From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 12 10:59:31 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:59:31 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] DOING DARWIN DOWN UNDER WORKSHOP PROGRAM Message-ID: Dear All Please find attached copy of the Workshop Program "Doing Darwin Down Under". Best Regards Debbie [cid:image003.png at 01D550FD.01355CC0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 252808 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Doing Darwin Down Under Workshop Program.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 137903 bytes Desc: Doing Darwin Down Under Workshop Program.pdf URL: From Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au Tue Aug 13 11:55:01 2019 From: Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au (Stephen Matthews) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:55:01 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] TRUTH in DEMENTIA WORKSHOP final reminder Message-ID: REMINDER The Plunkett Centre for ethics (Australian Catholic University & St. Vincent?s Health Australia) 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/D9l0CXLKZoiRqpwKu6jlD8?domain=viewhotels.com.au Home - North Sydney Harbourview Hotel viewhotels.com.au BOOK DIRECT & RECEIVE: Best rates No booking fees Free Wi-Fi Velocity Frequent Flyer Points This one-day workshop will bring together scholars from philosophy, psychiatry, cognitive science, and clinical neuropsychology (among others), to discuss ethical questions of truthfulness and authenticity in dementia care. Program TIME SESSION/SPEAKER 9.30-9.55 Registration 9.55-10.00 Welcome 10.00-11.15 Keynote Julian Hughes (Bristol University): Should we lie to people with dementia (for surely they lack ?liberty of judgement?)? 11.15-11.40 Morning tea 11.40-12.30 Jeanette Kennett (MQU) & Steve Matthews (ACU) Sense-making and truthfulness in dementia 12.30-1.30 Lunch 1.30-2.20 Philippa Byers (ACU) Two virtues of truthfulness and vulnerability to stigma in dementia care 2.25-3.15 Richard Heersmink (La Trobe University) Dementia, narratives, and artifacts 3.15-3.40 Afternoon tea 3.40-4.30 Panel: Julian Hughes; Zimra Seagall; Linda Barclay (Chair Catriona Mackenzie) The workshop is free but spaces are limited, and it is essential to register. For more information, and to register, contact Philippa Byers: philippa.byers at acu.edu.au. Please include dietary restrictions when you register. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The eleven chapters collected together divide into two groups: the first five address libertarianism within the free will debate, with particular attention to Hodgson's theory, and in Part II, six contributors discuss Hodgson's libertarianism in relation to issues not often pursued by free will scholars, such as mitigation of punishment, the responsibility of judges, the nature of judicial reasoning and the criminal law process more generally. Thus the volume's importance lies not only in examining Hodgson's distinctive libertarian theory from within the free will literature, but also in considering new directions for research in applying that theory to enduring questions about legal responsibility and punishment. Contributors to the volume are: Robert Kane, Bernard Berofsky, Laura Ekstrom, Neil Levy, Ishtiyaque Haji, Michael Sevel, R.A. Duff, Michael Corrado, Nicole Vincent, Allan McCay, and Christopher Birch. About the authors Dr Allan McCay Dr Allan McCay teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program, and is an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics, at Macquarie University. He also lectures in Criminal Law at the University of Sydney Law School. His research interests include behavioural genetics, neuroscience, and neurotechnology, in the context of the criminal law. His philosophical interests relate to the free will problem, philosophy of punishment, and issues relating to the automation of work. Allan has published in the journals Neuroethics, The Journal of Evolution and Technology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, and The Indigenous Law Bulletin, and also in the edited collection Free Will in Criminal Law and Procedure. He is a coeditor of Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity, which is to be published by Oxford University Press. Allan initially qualified as a solicitor in Scotland, but has also practised in Hong Kong, and been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Riverside, the University of Stirling, and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. Dr Michael Sevel Dr Michael Sevel is Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School. He researches issues in general jurisprudence, the rule of law, and moral and political philosophy, and also has interests in issues in international law, maritime law, and torts. He has held visiting appointments in the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs of Tulane University, the Centre for Maritime Law of National University of Singapore, the University of Miami School of Law, and, as Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Law of the European University Institute. In 2020, he will be a Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National University. Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia will launch the book. Information about the book Wednesday 21 August (book launch and cocktail reception) 5:30pm - 7:00pm 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 19 August. Please advise of any special dietary requirements. This book launch is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at Sydney Law School. MICHAEL SEVEL Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence | Faculty of Law THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0303 | F +61 2 9351 0200 | M +61 478 088 786 E michael.sevel at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Wed Aug 14 15:01:28 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:01:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar S2 2019" - HISTORY IS PECULIAR Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/yQQ_C4QZ1RFOEkzVhOUw8d?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SYDNEY CENTRE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE PRESENTS SEMESTER TWO 2019 RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES DR ADRIAN CURRIE [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_bS8C6X13Rtv7wPNTmls-c?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Lecturer, SPA University of Exeter History is Peculiar The mid-Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution was a critical event shaping the modern world, seeing radiations in mammals, squamate lizards, snakes, birds and (maybe) dinosaurs, as well as the emergence of flowering plants (angiosperms) and their accompanying menagerie of pollinating insects. The revolution is at least in part thought to be related to the contemporaneous final breakup of Pangea into smaller continents, and the new angiosperm-insect alliance is also cited as driving radiations in other lineages. It is often thought that historical explanation is in some sense narrative explanation, or at least that history is particularly suited to narrative forms. For instance: perhaps shifting from the relatively homogenous Pangea to the more heterogeneous modern continents led to a wider variety of habitats with more haphazardly distributed taxa, thus opening the door to diversification in the mid-Cretaceous. This connection between narrative and history has led some to ask whether there is some logic or essential property to narratives, others to draw links between the literary and the historical, and others to question whether narrative structures are discovered or constructed. I have a hunch about what makes narratives powerful answers to historical questions, which emerges from a hunch I have about why history matters for knowledge. I?ll draw on recent philosophical work on contingency to construct a notion of peculiarity. I?ll suggest that narratives are particularly well suited to understanding peculiarity. Because history is often peculiar, historians often adopt narrative strategies to explain it. WHEN: 5.30PM MONDAY 19th AUGUST 2019 WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING ATTENDANCE IS FREE AND ALL ARE VERY WELCOME [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rVWyC91ZkQtXA7z0f1iQBv?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Website] Copyright ? *|2019|* *|School of HPS*, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: *|hps.admin at sydney.edu.au|* Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Abstract: Despite recent advances, safe and effective gene editing for human enhancement remains well beyond our current technological capabilities. 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. 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The negative thesis is that the "triviality results" do not support the rejection of Adams's Thesis, because Lewisian "triviality based" arguments against Adams's Thesis rest on an implausibly strong understanding of what it takes for some credal constraint to be a rational requirement (an understanding which Lewis himself later abandoned in other contexts). The positive thesis is that there is a simple (and plausible) way of modeling the probabilities of conditionals, which (a) obeys Adams's Thesis, and (b) avoids all of the existing triviality results. 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These notions are notoriously, however, deeply entangled in paradox. A standard move is to take the metalanguage to be distinct from language in question, and so avoid the paradoxes. One of the attractions of a dialetheic approach to the paradoxes of self- reference is that this move may be avoided. One may have a language with the expressive power to talk about (among other things) itself, and a theory in that language about how notions such as truth and validity for that language behave. The contradictions delivered by these notions are forthcoming, but they are quarantined by the use of a paraconsistent logic. The point of this paper is to discuss this project, the extent to which it has been successful, and the places where issues still remain. NB: Tea starts at 15:00! When: Wed 21 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/MRqTCYWL1viqoXKNc0-lzF?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/E7XVCZYM2VFLnY1DsjRMn3?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/E7XVCZYM2VFLnY1DsjRMn3?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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Humeans are skeptical of any such modal primitives. Anything that guarantees necessary connections between wholly distinct entities is metaphysically suspect. By way of reply, non-Humeans object that Humeans have no way of accounting for the regularity in the world. Both sides of the debate have powerful objections to the other side. What are we to believe? I will argue that there is a single view which can accommodate the core insights of both Humeans and non-Humeans. Instead of picking sides, we should be Humean Non-Humeans.? 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