From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Mon Jun 3 12:24:15 2019 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 02:24:15 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] PhD scholarship at Macquarie Uni on philosophy of race (Adam Hochman) Message-ID: PhD scholarship available at Macquarie University linked to Adam Hochman's 3-year ARC-funded project Social Constructionism About Race, Deconstructed. This project investigates the idea that race is a social construct. Race was once thought to be biologically real, a position which is increasingly rejected by scientists. Now race is commonly believed to be socially constructed, which is often understood as the view that races are real social groups. This project aims to demonstrate that when race is defined socially it loses its conceptual and historical specificity, and its value as a category. Yet we need to be able to refer to the groups that have been misunderstood to be races. This project develops and defends the category of the racialised group as an alternative to one of history's most dangerous ideas. This scholarship is available to eligible domestic candidates to undertake either a MRes Year 2 + PhD (4 years total) or a direct entry 3-year PhD program. The successful candidate will work closely with Dr Hochman on a topic related to the project's aims. Students from marginalised and minority groups are especially encouraged to apply. For more details follow this link https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/scholarship-search/data/social-constructionism-about-race,-deconstructed?fbclid=IwAR0BH3baOPqyOtqwklzBCw6I4vWXNnfNfYD4rxWHfIwf8dHGP2k6Hkblf3c -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Wed Jun 5 14:59:55 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 04:59:55 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Christian Miller @ Thu 6 Jun 2019 15:00 - 16:30 (AEST) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <000000000000ecc7bd058a8c77fe@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Christian Miller ?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: 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/DpwwCZYM2VF9l5Q7SzSu8t?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LtaOC1WZXriN3Mq6FGMxQI?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/LtaOC1WZXriN3Mq6FGMxQI?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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URL: From j.franklin at unsw.edu.au Wed Jun 5 16:16:23 2019 From: j.franklin at unsw.edu.au (James Franklin) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 06:16:23 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Fw: Solidarity Call for Papers: Inaugural Student and ECR Edition & Publishing Prize In-Reply-To: <26fcc8e69ba74637b313dbe756d89bce@frmpexc02.nd.edu.au> References: <7c1c4e8c2d77470283668ce4e503bdd2@frmpexc02.nd.edu.au>, <26fcc8e69ba74637b313dbe756d89bce@frmpexc02.nd.edu.au> Message-ID: A CFP from Solidarity, the ethics journal of Notre Dame (Sydney). ________________________________ From: Institute for Ethics and Society Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2019 10:50 AM Subject: Solidarity Call for Papers: Inaugural Student and ECR Edition & Publishing Prize Dear friends & colleagues of the IES, The managing editor of Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics is sending out the following Call for Papers: Inaugural Student and ECR Edition & Publishing Prize. Please find attached a document with further details on the topic and submission guidelines. The deadline for abstracts is 1st September 2019. If you have any questions, please contact Dr Rosemary Hancock at sydney.solidarity at nd.edu.au Kind regards, The IES team On behalf of the Institute for Ethics and Society The University of Notre Dame Australia L1, 104 Broadway (PO Box 944), Broadway NSW 2007 T +61 2 8204 4646 ies at nd.edu.au http://www.nd.edu.au/research/ies/home? | CRICOS Provider: 0103 [IES email signature] Disclaimer IMPORTANT: This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you should not disclose, copy, disseminate or otherwise use the information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete or destroy the document. Confidential and legal privilege are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery to you. 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The Plunkett Centre for ethics (Australian Catholic University & St. Vincent?s Hospital) invites you to a one-day workshop entitled ?An investigation into truthfulness as a moral norm in dementia care?. Keynote speaker: Julian C. Hughes, RICE Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Bristol University. Date: Monday August 19, 2019 Time: 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Venue: Lavender Room, First Floor, Harbourview Hotel, 17 Blue St. North Sydney. URL: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1jzhC0YZWVFwwN41twbhuL?domain=viewhotels.com.au This one-day workshop will bring together scholars from philosophy, psychiatry, cognitive science, and clinical neuropsychology (among others), to discuss questions of truthfulness and authenticity in dementia care. While we typically view truth-telling as a moral norm of discourse, implicitly recognising that untruthfulness undermines epistemic autonomy, this norm is not always observed in the context of caring for and relating to people with dementia. For example: by suggesting that a loved one has visited recently, while knowing this to be untrue; by playing a recording of a loved one?s voice on a telephone, presenting it as a ?live? conversation; or by stylistically presenting a care home with domestic interiors that are intended to disguise the institutional nature of the setting (e.g., Hogeway Dementia Village in the Netherlands). Yet there can be moral reasons supporting such practices, reasons deriving from respect for, and the well being of, persons with dementia and their families. In this workshop we will investigate these questions from a philosophical perspective with possible topics to include the limits of untruthful speech, caregiver relationships, intimacy and truthfulness, the authenticity of care environments, holding persons in dignity and identity when their self-concept remains frozen in the past, the question of whether untruthfulness undermines respect for the role of care-giving, and the question of truthfulness and stigma. Speakers will include: * Professor Julian Hughes (Bristol University) * Professor Jeanette Kennett (MQ) * Dr. Steve Matthews (Plunkett Centre for ethics & ACU) * Dr. Philippa Byers (Plunkett Centre for ethics & ACU) * Dr. Richard Heersmink (La Trobe University) The workshop is free but spaces are limited, and it is essential to register. Please do so by emailing Philippa Byers: philippa.byers at acu.edu.au. 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However, Bergson?s reception among 20th-century biologists has not been subjected to thorough study. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, given the wide reception of Creative Evolution among biologists, Bergson can no longer be left out of historical accounts of 20th-century biology. Bergson provided many biologists with the intellectual tools to reflect on the theoretical boundaries of their own discipline and resist the general trend towards specialisation which is often seen as characteristic of 20th-century science. These biologists believed that the very questions their discipline raised (biological evolution, the nature of heredity, animal minds, etc.) forced them to go beyond the limitations of scientific knowledge. They saw Bergson as raising the status of biology by making it the most philosophical of all sciences. We will see that taking the biological appropriations of Bergson?s ideas seriously sheds new light on some of the philosophical motivations of 20th-century biologists and more generally, on the complex interplay between science and philosophy. When: Thu 13 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/ZyxyC4QZ1RFKnyAVIO5xoB?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0vxtC5QZ29FLzoYJhOcgsB?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/0vxtC5QZ29FLzoYJhOcgsB?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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