From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Mon Mar 18 17:42:11 2019 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 06:42:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?windows-1252?q?Reminder=3A_UNSW_PHILOSOPHY_SEMINAR_S?= =?windows-1252?q?ERIES_=7C_David_Bronstein_=28Georgetown=29=3A_Aristotle?= =?windows-1252?q?=92s_Virtue_Epistemology_=7C_19_March_2019?= In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/krIQCzvOWKiXDRYJc451rz?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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In this paper, we examine the standard philosophical justifications for punishment, and the purposes for which offenders may be sentenced, in the light of the treatment of offenders with severe and progressive cognitive impairment in our legal system. NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 20 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/AdWnCq7BKYtg5p08UZfkUK?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_8JsCr8DLRtyv5V8fz3G2N?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/_8JsCr8DLRtyv5V8fz3G2N?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Currently, more and more Chinese intellectuals have written about Tianxia as a way of overcoming world problems that have been situated in the very nature of the nation-state system since the Westphalian treaties. This paper tackles the Chinese-style cosmopolitanism that is a currently dominant view among those ideas espoused by the traditional notion of Tianxia. Specifically, this paper is composed of three main parts. First, examining the Chinese-style cosmopolitanism driven by the reinterpretation of Tianxia, I claim that it retains the very fallacy that can be found from Sino-centrism that fails to provide us with a regulative principle that can guide democratic deliberation between countries. Second, analyzing the notions of Tianxia in the other countries surrounding China, I explore a conception of non-domination in which all countries are placed on an equal footing without any center. Finally, I will suggest reciprocal non-domination as a regulative principle under which we can establish a discursive stance without a central hegemon among states, placing the periphery notion of Tianxia into the contemporary debate about global justice. Short-bio: KWAK Jun-Hyeok is 100 Talented Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University in China. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. Before joining Sun Yat-sen University in 2016, he taught at various universities including Korea University, Kyungpook National University, University of Bologna, and the University of Chicago. His research interests lie at the crossroads of political philosophy from Socrates to Machiavelli and contemporary sociopolitical theories. He has published numerous articles on Machiavelli, republicanism, patriotism, and global justice in various languages, including ?Republican Patriotism and Machiavelli?s Patriotism? (Australian Journal of Political Science, 2017). He is currently serving as the General Editor of the Routledge Series, Political Theories in East Asian Context. When: Thu 21 Mar 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: The Muniment Room, Main quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/n3BlCjZrzqHzB34xcWvtOI?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Jf2XCk8vAZtDKryJsVBFST?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/Jf2XCk8vAZtDKryJsVBFST?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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Moore is currently the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair in Law and Co-Director, Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois. His areas of scholarly interest include law, jurisprudence, political theory, legal philosophy, political science, economics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. His publications include Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2009), Act and Crime: The Philosophy of Action and its Implications for Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 1993), Placing Blame: A General Theory of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 1997), and Mechanical Choices: The Responsibility of the Human Machine (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), to name a few. A festschrift recently published in his honour, Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truth: The Philosophy of Michael S. Moore (K. Ferzan and S Morse, eds; Oxford University Press, 2016) explores Moore's view of the purpose and justification of criminal law, the relationship between that culpability and proximate causation, as well as the intersection of psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and criminal law. Hope to see you there! Regards, Yves Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Specifically, it intends to achieve the following aims: First, by analyzing the official apologies made by Kono and Murayama in the context of inherited responsibility, I lay out briefly which deficiencies of their efforts were inimical to the objective of accomplishing a ?thick? reconciliation between Japan and South Korea. Second, by juxtaposing the specific implications of ?shame? in Northeast Asian cultures with the psyche of victimhood underneath the Japanese nationalist backlash against external demands for an official apology, I argue that those modes of rectification which are preoccupied with a nationalistic shaming or a power-based realpolitik can actually harm the mutual trust that might otherwise enable a broader population to accomplish a ?thick? reconciliation in Northeast Asia. Third, by elaborating ?reciprocal non-domination? as a future-centered regulative principle that encourages both victims and wrongdoers to take a non-ethnocentric deliberation about historical reconciliation, I suggest a bilateral or multilateral compact with reciprocal non-domination as a viable solution for the forward-looking realization of thick reconciliation between the Northeast Asian countries. Short-bio: KWAK Jun-Hyeok is 100 Talents Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University in China. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. Before joining Sun Yat-sen University in 2016, he taught at various universities including Korea University, Kyungpook National University, University of Bologna, and the University of Chicago. His research interests lie at the crossroads of political philosophy from Socrates to Machiavelli and contemporary sociopolitical theories. He has published numerous articles on Machiavelli, republicanism, patriotism, and global justice in various languages, including ?Republican Patriotism and Machiavelli?s Patriotism? (Australian Journal of Political Science, 2017). He is currently serving as the General Editor of the Routledge Series, Political Theories in East Asian Context. No RSVP. For more information, email Professor Paul Patton, prp at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When confronted with this consensus, Neo-Aristotelians point to a body of work by Michael Thompson and others which purports to show that biology implicitly depends on a conception of Aristotelian form and would be impossible without it. In this paper I first show that there is no substance to these arguments. I do this by simply describing some species and what we know about them. The aspects of descriptive biology that neo-Aristotelians allege make no sense unless we invoke the idea of species-form make perfect sense without NB: Tea will start at 3pm When: Wed 27 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/kEuACGvmB5iK10q7sKJ_xJ?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/orpaCJyp0qh3q1yJhGDfW1?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/orpaCJyp0qh3q1yJhGDfW1?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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Descartes? life-long project of natural epistemology is an attempt to answer Kepler?s challenge to the philosophers: to explain how these meaningless stains of light, purely causal effects, can signify. In the Meditations he takes on the most devastating worry arising from Kepler?s optics and the naturalization of the senses: that we may be completely wrong concerning what happens behind the screen. In his argument, Descartes reverses the hierarchy between epistemology and philosophy of nature: it is the causal nature of sensations that created the worry, he explains, and it is this causal nature that makes it spurious; it is logically impossible that nature, ?the ordered network of created things,? would causally produce systematically wrong representations of itself. When: Thu 28 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/moBUCANZvPiLZQxWhGvpdR?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/93dJCBNZwLipDGx4t6xngi?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/93dJCBNZwLipDGx4t6xngi?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/pYCMCD1jy9tNo97VTAz5rn?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: