From moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au Mon May 6 11:46:47 2019 From: moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au (Moira Gatens) Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 01:46:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Friday May 10 Spinoza Workshop Message-ID: <879D8645-B846-4FD2-844D-E3B4076C3B39@sydney.edu.au> FINAL REMINDER ? ALL WELCOME BUT PLEASE REGISTER SPINOZA WORKSHOP Date: Friday May 10th 2019 Time: 9:15 am ? 5:00 pm Venue: CCANESA (Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies)* Program 09:15 - 9:30 Moira Gatens Welcome and Introduction to Workshop 09:30 ? 10:30 Beth Lord Spinoza and Deleuze on equality 10:30 ? 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 ? 12:00 Robert Boncardo The Place of Experience in Spinoza?s Philosophy: Pierre-Fran?ois Moreau?s Spinoza: L?Exp?rience et l??ternit? 12:00 -1:00 LUNCH 1:00 ? 2:00 Jon Rubin The Principle of Plenitude and the three demonstrations to Ethics1P11 2:00 -3:00 Aurelia Armstrong will lead and facilitate an open discussion on Aesthetic affects in Spinoza's ethics 3:30 ? 4:00 Coffee Break 4:00 -5:00 Anthony Uhlmann Spinoza, Common Notions, and Literature The workshop is free but for catering purposes please register with inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au * Venue location: Level 4, Madsen Building, F09, University of Sydney (second building on the left from the City Road pedestrian entrance) MOIRA GATENS | FASSA | FAHA Challis Professor of Philosophy | Research Professor SOPHI | Faculty of Arts THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY P Philosophy, SOPHI, Main Quad A14, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia T +61 2 9351 2468 | F +61 2 9351 3918 E moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cambridge, UK?;: Cambridge University Press, 2003.? Chapters 4, 5 on Thursday, May 9 at 6 pm in seminar room 2165 at the Conservatorium of Music? We hope you can make it! Cheers, A/ Prof. Goetz Richter, convenor ------------------------------ Event Summary: ------------------------------ Event: Philosophy of Music Study Group Date: Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 6:00 pm - Thursday, 6 June 2019 at 7:30 pm (AEDT) Location: <b>Sydney Conservatorium of Music</b><br />Macquarie Street<br />Sydney, NSW 2000<br />Australia<br /> ------------------------------ Event Details: ------------------------------ The Philosophy of Music Study group meets on selected dates throughout the semester at the Sydney Conservatorium in seminar room 2165 to discuss selected texts on the philosophy of music.?All are welcome.? In Semester 1 we will readBenson, Bruce Ellis.?The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue?: a Phenomenology of Music?. Cambridge, UK?;: Cambridge University Press, 2003.? Hobson, Marian et al.?Denis Diderot?s Rameau?s Nephew?. Multi-media edition. Cambridge, England: Open Book Publishers, 2014. (Both works are available as e books at the University of Sydney library. The first session (March 21) will start with a discussion of Benson) ------------------------------ Hosted By: ------------------------------ A/ Prof. Goetz Richter, convenor ------------------------------ Register Online: ------------------------------ More information and online registration are available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/F3gyC91ZkQt7MnNkCo0WHm?domain=eventbrite.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collect event fees online with Eventbrite https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sYj1C0YZWVFPMvgGFDkzVP?domain=eventbrite.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.valaris at unsw.edu.au Tue May 7 09:34:30 2019 From: m.valaris at unsw.edu.au (Markos Valaris) Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 23:34:30 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?windows-1252?q?5th_East-West_Philosophers=92_Forum_?= =?windows-1252?q?=40_UNSW=2C_15-17_May_2019?= Message-ID: 5th East-West Philosophers? Forum 15-17 May 2019 University of New South Wales, Sydney Extended Cognition East and West: how re-thinking cognition helps enlarge epistemology At the crossroads of epistemology, philosophy of action and philosophy of mind, extended cognition has received much attention in the last ten years. In particular, philosophers working on extended cognition have de-centred the traditional view of mind as the seat of intellectual activity and decision-making. Broadly speaking, Extended Cognition Theory (ECT) does not see the brain, or the human body, as the limit of thinking and cognition. It proposes that our thinking?and our knowledge?is very much shaped by our embodied forms, engaging within environments. The upshot of discussions on ECT for epistemology is that it challenges traditional conceptions of knowledge primarily as content (or even more narrowly as intellectual content), possessed by individuals. According to the view prompted by ECT, knowledge is very much situated and environmental. What does this mean for philosophy from eastern and western traditions? This is the question scholars at this forum will consider. The aim is to engage both traditions in dialogue so as to arrive at a deeper understanding of knowledge, in order to facilitate a more efficient and optimal way of engaging with the world. Speakers: Prof Richard Menary (Macquarie University) Keynote A/Prof David Bronstein (Georgetown University/University of New South Wales) Prof Leo Cheung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) A/Prof Seisuke Hayakawa (University of Tokyo) Prof Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales) A/Prof Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales) Prof Michael Mi (Soochow University) A/Prof Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) A/Prof Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University) Asst Prof Shane Ryan (Nazarbayev University) Dr Markos Valaris (University of New South Wales) The conference program is available here: https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/HALFile/East_West_Philosophers_Forum_2019_UNSW.pdf The event is free but registration is essential. Please register here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KTccCyoNVrcVJZNqtZherq?domain=eventbrite.co.uk Enquiries to Karyn Lai: k.lai at unsw.edu.au The Conference is supported by the School of Humanities and Languages, Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW. Markos Valaris Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy University of New South Wales Phone: +(61) 2 9385 2760 (office) Personal webpage: markosvalaris.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au Tue May 7 10:25:25 2019 From: moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au (Moira Gatens) Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 00:25:25 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?5th_East-West_Philosophers=E2=80=99_Forum_?= =?utf-8?q?=40_UNSW=2C_15-17_May_2019?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20ABE2A3-3AD0-4B9B-9DE8-187FE50E7B02@sydney.edu.au> Its interesting I guess ? but can?t help wondering why everyone has to reinvent the wheel all the time ?- I think this might be peculiar to philosophers who always want to be FIRST!!! (and are not). Anyone serious about east-west should remember Islamic scholarship too On 7 May 2019, at 09:35, Markos Valaris > wrote: 5th East-West Philosophers? Forum 15-17 May 2019 University of New South Wales, Sydney Extended Cognition East and West: how re-thinking cognition helps enlarge epistemology At the crossroads of epistemology, philosophy of action and philosophy of mind, extended cognition has received much attention in the last ten years. In particular, philosophers working on extended cognition have de-centred the traditional view of mind as the seat of intellectual activity and decision-making. Broadly speaking, Extended Cognition Theory (ECT) does not see the brain, or the human body, as the limit of thinking and cognition. It proposes that our thinking?and our knowledge?is very much shaped by our embodied forms, engaging within environments. The upshot of discussions on ECT for epistemology is that it challenges traditional conceptions of knowledge primarily as content (or even more narrowly as intellectual content), possessed by individuals. According to the view prompted by ECT, knowledge is very much situated and environmental. What does this mean for philosophy from eastern and western traditions? This is the question scholars at this forum will consider. The aim is to engage both traditions in dialogue so as to arrive at a deeper understanding of knowledge, in order to facilitate a more efficient and optimal way of engaging with the world. Speakers: Prof Richard Menary (Macquarie University) Keynote A/Prof David Bronstein (Georgetown University/University of New South Wales) Prof Leo Cheung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) A/Prof Seisuke Hayakawa (University of Tokyo) Prof Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales) A/Prof Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales) Prof Michael Mi (Soochow University) A/Prof Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) A/Prof Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University) Asst Prof Shane Ryan (Nazarbayev University) Dr Markos Valaris (University of New South Wales) The conference program is available here: https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/HALFile/East_West_Philosophers_Forum_2019_UNSW.pdf The event is free but registration is essential. Please register here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AOMSCjZrzqHNAqJWiWhMj4?domain=eventbrite.co.uk Enquiries to Karyn Lai: k.lai at unsw.edu.au The Conference is supported by the School of Humanities and Languages, Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW. Markos Valaris Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy University of New South Wales Phone: +(61) 2 9385 2760 (office) Personal webpage: markosvalaris.net --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au Tue May 7 10:32:12 2019 From: moira.gatens at sydney.edu.au (Moira Gatens) Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 00:32:12 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?5th_East-West_Philosophers=E2=80=99_Forum_?= =?utf-8?q?=40_UNSW=2C_15-17_May_2019?= In-Reply-To: <20ABE2A3-3AD0-4B9B-9DE8-187FE50E7B02@sydney.edu.au> References: , <20ABE2A3-3AD0-4B9B-9DE8-187FE50E7B02@sydney.edu.au> Message-ID: <0BD5A915-40D2-479C-9FC4-BBCB90889ECA@sydney.edu.au> My apologies. This was a very stupid act - I meant to respond to a friend?s comment only and not the entire list My shame Moira On 7 May 2019, at 10:26, Moira Gatens > wrote: Its interesting I guess ? but can?t help wondering why everyone has to reinvent the wheel all the time ?- I think this might be peculiar to philosophers who always want to be FIRST!!! (and are not). Anyone serious about east-west should remember Islamic scholarship too On 7 May 2019, at 09:35, Markos Valaris > wrote: 5th East-West Philosophers? Forum 15-17 May 2019 University of New South Wales, Sydney Extended Cognition East and West: how re-thinking cognition helps enlarge epistemology At the crossroads of epistemology, philosophy of action and philosophy of mind, extended cognition has received much attention in the last ten years. In particular, philosophers working on extended cognition have de-centred the traditional view of mind as the seat of intellectual activity and decision-making. Broadly speaking, Extended Cognition Theory (ECT) does not see the brain, or the human body, as the limit of thinking and cognition. It proposes that our thinking?and our knowledge?is very much shaped by our embodied forms, engaging within environments. The upshot of discussions on ECT for epistemology is that it challenges traditional conceptions of knowledge primarily as content (or even more narrowly as intellectual content), possessed by individuals. According to the view prompted by ECT, knowledge is very much situated and environmental. What does this mean for philosophy from eastern and western traditions? This is the question scholars at this forum will consider. The aim is to engage both traditions in dialogue so as to arrive at a deeper understanding of knowledge, in order to facilitate a more efficient and optimal way of engaging with the world. Speakers: Prof Richard Menary (Macquarie University) Keynote A/Prof David Bronstein (Georgetown University/University of New South Wales) Prof Leo Cheung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) A/Prof Seisuke Hayakawa (University of Tokyo) Prof Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales) A/Prof Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales) Prof Michael Mi (Soochow University) A/Prof Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) A/Prof Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University) Asst Prof Shane Ryan (Nazarbayev University) Dr Markos Valaris (University of New South Wales) The conference program is available here: https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/HALFile/East_West_Philosophers_Forum_2019_UNSW.pdf The event is free but registration is essential. Please register here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9as1CxnMRvtNBYMnt8n4wj?domain=eventbrite.co.uk Enquiries to Karyn Lai: k.lai at unsw.edu.au The Conference is supported by the School of Humanities and Languages, Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW. Markos Valaris Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy University of New South Wales Phone: +(61) 2 9385 2760 (office) Personal webpage: markosvalaris.net --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hps.admin at sydney.edu.au Tue May 7 13:44:28 2019 From: hps.admin at sydney.edu.au (HPS Admin) Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 03:44:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar 13th May - Sahar Tavakoli - Mamma! Butta la Pastiche! Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zNKCCXLKZoirklEAu6LbeL?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 13th May 2019 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_CVPCYWL1viBjKVYFGhOeq?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SAHAR TAVOKOLI PhD Candidate Science and Technology Studies CORNELL UNIVERSITY Mamma! Butta la Pastiche! Vegno del loco ove tornar disio; amor mi mosse, che mi fa parlare. (I come from where I most long to return; love prompted me, that love which makes me speak.) Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, Inferno. Canto 2:71-2 On August 26, 2013, Dario Cecchini ? a 56 year old macellaio from Chianti in central Tuscany ? took to a stage in Copenhagen to butcher a pig and recite poetry. The performance was a plea to historians, journalists, political activists, governmental bodies, and international aid organisations to recognise the contribution of butchery in the making of Italian culture and identity and its preservation as a (region specific) craft as equal in importance to the protection of an ethnic minority under threat. In this presentation, I will explore the ways in which the sociotechnical organisation of food production and agriculture regulation in Italy and increasingly across Western Europe, evokes a spectre of national identity by calling upon both romanticised pasts that may not have been and an undefined future deemed certain to arrive. More specifically, I combine Derrida?s ?hauntology?, Sontag?s Notes on Camp, and work on sociotechnical imaginaries to ask how a combined future-past casts a shadow on actions that take place in the present, and what conversations on how we eat say about who we are, who we were, or, more worrying, who we might be made to be. The sociotechnical imaginaries, vanguard visions, and imagined communities and democracies of Jasanoff, Kim, Hilgartner, Anderson, and Ezrahi -- to name only a few ? each acknowledge the place of fictional visions of social life and social order in the production and performance of science and technology. Common amongst these texts is the expectation that imaginaries are forward-looking. Performances like that of Cecchini are neither forward-looking, nor are they entirely trapped in the past. Indeed, they follow a far less linear timeline, looking backwards to the future in order to more clearly observe the threat that is the present. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 (NEW) ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO CITY ROAD CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 13th 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... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue May 7 15:29:56 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 05:29:56 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) @ Wed 8 May 2019 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000ddcb4d05884581c7@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) Title: From Attention to Self Abstract: A popular view of the self is that it exists inside the head. Movies sometimes present the self as a tiny person living inside of our skulls, seeing the world through our eyes. However, this concept of a 'homunculus,' or little human, is not popular in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science. 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/IcqpCzvOWKiVOlqlI4Lynh?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dbMUCANZvPiqGyOyI8flVb?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. 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Thursday, May 16 6:30pm - 7:45pm Free event - All welcome - Light refreshments provided (from 6pm) 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/EfRXCr8DLRtJxj6JU7a4mK?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 Caroline West is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sydney where she teaches a popular course on ?Philosophy of Happiness?. She has given a series of sell-out public talks on the subject, and is currently writing a book on Happiness. Upcoming talks: ?The Stoic Theory of Emotions?, Thursday July 18, 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library, Melissa Merritt (UNSW) ?Politics in an Age of Polarisation?, Thursday August 22, 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library, Chris Fleming (WSU) ?TBA?, Thursday Sept 19, 6.30 ? 7.45 pm: Leichhardt Library, Sam Shpall (U Syd) 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/ --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil -------------- 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/VxFEC0YZWVFPlyM5hwOY_k?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/of6qCgZowLHQnBmRUo8EXf?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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NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 15 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/4HpmClxwB5C4gqKrHGNdVE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CVd-CmOxDQt4ELYxHO1vy7?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/CVd-CmOxDQt4ELYxHO1vy7?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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This view, which was once almost universally rejected, has become very popular since the turn of the century: it is a commitment of standard na?ve realist views, and it can even be adopted by representationalists. In this paper, I offer a new argument against the phenomenal object view. The central premise of my argument is an explication of the very concept of phenomenal character. When: Thu 16 May 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/K-49CANZvPiq6yYWfGt-tH?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CRysCBNZwLi26Qo4i6w1A7?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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