From mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au Mon Mar 2 15:20:25 2020 From: mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au (Matthew Del Nevo) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 04:20:25 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Liberation and Tradition conference invitation for papers Message-ID: <8e9598b9fbaa472282bd9f16f41190bb@cis.catholic.edu.au> CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF SYDNEY. STRATHFIELD. SYDNEY NSW BIENNIAL CONFERENCE IN PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND CULTURE 2020 "Liberation and Tradition" The theme is to be interpreted broadly and from the disciplines of philosophy, theology, Biblical studies, history, social sciences, literature and the arts. The conference specifically aims to foster interaction between scholars in the universities and scholars in theological colleges. It also encourages young scholars. Keynote Speaker: Professor Greg Craven AO, Vice-Chancellor, Australian Catholic University. DATE: Friday 25th to Saturday 26th September 2020 VENUE: Catholic Institute of Sydney, 99 Albert Rd, Strathfield NSW 2135 Proposal submission deadline 1 July 2020. For further details, contact Matthew Del Nevo at Catholic Institute of Sydney mdelnevo at cis.catholic.edu.au. Time of papers either 20-30 mins or 35-40 minutes, please choose a time. Web: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2NIvCOMxNytppyMZDCEMY4b?domain=cis.catholic.edu.au [cid:image007.jpg at 01D5F0A6.1896A1A0][P.M. 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Before this excitement can become a reality, though, concerns about safety, effectiveness, and equity must first be addressed. For instance, processing Bitcoin transactions is said to already chew up as much electricity as all of Denmark; no so-called ?smart-drugs? are currently sufficiently safe or effective to make them fit for general public use; and to avoid increasing the gap between the haves and have-nots, autonomous vehicles and gene editing technologies would need to be affordable to everyone not only to the wealthy. Consequently, much attention is currently devoted to identifying and ironing out bugs, and to making such technologies more affordable. The key thought here is that once the bugs are ironed out, these technologies should be made so affordable that everyone can use and benefit from them. However, what's often overlooked in the midst of excitement about the promise of emerging technologies, is what Tsjalling Swierstra calls "soft impacts". For instance, if sophisticated AI could extract highly accurate predictions and recommendations from vast quantities of data, might we eventually expect one another (and maybe even ourselves) to comply with AI's recommendations, and might we thus lose some freedom to make different choices? Or what if we could no longer take the car out for a spin, or hop on a motorbike, because humans were deemed way too dangerous by comparison with autonomous vehicles to let loose onto the roads ? is this something that we might come to regret? Once we eradicate all the genetic conditions that we currently fear, mightn?t we then move on to changing humans in new ways which we presently find objectionable? And if everyone could afford safe smart drugs that made them more productive and less prone to fatigue, would free market competition eventually lead everyone to use them just to remain competitive and would we all end up working even longer days? Because such unintended consequences are often more difficult to imagine, because they critically depend not just on the technology itself but also on how people use it, and because frequently it is not even clear whether those consequences would be good, bad, or just different, concerns about soft impacts tend to either be overlooked or ignored, and sometimes even derided as hysterical "scare-mongering" that rests upon unrealistic and unlikely dystopic Brave New World and GATTACA scenarios. However, 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 fuelled 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 explcitly 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 consequenes of emerging technologies, not only those that are easy to imagine, to predict, and to evaluate. In order to make this task easier, in the final part of this talk I will describe one potential method for doing precisely this ? a method which builds on an existing approach in medicine to identifying and safe-guarding against the unintended medical side-effects of medical procedures and technologies. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WHEN: MONDAY 9TH MARCH 2020 START: 5.30PM (DOORS OPEN 5PM) All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2016* *HPS, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list This email was sent to debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Unit for History and Philosophy of Science ? University of Sydney ? Sydney, NSW 2006 ? Australia [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For instance, processing Bitcoin transactions is said to already chew up as much electricity as all of Denmark; no so-called ?smart-drugs? are currently sufficiently safe or effective to make them fit for general public use; and to avoid increasing the gap between the haves and have-nots, autonomous vehicles and gene editing technologies would need to be affordable to everyone not only to the wealthy. Consequently, much attention is currently devoted to identifying and ironing out bugs, and to making such technologies more affordable. The key thought here is that once the bugs are ironed out, these technologies should be made so affordable that everyone can use and benefit from them. However, what's often overlooked in the midst of excitement about the promise of emerging technologies, is what Tsjalling Swierstra calls "soft impacts". For instance, if sophisticated AI could extract highly accurate predictions and recommendations from vast quantities of data, might we eventually expect one another (and maybe even ourselves) to comply with AI's recommendations, and might we thus lose some freedom to make different choices? Or what if we could no longer take the car out for a spin, or hop on a motorbike, because humans were deemed way too dangerous by comparison with autonomous vehicles to let loose onto the roads ? is this something that we might come to regret? Once we eradicate all the genetic conditions that we currently fear, mightn?t we then move on to changing humans in new ways which we presently find objectionable? And if everyone could afford safe smart drugs that made them more productive and less prone to fatigue, would free market competition eventually lead everyone to use them just to remain competitive and would we all end up working even longer days? Because such unintended consequences are often more difficult to imagine, because they critically depend not just on the technology itself but also on how people use it, and because frequently it is not even clear whether those consequences would be good, bad, or just different, concerns about soft impacts tend to either be overlooked or ignored, and sometimes even derided as hysterical "scare-mongering" that rests upon unrealistic and unlikely dystopic Brave New World and GATTACA scenarios. However, 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 fuelled 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 explcitly 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 consequenes of emerging technologies, not only those that are easy to imagine, to predict, and to evaluate. In order to make this task easier, in the final part of this talk I will describe one potential method for doing precisely this ? a method which builds on an existing approach in medicine to identifying and safe-guarding against the unintended medical side-effects of medical procedures and technologies. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WHEN: MONDAY 9TH MARCH 2020 START: 5.30PM (DOORS OPEN 5PM) All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2016* *HPS, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list This email was sent to debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Unit for History and Philosophy of Science ? University of Sydney ? Sydney, NSW 2006 ? Australia [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I argue that the narrative accounts contain the real content of an act of physical representation, and the category theoretic methodology serves only to make that content precise and conducive to further analysis. In particular, one can use tools from category theory to assess whether one physical formalism thus presented has more "properties", "structure", or "stuff" than another. NB: Tea at 15:15 in the Philosophy Common Room! When: Wed 4 Mar 2020 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/aI_0C4QZ1RFBBXWm5uOK-pd?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0Ir8C5QZ29FZZBKx9iOReZl?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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CONFERENCE* *Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2020.* The sixth meeting of the *Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy (BSAP) *will be held from September 1st to September 4th 2020 at Hotel Master Express Lima e Silva (also called Master Express Perimetral), Porto Alegre, Brazil. *Confirmed Key speakers:* Barry Smith (University of London) Juliet Floyd (Boston University) Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez (Universidade Estadual Paulista) N?lida Gentile (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Teresa Marques (Universitat de Barcelona) Waldomiro J. Silva Filho (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Walter Carnielli (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) The Society welcomes submissions of papers on any philosophical topic, for 20 minutes talks followed by a 10 minutes discussion in either of the official languages of the conference, Portuguese, Spanish and English. Submissions of symposia are also welcome for a maximum length of one and a half hour, discussion included. In order to submit a paper or a symposium proposal please send to the address indicated below an abstract of 500 words maximum. A description of how talks and discussions will be organized is also necessary for symposia. Please add to the submissions the following data (of all participants in the case of symposia): name, institution and e-mail. *Deadline for submissions: March 31st, 2020. * Address for submission: sbfa.sbpha at gmail.com Selection: All abstracts will be blind-refereed. Efforts will be made to include in the program quality original papers from different philosophical disciplines. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 30th, 2020. 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All best, S. -- Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson Lecturer in Logic, Epistemology, and Metaphysics Postgraduate Study Advisor Department of Philosophy Main Quad A14, University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Homepage: *https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KF7CCVAGXPtxlL9ZwuG2Fhz?domain=logicalrockpools.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Wed Mar 4 14:59:54 2020 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:59:54 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Alex Holcombe @ Thu 5 Mar 2020 15:00 - 16:30 (AEDT) (Current Projects) Message-ID: <000000000000f14dab059fff7319@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Alex Holcombe Title: Redressing imbalances in the kind of research that gets done and who gets credit for it Abstract: If we want good work to get done, we should credit those who do it. In science and philosophy, researchers are credited predominantly via authorship on publications. But many contributions to modern research are not recognized with authorship, due in part to the high bar imposed by the authorship criteria of many journals. ?Contributorship? is a more inclusive framework for indicating who did what in the work described by a paper, and many scientific journals have recently implemented versions of it. Should philosophy implement similar reforms? I will describe one scientist?s perspective (mine) on some of the reasons for and problems of contributorship in science, with some tentative comments regarding how philosophy is, and perhaps should be, done differently. When: Thu 5 Mar 2020 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/24crC2xZYvCpkJr8PIneZ0S?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0TjaC3Q8Z2FpmJ326Iq8eSe?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/0TjaC3Q8Z2FpmJ326Iq8eSe?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 will let you know if the situation changes and health risks dictate that either (a) we should cancel or (b) we should try and move to larger room to make the distance between us even larger! Also, feel free to bring your own hand sanitiser along. Best Kristie Associate Professor Kristie Miller ARC Future Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 407, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GfsfCD1jy9t5B5BkRiWHOTM?domain=kristiemiller.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Naturalizing Aesthetics: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Emotion Book Panel and Workshop Drama Studio, 10 Hadenfeld Avenue (Y3A), Room 187 Macquarie University Friday March 6, 2020 Convenors: Karen Pearlman (Macquarie) and Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie) Participants: Karin Kukkonen (Oslo), Richard Menary (Macquarie), Karen Pearlman (Macquarie), Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie), Murray Smith (University of Kent), Wyatt Moss-Wellington (Nottingham Ningbo), John Sutton (Macquarie), Julia Vassilieva (Monash) Book Panel and Symposium What can a naturalistic approach bring to the philosophy of art and film? Can a naturalist aesthetics meet the objections of sceptics and provide a robust account of art and aesthetic experience? What can naturalism offer to theorizing our emotional engagement with art and film? This event brings together philosophers and film theorists to explore the question of naturalizing aesthetics and how this might help bridge the divide between the humanities and the sciences. Murray Smith?s Film, Art and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film (Oxford: 2017) has stimulated much debate in aesthetics and philosophy of film. Alluding to C.P. Snow?s famous account of the adversarial ?two cultures? (scientific and humanistic) and advocacy of a ?third culture? combining the two, Smith argues that a naturalized approach to aesthetics has much to offer contemporary philosophical understanding of art and the philosophical theorization of film. Philosophers and film theorists will address key claims in Smith?s work on the naturalization of aesthetics and examine how this might help us advance inquiry into the aesthetics of film. Other symposium presentations will address the topic of naturalizing aesthetics from a variety of theoretical perspectives (cognitivism, phenomenology, film theory, literary theory moral psychology, and so on). Participants will explore how a naturalistic approach informs their work on art and culture but also what art and culture requires us to consider when using naturalistic approaches. Topics to be address include naturalism and aesthetics, theorising cinematic experience from a naturalistic perspective, the role of emotional engagement in evaluating cinema, and cognitive approaches to narrative and literature. Naturalising Aesthetics: Book Panel and Workshop Drama Studio 10 Hadenfeld Ave (Y3A), Room 187 10:15 Welcome and Intro 10:30 -- 12.30 Book Panel on Murray Smith's Film, Art, and the Third Culture (Oxford, 2018) David Macarthur (Sydney), Robert Sinnerbrink (MQ), Wyatt Moss-Wellington (Nottingham Ningbo) with response from Murray Smith (Kent) Lunch (self-catered) 12:30 to 2pm 2:00-4:00 Workshop on Naturalising Aesthetics Karin Kukkonen (Oslo), ?Getting Things Wrong: Form, Literature and Predictive Processing? Karen Pearlman (MQ), ?Distributed Cognition and Filmmaking Practices? Richard Menary (MQ), ?Aesthetic Niches? Murray Smith (Kent), ?Graded Consciousness, the Attentional Blink, and Film Perception? John Sutton (MQ), ?Distributed Creativity: domains, dimensions, differences? Julia Vassilieva (Monash), ?Eisenstein and naturalised aesthetics? 4:15-4:30 General wrap-up discussion and conclusion This event is generously supported by the Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University and the Centre for the History of Emotions node, Macquarie University. For further information please contact Robert Sinnerbrink: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Dr Robert Sinnerbrink Associate Professor / Former ARC Future Fellow Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Arts Level 2, The Australian Hearing Hub 16 University Avenue Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 9935 | F: +61 2 9850 9394 | robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Staff Profile Google Scholar Profile Academia Page New Books: Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher Cinematic Ethics [Macquarie University] CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. 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I suggest that bringing about an outcome counts as feasible when and because it exhibits the modal profile that is required in order to play a certain kind of special role with regard to the exercise of practical reason. In particular, I suggest that the role of feasibility is to delimit the domain of our deliberative jurisdiction: the domain within which it is correct and incorrect to engage in deliberation about what to do. An account along these lines has been hinted at elsewhere. But it hasn?t been developed in any detail. My aim is to do just that. I shall begin by outlining the account. I shall then defend it from some difficult objections. And I shall conclude by considering its implications for a number of enduring puzzles about feasibility. Nicholas Southwood is Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is also Director of the Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory at ANU and Co-Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy. His work is primarily in moral and political philosophy but also engages with related issues in epistemology, philosophy of law and philosophy of social science. He is author of two monographs, Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality (OUP, 2010) and Explaining Norms (OUP, 2013). His current research investigates the nature and proper role of feasibility in politics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tristan.bradshaw at me.com Thu Mar 5 15:53:00 2020 From: tristan.bradshaw at me.com (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 15:53:00 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Introducing: Critical Antiquities Workshop Message-ID: Dear all, On behalf of the Critical Antiquities Network at the University of Sydney, I?m pleased to announce the Critical Antiquities Workshop that will run monthly during the academic year in 2020. The workshop will host a range of local, national, and international scholars who will present working papers on the intersection of ancient traditions and contemporary critical theory broadly conceived. In our first workshop, we are delighted to host Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) who will present his paper ?Spinoza, the Epicurean.? Here are the complete details: Date: Monday, March 16th Time: Noon (for a 12:15 start)-1:45pm. Location: CCANESA Boardroom, Madsen Building on Eastern Ave (at the City Road end) University of Sydney Abstract: I present here the main argument of my new book, Spinoza, the Epicurean (2020). This book is the first to make a case for reading Spinoza as an epicurean, and especially his political philosophy in the Theological Political Treatise. I will explain how it develops an original conception of materialism in modernity. Spinoza, the Epicurean suggests a new account of practical judgment that has direct implications for how Spinoza can helps us conceive of the possibility of democracy in the age of neoliberalism. This argument is based on a new interpretation of epicureanism and its influence in early modernity. Dimitris Vardoulakis was the inaugural chair of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The Doppelg?nger: Literature?s Philosophy(2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka?s Laughter (2016), Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy(2018), and Spinoza, the Epicurean (2020). He is the director of ?Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society,? and the co-editor of the book series ?Incitements? (Edinburgh University Press). Hope to see you there, Tristan Tristan Bradshaw PhD Candidate Political Theory Northwestern University https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/L7zZCq7BKYt8OLRwpfZSc5Z?domain=polisci.northwestern.edu Assistant Project Manager Critical Theory in the Global South An Initiative of Northwestern University?s Critical Theory Cluster and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs criticaltheoryconsortium.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Thu Mar 5 18:11:34 2020 From: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au (Robert Sinnerbrink) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 07:11:34 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Naturalising Aesthetics Book Panel and Workshop, Friday March 6 Message-ID: Dear All, The following event happening tomorrow may be of interest. Naturalising Aesthetics: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Emotion Book Panel and Workshop Drama Studio, 10 Hadenfeld Avenue (Y3A), Room 187 Macquarie University Friday March 6, 2020 Convenors: Karen Pearlman (Macquarie University) and Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie) Participants: Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo), David Macarthur (University of Sydney), Richard Menary (Macquarie), Karen Pearlman (Macquarie), Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie), Murray Smith (University of Kent), Wyatt Moss-Wellington (University of Nottingham Ningbo), John Sutton (Macquarie), Julia Vassilieva (Monash University) Book Panel and Symposium What can a naturalistic approach bring to the philosophy of art and film? Can a naturalist aesthetics meet the objections of sceptics and provide a robust account of art and aesthetic experience? What can naturalism offer to theorizing our emotional engagement with art and film? This event brings together philosophers and film theorists to explore the question of naturalizing aesthetics and how this might help bridge the divide between the humanities and the sciences. Murray Smith?s Film, Art and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film (Oxford: 2017) has stimulated much debate in aesthetics and philosophy of film. Alluding to C.P. Snow?s famous account of the adversarial ?two cultures? (scientific and humanistic) and advocacy of a ?third culture? combining the two, Smith argues that a naturalized approach to aesthetics has much to offer contemporary philosophical understanding of art and the philosophical theorization of film. Philosophers and film theorists will address key claims in Smith?s work on the naturalization of aesthetics and examine how this might help us advance inquiry into the aesthetics of film. Other symposium presentations will address the topic of naturalizing aesthetics from a variety of theoretical perspectives (cognitivism, phenomenology, film theory, literary theory moral psychology, and so on). Participants will explore how a naturalistic approach informs their work on art and culture but also what art and culture requires us to consider when using naturalistic approaches. Topics to be address include naturalism and aesthetics, theorising cinematic experience from a naturalistic perspective, the role of emotional engagement in evaluating cinema, and cognitive approaches to narrative and literature. Naturalising Aesthetics: Book Panel and Workshop Drama Studio 10 Hadenfeld Ave (Y3A), Room 187 10:15 Welcome and Intro 10:30 -- 12.30 Book Panel on Murray Smith's Film, Art, and the Third Culture (Oxford, 2017): David Macarthur (Sydney), Robert Sinnerbrink (MQ), Wyatt Moss-Wellington (Nottingham Ningbo) with response from Murray Smith (Kent) Lunch (self-catered) 12:30 to 2pm 2:00-4:00 Workshop on Naturalising Aesthetics Karin Kukkonen (Oslo), ?Getting Things Wrong: Form, Literature and Predictive Processing? Karen Pearlman (MQ), ?Distributed Cognition and Filmmaking Practices? Richard Menary (MQ), ?Aesthetic Niches? Murray Smith (Kent), ?Graded Consciousness, the Attentional Blink, and Film Perception? John Sutton (MQ), ?Distributed Creativity: domains, dimensions, differences? Julia Vassilieva (Monash), ?Eisenstein and naturalised aesthetics? 4:15-4:30 General wrap-up discussion and conclusion This event is generously supported by the Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University and the Centre for the History of Emotions node, Macquarie University. For further information please contact Robert Sinnerbrink: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Dr Robert Sinnerbrink Associate Professor / Former ARC Future Fellow Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Arts Level 2, The Australian Hearing Hub 16 University Avenue Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 9935 | F: +61 2 9850 9394 | robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Staff Profile Google Scholar Profile Academia Page New Books: Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher Cinematic Ethics [Macquarie University] CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. 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Iris Murdoch and Aristotle on Virtue Iris Murdoch was a self-described Platonist, but in this paper I will draw on similarities between her theory of virtue and Aristotle?s, to bring Murdoch?s work into conversation with contemporary (neo-Aristotelian) virtue ethics and, if all goes to plan, the (meta)ethics of care. By focussing on three aspects of Murdoch?s philosophy, I hope to elucidate the ways in which her work can be positioned as a link between these two moral theories. I begin with a discussion of the role the will plays ? or doesn?t play ? in being good from Murdoch?s and Aristotle?s perspectives. I then discuss the importance of love and the central role of attention in moral life. Both Murdoch?s Platonism and her focus on the mystical can be a source of scholarly discomfort (cf Broakes 2012: Murdoch?s mysticism must be ?grounded, deflated, and rendered innocent? p. 30). Rather than ?deflate? or denude these aspects of her thought, I will try to incorporate or develop them. Murdoch?s focus on beauty in nature (and art), experiences of the sublime, and the ego-rending experience of love are all central to her view of being good. According to Murdoch, and as we find in Aristotle, being good is not established by a discrete decision made at a particular time, but in a habitual way of perceiving the real world and acting upon those perceptions. Being good is not a matter of will, but of vision. When: Thu 12 Mar 2020 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DDpXCk8vAZtOnX3POf23TQi?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tnkmClxwB5C2oPqj2F9DMHg?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. 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