From tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 23 10:44:42 2021 From: tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:44:42 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop - Book Launch of 'Old Schools' by Ramsey McGlazer Message-ID: <72034F46-5C11-45FC-B904-4DD28FC7B6EA@sydney.edu.au> Dear all, At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are pleased to be launching the book Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020) by Ramsey McGlazer, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Ramsey?s book, which won the American Association for Italian Studies First Book Prize in 2021, traces a certain vein of thinking in a diverse range of authors (including Giovanni Pascoli and James Joyce) and filmmakers (Pier Paulo Pasolini and Glauber Rocha) that calls for a return to and repurposing of ?old school? teaching methods?e.g., pre-modern Latin instruction?in order to enable individual and social transformation. This already celebrated book will be of interest to anyone concerned about education, what it is, what and who it is for, and how classical (and Classical) teaching methods are implicated in these issues. In addition to Ramsey, we will be joined by two distinguished commentators: Associate Professor Anne Rogerson (Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney) and Associate Professor Samir Haddad (Philosophy, Fordham University). The focus of discussion will be the introduction, chapter 2 (on Giovanni Pascoli) and chapter 5 (on Glauber Rocha) from Ramsey?s book. Please note, PDFs of these chapters will be circulated to registered participants prior to the event. The event will take place on Friday, September 3 at 10am (Sydney time). That translates to the following times elsewhere: Tokyo: Friday, 9am-10:30am Singapore: Friday, 8am-9:30am Los Angeles: Thursday, 5-6:30pm Mexico City: Thursday, 7-8:30pm New York City: Thursday, 8-9:30pm 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. We hope to see you there. 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This ?which? question is important partly because it is concerned with solving practical problems: asking which mental disorders are natural kinds helps clarify which of our current diagnoses are trustworthy, and which might need radical revision. It also switches focus from abstract theorising about a philosophical term-of-art to some interesting questions at the intersect of philosophy and psychiatry. For example, how can stable kinds of mental disorder crystallise out of complex interactions between biology, psychology, and society? and, what would a natural kind of mental disorder actually look like? In this talk I argue that specific phobia is psychiatry?s best bet at a natural kind of mental disorder. I claim that specific phobia springs from a broad type of fear dysregulation and I put forward a general account of phobia that employs a mixture of biological, psychological, and social causal factors. If phobia is a natural kind, it is one pitched at a higher explanatory level than genes and brain circuits. By sketching specific phobia as a natural kind I aim to address the questions above, and to demonstrate how natural kind concepts can help us make sense of mental illness. Finally, I think specific phobia shows how a scientific program of psychiatry ? an attempt to understand, investigate, and treat mental distress using the techniques of science and medicine ? can go right. Whether it will go right in general is unclear. Perhaps specific phobia is a special case. WHEN: MONDAY 30TH AUGUST 2021 START: 5.00PM Meeting URL: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88205073216 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<*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*> or unsubscribe from this list<*|UNSUB|*> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The basic idea is this: an event causes another just in case there is a causal model that is uninformative on both events and in which the first event makes a difference as to the occurrence of the other. We show that our analysis captures more causal scenarios than the other counterfactual accounts to date.----------------------Michael Nielsen is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 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If you would like to join and receive e-mails about the reading group, please send a reply to this e-mail and I?ll put you on the mailing list. Description In this reading group, we will explore three questions: first, how does attention structure our engagement with narratives? Second, how does the active participation in narrative practices influence attentional processes? Finally, how do attention and narrative engagement shape our sense of self? In order to address these questions, we will discuss papers from philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and cognitive narratology. Meetings Fortnightly meetings on Wednesdays, 08:00 AM Central European Time/16:00 Sydney time. From November, the meetings will be held 08AM CET and 18PM Sydney. 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This talk examines the ambitions and achievements of early modern French mathematicians. By considering the mathematical and philosophical outputs of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Leibniz, and Arnauld, the talk provides an overview of the various goals of mathematical inquiry in seventeenth-century France. I argue that Descartes, Pascal and, to some extent, Leibniz are mistaken examples of the view that the mathematical developments achieved by these practitioners were pursued for their moral and epistemic lessons. Instead, I argue that Antoine Arnauld's Nouveaux ?l?ments de g?om?trie constitutes a better example of the use of mathematics to serve propaedeutic goals. All are welcome to participate. Please find below instructions on how to register for anyone interested to attend. In order to participate in Agora Speaker Series events, you will be required to register here, you will receive an email confirming your registration. ? Prior to the event, registered participants will be contacted with further information, including the Access Code for the Webinar. ? Please note that our team will be using Zoom to host this webinar and - if you do not already have Zoom installed it is advised, though not necessary, that you download the software to your device. ? This webinar is scheduled to be recorded and will be uploaded to UOW owned websites and/or platforms, noting that the Q&A session may be edited for privacy reasons. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this, please contact us at sola-enquiries at uow.edu.au ? The session chair will explain any additional rules and expected norms of engagement to participants at the outset of sessions. 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When: Thursday, 7th October and Friday, 8th October (AEST) Where: All sessions will take place via Zoom, please register to receive the links. Keynote Speaker: Prof Joseph Kupfer (Iowa State University) Joseph Kupfer is Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University and has published a number of books exploring ethics and the virtues in cinema, including Virtue and Vice in Popular Film (2021), Feminist Ethics in Film: Reconfiguring Care through Cinema (2012) and Visions Of Virtue In Popular Film (1999). Thursday, 7 October 2pm Welcome 2.15-3.00pm Sylvie Magerstaedt and John Lippitt - Great Detective versus humble policeman - intellectual virtues and social vices in Endeavour (2012-) 3.15-4pm Lucia Oriana - Exploring a protagonist's 'virtue exhibition' and the jurisprudence of international law that can lead to a virtuous life in Official Secrets (2019) 4.15-5pm Marcus Schneider - Selfhood in The Lobster: Authenticity as vice Friday, 8 October 10-11am Keynote: Joseph Kupfer - The Calamity of Vanity in Young Adult 11.15-12.00 James Franklin - How to Sell the Virtue of Restraint: Casablanca 12-1pm LUNCH BREAK 1-1.45 Samuel Kaldas - Rooting for the Devil: Breaking Bad and the Philosophical Value of Vicious Protagonists 2-2.45pm Susan Hopkins and Geoff Parkes - From Showgirls to Hustlers: What can Films about Strippers teach us about Virtue and Vice in Neoliberal times To register, please click on the following link https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/p7BuCXLW2mUX1KjznF6wdAo?domain=docs.google.com or send an email to screeningvirtues at gmail.com Best wishes Sylvie ______________________ Dr Sylvie Magerstaedt, FHEA Senior Lecturer in Film and Media School of Arts and Sciences University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. 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