From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Oct 22 15:30:13 2019 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 04:30:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Justin D'Amrosio (ANU) @ Wed 23 Oct 2019 15:30 - 17:00 (AEDT) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000a2dced0595784188@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Justin D'Amrosio (ANU) Orwellian Communication I describe a distinctive form of manipulative communication that I call Orwellian communication, and the speech act characteristic of it: pied-piping. In pied-piping, a speaker strategically chooses and utters words that are descriptively impoverished but morally valenced, and does so with the intention of getting an audience to agree with them, and so undertake a certain course of action. However, in uttering terms with these features, the pied-piper does not intend to communicate any particular proposition or range of propositions. Rather, the pied-piper exploits variation in an audience's interpretation of a term, along with audience's background evaluative commitments, in order to manufacture agreement, and so prompt action. Thus, I call the intentions involved in pied-piping purely manipulative linguistic intentions; Orwellian communication occurs when such intentions are realized. Purely manipulative linguistic intentions are essentially hidden -- recognition of these intentions by an audience prevents them from being realized. It follows that in Orwellian communication, the speaker does not speaker-mean or assert anything with her utterance. I then discuss connections between pied-piping, dog whistling, sloganeering, and various forms of propaganda. NB: Tea starts at 15:15...there will be tim tams.... When: Wed 23 Oct 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/ubDXC91ZkQtpKW2WuoMYri?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/w4pBC0YZWVFLWXmXuDAo0i?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/w4pBC0YZWVFLWXmXuDAo0i?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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This talk looks at one influential view of this, that films can be said to do philosophy in the sense of working like the thought experiments that can be found in written philosophical texts. I will argue, rather, that film as experimental in this sense enlarges the possibilities for reflecting on one?s presuppositions in the light of experience. Moreover, I?ll suggest, this points to an expanded conception of what counts as philosophical reflection itself ? to philosophy as an experimental practice of thought that transforms the thinker, and not primarily through the force of better argument, but through experiences that change how one thinks. This in turn provides a good way of thinking about the cinematic thought experiment as a form of philosophising. It is by portraying such transformative ?philosophical experiences? that films can be said to do philosophy. Bio: Chris Falzon is a Visiting Fellow in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney. 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The aim of this talk is to propose what is called ?C-theory?, which can be regarded as radical spatialization of time. Although my usage of ?C-theory? owes its genesis to McTaggart, it is closer to that used by Farr (2018) or Baron and Miller (2018) rather than McTaggart?s original usage. According to this view, there is no objective difference between time and space. Temporal direction is just a projection of our agentic perspective. This talk consists of two parts. In the first part I explicate what C-theory is. In the second part I argue that if we deny dynamic theory of time we should prefer C-theory to B-theory. When: Thu 24 Oct 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room, Main Quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/B2IpCWLJY7iWELABU6NDAL?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M1l5CXLKZoizQPxYTVi9_N?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/M1l5CXLKZoizQPxYTVi9_N?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 same, reconstructing the details of the argument ? and especially the prima facie tension between his contentions that (1) women have all the same natural capacities as men and (2) they nevertheless are ?weaker? in every respect ? has proven challenging. The talk will focus on how recent work in Greek social history can shed new light on this argument. In particular, it has become clear that women played important economic roles as skilled practitioners in various crafts outside the home. I argue that Plato?s observation of women at work in this sphere informs his proposals. In the course of his argument, Plato assumes women could be specialized physicians and musicians because they already were playing these roles, and he extrapolates as a consequence that there?s no reason they could not be guardians, too. But he also fails to recognize that the infrequency of women?s accomplishments in various fields was not a consequence of differential distribution of natural abilities, but rather a function of the fact women were asked to take on many roles, rather that given the opportunity to focus on just one career?a violation of Plato?s own principle of specialization. As a result, his proposal is less radical than it could have been. NB: Tea starts at 15:15...there will be tim tams.... When: Wed 30 Oct 2019 11:00 ? 13:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * sequoiah at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/eHQGCYWL1vi4xMoOF0OLM9?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UhCDCZYM2VFpNln2sjD-fU?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. 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URL: From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Fri Oct 25 08:43:20 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:43:20 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Series - Dr Peter Takacs -Assessing Fitness Functions in Selected Effects Accounts of Psychological Dysfunction Message-ID: 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 PETER TAKACS [cid:c6ebdb29-0dc5-46f4-8bc0-e3ee1bb99960] Assessing Fitness Functions in Selected Effects Accounts of Psychological Dysfunction Diagnosed medical disorders and pathologies?physiological, morphological, behavioral, or psychological?presume contextual impropriety or systematic dysfunction. Any such disorder accordingly implies an account of proper functioning. For etiological-historical accounts informed by evolutionary considerations (or ?selected effects accounts?), dysfunction occurs when a trait fails to perform the function whose effect on fitness was selected for in [N]ormal conditions and, thereby, explains the origin or subsequent retention of the trait. Selected effects accounts have recently been proposed for mental disorders, such as depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Two distinct approaches and seemingly inconsistent conclusions have subsequently emerged. One approach maintains that common mental disorders are objectively dysfunctional in an evolutionary sense and therefore focuses on elucidating the genetic mechanisms which maintain susceptibility. Others have argued that at least some common mental disorders might be developmental mismatches due to phenotypic plasticity and, although genuine disorders, are not dysfunctional from an evolutionary perspective. The cogency of either approach hinges on which components of fitness are maximized. I examine how the two approaches differ and whether the biological interpretations of the distinctive formal fitness functions can be reconciled. WHEN: MONDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2019 FROM: 5.30 PM WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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