From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Tue May 4 08:57:27 2021 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 22:57:27 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar - Transitions in the Evolution of Cognition Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/OJ-yCwV1vMfGV6ONKiVD6A7?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE in conjunction with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES SEMESTER ONE 2021 TRANSITIONS IN THE EVOLUTION OF COGNITION presented by Andrew B. Barron Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Flj4CxngwOf1R8GXkCvLpJq?domain=mcusercontent.com] Recent findings in comparative cognition seem to have confused rather than clarified our understanding of the evolution of cognition. In a world of algebraic bees and smart slime moulds is there any pattern to the evolution of cognitive capacity? Maynard Smith and Szathmary famously provided a framework for understanding the grand scheme of biological evolution by positing a few major transitions - such as the origins of chromosomes and multicellular life ? which enabled radically different forms of life, new evolutionary options and increased evolvability. Here we propose that the evolution of cognition can also be comprehended as a series of transitions: each transition being a qualitative change in the structure of information flow within systems. These transitions transformed the scope of cognitive capacities. Here we present each transition in terms of system organization. We discuss the consequences of this perspective for our understanding of the evolution of cognition and the diversity of animal intelligences. WHERE: LEVEL 5 FUNCTION ROOM F23 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WHEN: MONDAY 10TH MAY 2021 START: FROM 5.00PM ZOOM: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/skype/84669477906 It is a requirement of our COVID safe plan that if attending in person please RSVP to hps.admin at sydney.edu.au 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... URL: From tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au Wed May 5 21:58:35 2021 From: tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 11:58:35 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?Critical_Antiquities_Workshop_-_Andr=C3=A9_L?= =?utf-8?q?aks?= Message-ID: <12B9361F-4DAC-4BF0-8AA0-EDC100FB832C@sydney.edu.au> Dear all, Just a reminder that Professor Andr? Laks (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City) will be presenting his paper, ?Actualizing Plato?s Laws? at the next Critical Antiquities Workshop. 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 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... 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