From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon May 20 12:50:32 2019 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 02:50:32 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE News and Events Message-ID: In the media: 'Just a female doctor': women surgeons battle 'worthless' biases A study on gender bias in surgery by CAVE member Dr Katrina Hutchison was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald. Forty-eight women fellows and trainees of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons took part in a series of in-depth interviews for a study on gender biases that 'disparage motherhood, erode their credibility, objectify their bodies and shoehorn them into stereotypical ?empathetic? roles (and high heels)'. Read the full article here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2-MmC1WZXriWgjQzuLSYpB?domain=smh.com.au Election fatigue and what to do about it Many voters may be experiencing election fatigue, a sense of apathy or disengagement with the Australian voting process, writes A/Prof Robert Sinnerbrink in The Lighthouse (Macquarie University). Read the full article here: https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/may-2019/Election-fatigue-and-what-to-do-about-it?fbclid=IwAR29_8EQ_WblEkxf5SrQo3YT-x5MemQ23TLI2RZVZyO4bmU2_MWcxN5Z48k Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport CAVE advisory board member Prof Julian Savulescu critiques the decision of the Court of Arbitration in Sport requiring runner Caster Semenya to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete. Read the full article here: http://theconversation.com/ten-ethical-flaws-in-the-caster-semenya-decision-on-intersex-in-sport-116448 Upcoming events: CAVE Workshop on Dementia Care: Moral Theory and Practical Challenges 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. When: 29-30 May 2019 Where: Theatre 102, MGSM (99 Talavera Rd), Macquarie University Registration is free and all are welcome, but places are limited. Please message hojjat.soofi at hdr.mq.edu.au to register. CAVE Seminar: Prof Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest University) Title: ?Honesty: Some Preliminary Thoughts about a Stunningly Neglected Virtue.? Abstract: Some moral virtues have received a lot of attention from philosophers, but honesty is not one of them. Indeed, as far as I can tell there has only been one paper on honesty in a philosophy journal in the past 50 years. 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: 3pm to 5pm; Tuesday, 04 June 2019 Where: 12Second Way (Room 315), Macquarie University All welcome, no registration required. 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/RKcWC2xZYvCyrxDlh1S799?domain=facebook.com -------------- 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. NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 22 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/hmp6CBNZwLi2Q2O5czWgmn?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LpSiCD1jy9tG2Gkli5CL7Y?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/LpSiCD1jy9tG2Gkli5CL7Y?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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When: Thu 23 May 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Lre6CL7rK8t8zML8fBFBNH?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q9vcCMwvLQTmnVjmsk7XNT?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/q9vcCMwvLQTmnVjmsk7XNT?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 speed and depth of these antidemocratic movements took many observers by surprise: until now, Poland was widely regarded as an example of a successful transitional democracy. Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy? These answers are formulated against a backdrop of current worldwide trends towards populism, authoritarianism, and what is sometimes called 'illiberal democracy'. As this book argues, the Polish variant of 'illiberal democracy' is an oxymoron. By undermining the separation of powers, the PiS concentrates all power in its own hands, rendering any democratic accountability illusory. There is, however, no inevitability in these anti-democratic trends: this book considers a number of possible remedies and sources of hope, including intervention by the European Union. Information about the book Helen Irving will launch the book. 5pm, Wednesday 5 June (canapes & drinks will be served) Faculty Common Room - Level 4 New Law School Building (F10) The University of Sydney Law School RSVP: Please email law.events at sydney.edu.au by Monday 3 June. Please advise of any special dietary requirements. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 522 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In this paper I argue that he is not a neo-Aristotelian virtue epistemologist. This is because he reverses the direction of analysis common in contemporary virtue theories: it?s not that a cognitive act is knowledge because it issues from a capacity that constitutes an intellectual virtue; it?s rather that a capacity constitutes an intellectual virtue because it issues in cognitive acts that are knowledge. I argue that Aristotle?s ?act-based? virtue epistemology is an interesting alternative to current ?agent-based? views. 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In order to argue for this claim, Barnes relies on two principles, that I shall call Maximal Completeness and Determinate Link. According to the former principle, a complete description of a world w is a maximal bivalent assignment of truth values to every sentence at w. According to Determinate Link, the determination link between more and less fundamental levels of reality is such to preserve determinacy from one level to the other. The aim of this paper is to argue against Barnes? conditional claim. My strategy is two-fold. First, I argue that the Determinate Link can be rejected, for in the presence of indeterminacy it is a substantive issue whether or not the relation that connects different levels of reality is determinacy preserving. Second, I provide concrete examples, coming from the philosophy of physics, of how we can have, contra Barnes? conclusions, metaphysical indeterminacy in the derivative ontology, and yet no indeterminacy at the fundamental level. 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