From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon May 27 10:42:00 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 00:42:00 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] FW: Reminder: Philosophy public lecture by Professor Michael Hunter: Robert Boyle's blasphemous thoughts, 30 May 2019 In-Reply-To: <20190523063825.947FA181E42@bouncer.swiftdigital.com.au> References: <20190523063825.947FA181E42@bouncer.swiftdigital.com.au> Message-ID: Reminder - Philosophy public lecture by Professor Michael Hunter: Robert Boyle's blasphemous thoughts, 30 May 2019 Having trouble viewing this email? View online version. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science Public Lecture Emeritus Professor Michael Hunter [The University of Sydney] [Robert Boyle] Public lecture | 6:00pm - 7:30pm, Thursday 30 May 2019 Emeritus Professor Michael Hunter | Birkbeck College, London Robert Boyle's blasphemous thoughts Robert Boyle, the famed 'father of chemistry' and founding member of the Royal Society of London was the Christian virtuoso par excellence. And yet throughout his adult life he was plagued with doubts and a troubled conscience. Using hitherto unexamined manuscript evidence the renowned Boyle scholar Michael Hunter will shed new light on the religious life of this icon of the Scientific Revolution. 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Paul Formosa (Macquarie) "Arpaly?s critique of Kantian ethics" 4..00-5.30 Nomy Arpaly (Brown) "Deliberation and fetish" This workshop is free but spaces are limited. Please register by sending an email to yves.aquino at mq.edu.au. Please include dietary restrictions (if any) in your email. Hope to 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/GzO5C6X13RtY1GJZcpJqOp?domain=facebook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. NB: Tea starts at 3pm When: Wed 29 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/cZ4jCVAGXPtomXPASGyLI3?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8Z4MCWLJY7imZxyBUxXgXK?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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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. When: Thu 30 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/LwC6CBNZwLi53xGrSzqgTO?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jY8CCD1jy9tlQ79zS5M2ef?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/jY8CCD1jy9tlQ79zS5M2ef?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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'Astrological Experiments Exemplified: Samuel Jeake (1652-99) and the Problem of Astrological Reform in the late 17th Century' PROGRAM 12 pm LUNCH 1PM - 2.30PM HONOURS STUDENTS PRESENTATIONS * LIORA BARAM - * BRETT SPULAK - "Do we have a duty to believe? Risks, Realities and Policy Directions in Australian Nuclear Waste Storage". * GEORGIA VALIS - "Closing Callan Park" * AMELIA SCOTT - "Models in Science" 2.30 - AFTERNOON TEA 3PM -4.15 POST GRADS PRESENTATIONS * GEMMA SMART - "(Internet) Gaming Disorder: Fact or Fantasy? A conceptual analysis of a new psychiatric classification" * ALEX PEREIRA - 4.15 -5.30 PM KEYNOTE: PROFESSOR MICHAEL HUNTER Emeritus Professor of History in the department of history, classics and archaeology and a Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London. 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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: Thu 6 Jun 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MZyFCxnMRvtoOxZWS89nPh?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3DFBCyoNVrc5nLYBiM0emi?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/3DFBCyoNVrc5nLYBiM0emi?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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