From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 26 14:15:19 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 04:15:19 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?HPS_Research_Seminar_-_=E2=80=9CFrom_the_rat?= =?utf-8?q?ional_soul_to_human_cognitive_uniqueness=3A_Psychology=E2=80=99?= =?utf-8?q?s_ambiguous_response_to_evolution=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: View this email in your browser<*|ARCHIVE|*> [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-_SRCANZvPiXQ8KOFG8hVs?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 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jSTnCBNZwLirGyXKi6z5vq?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] PROFESSOR CARRIE FIGDOR DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF IOWA ?From the rational soul to human cognitive uniqueness: Psychology?s ambiguous response to evolution? Psychology began as the part of philosophy concerning the soul. Scientific psychology is still struggling to abandon this historical legacy. I will explain the multiple ways in which psychology remains unjustifiably anthropocentric. I will also review and defend the empirical developments bringing about a scientific psychology that is fully consistent with basic evolutionary principles When: Monday 2nd September 2019 From 5.30pm Level 5 Function Room, Administration Building (F23) [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/iXr2CD1jy9tz9yLAfA5e3j?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? You can update your preferences<*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*> or unsubscribe from this list<*|UNSUB|*>. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 27 12:28:07 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 02:28:07 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?9th_Sept_HPS_Seminar_-_Professor_Giora_Hon_-?= =?utf-8?q?James_Clerk_Maxwell=E2=80=99s_Methodological_Odyssey_in_Electro?= =?utf-8?q?magnetism=3A_A_Philosophical_Perspective?= Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8cDyC91ZkQtXBY63Uoq9AV?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 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/FZL2C0YZWVF53r9ohDVRjw?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] PROFESSOR GIORA HON UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA James Clerk Maxwell?s Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism: A Philosophical Perspective Einstein (1931): ?The greatest alteration in the axiomatic basis of physics?in our conception of the structure of reality?since the foundation of theoretical physics by Newton, originated in the researches of Faraday and Maxwell on electromagnetic phenomena.... Since Maxwell?s time Physical Reality has been thought of as represented by continuous fields, governed by partial differential equations, and not capable of any mechanical interpretation. This change in the conception of Reality is the most profound and fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.? We ask, then, What was Maxwell?s key to this fundamental change in the conception of Physical Reality? By following closely the trajectory of Maxwell?s several contributions to electromagnetism, which we characterize as an odyssey, we uncover one fundamental aspect of this success?innovative methodologies. When: Monday 9th September 2019 From 5.30pm Level 5 Function Room, Administration Building (F23) [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0gyLCgZowLHR2Yj0U2uRXN?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Website] Copyright ? *|2019|* *|School of HPS*, All rights reserved. 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Aug 27 15:29:47 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:29:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Martin Lin (Rutgers) @ Wed 28 Aug 2019 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <0000000000008afba30591128fe3@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Martin Lin (Rutgers) Leibniz on the Grounds of Possibility The actual world, according to Leibniz, is just one of many possible worlds that God considers when deciding to create. He chooses this one because it is the best and a perfectly wise and benevolent agent necessarily chooses the best. But how can there be nonactual possible worlds if the actual world is such that it is necessarily created by a necessary being? Throughout his career Leibniz grappled with this question, resulting in a rich and fascinating theory of modality. In this paper, I consider the question of the grounds of possibility in Leibniz. In many texts, he says that possibility is grounded in ideas in the divine mind. I argue, however, that, for Leibniz, this is not the ultimate ground of possibility because the source of the content of God's ideas lies in the divine attributes. ND: Tea starts at 15:00! When: Wed 28 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/miLxCK1qJZtNnpvxCMVvGj?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/p5PBCL7rK8tr18pMsqsJdT?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/p5PBCL7rK8tr18pMsqsJdT?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. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DbztCMwvLQT1Zm0VhJTjsF?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdorahy13 at gmail.com Wed Aug 28 10:29:24 2019 From: jdorahy13 at gmail.com (J Dorahy) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:29:24 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] CFP - Sydney Thesis Eleven Conference Nov. 26th-27th 2019 Message-ID: <5d65cb25.1c69fb81.152ff.2356@mx.google.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Thesis Eleven Sydney Conference Modernity: Past, Present, Future Modernity is nothing if not dynamic: mutating as it traverses national boundaries, liquid to the brink of self-negation within them. As such, we moderns find ourselves in the grip of a constantly shifting field of ?forces,? ?logics? and ?tensions.? The object of our study and the horizon of our lives ? modernity itself ? by its very nature prompts us, once more, to pause and take stock. To ask: who are we, from where have we come, and to where are we going? Organised in honour of Agnes Heller (1929-2019), with a keynote address from Professor Fu Qilin (Sichuan University), China?s preeminent authority on Heller?s work, this conference seeks to bring together those working within the arts, social sciences and humanities to reflect on these issues and think again the past, present and future of modernity. 26th-27th November 2019 Woolley Common Room ? John Woolley Building (A20) The University of Sydney, Camperdown/Darlington Campus Abstracts and/or titles should be sent to: Prof. Peter Morgan Director, European Studies? School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts The University of Sydney -- Dr. James F. Dorahy The Budapest School: Beyond Marxism.? Vol. 23 Social and Critical Theory. 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As such, we moderns find ourselves in the grip of a constantly shifting field of ?forces,? ?logics? and ?tensions.?? The object of our study and the horizon of our lives ? modernity itself ? by its very nature prompts us, once more, to pause and take stock.? To ask: who are we, from where have we come, and to where are we going?? Organised in honour of Agnes Heller (1929-2019), with a keynote address from Professor Fu Qilin (Sichuan University), China?s preeminent authority on Heller?s work, this conference seeks to bring together those working within the arts, social sciences and humanities to reflect on these issues and think again the past, present and future of modernity. 26th-27th November 2019 Woolley Common Room ? John Woolley Building (A20) The University of Sydney, Camperdown/Darlington Campus Abstracts and/or titles should be sent to: Prof. Peter Morgan Director, European Studies? School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts The University of Sydney peter.morgan at sydney.edu.au -- Dr. James F. Dorahy The Budapest School: Beyond Marxism.? Vol. 23 Social and Critical Theory. Brill. 2019.? https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wr9CCmOxDQt3OoD4IGRecC?domain=brill.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You ought to do your part, they say, because (i) all such problems are triggering cases, in which there is a threshold number of people such that the outcome would be worse if at least that many people acted in a given way than if fewer did, and (ii) doing your part in a triggering case maximizes expected value. I show that both claims are false, for reasons previously unnoticed: Some triggering cases cannot be solved by appeal to expected value, since they involve infinities, and some collective action problems are not triggering cases, since they involve parity. I then show that consequentialists can give principled responses to both problems, first by moderating their ambitions and aiming to solve only realistic collective action problems, and second by adopting Prospectism as a theory of decision-making under parity. 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