From cvklein at gmail.com Mon Apr 8 12:28:47 2019 From: cvklein at gmail.com (Colin Klein) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 12:28:47 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] ANU Philosophy: "Recent work on Attention", 6 May 2019 Message-ID: The ANU will host a workshop entitled "Recent work on attention? on 6 May 2019. Participants and titles are below. For more information, including locations, please see: http://philosophy.cass.anu.edu.au/events/recent-work-attention-workshop Registration is free but spaces are limited. To register, please use this eventbrite link: eventbrite.com.au/e/59806629238 For more information, please contact colin.klein at anu.edu.au Cheers, Colin Klein and Daniel Stoljar Description A workshop featuring leading philosophers and cognitive scientists working on attention and surrounding topics. PROGRAM: 09:00 - 09:15 Intro & Welcome 09:15 - 10:30 Chris Mole ?The imperative to attend? 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea 11:00 - 12:15 Julia Haas ?Attention, reward, and value? 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch 13:15 - 14:30 Anne Aimola Davies ?Recent work on inattentional blindness? 14:30 - 15:45 Martin Davies ?Inattentional blindness versus attentional blindness? 15:45 - 16:15 Afternoon Tea 16:15 - 17:30 Carolyn Dicey Jennings "Attention and skilled behavior? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 8 14:49:53 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 04:49:53 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Series- Dr James Christie - Astrology and the Extraterrestrial Life Debate in the Early Modern Period Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aLpMCjZrzqHKLjZrcW7ogD?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Held in conjunction with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science SEMESTER ONE 2019 RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES MONDAY 15TH April 2019 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-11gCk8vAZt8VnoEcVqOgK?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] DR JAMES CHRISTIE THE WARBURG INSTITUTE THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Astrology and the Extraterrestrial Life Debate in the Early Modern Period The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the decline of astrology as a scientific discipline, as well as the adoption, or re-adoption, of the ?plurality of worlds? philosophy and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The histories of these two phenomena are usually kept separate, largely because the same period represents a certain terminus ad quem for the former and the terminus a quo for the latter. Nevertheless, both these trends are considered consequences of a Copernican cosmology and hallmarks of a modern worldview. This talk will suggest the benefits of a conjoined and comparative history of astrology and the ET life debate in the early modern period. Offering up examples from Nicholas of Cusa to the Newtonian Richard Bentley, I will argue (a) that the astrological tradition initially offered a stimulus to early theories of ET life; and (b) that the idea of an inhabited universe was later used to undermine astrology, ultimately supplanting it as the dominant cosmological paradigm. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 (NEW) ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO CITY ROAD CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 15TH April 2019 START: 5.30PM All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2019* *School of 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 debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 8 14:55:47 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 04:55:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Translating the Natural World: the circulation of Arabo-Persian knowledge in late-Imperial China Message-ID: Translating the Natural World: the circulation of Arabo-Persian knowledge in late-Imperial China By Dror Weil, post-doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. When Monday 15 April 2019 12:40pm - 2:00pm Where Room 708 Jane Foss Russell Building The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Registration Free event, register at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ivfjCOMxNytzVABMsEbSqD?domain=bit.ly -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 15 April Dror Weil Seminar Flyer -Final.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 157872 bytes Desc: 15 April Dror Weil Seminar Flyer -Final.pdf URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Apr 9 15:30:13 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 05:30:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Hannah Tierney (Sydney) @ Wed 10 Apr 2019 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <00000000000054c5f60586123ff7@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/a4K7CzvOWKiQkB95t4dP6F?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DPVrCANZvPiLwo2ks8rsLe?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/DPVrCANZvPiLwo2ks8rsLe?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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URL: From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Tue Apr 9 15:44:08 2019 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 05:44:08 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=27Inner_West_Council_Philosophy_Talk=27=2C_?= =?utf-8?q?_Mark_Colyvan_=28USyd=29=3A_=E2=80=9CLiving_in_a_Fine_Tuned_Uni?= =?utf-8?q?verse=3A_A_User=E2=80=99s_Guide=22=2C_Tuesday=2C_April_16=2C_6?= =?utf-8?q?=3A30pm-7=3A45pm=2C_Leichhardt_Library=2E?= References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <6B897920-185D-481A-973B-C7149F1A141E@unsw.edu.au> Details of the Next ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?Living in a Fine Tuned Universe: A User?s Guide"? Speaker: Prof. Mark Colyvan (Philosophy, University of Sydney) Abstract: It seems that the conditions required for carbon-based life to arise a universe like ours are very specific. Various physical constants need to ?fine-tuned? to precise ranges for there to be carbon-based life. In short, it looks exceedingly unlikely that we should be here. Yet here we are! Cosmologists, philosophers, theologians, and the general public wonder about what to make of the fine tuning of our universe. Explanations of the fine tuning range from designers with fetishes for carbon-based life to multiple universes. In this talk I will discuss some of the weird and wonderful hypotheses offered as explanations for why we are here. Tuesday, April 16 6:30pm - 7:45pm 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/wQUyC6X13RtjpgpQHpP4oh?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 Mark Colyvan is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy of Mathematics, University of Sydney; Humboldt Fellow and Visiting Professor, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany. Upcoming talks: "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) ?Political discourse in an age of polarisation?, Thursday August 15, 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library, Chris Flemming (WSU) 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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My aim here is to first highlight some assumptions behind this standard view, both about how insurance is being understood and other background views about the relationship between aging and labour market participation. This will lead me to defend some negative and positive claims. Negatively, I will argue that pension schemes are (typically) not insurance schemes after all, as the distribution of payouts does not inversely track a relevant distribution of bad luck (largely because people die at different ages). This raises questions about the state's legitimate role in facilitating types of pooling other than insurance. More positively, I will argue that the right to retire should be understood in terms of 'phased' or gradual retirement. This would take retirement pooling closer to the insurance model, improving the case for state's role in enabling it to take place, as well as having some independent theoretical advantages. NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 17 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/D5tDCoVzGQiElKZlF1BfvI?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8NXbCp8AJQtmQxKQFDU0zo?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/8NXbCp8AJQtmQxKQFDU0zo?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser and be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or to modify your RSVP. 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The obscurity and incompleteness of the theory makes it particularly difficult to evaluate a range of "scope objections" to the theory, objections which claim that the theory is limited in scope in one way or another and so must either be interesting and important not as the one true theory of self-knowledge in its intended domain, but only with respect to only a particular domain of self-knowledge, or perhaps even only with respect to issues outside of traditional concerns with self-knowledge. In this paper I defend the deliberative theory against such scope objections, arguing that, when properly understood, the deliberative theory has exactly the scope of application that a theory with its intended domain---that is, a theory of the distinctive means by which we come to know our own attitudes---should have. When: Thu 18 Apr 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: The Muniment Room Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-0rECzvOWKi64BRvh45_S-?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zsM8CANZvPi4Eo9Mc88nRu?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/zsM8CANZvPi4Eo9Mc88nRu?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser and be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or to modify your RSVP. 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