From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Sep 14 15:29:46 2021 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 05:29:46 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Philosophy Seminar: Rachael Brown (ANU) @ Wed 15 Sept 2021 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <000000000000a5fcaf05cbedde98@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Philosophy Seminar: Rachael Brown (ANU) The next philosophy department seminar will take place on 15 September at 3:30pm on Zoom. The speaker will be Rachael Brown (ANU). Please find more details about the talk and the Zoom link below.----------Innovation: A multidimensional analysisRachael BrownAbstract.  Transformations in the ?behavioural innovativeness? of species ? broadly, the capacity to generate new or novel behaviours (Reader & Laland 2003) ? are often associated with significant evolutionary shifts in cognition (Arbilly and Laland 2017). Whilst this assumption is intuitively and theoretically appealing, more empirical support is needed to test it adequately. Such empirical work is currently hampered by the lack of a good measure of the magnitude behavioural innovation in the literature. In this paper I offer a solution to this measurement problem via a multi-dimensional framework for characterising and comparing putative cases of behavioural innovativeness. Using a paradigmatic case from the New Caledonian Crow as a guide, I identify several dimensions upon which a cases of behavioural innovation vary. I then demonstrate how we can use this multidimensional analysis in forwarding our understanding of the relationship between evolutionary transformations in innovation and evolutionary transformations in cognition.----------Michael Nielsen is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 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Title: Between the European zoo and the Australian bush: Solving the riddle of the kangaroo birth (1826-1926) Presenter: Oliver Hochadel (Instituci?n Mil? y Fontanals de Investigaci?n en Humanidades, Barcelona) Time/Date: 5 pm (AEST) Wednesday 15 September Zoom link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lwX9C5QPXJiZlpBmNHza_1M?domain=unimelb.zoom.us Password: 883037 Abstract: How do kangaroos actually give birth? Or asked differently: how does the little joey get into the pouch? This question was much discussed by naturalists in Europe, Australia and beyond between 1826, when Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire raised the issue in a paper, and 1926, when Ellis Troughton published a "definite" account of the debate. In its first part this paper will look at the research conducted at the European zoo. The advent of kangaroos to Europe since around 1790 made it possible, at least in principle, to tackle the riddle through observation. In the early 1830s Richard Owen enlisted the London zoo to devise a research program. He claimed that the mother put the tiny embryo into the pouch using her lips. Naturalists in other European zoos were eager to confirm Owen's hypothesis. In its second part this paper will contrast the European zoo-based investigations with the observations made by zoo directors, naturalists, hunters and farmers in Australia. Around 1900 the riddle of the kangaroo birth had become a question much debated in the Australian public sphere. A new theory proposed by August Goerling claimed that the joey travelled by itself into the pouch. The riddle of the kangaroo birth allows to address a number of overarching questions: How were observations validated in different sites such as the zoo and the bush? How did the information on kangaroo reproduction circulate (or not) between different continents? What were the epistemological hierarchies between metropolitan and colonial science and how did they affect the production of knowledge? Bio: Oliver Hochadel is a historian of science and since 2012 a tenured researcher at the Instituci? Mil? i Fontanals for research in the humanities (CSIC, Barcelona). Most recently he worked on the urban history of science and would like to write a global history of zoos in the long nineteenth century. 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Register here Ian Robertson (University of Wollongong) A microworld of good: habit, the meaning of life, and coffee (as the meaning of life) Great philosophers of mind and psychologists alike often conceive of habits as highly mechanistic and near-automatic responses to environmental cues that unfold outside of our deliberative control. In other words, our habitual actions are dull, reflexive responses to the world, almost wholly devoid of situational context. So construed, habits are not only unintelligent, but are often in head on collision with our intellectual pursuits. In this talk, I seek to undermine such a conception of our habitual behaviours, and to suggest that it threatens to obscure a vital role that habits play in structuring the meaningful aspects of our lives. Focusing my criticism especially on Simone De Beauvoir's (1970) claim that habit formation more often than not precludes the pursuance of meaning, I argue that habits are always to some extent context-sensitive and flexible, and (following Dreyfus and Kelly 2011) flesh out how they are an important conduit to discovering meaning. 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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UNSW Philosophy Seminar, September 28, 12.30-2pm on Zoom In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: UNSW Philosophy Seminar 28th September, 12.30-2pm, on Zoom Plato Tse (National Chengchi University, Taiwan): 'Freedom as a Theoretical Principle in Fichte?s System of Ethics' Abstract In Part II of The System of Ethics (1798), which contains the deduction of the applicability of the principle of morality, Fichte characterizes freedom as a theoretical principle. Not only does he thereby conceive the principle of morality as both theoretical and practical, he even goes so far as to say that the law of freedom as a practical law is only a continuation of the same law of freedom as a theoretical principle. I argue that this would stand in contrast to Fichte?s doctrine of the primacy of the practical reason, if the transition from the first to the fifth theorem in Part II was understood as a chain of transcendental arguments invoking material conditional relations. To avoid the conflict, they must be understood as biconditionals. Based on this conviction, I reconstruct and explain Fichte?s arguments in Part II whereby he moves from the self-ascription of a power of freedom to the ascription of causal efficacy to objects. The deduction of the applicability of the principle of morality has a twofold upshot given the actuality of self-consciousness: on the one hand, practical freedom cannot be conceived without perception of a sensible world containing causally efficacious objects; on the other hand, if the doctrine of the primacy of the practical is to be preserved, perception of a sensible world must also be taken to imply the rational agent?s causal efficacy in the sensible world. About the presenter: Plato Tse is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He received his PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2018. His research interests include Classical German Philosophy, Transcendental Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics. His work focuses mainly on Kant and the post-Kantian philosophers. Currently, he is also the chief investigator of a research project on Metaphysical Idealism funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan. [cid:e297cfb5-707f-428c-9412-8e64e52243e6] 28th September 2021 [cid:1c2cb3db-6f76-43ad-89e9-5bb4667a4209] 12:30pm to 2pm [cid:5c7f84d7-2f99-47bd-8f9d-d4f3f7d1553e] Zoom Zoom link here [Read more] Enquiries: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 570 bytes Desc: image.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please find more details about the talk and the Zoom link below.-----------What does it mean to have a gender identity?Anca GheausAbstract. Claims about gender identity are at the core of heated current philosophical and political debates. Yet, it is unclear what it means to have one. I examine several ways of understanding this concept, in light of features that trans writers and activists seem to attribute to it: The concept should, ideally, make good trans people?s claims concerning their own gender identities, the claim that people have privileged access to their gender identities and, possibly the claim that we all have a gender identity. Further, to be helpful with current debates, an account of gender identity should admit that misgendering is a form of serious harm, and that it is permissible for states, and maybe other agents, to require information about people?s gender identities. I conclude that, when speakers make statements about their, or others?, gender identities, we lack a plausible interpretation that satisfies the above criteria. But, I argue, we can, and should, pursue the feminist project without appealing to ?gender identity?; feminism thus understood need not exclude trans people. I offer an account of the specific harm of misgendering which doesn?t assume that people have a claim to have their gender identities recognised, and argue that we should evaluate trans people?s claims to inclusion into particular spaces separately, based on their individual merits.-----------Michael Nielsen is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89674021372Or iPhone one-tap :    US: +13126266799,,89674021372# or +13462487799,,89674021372# Or Telephone:    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location)?        US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 301 715 8592     Meeting ID: 896 7402 1372    International numbers available: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/u/kkVbIqSQROr an H.323/SIP room system:    Dial: 89674021372@@zmau.us    or SIP:89674021372 at zmau.us    or 103.122.166.55    Meeting ID: 89674021372Or Skype for Business (Lync):    https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/skype/89674021372Need help using Zoom? Visit the Zoom Help Center: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0efdCQnMBZfkRAqBxfxuNi5?domain=support.zoom.us When: Wed 22 Sept 2021 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89674021372 Calendar: Seminars Who: * man4060 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M5DKCROND2uvOmlnViNCYTw?domain=calendar.google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wGdBCVARKgCxZwK0vsyTbqz?domain=calendar.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. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wGdBCVARKgCxZwK0vsyTbqz?domain=calendar.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. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/IBRSCWLVXkU549Yzkfna_SE?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lukefisch at gmail.com Sun Sep 19 14:14:32 2021 From: lukefisch at gmail.com (Luke Fischer) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:14:32 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] =?utf-8?q?=28Online=29_International_Workshop=3A_German?= =?utf-8?q?_Poetry_and_Philosophy=3A_H=C3=B6lderlin=2C_Rilke=2C_Cel?= =?utf-8?q?an?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, The (online) international workshop '*German Poetry and Philosophy: H?lderlin, Rilke, Celan*' will be taking place all day on *Thursday 30 September*. Attendance is free and open to anyone interested in the topics. Please register (via Eventbrite) to receive the Zoom link. Links to the program and registration page can be found below. Best regards, Luke Fischer and Dalia Nassar International Workshop: German Poetry & Philosophy: H?lderlin, Rilke, Celan School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry *Department of Philosophy* [image: The University of Sydney] [image: German Poetry and Philosophy workshop] *International Workshop | German Poetry and Philosophy: H?lderlin, Rilke, Celan* *Thursday 30 September 2021 | Online | 8:50am-5:30pm AEST* *Hosted by the Goethe-Institut, Sydney, and the University of Sydney* This international workshop will explore the relationship between poetry and philosophy by focusing on three German-language poets whose work spans the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Friedrich H?lderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Celan. H?lderlin is recognized as a major poet of the Romantic era and a key figure in the development of post-Kantian philosophy. Only belatedly recognized for his genius, H?lderlin also played a crucial role in the developments of twentieth-century poetry (including Rilke) and philosophy (Heidegger and Adorno, among others). Rilke has been one of the most influential and widely translated European poets and an important interlocutor for Continental philosophers, particularly within the traditions of phenomenology, existentialism and hermeneutics (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, among others). Celan is one of the defining figures of post-WWII German-language poetry and has been central to philosophical attempts to address the Holocaust (including interpretations by Adorno and Derrida). Click here for full program Registration Attendance is free and open to anyone interested in the topics of the workshop. Registration via Eventbrite is essential. 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