From john.hadley at iinet.net.au Tue Apr 2 09:27:51 2019 From: john.hadley at iinet.net.au (John Hadley) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 09:27:51 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] David Newheiser, Rehabilitating the sacred Message-ID: <47CE8BE3-66E0-48ED-98D6-46CB9A374EFD@iinet.net.au> Philosophy at westernsydney - Seminar David Newheiser, ACU Melbourne "Rehabilitating the Sacred: On Economic and Negative Theology" Giorgio Agamben argues that, whether it derives from religious worship or national identity, reverence for the sacred functions to neutralize resistance. In response, I claim that a concern for transcendence can intensify critique. By retrieving the tradition of negative theology, I show that it is possible to affirm the special significance of particular texts and traditions while maintaining an ethical discipline that loosens their authority. Where political movements sometimes find it difficult to move from critique to construction, a negative political theology affirms particular policies while maintaining a utopian negativity. Date/Time: Wednesday 10 April 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] 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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Taking defeasibility seriously, I suggest, should lead us to endorse what Paul Boghossian calls the Taking Condition, that is, the condition that reasoning requires taking it that your response is supported or warranted by your circumstances. NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 3 Apr 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/fFw0CnxyErCAZREPc9pFns?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/PMl_CoVzGQijVyngsz3ZwP?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/PMl_CoVzGQijVyngsz3ZwP?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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By retrieving the tradition of negative theology, I show that it is possible to affirm the special significance of particular texts and traditions while maintaining an ethical discipline that loosens their authority. Where political movements sometimes find it difficult to move from critique to construction, a negative political theology affirms particular policies while maintaining a utopian negativity. David Newheiser is a specialist in classic Christian thought and contemporary continental philosophy. His primary affiliation is with the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry (ACU), which he joined in 2015. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and an MPhil from the University of Oxford. His research addresses the relation between secular philosophy and Christian thought with a particular focus on Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Dionysius the Areopagite. He has published articles on the topics of power and biopolitics, orthodoxy and heresy, allegorical exegesis and the history of sexuality. He has an ongoing research interest in the relation between law and religion, with particular attention to arguments over religious liberty. Date/Time: Wednesday 10 April 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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We will find that fine-tuning remains an unsolved problem in physics, and we might be faced with the issue that it may never be solved, leaving us with some interesting philosophical conundrums, especially in terms of the way we do science. When: Thu 4 Apr 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZzxCr8DLRtPEGjvt7cXzT?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kYw7Cvl0PoCpx3g6cXAYHc?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/kYw7Cvl0PoCpx3g6cXAYHc?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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I first argue that the correct answer to this question must (i) take seriously the interests of both parents and children, (ii) include the claims of adoptive parents, and (iii) do justice to the entirety of the parent-child relationship. I then put forward a novel account of moral parenthood that meets all of these conditions. I call this account the commitment account. On this account, a moral parent is not someone who merely consents to the parental role or who merely played a role in the child?s existence; rather, a moral parent is someone who engages in certain kinds of moral actions due to a recognition of the value of the parent-child relationship. Bio: Dr Luara Ferracioli is Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Researcher in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the philosophy of immigration and the philosophy of the family, broadly conceived. 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When: Tuesday, 9 April; 2.30pm to 4:00pm Where: Room 301, 4 Western Road, Macquarie University (P-14 on the campus map: https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/108142/Campus-Map.pdf) The group will discuss Martina Zimmermann's "Alzheimer's disease metaphors as mirror and lens to the stigma of dementia", published in Literature and Medicine (see attached pdf). If you wish to be part of the mailing list of this reading group, please email Steve Matthews (Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au). Hope to see you there. Cheers, Yves Yves Aquino Research Administrator, Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Doctoral Candidate, MQ Department of Philosophy Visit CAVE website: https://www.mq.edu.au/cave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Enquiries to Kirk Olsen, kirk.olsen at mq.edu.au John ________________________________ From: Kirk Olsen Sent: 04 April 2019 13:30 Subject: Upcoming CEPET Colloquium Tuesday April 9, 2pm, MQ Hearing Hub Room 3.610 Dear CEPET Members and Friends, Just a friendly reminder that our next colloquium will be held on April 9, 2pm, in room 3.610 of the Hearing Hub building at Macquarie University. Associate Professor Antonio Di Ieva will speak about: 'The AI-Augmented Physician: A Clinical Neuroscience Perspective'. Details below and also on the CEPET website. Please circulate to colleagues who may be interested. Another reminder that the 2019 CEPET Annual Workshop will be held on Monday April 29. The theme of the workshop is ?Attention and Distraction in Expertise?. Seats are limited so please check the workshop website here to access the program and registration details. We hope to see you at both events. Regards, Kirk ? Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training (CEPET) 2019 Colloquia Series A/Prof Antonio Di Ieva, Department of Clinical Medicine, Macquarie University, Australia Antonio Di Ieva, Neurosurgeon and Computational Neuroscientist, is Associate Professor at Macquarie University, A/Prof of Neuroanatomy at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, as well as (full) Prof of Neurosurgery in Italy. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and 2 books (one in neurosurgery, ?Handbook of Skull Base Surgery?, Thieme, New York, 2015, and one in computational neurosciences, ?The Fractal Geometry of the Brain??, Springer, New York, 2016). His main surgical expertise is in neuro-oncology, whilst his primary research interests are in neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, cognitive and computational neurosciences, focused on the application of advanced computer-based analyses in the field of the clinical neurosciences and pattern recognition. He has been awarded several grants and prizes, including the 2019 John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), the premier surgical research award of the RACS, thanks to which he has opened the Computational Neurosurgery Lab at Macquarie University. * Title: The AI-Augmented Physician: A Clinical Neuroscience Perspective * Where: Room 3.610, Level 3, Hearing Hub Building, Macquarie University * When: Tuesday April 9, 2019 * Time: 2-3pm * RSVP: Kirk Olsen (kirk.olsen at mq.edu.au) * Abstract: The scope of this talk is to shine light on the state of the art of computational modelling in the clinical neurosciences. While it seems clear that AI could assist the natural intelligence (NI) of experts to improve diagnosis and treatment of several diseases, it is not yet clear how to integrate AI to improve diagnostic decision-making. The underlying fear of a dystopic challenge where AI is pitted against NI can be overcome by viewing AI as a means to create an augmented physician, wherein experts? NI is augmented by AI (which recursively learns from NI?s experience and expertise), shifting from a human-vs-machine to a human-AND-machine paradigm. The objectives of the talk are to: * Provide a heuristic approach on how clinicians can benefit from the application of computational modelling into the neurosciences; * Analyze clinical data with the aim to find new diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers; * Trigger new ideas and brainstorming with the aim to push the boundaries of computer-aided neuro-medicine. ? Dr. Kirk N. Olsen Postdoctoral Researcher and Web Developer, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences Associate Member & Centre Manager: Research & Engagement, Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise & Training Lab Manager, Music, Sound & Performance Research Group Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Sydney, Australia Room: Hearing Hub, 3.410 Phone: +61 2 9850 9430 Web: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/89KjCp8AJQt1ogqzuPKWVi?domain=kirkolsen.weebly.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Thu Apr 4 16:29:49 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 05:29:49 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Hannah Tierney (Sydney) @ Wed 10 Apr 2019 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000b29d080585ada8c9@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Hannah Tierney (Sydney) Title: Guilty Confessions Abstract: What P.F. Strawson (1962) labelled the reactive attitudes?gratitude, resentment, forgiveness, love, and hurt feelings?have each generated rich areas of research. But the reactive attitude that gets the most attention has historically been resentment, especially as it relates to blame and moral responsibility. Recently, however, discussions of blame and moral responsibility have featured another reactive attitude: guilt. These views are interesting and promising because they are able to capture a particular function of blame better than any extant view. Namely, if the point of blame is to allocate suffering to wrongdoers, then guilt-centric accounts of blameworthiness are bound to be more successful than their competitors. In this talk, I will reflect on the conversations and practices that surround guilty confessions and argue that they illuminate an important function of blame that has been overlooked in the recent work on guilt as it relates to blameworthiness. While blame can allocate deserved suffering to wrongdoers, it can also communicate that an individual who has been wronged deserves respect. This is an important function of blame that cannot be accounted for by these guilt-based views of blameworthiness. NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 10 Apr 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/C9FYCp8AJQt1LQoJsPCyHD?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aciACq7BKYtKrLNxIX6LSb?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/aciACq7BKYtKrLNxIX6LSb?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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