From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon Sep 2 15:58:35 2019 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 05:58:35 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] New Online Repository on Work Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. I would like to draw your attention you to the following online repository on work: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ECnICp8AJQt2vLAQFPcGfs?domain=onwork.edu.au This repository is part of the ARC-funded Discovery Project ?The Case for Work? (DP190103116). Contributions are highly welcome. If you spot a missing theme, some obvious references or authors that should be there, or indeed if you have juicy citations by philosophers on the value of work (or why it is over-valued), please let me know. I hope the web site will be useful to researchers working on issues of past, present and future work. 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AThe 2019 Sydney Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychology Postgraduate Workshop is an opportunity for postgraduate researchers to give short talks and receive feedback from both their peers and experts in empirically-informed philosophy of psychology, mind and cognition. Academics and postgraduate students from Macquarie University, The University of Sydney, The University of Wollongong and other regional institutions are invited to attend and to present their research. The retreat will take place at Pearl Beach October 11th-13th. There will be a keynote presentation by Dr Glenda Satne (UOW) on the Friday evening, followed by presentations by post-graduate students over the Friday to Sunday. There will be plenty of time to network, enjoy the beautiful setting, and make connections with others working and studying in the philosophy of psychiatry/psychology. Exact details will be included in a confirmation email once you RSVP is received. Papers for presentation will be selected on a first come, first served basis. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause but strongly encourage all to submit abstracts as soon as possible. Abstracts should be 300 words long, and include a title, and identifying information. All presentations will be twenty minutes, with ten minutes for questions. There will be a projector and computer available at the venue. Please return the attached RSVP sheet along with abstracts by the 7th September at the latest. RSVPS should be returned to gemma.smart at sydney.edu.au SydPP is jointly funded by the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University; The School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney; The School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney; and The School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong. The SydPP Postgraduate Workshop is a supportive and respectful space for intellectual discussion. We aim to facilitate productive discussion which is both challenging and considered. Aggressive or harassing behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated. SydPP recognises the traditional owners of the land, the Darkinjung people, their tribes and peoples - past, present and future. It is on their land that we hold our event. Any questions please direct to the organising team: Alex Gillett - alexander.gillett at mq.edu.au Axel Constant ? acon8307 at uni.sydney.edu.au Gemma Smart - gemma.smart at sydney.edu.au In?s Hipolito - inesh at uow.edu.au We look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, The organising team Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. When: Wed 4 Sep 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/Z-H_CyoNVrc1KX3EtZ38bx?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_oDoCzvOWKi1EgzvtXeYwp?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/_oDoCzvOWKi1EgzvtXeYwp?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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All the best, Alex A/Prof Alexandre Lefebvre Associate Dean (Student Affairs) Department of Government and International Relations, and Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY S205 Quadrangle | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 4945 Liberalism is the philosophical foundation that has underpinned most developed democracies for decades. Over the past five years, however, much of the world seems to have turned its back on the doctrine of individual rights, social equality, fairness, and rule of law. As trust in institutions plummets around the globe, liberal institutions and liberal thought are under siege from the right and the left. The rise of Trump, the Brexit vote, the resurgence of far-right parties across Europe, and indeed, recent political shifts on our own shores call us to attention. What kind of political system do we need in the 21st century, and where does the liberal vision fit in? Click here to RSVP Join us for a discussion that features Australian and international perspectives on the future of liberalism from leaders in politics, civil society, and academia. The Hon. Daniel Mookhey, Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and Shadow Minister for Finance and Small Business Dr. Amanda Tattersall, Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Sydney, and founder of The Sydney Alliance and GetUp! Professor Tim Soutphommasane, Professor of Practice at The University of Sydney, and former Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission Together, we?ll explore the current sources of dissatisfaction with liberalism, assess whether or not these are justified, and think of how we can realistically strengthen open and pluralist societies. The discussion will be moderated by Associate Professor Alexandre Lefebvre from The University of Sydney, with responses by Professor Lars T?nder, Associate Professor Anders Berg-S?rensen, and Mads Ejsing, from the Department of Political Science, The University of Copenhagen. Tuesday 17 September | 6:00pm - 8:00pm Refreshments and registration will be from 5:45pm for a 6:00pm start Location: Seminar room 203, RD Watt Building, Science Road, The University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus bit.ly/RDWattMap -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While allowing fictions to specify their own logics seems a natural extension of such science fiction, there are problems looming. Fictions are, by their very nature, incomplete. Specifying that the logic in question is classical is to embrace, amongst other things, excluded middle. But if the fictional world is incomplete, in what sense can it be part of the story that excluded middle holds? We would, in effect, be specifying that the incomplete situation described in the fiction is complete. Imposing excluded middle where it doesn?t belong leads to contradiction. These are especially pressing issues for (particular kinds of) fictionalism about mathematics. When: Thu 5 Sep 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: The Muniment Room Calendar: Current Projects Who: * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/u3fZCvl0PoC907N9cQIdMH?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GRNHCwVLQmijZG8jtqVOvt?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/GRNHCwVLQmijZG8jtqVOvt?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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While there are various ways of clarifying what it means to observe a phenomenon on a particular temporal or spatial scale, it is less clear what it means for a phenomenon to occur on one scale rather than another. Drawing on discussions of scale in ecology, I distinguish between a variety of attitudes toward scale in this ?phenomenal? sense, ranging from eliminitivism (which holds that scale should only be associated with observation, description and the like, and not with phenomena themselves) to realism (which holds that phenomenal scale should be understood independently of observation). I then assess the prospects for realist views of phenomenal scale. When: Wed 11 Sep 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * sequoiah at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/I13ZCOMxNyt84p2KiE4vjh?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/t6-7CP7yOZtwMK5xf0afBc?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/t6-7CP7yOZtwMK5xf0afBc?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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I proceed to identify three senses in which the former is inherently pluralistic. For example, it allows for a plurality of legitimate and potentially interesting epistemological projects. Finally, I argue that while there are salient affinities with Alston?s theory of epistemic desiderata, beyond a far-reaching commitment to pluralism, there are also important differences. Above all, Carnap?s methodological outlook is reconstructive in ways in which Alston?s is not. Bio: Erik J. Olsson is Professor and Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden. His areas of research include epistemology, philosophical logic, pragmatism, and, more recently, epistemological aspects of social networks and search engines like Google. His books include Against Coherence: Truth, Probability, and Justification (Oxford University Press, 2005, paperback 2008), Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Belief Revision Meets Philosophy of Science (Springer, 2011). Olsson has recently published a trilogy of journal articles (co-written with George Masterton) analysing Google?s foundational PageRank algorithm from a wisdom-of-crowds perspective. He is presently leading a research project funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences investigating Google from the perspective of personalized search, filter bubbles and polarization. [A person wearing glasses posing for the camera Description automatically generated] Speaker: Erik J. Olsson (Lund) Event Details: Tuesday, 17 September 12:30-2pm Room 209 Morven Brown Building Kensington Campus, UNSW This is a free event, all welcome. 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