From philosothon at yahoo.com Tue Jan 11 11:40:35 2022 From: philosothon at yahoo.com (Matthew Wills) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [SydPhil] Introducing the first Tertiary Ethics Olympiad References: <293823973.1208377.1641861635766.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <293823973.1208377.1641861635766@mail.yahoo.com> Ethics Bowls have been run throughout the?US tertiary sector since 1993. These events promote the development of skills?in clear and collaborative communication, critical thinking and respectful discourse while dealing with hotly contested ethical issues. The Ethics Olympiad is the same competition but in a new and less US-centric format. This year for the first time ever we will be hosting an Ethics Olympiad for Australasian Tertiary institutions. The event will be held via Zoom on the 4th of October 2022.??Graduate and Undergraduate University students?are invited to enter teams to represent their tertiary institution. Any tertiary institution can participate but there is a maximum of two teams from each institution allowed to enter. During the day all?will be involved in a series of three heats where teams will be scored according to set criteria that rewards, clear, concise, respectful discourse around interesting ethical cases. We have included one of the cases below. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be awarded to the top three teams.? | ?AAP President Professor Dirk Baltzy recently wrote about the Ethics Olympiad; " One of the things I like best about the way Ethics Olympiad?is set up is the fact that it is precisely NOT debating. Since teams are encouraged to acknowledge good arguments and to contribute collaboratively to the resolution of the question, the activity embodies the value of truth-seeking ? not a sophistic defence of a position that you yourself might not think is true. To their credit, I think the participants really get this. At a time when civil discourse in so many places has become so acrimonious, this is an important value for young people to absorb. In my limited experience, many of them are truly better in this regard than the so-called grown-ups in our societies." | 2022 Australasian University Ethics Olympiad Cases 4/10/22 Case 1 - Reporting Creepiness (See case below)Case 2 - A New Genesis Case 3 - Killer Art Case 4 - Sales from the CryptCase 5 - Trans- Rat Race Case 6 - One Hundred SecondsCase 7 - Billionaires in SpaceCase 8- The Medical Brain Drain ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Eligible participants Team members must be currently enrolled as undergraduates, in a tertiary institution in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore or Hong Kong. Each team must include a team coach. Coaches are usually but not always graduate students enrolled in the same institution. Format, Rules & Scoring The heats use the same format as the Ethics Bowl in the US. The main difference is that all groups will be running online in Zoom breakout rooms. There will be a round-robin format with different teams participating against each other. Scores will be private on the day, but we will email the final results to each coach after the event. University-based philosophers from throughout the world judge the heats throughout the day. Coaches Training Kit- Included in the kit will be the eight ethical cases, score sheets, criteria, format details and other useful information. Students kits will also be available. These will all be sent to you once your team is registered. We will also send you the Zoom link close to the day of the event.? Click here?for a printable flyer about the event. Click?here?for further details and a registration point for the 2022 University?Ethics Olympiad.https://ethicsolympiad.org/?page_id=1458 Sample Case Case 1. Reporting Creepiness Law enforcement agencies of all sorts promulgate the ?See something, say something? mantra, in an attempt to get the average citizen to become hypervigilant in watching for illegal activities. In a similar vein, many colleges and universities focus on training incoming students to report ?problematic? behaviors in order to anticipate harassment and related conduct issues. In an effort to support and provide resources to students who may be harmed by the words and actions of others, many campuses have developed bystander programming that encourages students to report any and all instances of potentially harmful behavior, especially behavior that might breach anti-discrimination legislation.? While the ideal would be for all students to feel safe and respected on campus, awareness campaigns that encourage the reporting of all unusual behaviors sometimes harm an already marginalized group of students. On some campuses, for instance, student affairs administrators have been surprised that the awareness campaigns have resulted in many reports in which students with disabilities were the main subject. Perhaps this result shouldn?t be surprising. As one student conduct administrator explained, students who identify as having certain types of disabilities are not as adept at reading social, verbal, or physical cues as students who do not so identify. Students with communication or social challenges, for instance, have sometimes found their behavior reported by their peers as ?stalkerish? or ?creepy.? Students sometimes reported classmates with disabilities for making them feel uncomfortable by excessively staring, following them after class to try to talk, or persisting in contact even though the reporting student thought they had made their discomfort clear. When asked whether they told the other student to leave them alone or to stop staring at them, the aggrieved student often reported having been uncomfortable about saying anything or having been scared of the other student. In such cases, the student affairs administrators receiving these reports had to determine how to handle the seemingly competing interests of the scared and uncomfortable students as well as those who faced social and communication challenges. Although many disabilities are visible or identifiable, many others are mostly invisible. Persons whose disabilities are mostly invisible may have some control over who knows about their disability, whereas those with identifiable disabilities, like those requiring a wheelchair, for example, do not have the same level of privacy. Persons with both identifiable and invisible disabilities frequently meet with negative affective responses from others. According to research on the aesthetics of disability, many people who do not identify as having disabilities will express ?discomfort? when confronted by someone with a disability. It could be argued that this ?discomfort? may seem similar to the feelings expressed by survivors of sexual misconduct when in the presence of someone who acts in a way they find triggering, like staring or following or just seeming to be ?creepy.?? (Case from the 2022 Tertiary Ethics Olympiad-published by APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl for the National US Championship. The Case Preparation Committee consisted of Robert Boyd Skipper (Chair), Robert A. Currie, Cynthia Jones & Heather Pease.) Matthew Wills Project LeaderEthics Olympiad Project Phone 0400029660 Email:?admin at ethicsolympiad.org ? Philosothon website:?www.ethicsolympiad.org ? Disclaimer: The information contained in this email may be private and personal or otherwise confidential. 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URL: From assismariano at ufrn.edu.br Tue Jan 11 13:27:45 2022 From: assismariano at ufrn.edu.br (FRANCISCO MARIANO) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:27:45 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] THE LOGIC OF BIBLICAL LOVE - The Logic and Religion Webinar, January 13 Message-ID: Dear Colleague, You are invited to participate in the next session of the Logic and Religion Webinar Series which will be held on January 13, 2022 at 4pm CET with the topic: THE LOGIC OF BIBLICAL LOVE Speaker: Kelly Clark (Grand Valley State University, USA) Chair: Francisco de Assis Mariano (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA) Please register in advance! https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/91r_CROND2uv6N8OQU9ZS1w?domain=logicandreligion.com Abstract: The logic of Christian love seems simple: we should love like God. Yet the abstract and eternal God of Christian tradition?for example, God as impassible and unchanging?is ill-suited to understanding human love. Moreover, the biblical texts represent God in very human terms. I argue that we should embrace these human and earthy textual metaphors when it comes to understanding human love. Through proclamation, prescription, and example, the highest form of human-human love emerges from the biblical texts: (a) God insists that we act for the good of all humans, and (b) the transformed Heart of the Lover insists on acting for the good of others. Biblical love of others is, first (but lowest), benevolence?acting for the good of others and, second (and highest), compassion--empathy-motivated self-sacrificial action. While we typically start with benevolence, God seeks to transform us into lovers that care for the oppressed and so are moved to act. Christian love, which unites the proper feelings-motives-actions, requires a thorough understanding of the proper relationship and role specific feelings, motives and actions. As such, Biblical love does not come in three or four flavors?agape, eros and philia (and/or storge)?it comes in countless flavors. Finally, and time permitting, I will situate this biblical conception of love within a broader Abrahamic context. I deconstruct the pernicious myth that Jewish Love is restricted to Israel (tribalism), Muslim Love reduces to justice (no love), but, for Christians, God is (universal and agapeic) Love. With best wishes, Francisco de Assis Mariano The University of Missouri-Columbia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laura.kotevska at sydney.edu.au Tue Jan 11 16:21:05 2022 From: laura.kotevska at sydney.edu.au (Laura Kotevska) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:21:05 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CFA: Workshop on Epistemic Virtue from the Ancient to Early Modern Period Message-ID: CFA: Workshop on Epistemic Virtue from the Ancient to Early Modern Period April 20-21, 2022 The University of Sydney The desire to satisfy our curiosity, engage in inquiry and acquire understanding are remarkable features of a human life. An individual in pursuit of moral and epistemic (intellectual) excellence seeks the truth above all else and avoids error at all costs. Such an individual is obliged to cultivate character traits and skills that help them to achieve the goal of acquiring knowledge and avoiding errors in their judgement and reasoning. What these character traits were and how they participated in the acquisition of knowledge was a widely discussed topic in early modern philosophy. Alongside these discussions, philosophers asked whether intellectual excellence was a reasonable goal for a postlapsarian individual and prescribed practices as wide-ranging as logic, mathematics, natural history, philosophy and rhetoric for their role in cultivating epistemic virtues. This conference brings together historians of ancient and early modern philosophy to examine the role of virtue in the acquisition of epistemic goods. Confirmed Speakers Jacqueline Broad (Monash University) Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney) Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong) Submission Guidelines We invite abstracts of 250 words for papers that address the topic of epistemic virtue from the ancient to early modern period. We are especially interested in papers that address the following themes: * Epistemic virtues as character traits or faculties, including a focus on particular virtues * The role of virtue in acquiring epistemic goods such as knowledge, justification and understanding * The relationship between moral and epistemic virtues * Epistemic virtue and vice * The role of the emotions in acquiring epistemic goods * The influence of social, political and theological commitments on accounts of epistemic virtue * Education and proposals for acquiring epistemic virtues, including logic, mathematics and natural philosophy However, we welcome submissions that address topics on epistemic virtue that are not listed here. Sessions will be 45mins in length with work in progress papers welcome. Submissions from PhD students or early-career researchers are especially encouraged. Please send your abstract as a PDF or word document to laura.kotevska at sydney.edu.au no later than February 05, 2022. 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URL: From richard.menary at mq.edu.au Fri Jan 14 11:40:02 2022 From: richard.menary at mq.edu.au (Richard Menary) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:40:02 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Four Year Lectureship at Macquarie University Message-ID: <9E506F51-E187-4316-A91B-E887B81C4867@mq.edu.au> Applications are open for a four year Lectureship (level B) in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University. The deadline is the 30th January and interviews will take place in the first week of February, with a start date in mid February. Given the current timelines for visa applications, we will only be able to accept applications from candidates who already have the right to work in Australia (citizens and visa holders). Applications can be made through the University job portal: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dWRbC71R2NTAgXy1Pi8UQRb?domain=mq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com from Monday 17th January. The position replaces Jane Johnson whilst she completes an ARC Future Fellowship. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the forthcoming ERA 2023 and research groups in the department. Indicative teaching duties will be selected from the following units, with some convening duties: S1 PHIL 1031 Philosophy of Human Nature PHIL 2010 Ethics, Business and Work PHIL 3041 Rights, Equity and Health S2 PHIL 1032 Happiness, Goodness and Justice PHIL3051 Contemporary Topics in Applied Ethics PHIL 3057 Theories of Justice Selection Criteria: Essential: ? PhD in a relevant area of Philosophy ? Demonstrated experience in the convening units of study ? Ability to design, co-ordinate and deliver undergraduate education in Philosophy including through online programs ? Evidence of contribution to the co-ordination of large undergraduate programs, including methods in delivering a superior student experience and engagement ? Established research track record of high-quality peer reviewed publications, including a list of publications ? Excellent communication skills, with an ability to build rapport and relate to staff and students from all backgrounds and to represent the Department to external stakeholders, including the general public ? Demonstrated capability to provide leadership and to understand and implement University policies and procedures in collaboration with University and Faculty staff Desirable: ? Teaching experience in Ethics, medical Ehtics, Political Philosophy ? Experience in the supervision of Higher Degree Research Students ? Demonstrated experience in applying and successfully securing external research funding ? Demonstrated commitment to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion More information about teaching and research in the department can be found here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/w6mRC81V0PT6G5QpJH17UXa?domain=mq.edu.au Queries should be sent to the Head of Department: Professor Richard Menary. 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