From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 29 09:52:43 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:52:43 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder - HPS Research Series - The Incommensurables in association with Honours Candidate Brett Spulak presents: 'Into Eternity' - Tonight Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-7VWCyoNVrcZw5vEHZ1zVD?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 29TH April 2019 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vfubCzvOWKi6ZolvUXqOZe?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] The Incommensurables in association with Honours Candidate Brett Spulak presents: 'Into Eternity' 'Into Eternity' is about the continuing construction of 'Onkalo' - the Finnish solution to the problem of high-level nuclear waste which remains dangerous for up to 100,000 years. The documentary details the construction of Onkalo (ongoing since the 1970s and as-yet-unfinished) and the problems of communicating the threat contained within to far future generations. It is an eerie and wonderful film. From Brett: My work is focusing on the role of risk and ethics in Australia's nuclear waste policy. Australia does not have any plans for a high-level waste facility, although there has been suggestion that Australia could successfully and profitably host an international repository. 'Into Eternity' will provide an interesting and fruitful comparative look at another nation's progress in this difficult and important issue. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 (NEW) ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO CITY ROAD CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 29TH April 2019 START: 5.30PM for 6PM MOVIE START All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2019* *School of HPS, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/59GpCxnMRvtk3yAvs8yb_Z?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 6th May 2019 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/yrQYCyoNVrcZRgMouMVeY1?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] DR BRADLEY GARRETT University of Sydney Research Fellow based in the School of Geosciences and the Sydney Environment Institute. Building for Collapse: Doomsday Bunkers as Temporal Transport. A fresh iteration of an old architectural form is emerging across the world: the bunker is once again fashionable. Contemporary bunkers conjoin Cold War state ideologies of deep excavation in anticipation of wide-scale human-induced disaster with notions of sustainability and techno-fetishism. This has ushered in new architectural forms such as the eco-fortress, the panic room, the hardened suburb and the soilscraper. At the core of each is the figure of the doomsday prepper. Preppers anticipate and actively attempt to adapt to an inevitable but unspecified impending calamity. I argue that contemporary prepper communities - with whom I have been conducting ethnographic research as part of a Sydney Fellowship - emerged from the merging of survivalist anti-state libertarian political philosophy and a Mormon communitarian eschatology, both responding to neoliberal capitalism. Whilst rooted in the Western United States, the prepper ideology now has global influence, refracting (strikingly in spatial and material terms) the extinction-level problems we are failing to address as a species. In the prepper ideology, which I call Chrysalism, adaptation supplants mitigation as a primary course of action. Thus, the bunker is more speculative than reactionary and more temporal than spatial. It is both an ark to cross through catastrophe and a womb from which to be reborn. The bunker may be back in style, but there?s nothing retrograde about this architecture of dread. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 (NEW) ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO CITY ROAD CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 6th May 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... 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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: Wed 1 May 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: The Muniment Room Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZuUVCVAGXPt3AYoZiG9qWE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DB6HCWLJY7iOBVm4ixZrVF?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/DB6HCWLJY7iOBVm4ixZrVF?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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If true, then panpsychists are in a much better dialectical position, or the philosophy of mind has considerably more work to do, or both. In this paper, I will assess whether it is right to claim that dualists, physicalists, and panpsychists have combination problems and whether they can be considered as equally problematic and difficult to solve. I will argue that at least physicalists have ways to refute combination problems by appealing to different standard of constitution for experience. Therein, I argue that Mendelovici?s arguments do not vindicate panpsychism but do suggest constraints on our accounts of the constitution of experience. When: Thu 2 May 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room, Main Quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/al5KC2xZYvC1Blp5fnaCQP?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5ymJC3Q8Z2FqyApDiqcGJw?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/5ymJC3Q8Z2FqyApDiqcGJw?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 limits of rational arguments to capture embodied experiences of affective turbulence such as this one lead Diamond to what seems to be a pessimism about the potential of philosophy to face and do justice to the difficulty of reality. At the center of her critique is the so-called ?comparison? between the holocaust and factory farming, originally presented by J. M. Coetzee?s fictional character Elizabeth Costello, which was subsequently discussed by a number of philosophers, including Singer, Hacking, McDowell, Cavell. In this paper, I examine Diamond?s critique and the discussion around Costello?s provocative ?comparison.? I claim that Costello?s presentation should not be understood as a comparison, but rather as what I call an imagistic seeing-as relation, which is unlike the well-known conceptual seeing-as relation much discussed in Wittgenstein scholarship (e.g. where seeing the duck-rabbit drawing as a duck is understood as seeing the drawing in terms of the concept ?duck?). Such imagistic seeing-as relations can nevertheless be described with words, providing philosophy with the task of description as an alternative to its traditional argumentative task of explanation. Dr. Talia Morag is postdoctoral fellow at Deakin University with a project on implicit bias. She works on philosophical psychology, especially the philosophy of emotions, ethics, and the philosophical foundations of psychoanalysis, as well as philosophy of television. Recently her book Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason was published by Routledge (2016). She is the founding director of Psyche + Society, which organizes public conversations about social issues from a philosophical perspective enriched by psychoanalytic insights (www.psycheandsociety.com) Date/Time: Wednesday 8 May 2019, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm? 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It has a serious problem: it is used to explain how it is that we see, hear, and engage with the world by introducing a new being that sees, hears, and engages with the world. If this worked then we would need homunculi "all the way down" to account for the seeing, hearing, and engagement of each. Philosophers and cognitive scientists seem to fear that any brain-based account of the self will have this problem. Within these fields, you will find discussions of the narrative self, the illusory self, the constructed self, the imaginary self, the self concept, and self as center of narrative gravity. These are not really theories of self, but of self image. In this talk, I aim to provide a brain-based account of the self while avoiding the 'homunculus fallacy.' As I will argue, the existence of an emergent self with its own causal powers is the best explanation of the phenomenon of top-down control in attention. I will contrast this account with that of Jonardon Ganeri in his new book, Attention, Not Self (OUP, 2017). NB: Tea starts at 3pm ? When: Wed 8 May 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/QehOC2xZYvCypozvcnNK5t?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sRgRC3Q8Z2FNpYzwIqAeu-?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/sRgRC3Q8Z2FNpYzwIqAeu-?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Dates: 29 & 30 May 2019 Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Venue: Theatre 102, MGSM, Macquarie University (99 Talavera Rd; F23 on campus map https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/108142/Campus-Map.pdf) This two-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together scholars from different fields of research such as philosophy and applied ethics, legal studies, clinical medicine, and cognitive sciences to discuss various topics on how moral theories deal with practical challenges in the context of dementia care. On the first day, speakers discuss how people with dementia pose challenges for many of the existing accounts of dignity, moral agency, personhood, and capacity to consent. The second day of the workshop follows the theoretical discussions by focusing more on practical challenges of dementia care such as using assistive technologies, legal issues of substituted decision-making, and antipsychotic treatment for people with dementia in long-term care facilities. At the end of the workshop, there will be a roundtable discussion to share ideas and talk about future plans. Speakers: * Professor Jeanette Kennett (MQ) * Dr. Steve Matthews (Plunkett Centre for Ethics & ACU) * Dr. Suzy Killmister (Monash) * Dr. Paul Formosa (MQ) * Daphne Brandenburg (MQ & Radboud University) * Dr. Frederic Gilbert (UTAS) * Dr. Celia Harris (MQ) * Dr. Lise Barry (MQ) * Hojjat Soofi (MQ) This workshop is free but spaces are limited. Please register by sending an email to hojjat.soofi at hdr.mq.edu.au. Please include dietary restrictions (if any) in your email. 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 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tXC5Cvl0PoCV7KQ4cQAo8_?domain=facebook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This talk, which is based on an forthcoming paper, investigates whether presentists might do better by just denying that there are any past truths at all. While this approach has its challenges, I outline how an appropriate system of physics could explain why there still seems to be truths about the past, at least on the macroscopic scale. I finish by considering how this new theory of "hard" presentism might be defended against other objections to presentism, such as the objection from relativity. When: Thu 9 May 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5s1QC91ZkQt7zXDLho_QBB?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AJgSC0YZWVFPk5pqUDd25T?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. 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