From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 26 11:43:48 2021 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 01:43:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?Reminder_=3AHPS_Research_Seminar_26_April_20?= =?utf-8?q?21-=C2=A0Rene_Dubos=2C_the_Autochthonous_Flora=2C_and_the_Prehi?= =?utf-8?q?story_of_the_Microbiome?= Message-ID: Hi All please note the change of venue from the usual room, same building for this seminar All the best Debbie [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DpijCvl1rKi7A5NAYhQ4aWK?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) Held in conjunction with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science SEMESTER ONE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES MONDAY 26th April 2021 Rene Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Prehistory of the Microbiome PRESENTED BY: Nicolas Rasmussen, MPhil, PhD, MPH; FAHA, FAAAS Professor Emeritus, School of Humanities & Languages University of NSW ABSTRACT: Only recently characterised by high-throughput sequencing methods that enable the study of microbes without lab culture, the human ?microbiome? (the microbial flora of the gut and various other parts of the body) is said to have revolutionary implications for biology and medicine. We must now understand ourselves as ?holobionts? like lichen or coral, multispecies super-organisms that consist of animal and symbiotic microbes in symbiotic combination, because normal physiological function depends on them. In this talk I look at the 1960s research of biologist Rene Dubos, a forerunner figure mentioned in some historical accounts of the microbiome, and argue that he advanced the super-organism concept 40 years before the Human Microbiome Project was conceived. Furthermore, scientist contemporaries valued this research and understood his views. This raises the questions of why the concept was not welcomed as revolutionary at the time and why Dubos is not remembered for this contribution. 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URL: From tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 26 13:47:11 2021 From: tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:47:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?Critical_Antiquities_Workshop_-_Andr=C3=A9_L?= =?utf-8?q?aks?= Message-ID: <358104D8-0EBC-45D6-90C3-0002FB06019B@sydney.edu.au> Dear all, At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, Professor Andr? Laks (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City) will be presenting his paper, ?Actualizing Plato?s Laws.? The meeting will take place on Friday, May 7 11am-12:30pm Sydney time (that?s Thursday, May 6 9-10:30pm in the eastern US). The abstract is posted at the end of this email. To receive a Zoom link, please sign up for Critical Antiquities Network announcements here. Please note, if you have already subscribed to the mailing list, you will receive the Zoom link and need not sign up again. Best wishes, Tristan Bradshaw and Ben Brown Abstract: Plato?s last and longest dialogue is a fascinating, but little frequented work, even if progress has been made among specialists during the last 30 years or so. This is paradoxical. One cannot conceive of Aristotle Politics, of Polybius? analysis of the Roman constitution or of Cicero?s pair Republic/Laws ? not to speak about the Church Fathers and the Founding Fathers ? without referring to Plato?s Laws. For it is there that we find, for the first time, four basic concepts and principles systematically articulated in a cluster that proved to be of lasting political value: that all unaccountable power corrupts; that law should rule; that a ?mixed? constitution is the best that human beings can achieve; and that laws require a preamble. On the other hand, actual readers of the Laws, at least in the world most of us still live in, are not likely to feel much affinity with Plato?s ultimate political proposals. There is little doubt that Plato?s ?second city? accentuates rather than alleviates the most unpleasant tendencies of the Republic, and that it shows a great number of traits that are, at best, questionable, and at worst ? using an anachronistic word that is now at home in the political vocabulary ? ?totalitarian?. The question I want to discuss in my talk is how to think about the relationship between importance, influence and distancing in the case of a work that represents a fundamental benchmark in the history of political thought. But the question is of a more general nature, too. Tristan Bradshaw Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network The University of Sydney Department of Classics and Ancient History School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Office: H606, Main Quadrangle | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 406 747 955 tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au | fass.can at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Apr 27 15:29:49 2021 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 05:29:49 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Philosophy Department Seminar: Pamela Robinson (ANU) @ Wed 28 Apr 2021 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000022c2e05c0ed8d85@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Philosophy Department Seminar: Pamela Robinson (ANU) The next philosophy department seminar will take place on 28 April at 3:30pm. Our speaker will be Pamela Robinson (ANU). This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend Pamela's talk in person, you must register on Eventbrite: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gPU4Cnx1jni73qZn5S9TOMy?domain=eventbrite.com.au's limited seating, so please register quickly if you want to attend!The talk will be in the Muniment Room, in the Quadrangle. Please find more details about the talk and a Zoom link below.----------------Pamela Robinson (ANU)To What Extent Are We Left in the Dark About What to Do?Abstract: Normative internalists and externalists disagree about things like whether, if you ought to do something, it must be that you?re able to tell that you ought to do it. Normative internalism is most naturally defined in a way that requires at least some normative states to be luminous?such that, necessarily, if you?re in them then you can tell that you are. Since no interesting normative states are luminous, I propose a next best version of normative internalism. It doesn?t require luminosity, but comes close, and therefore promises to accommodate almost as many internalist intuitions. However, given plausible assumptions about anti-luminosity, it entails something radical: that the set of all normative facts is uncodifiable. In fact, this is precisely how it manages to accommodate so many internalist intuitions. And I argue that it isn?t a good reason to reject it.----------------michael.nielsen at sydney.edu.au is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 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Wilson ====================================================== The APR is seeking proposals for open peer commentaries on Nicole A Vincent and Emma A Jane - "Interrogating Incongruence: Conceptual and Normative Problems with ICD-11's and DSM-5's Diagnostic Categories for Transgender People" Proposal abstracts should be brief (100-500 words), stating clearly the aspects of the lead article that will be discussed, together with an indication of the line that will be taken. More details are available on the APR website, https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6TyJCZY1Nqi588vBQuzI7Ab?domain=aap.org.au Abstract submissions are due on *7 May 2021*. Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued on *8 June 2021*. Full-length commentaries will be due on *13 August 2021*. -- Australasian Philosophical Review australasianphilosophicalreview.org APR at aap.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: