From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 5 11:52:34 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 01:52:34 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Seminar Series S2 - QBism and the Limits of Scientific Realism Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/F5MxC91ZkQt66YPDhoTF2s?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Held in conjunction with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science SEMESTER TWO RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES MONDAY 12TH AUGUST 2019 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bS9eC0YZWVF99rlpsDabZj?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] DR DAVID GLICK HONORARY ASSOCIATE IN PHILOSOPHY University of Sydney QBism and the Limits of Scientific Realism QBism (formerly ?Quantum Bayesianism") is an agent-centered interpretation of quantum theory. It rejects the notion that quantum theory provides a God's eye description of reality and claims instead that it imposes constraints on agents' subjective degrees of belief. QBism's emphasis on subjective belief has led critics to dismiss it as antirealism or instrumentalism, or even, idealism or solipsism. The aim of this talk is to consider the relation of QBism to scientific realism. I argue that while QBism is an unhappy fit with a standard way of thinking about realism, an alternative conception I call "perspectival normative realism" may allow for a reconciliation. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WHEN: MONDAY 12TH AUGUST 2019 START: 5.30PM All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free PLEASE CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR ANY CHANGES TO VENUE OR TIME sydney.edu.au/science/hps/ Copyright ? *2016* *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... 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The systematic lack of understanding in which I am interested is plausibly manifested in the extreme political polarization that we see in the twenty-first century. But it is also plausibly manifested is less extreme forms even within loving relationships. My goal in the talk is to offer a rationalizing explanation of one way in which such mutual misunderstandings can manifest ? one that makes intelligible how even loving and well-meaning people can fail to fully understand one another. The key ingredient in this explanation is an account of a novel and underappreciated kind of silencing. When: Wed 7 Aug 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * sequoiah at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ez0eCANZvPiP0pB5fGgB4M?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zDVkCBNZwLikqW0Nh6AERm?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/zDVkCBNZwLikqW0Nh6AERm?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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Mufti takes long-view perspective in which Europe's past is inescapably conjoined to the present. Only then, contends Mufti, can an honest discussion be properly had. The future of a post-colonial understanding of the world depends on it. Tuesday, August 20, Lecture 1: Europe: An Imperial Idea (Reception at the opening night starts at 5pm, all welcome) Wednesday, August 21, Lecture 2: The New Pariah: Between Citizen and (Colonial) Subject Friday, August 23, Lecture 3: Muslim as Minority Lectures start at 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm State Library of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street building $10 per lecture; $25 for the series. 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For the discussion about enhancing human beings to be worth having, then, we must assume that gene-editing technology will improve rapidly. However, rapid progress in the development and application of any technology comes at a price: obsolescence. If the genetic enhancements we can provide children get better and better each year, then the enhancements granted to children born in any given year will rapidly go out of date. Sooner or later, every modified child will find him- or herself to be ?yesterday?s child.? The impacts of such obsolescence on our individual, social, and philosophical self-understanding constitute an underexplored set of considerations relevant to the ethics of genome editing. Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm Date: Thursday August 15th Location: Moorgate Directors' Boardroom, School of Philosophy & Theology (Cnr. Moorgate St and Grafton St. Chippendale), The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney.?? About the speaker: Robert Sparrow is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, and one of Australia's leading Bioethicists. He is the author of some seventy-five refereed papers and book chapters. He mainly works on ethical issues raised by new technologies. About the seminar series: The Institute for Ethics & Society Research Seminar exists to foster rigorous, creative and collaborative research on our three research focus areas: (i) Moral Philosophy & Ethics Education, (ii) Bioethics & Healthcare Ethics, and (iii) Religion & Global Ethics. If you have any questions, or wish to RSVP, please email ies at nd.edu.au Kind regards, Xavier Symons. ? Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. 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When: Wed 14 Aug 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * sequoiah at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/j_XNCNLwM9iQgjmGcmCP2Y?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KV4_COMxNytgBvmyhv2FGp?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/KV4_COMxNytgBvmyhv2FGp?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 sessions are led by senior academics and are discussion-based, providing plenty of time for joint reflections on necessary organisational changes, myth-busting and possible tools and strategies applicable to a range of different contexts. The day will finish with a practically orientated input from Tessa Boyd-Caine, the CEO of Health Justice Australia. 9-9.45 Introduction Anik Waldow: ?Managing different styles and perspectives? 9.50-10.50: Barbara Caine: ?Women and leadership?some personal reflections? Morning Tea 11.05-12.55: Monika Bednarek: ?Language and gender? Lunch 1.40-2.40 Kelly Freebody: ?Understanding and communicating your career? 2.45-3.45 Tessa Boyd-Caine: ?Building your own power? 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I argue that while QBism is an unhappy fit with a standard way of thinking about realism, an alternative conception I call "perspectival normative realism" may allow for a reconciliation. When: Mon 12 Aug 2019 17:30 ? 18:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM - F23 NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING USYD Calendar: Seminars Who: * sequoiah at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xy6mCmOxDQt31kwvuG95lE?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/k9GsCnxyErC2lr0nIJA4Vk?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/k9GsCnxyErC2lr0nIJA4Vk?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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One might think the answers are obviously ?No?, but this is ambiguous: there is the conceptual claim that such psychological claims can?t possibly be true, and the empirical claim that we have evidence that they are false. This talk is about the conceptual issue, which invokes the problem of conceptual anthropocentrism in psychology. My response to this problem is to show how research throughout biology is moving us towards a non-anthropocentric psychology. Associate Professor Kristie Miller ARC Future Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 407, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5Oa0CgZowLHRPV77SNXB0L?domain=kristiemiller.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: