From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Mon Feb 17 20:22:38 2020 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:22:38 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: 2020 ISOS essay competition for junior scholars - deadline Feb 29 Message-ID: Call for Papers ISOS Essay Competition The International Social Ontology Society (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mK5uCVAGXPtxx2wWRfG4IgI?domain=isosonline.org) is pleased to announce the third edition of its Essay Competition for junior scholars (who are either PhD-candidates or have received their PhD no longer than five years prior to the closing date of the competition). The winner will have the honor of being one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming Social Ontology 2020 conference in Neuch?tel. Moreover, the author(s) of the winning essay will receive ?500 along with their submission being published the Journal of Social Ontology (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WLfICXLKZoiXX458zsDZQyU?domain=degruyter.com). Submissions may address any issue, problem or debate within the field of social ontology. They may deal with, e.g., social facts, social action, group agency, collective intentional states, or social kinds; and they may address their topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including moral, social and political philosophy, anthropology, cognitive science, economics, history, law, political science, and psychology. Submissions will be subject to blind review, following the guidelines of Journal of Social Ontology. The essays should be submitted to the journal (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/social) and labelled as entries to the competition. Authors are asked to state their affiliation, (expected) date of receipt of their PhD and the names of their committee members in the information they provide with their submission. The closing date for receipt of submissions is 29 February 2020. Heikki Ik?heimo Senior lecturer School of Humanities and Languages/Philosophy UNSW Sydney Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia Email: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8P62CYWL1viLLD1n4CVgZPs?domain=unsw.academia.edu https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9V9wCZYM2VF5574kphx0p4d?domain=amazon.com Editor of Journal of Social Ontology: www.degruyter.com/view/j/jso Executive Board Member of the Australian Hegel Society https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aBMAC1WZXriMM6zP9T19FzF?domain=australianhegelsociety.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tristan.bradshaw at me.com Tue Feb 18 06:41:22 2020 From: tristan.bradshaw at me.com (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:41:22 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] TODAY: Bonnie Honig at Usyd Message-ID: Dear all, The Critical Antiquities Network at the University of Sydney is pleased to announce its inaugural public lecture. TODAY, 2:30pm: Professor Bonnie Honig ?The Body Politics of Refusal: the Bacchae and the Antigone, with Cavarero? Seminar room 203, RD Watt Building, Science Rd, The University of Sydney The event is free and all are welcome. For further details (abstract, speakers, time and location) please click here or here. Best wishes, Tristan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au Fri Feb 21 09:53:32 2020 From: s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au (Simon Lumsden) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:53:32 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=27Inner_West_Council_Philosophy_Talk=27=2C_?= =?utf-8?q?Michaelis_Michael_=28UNSW=29=3A_=E2=80=9CThe_Intertwined_histor?= =?utf-8?q?ies_of_Medicine_and_Philosophical_reflections_on_Knowledge=3A_H?= =?utf-8?q?ow_Big_Data_might_just_wreck_the_boat=E2=80=9D=2C_Thursday=2C_F?= =?utf-8?q?ebruary_27=2C_6=3A00pm-7=3A10pm=2C_Leichhardt_Library=2E?= References: <8DDC2F6D-4FD1-48C1-A2E9-51C3F5E4DCF3@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <4CA82742-7E5A-4357-B012-E92579508E7E@unsw.edu.au> Details of the Next ?Inner West Council Philosophy Talk" Title: ?The Intertwined histories of Medicine and Philosophical reflections on Knowledge: How Big Data might just wreck the boat? Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Michaelis Michael (Philosophy, UNSW) Abstract: I?ll contrast different ways of engaging with knowledge. I caricature these as the scientific, the engineering and the business models. Medicine has a vexed and complicated history in relation to knowledge claims since it aims at a product like engineering not understanding as such. I'll argue that various techniques being used today are threatening to change the goals of science to make them closer to those of the engineering and business models. Big Data techniques are changing science in this direction. These changes involve a reshaping of the very nature of scientific research and threaten to undermine the crucial critical role science has played by moving research away from the central goal of facilitating understanding by discovery of truth.? Thursday, February 27 6:00pm - 7:10pm Free event - All welcome - Light refreshments provided (from 5:40pm) Bookings online or call 9367 9266 Full details as well as registration for the event are available from this link: https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/explore/whats-on#/details/26916 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 Michaelis Michael is associate professor of philosophy at UNSW. His research focuses on metaphysics and the philosophy of science. He is the author of many publications in these areas. He is the author of Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap, CRC Press, 2015. Upcoming talks: ?Can Things Make Us Happy? Ancient Perspectives from China and Greece?, Thursday April 2, 6.00 ? 7.10 pm: Leichhardt Library, Timothy O'Leary (UNSW) ? Post-work society as an oxymoron ? Thursday May 7, 6.00 ? 7.10 pm: Leichhardt Library, Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie) ?Title TBA", Thursday June 18, 6.00 ? 7.10 pm: Leichhardt Library, Luara Ferracioli (U Sydney) 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/heIGCk8vAZtOO3OmDf23rN2?domain=hal.arts.unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From administrativeofficer at aap.org.au Fri Feb 21 14:38:24 2020 From: administrativeofficer at aap.org.au (Chris Lawless) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:08:24 +1030 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?Reminder=3A_AAP_Media_Professionals=27_Award?= =?utf-8?q?_=E2=80=93_Entries_Close_Next_Friday_28th_Feb?= Message-ID: *AAP Media Professionals' Award ? 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The prize will be awarded at the annual Alan Saunders Lecture which takes place as part of the annual AAP conference in July. This Prize is sponsored by Taylor and Francis, publisher of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and the Australasian Philosophical Review. *Applications* The AAP invites entries/nominations for media work from *journalists and other media professionals* based in Australasia published in *2019*. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. The AAP Media Professionals' Award is offered no more than once each year, and may not be made every year. The closing date for entries is *February 28, 2020 at 6pm AEDT*. Please note: late entries will not be accepted. Entries should be *submitted online* through the form available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ajZ6CD1jy9t55r8RGuWmW9x?domain=aap.org.au Further information about the AAP Media Prize, including conditions of entry, can be found on the same page. 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The aims of the prize are to encourage professionals developing and improving their teaching portfolios to consider critically how philosophy is presented, and to be innovative in implementing practices of teaching that off-set well-known disparities of participation in the discipline, for instance along race and gender lines. The prize will be awarded at the opening of the annual AAP conference in July. This Prize is sponsored by Taylor and Francis, publisher of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and the Australasian Philosophical Review. *Criteria of evaluation* ? Significant innovation in curriculum that successfully promotes equity and diversity within the discipline, particularly with respect to underrepresented or marginalised groups in the profession. ? Innovation in pedagogy that successfully promotes broader participation in the discipline. ? Adoption of strategies for engaging with real-world issues and justice in the classroom. ? 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