From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Tue May 25 11:08:07 2021 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 01:08:07 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Online Workshop: 4E Cognition and digital technologies, 9-10 June Message-ID: Dear all, I am very pleased to invite you to the following (on-line) workshop: 4E cognition and digital technologies Time and date: June 9 ? June 10, 2021 Sydney time (AEST): 16:30 ? 19:30 Amsterdam time (CET): 08:30 ? 11:30 GMT: 06:30 ? 09:30 Workshop organizers: Jelle Bruineberg & Alex Gillett Center for Agency, Value and Ethics, Macquarie University Abstracts and schedule: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M24WCL7EwMfRl4lvmiBFYEL?domain=sites.google.com > Topic of the workshop: 4E cognition holds that human cognition is deeply interwoven with social and technological environments, including digital artefacts. The interwovenness with digital technologies takes on new forms: we encounter others through digital technologies, we rely on digital technologies to find our way, we immerse ourselves with digital technologies that provide us with personalized feeds and adverts based on elaborate data profiles. Digital technologies offer a constant stream of information, continuously at our disposal. These developments open up a new and pressing set of questions about the interface between embodied agents and digital technologies. Does the omnipresence of digital technologies alter cognitive activities such as paying attention and mind-wandering? Do the dynamics of the attention economy interplay with the spread of (mis)-information? Does 4E cognition have the adequate conceptual resources to accommodate both the positive and negative effects of digital engagement on our overall cognitive abilities? Given that our relationships with technology are postulated to be partially constitutive of cognitive processing in domains related to the self, emotions, knowledge, and memory, normative questions about cognitive enhancement, cognitive deskilling and bad habits are especially pressing. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the interface of philosophy of technology, cognitive ecology, and embodied cognition to make progress on this set of questions. Structure of the workshop: The workshop will take place on Zoom during two days. Each day there will be three talks (30 min + 10 min Q&A) with a 20 minute break after the second talk. We will close each day with a plenary session. Registration: The workshop will be open to all and free of charge. Please send an e-mail to alexander.gillett at mq.edu.au to register. Talks: 4E and the dogma of harmony Jesper Aagaard ? Aarhus University (DK) Digital protest: how hashtags and emoji direct attention in the 2020 Black Lives Matters movement on Twitter Mark Alfano ? Macquarie University (AUS) Extended mind-wandering Regina Fabry ? Bochum University (DE) Jelle Bruineberg ? Macquarie University (AUS) Virtual worlds as homes? Alex Gillett ? Macquarie University (AUS) Extended mind and artifactual autobiographical memory Richard Heersmink ? LaTrobe University (AUS) Attention and distraction: two sides of one (very valuable) coin Miriam Rasch ? Willem de Kooning Academy (NL) Best wishes, Jelle Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue May 25 15:30:10 2021 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 05:30:10 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Philosophy Department Seminar (HYBRID): Stephanie Collins... @ Wed 26 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000d99a8105c320d157@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Philosophy Department Seminar (HYBRID): Stephanie Collins (ACU) The next philosophy department seminar will take place on 12 May at 3:30pm. Our speaker will be Stephanie Collins (ACU). This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend Stephanie's talk in person, you must register on Eventbrite: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KbalCwV1vMfGg8NP9UVgM2r?domain=eventbrite.com.au talk will be in the Muniment Room, in the Quadrangle. Please find more details about the talk and a Zoom link below.----------------Organisations as ObjectsStephanie Collins (ACU)Abstract: Social ontologists have thought a lot about group agency, but not a lot about group agents. This paper aims to locate organisations (one type of group agent) as material objects in the natural world. It does this by analysing the organisation-member relation in such a way that the members are the material parts of organisations, following Kathrin Koslicki's analysis of the parts of ordinary objects. This gives us two surprising results. First, an organisation is wherever its members are (even, I suggest, when the members are not playing their organisational role). Second, two organisations can each be parts of one another (seemingly challenging the idea that parthood is antisymmetric).----------------michael.nielsen at sydney.edu.au is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85713311243Or iPhone one-tap :    US: +13017158592,,85713311243# or +13126266799,,85713311243# Or Telephone:    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location)?        US: +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782     Meeting ID: 857 1331 1243    International numbers available: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/u/kTd8f6V0sOr an H.323/SIP room system:    Dial: 85713311243 at zoom.aarnet.edu.au    or SIP:85713311243 at zmau.us    or 103.122.166.55    Meeting ID: 85713311243Or Skype for Business (Lync):    https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/skype/85713311243Need help using Zoom? 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A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, and is supported by the Institute for Culture and Society, WSU. @RISK provides a platform for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists who want to engage with this topic outside of their disciplinary or institutional constraints, are already doing so, and/or, have always done so. Why is this? And at what risk to them, and the expertise of those disciplines and their professional roles, do they do so? We invite anyone who may be interested to participate as a symposium presenter, panelist, poster creator and/or podcast interviewee, and contribute your risk concerns in relation to one or more of the following interrelated themes: 1. Knowledge practices - what risks do we take with what we know and how we know it? Examples include working beyond one?s disciplinary expertise, generating un/stable facts, harnessing/rejecting the creative arts, and making reflexivity more accountable. 2. Environmental crisis - the existential risks posed not only to humans, but to the more-than-human world as a result of human action. How can we identify them and learn from them? Let alone understand and respond to them appropriately? 3. Environmental action - what risks arise from seeking to take meaningful action? Including in our institutions, amongst colleagues, and with our social and biophysical environments. For example, asserting Indigenous peoples? authority in contexts framed otherwise. 4. Technoscientific interventions - what promises, potentials and pitfalls arise from seeking action through technoscience? In such arenas as synthetic biology, assisted evolution, & climate engineering. Please find the detailed Call for Participation attached to this message. The Symposium will be held at the WSU Parramatta CBD campus, or, pending any COVID-19 restrictions, online. Virtual presentations can be pre-recorded or live. Co-conveners: Dr Josh Wodak & Dr Jessica Weir, Institute for Culture & Society, WSU Keynote Speakers: A/Prof Katerina Teaiwa (ANU) and Prof Juan Salazar (WSU) For symposium inquiries contact Daniele Fulvi: D.Fulvi at westernsydney.edu.au For podcast inquiries contact Gretchen Miller: gretchenmillermedia at gmail.com Thanks, Daniele Fulvi @RISK Symposium co-ordinator and Research Officer, Institute for Culture and Society ? Western Sydney University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology ---------------------------------------------------- I acknowledge that the land on which I live and work is stolen land. That the Darug People of the Darug Nation have never ceded their sovereignty on these lands, and that treaties are yet to be negotiated. 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