From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Tue Oct 8 11:59:47 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 00:59:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research - Dr Nicole Vincent - FLOURISHING WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Message-ID: View this email in your browser<*|ARCHIVE|*> [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uPG2CzvOWKiAp0JVI4iRMy?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/wssbCANZvPiz3v7qF8BXp1?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Dr Nicole Vincent Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY FLOURISHING WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Emerging technologies ? e.g. autonomous vehicles, gene editing, blockchain, and smart drugs ? promise an exciting future. Before this excitement can become a reality, though, important concerns about safety, effectiveness, and equity must first be addressed. However, what's often overlooked in the midst of excitement about the promise of emerging technologies, is what Tsjalling Swierstra calls "soft impacts". I will argue that by overlooking, ignoring, and even deriding concerns about potential soft impacts, we effectively relinquish control over how we shall live our lives to the invisible hand of competition fueled by morally undirected technological progress. Technologies shape the way we interact with one another, how we think of ourselves and others, and even what things we value. Thus, if we wish to have a say over such things ? things which matter no less, though are admittedly harder to predict and evaluate, than the more-obvious "hard impacts" which we either explicitly aim to bring about, or can more easily foresee and attempt to avoid ? then we will need to pay significantly more attention to soft impacts than we currently do. To live in a world we have chosen, rather than in whatever world we inadvertently create for ourselves, we need to contemplate the full range of consequences of emerging technologies, not only those that are easy to imagine, predict, and evaluate. In order to make this task easier, in the final part of this talk I will describe a method for doing precisely that ? one which builds on an existing approach in medicine to identifying and safe-guarding against the unintended medical side-effects of medical procedures and technologies. When: Monday 14th October 2019 From 5.30pm Level 5 Function Room, Administration Building (F23) [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/SKCICBNZwLiO9gE2FN5szc?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 Oct 8 12:00:31 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 01:00:31 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research - Dr Nicole Vincent - FLOURISHING WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Message-ID: View this email in your browser<*|ARCHIVE|*> [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/S2ITC6X13RtBAnLDupzxGS?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/GLP0C71ZgLtJxOGqHWIyYq?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Dr Nicole Vincent Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY FLOURISHING WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Emerging technologies ? e.g. autonomous vehicles, gene editing, blockchain, and smart drugs ? promise an exciting future. Before this excitement can become a reality, though, important concerns about safety, effectiveness, and equity must first be addressed. However, what's often overlooked in the midst of excitement about the promise of emerging technologies, is what Tsjalling Swierstra calls "soft impacts". I will argue that by overlooking, ignoring, and even deriding concerns about potential soft impacts, we effectively relinquish control over how we shall live our lives to the invisible hand of competition fueled by morally undirected technological progress. Technologies shape the way we interact with one another, how we think of ourselves and others, and even what things we value. Thus, if we wish to have a say over such things ? things which matter no less, though are admittedly harder to predict and evaluate, than the more-obvious "hard impacts" which we either explicitly aim to bring about, or can more easily foresee and attempt to avoid ? then we will need to pay significantly more attention to soft impacts than we currently do. To live in a world we have chosen, rather than in whatever world we inadvertently create for ourselves, we need to contemplate the full range of consequences of emerging technologies, not only those that are easy to imagine, predict, and evaluate. In order to make this task easier, in the final part of this talk I will describe a method for doing precisely that ? one which builds on an existing approach in medicine to identifying and safe-guarding against the unintended medical side-effects of medical procedures and technologies. When: Monday 14th October 2019 From 5.30pm Level 5 Function Room, Administration Building (F23) [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2hAQC81Zj6tKZ7NrH2_Zgs?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... 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NB: Please note that there is no longer tea at 15:00 When: Wed 9 Oct 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/TxlqCp8AJQtBnQ6ltPgrd5?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/eviSCq7BKYto8Lw4CXLNgW?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/eviSCq7BKYto8Lw4CXLNgW?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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To reclaim the moral significance of empathy, I propose to re-think the notion of perspective-taking and suggest that moral empathy depends significantly on the virtue of epistemic humility. Bio: Katsunori Miyahara is a Post-doc Researcher at the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong. His research interest lies in understanding how our embodiment and situatedness functions in the background to shape our perception, cognition, and action. In particular, he develops the enactive approach to mind and cognition by drawing on insights from phenomenology and pragmatism. His current research focuses on two sets of issues: (i) Skill/habit ? What is the nature of the states of mind involved in skillful and/or habitual actions?; (ii) Pain ? What is the nature of pain and its relation to the body? He is also engaged in an interdisciplinary project on neurophenomenology funded by the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). 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Beethoven- The Philosophy of Music Cambridge (Fragments and Texts). Polity Press 1998 We will concentrate on chapters 1 (Prelude), 2 (Music and Concept) and 3 (Society). All welcome - for further enquiries please contact convenor A/Prof Goetz Richter (Goetz.richter at sydney.edu.au) https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/b3Q0C3Q8Z2FEpEAEhg0ewu?domain=eventbrite.com.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Wed Oct 9 15:18:18 2019 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 04:18:18 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=27Inner_West_Council_Philosophy_Talk=27=2C_?= =?utf-8?q?Cat_Moir_=28USyd=29=3A_=E2=80=9CWhat_is_utopia_and_=28why=29_do?= =?utf-8?q?_we_need_it=3F=22=2C_Thursday=2C_October_17=2C_6=3A00pm-7=3A30p?= =?utf-8?q?m=2C_Leichhardt_Library=2E?= References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: Details of the Next (and last for 2019) ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?What is utopia and (why) do we need it?? Speaker: Dr Cat Moir (Germanic Studies, University of Sydney) Abstract: What do you think of when you hear the word ?utopia?? A vision of an ideal society or perfect state of humanity? Or an impractical, unrealisable plan or big idea? Understood in the broadest sense as images of a perfect world, utopias have been around for as long as the historical record goes back. The desire to imagine a perfect state, whether here or in the hereafter, is common to many human societies. However, the term was only coined by Thomas More in 1516, whose eponymous work inaugurated a genre of political philosophy that has reverberated down the ages. The twentieth century, in particular, saw mass political movements pursue utopian goals, often with catastrophic results. Utopian thinking has, perhaps, been tainted by some of these historical failures, but does this mean there is no place for utopias today? Or do we need more, not less, imaginative thought and practice to tackle global challenges and work towards a (better) future for all? In this talk, I will explore the concept of utopia and make a case for its continued relevance in today?s world. Thursday, October 17 6:00pm - 7:30pm Free event - All welcome - Light refreshments provided (from 5:30pm) Leichhardt Library, Italian Forum Bookings online or call 9367 9266 Full details as well as registration for the event are available from this link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2eLoC81Zj6tKXKm5Inhj5k?domain=eventbrite.com.au If the event booking says that it is fully booked please still attend as many people who register do not show up on the night. BIO Dr Cat Moir is senior lecturer in Germanic studies at the University of Sydney. She is an intellectual historian focusing on the history of ideas in the German-speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her first book, Ernst Bloch?s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics (Brill, 2019) explores the thought of 20th-century utopian thinker Ernst Bloch. She has published widely on the history of utopian thinking, including a chapter on the German reception of More?s utopia in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Utopia. Upcoming talks: There will be eight talks in 2020. Details will be availably shortly. Simon Lumsden (Inner West Council philosophy talks program coordinator) Simon Lumsden | Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of New South Wales | Sydney | NSW 2052 | Australia work + 61 2 9385 2369 s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GBirC0YZWVFLkLnXi2U0CZ?domain=hal.arts.unsw.edu.au --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this paper I seek not to answer this question, but rather to highlight various alternative mereotopological options for the fetus-gestator relationship and to raise methodological concerns regarding how to adjudicate between these options. Should we be looking for evidence and data within the realm of metaphysics or the philosophy of biology? Should we be learning about pregnancy from our philosophical and scientific theories or should we update our theories based upon what we otherwise know about pregnancy? My positive suggestion will be to adopt a method of reflective equilibrium. The aim of this is to ensure that pregnancy be included in the tribunal of experience to which our theories are held up against such that our theories can accommodate what we say about pregnancy, whilst also ensuring that what we say about pregnancy be theoretically informed. When: Wed 16 Oct 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/H8H3C1WZXri9q9pWTL3Cr7?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/snEOC2xZYvC989kyT1XlyK?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/snEOC2xZYvC989kyT1XlyK?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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As part of her visit to Macquarie University as a guest of the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics, Dr Russell will be sharing her research on sexual violence and methods of feminist philosophy and legal theory including Indigenous perspectives. HDR students will be able to discuss their own research projects with Dr Russell, receive specific feedback, and share their ideas with emerging scholars working on issues related to their projects. Prior to the masterclass, Dr Russell?s new article, ?Theorizing Feminist Anti-Rape Praxis and the Problem of Resistance?, will be circulated for students to read and prepare comments and questions for discussion with Dr Russell and other HDR scholars. In this article, Dr Russell argues that "the prevention of and resistance to rape is not just about prohibitive laws that fix the iteration of the sex act and of sexed bodies, nor is it about the reconstitution of women?s bodies as ready to fight off rape. Drawing on the work of M?ori feminist scholars I argue that feminist anti-rape scholarship must look beyond the act of rape as its point of departure for resisting praxis and instead orientate itself around radical ontologies of sexuate being that offer an alternative to those through which rape culture currently proliferates" (Russell 2019). This is a small group event and spaces are limited ? register now to secure your place. Please note that this event includes the discussion of sexual violence. Speaker bio: Dr Yvette Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Feminist Theory at the University of Bristol Law School. Her research is interdisciplinary and spans the broad areas of criminal law and feminist philosophy and psychoanalysis. She has published widely in feminist, philosophical and critical legal journals on feminist theory, rape law and legal discourse. She was the 2017 recipient of the Penny Pether Law and Language Scholarship Award for her article ?Woman?s Voice/Law?s Logos: The Rape Trial and the Limits of Liberal Reform.? (2016) 42(2) Australian Feminist Law Journal 273-296. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the international law journal Feminist Legal Studies and the author (with Joanne Conaghan) of Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials: A Multidisciplinary Critique, forthcoming with Bristol University Press. For more information, see her staff biography. See you there! Warmly, Dr. Yves Aquino, MD, PhD Research Centre Administrator, Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Teaching Staff, MQ Department of Philosophy https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GRIuCk8vAZtp5QX5tVlJPU?domain=yvesaquino.com Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3wS9ClxwB5CvXZPXUygt64?domain=facebook.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I do this by invoking a similar conditional analysis about the underlying nature of causation while leaving the story about mental states unconditional. When: Thu 17 Oct 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: The Muniment Room, Main Quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JD81CROAQotzQO6Zh9BEed?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/B3piCVAGXPtRXZJQczndIP?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/B3piCVAGXPtRXZJQczndIP?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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