility is about ruling things *out* while entailment is about ruling things *in*. I will show that this is not the case. By developing a notion of implicit assertion, I will argue that an incompatibility-based approach can give us a solid and useful understanding of entailment. When: Thu 14 Mar 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ncn9CNLwM9iYvOpWumWjE_?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JcPoCOMxNytDq7k8HvQW6B?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/JcPoCOMxNytDq7k8HvQW6B?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3NC-CP7yOZtByjnwC1x_Bh?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Fri Mar 8 21:20:47 2019 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 10:20:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?windows-1252?q?UNSW_PHILOSOPHY_SEMINAR_SERIES_=7C_Da?= =?windows-1252?q?vid_Bronstein_=28Georgetown=29=3A_Aristotle=92s_Virtue_E?= =?windows-1252?q?pistemology_=7C_19_March_2019?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QukNCE8kz9twMLlqiNWU0b?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Aristotle?s Virtue Epistemology Hosted by the School of Humanities & Languages (Philosophy) Abstract: Contemporary virtue epistemologists such as John Greco and Ernest Sosa argue that cognitive acts have certain normative properties because of the capacities from which they issue: a true belief is justified, and counts as an instance of knowledge, because it issues from one or more of the intellectual virtues. In this paper, I argue that Aristotle is not a virtue epistemologist in the contemporary sense (just as others have recently argued that he is not a virtue ethicist in the contemporary sense). This is because he reverses the direction of analysis characteristic of contemporary virtue theories: it?s not that a cognitive act counts as an instance of knowledge because it issues from intellectual virtue; it?s rather that a capacity constitutes an intellectual virtue because it issues in cognitive acts that are instances knowledge. I examine Aristotle?s account of virtue across the three domains in which he applies it (craft production, moral action, and cognitive activity), focusing specifically on his account of scientific knowledge. I argue that he thinks a cognitive agent must possess certain intellectual virtues in order to perform an act of scientific knowledge. Nonetheless, I also argue that he denies that the agent?s cognitive act is an instance of scientific knowledge because it issues from such virtues. Aristotle?s act-based virtue epistemology provides a compelling alternative to contemporary agent-based accounts. Bio: David Bronstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He is the author of Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: the Posterior Analytics (OUP, 2016) and several articles on Plato and Aristotle. [A person wearing glasses and smiling at the camera Description automatically generated] Speaker: Associate Professor David Bronstein, Georgetown University Event Details: Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:30 ? 2:00 pm Goldstein, Room G05 Kensington Campus, UNSW No RSVP required. 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