From benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au Mon May 13 08:34:58 2019 From: benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au (Ben Brown) Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 22:34:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Fwd: Ben Brown Seminar Thursday 16th May 4.15pm References: Message-ID: Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Department of Classics and Ancient History invites you to attend the next instalment in our seminar series. Please join us on Thursday 16th of May to hear Dr. Ben Brown, Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Ben will deliver a paper entitled: The Object of Thucydides Starting from his famous self-reference kt?ma es aiei, this paper thinks about Thucydides, so to speak, ?before history?, that is, before historiography firmly established itself as the primary mode of contact with the human past. Rather than recuperate Thucydides, yet again, as the protos heuretes of our (bourgeois) historiographic tradition, it will follow the prompts of Heidegger, Nietzsche and Loraux ("Thucydide n'est pas une coll?gue?) seeing in his text instead an astonishing gesture at once avant-garde and archaic. Implicated philosophically and poetically in the fifth century?s epistemological revolutions, Thucydides is here interpreted occupying a unique sophistic space, yoking a Heraclitean critique of Ionian historia to a tragic consciousness for a radical mode of experiencing the past. Our Thucydides will thus sit before and opposite the generation who would misunderstand and invert his trope, and obscure his historicism for millennia. Looking back across Homer, Pindar, Sophocles and Herodotus in the process, this paper will also touch very briefly upon some questions of much broader significance in the history of Greek thought for which Thucydides is paradigmatic: the relationship between presence and knowledge, the ontology of the historical event and a phenomenology of reading. The paper will commence at 4.15pm at the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) Boardroom, Madsen Building, University of Sydney. The paper will be followed by light refreshments. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact either James Winestock (jwin7052 at uni.sydney.edu.au) or myself. All best wishes, Kirsten Kirsten Parkin | Postgraduate Representative Department of Classics and Ancient History THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY E kpar0133 at uni.sydney.edu.au| W sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On my reading, in the ?highest? demonstrations in a science, in which both syllogistic premises are indemonstrable first principles, some natural kind K is shown to have some property P because of some item shared by the essence of K and the essence of P. I argue that this interpretation solves a number of problems in the interpretation of Aristotle?s theory. I then argue that in the Parts of Animals Aristotle puts into practice something interestingly similar to this form of explanation in his biological explanations of animal parts. If my account is correct, then the fit between Aristotle?s theory and practice of scientific explanation is even tighter than recent commentators have recognized WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 (NEW) ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO CITY ROAD CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 20th 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? 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So my goal here is to offer a preliminary account of honesty, focusing on the scope of the virtue, the kind of behavior to which it gives rise, and the motivational profile of an honest person. Central to my approach will be the idea that the honest person does not intentionally distort the facts as she takes them to be. When: 04 June 2019, Tuesday, 3pm to 5pm Where: 12Second Way (Room 315), Macquarie University (P16-17 on campus map https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0010/183556/Campus-Map.png) Event is free. Prof Christian B. Miller, A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University (North Carolina, US), specialises in contemporary ethics, philosophy of religion, and the intersection of philosophy and psychology. He is the current director of The Beacon Project and the philosophy director of The Character Project. Latest publications include The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (OUP, 2017), Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (OUP, 2013), and Character and Moral Psychology (OUP, 2014). 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 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vfwWC2xZYvCyLOBXfnOf8E?domain=facebook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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/fBdgCvl0PoCVpE2VHQhu_Q?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/OjSvCwVLQmirJvArIqG-8h?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/OjSvCwVLQmirJvArIqG-8h?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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Jo Faulkner (co-editor of Continental Philosophy in Austral-asia series & Macquarie University), Angus Dawson (Sydney Health Ethics, USYD), and Alana Mann (Sydney Environment Institute, USYD) will help launch the book and speak on its implications for food security/sovereignty, public health ethics, and continental philosophy in settler-colonial Australia. Registration and more details are available on the Eventbrite page. Kind regards, Chris Mayes POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW CENTRE FOR VALUES, ETHICS AND THE LAW IN MEDICINE Level 1 | Medical Foundation Building (K25) The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9036 3428 | E christopher.mayes at sydney.edu.au W http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/velim/ | https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lhLUCp8AJQt6mRJWCYEu-s?domain=usyd.academia.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I focus on two kinds of purported counter-example to the intent-to-deceive tradition, and make three claims about these disputed cases. First, I argue that much of the evidence offered to establish the absence of an intent-to-deceive in fact doesn?t show this at all. Second, I draw on a more deflationary account of intention to argue that in some of these disputed cases there is an intent-to-deceive after all. Third, I look at some contemporary characterisations of lying, and argue that they are committed to implausible conclusions unless they also tacitly appeal to an intent-to-deceive. I draw some general conclusions from this discussion, for lying as well as for other speech acts. 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Macquarie University's Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) invites you to a two-day workshop: DEMENTIA CARE: MORAL THEORY AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES 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. PROGRAMME DAY 1: Wednesday, 29th May 2019 08:30-09:00 Registration, Arrival Tea & Coffee (MGSM Hotel Foyer) 09:00-09:15 Introductory remarks 09:15-10:15 ?Moral Self-Orientation in Alzheimer?s Dementia? by Dr. Steve Mathews (Plunkett Centre for Ethics & ACU) 10:15-10:45 Coffee break (Foyer) 10:45-11:40 ?The Impact of Dementia on the Self and Other in Couples: Who Are We Now?? by Dr. Amee Baird (MQ) 11:40- 12:30 ?Autonomy and Personhood of People with Dementia in Bioethics: The Use of Antipsychotics as a Case in Point? by Hojjat Soofi (MQ) 12:30-13:30 Lunch (Macquarie Room) 13:30-14:30 ?Holding People in Dignity? by Dr. Suzy Killmister (Monash University) 14:30-15:00 (A brief commentary) TO BE CONFIRMED 15:00-15:30 Afternoon Tea (Foyer) DAY 2: Thursday, 30th May 2019 08:30-09:00 Registration, Arrival Tea & Coffee (Foyer) 09:00-10:00 ?Conceptualising People with Dementia as Part of Their Social Environment? by Dr. Celia Harris (MQ) 10:00-10:30 Coffee break (Foyer) 10:30-11:15 ?Dementia and the Ethics of Assistive Brain Technologies? by Dr. Frederic Gilbert (UTAS) 11:15-12:00 ?Law, Autonomy and Dementia: Decision-making Capacity and Legal Uncertainty? by Dr. Lise Barry (MQ) 12:00-12:30 Theatre Room 102 Roundtable discussion 12:30-13:30 Lunch (Macquarie Room) Event is free, but spaces are limited. 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