From john.sutton at mq.edu.au Mon Mar 14 12:08:25 2022 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 01:08:25 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Fw: book launch at TaPS Friday Research Seminar 18 March 3-5pm In-Reply-To: <45B27C52-48CC-4E60-B5F1-A44B21787F48@sydney.edu.au> References: <45B27C52-48CC-4E60-B5F1-A44B21787F48@sydney.edu.au> Message-ID: From: Glen McGillivray Sent: 14 March 2022 12:03 Subject: Re: TaPS Friday Research Seminar 18 March 3-5pm Hi all, We have a very special event this Friday. Book launch Collaborative Embodied Performance: ecologies of skill Eds: Kath Bicknell and John Sutton Join us this Friday to launch and celebrate the new edited collection, Collaborative Embodied Performance: ecologies of skill (Bloomsbury/ Methuen). This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts, social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks, Body Weather, human-AI music composition, Front-of-House at Shakespeare?s Globe, acrobatics and failing at handstands. In each investigation, performance and theory are mutually revealing, informative and captivating. The book?s editors, John Sutton (Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Macquarie University) and proud TaPS alumna Kath Bicknell (Anthropology, Macquarie University) discuss the process of bringing the book to fruition and the challenges and triumphs of transdisciplinary research. Look forward to conversations, short movies, and immersive or slightly quirky chapter introductions by contributors and commentators, including Ian Maxwell, who was instrumental in the earlier developmental phases of the book and wrote one of the afterwords. Hear about productive, curious overlaps between cognitive science and performance studies, and insights into methodical approaches for studying a range of performance practices and processes, from Kristina Br?mmer, Amy Cook, Greg Downey, Sara Kim Hjortborg, Joel Krueger, Sarah Pini, Susanne Ravn, Mike Richardson, Tom Roberts, Lyn Tribble, and more ? and Q and A time for live and zoom participants. We will be running the seminar live and on Zoom. For those wishing to attend in person, the address is: Time: 3-5.00pm AV Room John Woolley Bldg, Rm S113 Sydney University IF YOU ARE ATTENDING IN PERSON, PLEASE RSVP TO john.sutton at mq.edu.au. BY 17 MARCH. And on Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88615973911?pwd=TUwwbG9paEtXTTZQTjQ0OUdtay9OZz09 Password: 653931 For more information on the book, head to: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/collaborative-embodied-performance-9781350197718/ Or come along on Friday! Editors? bios below. Kind regards, Glen John Sutton?s research addresses memory and skill, across the cognitive sciences and the humanities. He is the author of Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism (1998), and he has coedited three previous books ? Descartes? Natural Philosophy, Embodied Cognition in Shakespeare?s Theatre and Collaborative Remembering. He seeks to integrate conceptual, experimental and ethnographic methods, and has published on memory and skill not only in philosophy and cognitive science, but also in archaeology, film, history, linguistics, literature, music, psychology and sport science. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and past President of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Kath Bicknell?s research investigates the relations between thinking, doing, performance and training. Her recent work has examined embodied cognitive processes in high-pressure scenarios like racing bikes down rock gardens in the jungle, training at height on the trapeze and navigating the day-to-day challenges of life while recovering from chronic pain. With research and teaching experience in Performance Studies (University of Sydney and the National Institute of Dramatic Art), Cognitive Science (Macquarie University) and Anthropology (Macquarie University) her work bridges the humanities and the sciences. Kath has worked as a freelance media professional since 2008 and is internationally recognised for her multiplatform work on cycling. 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However, the idea has a lot more going for it than it might at first seem, or so I shall argue.  I'll start by drawing on some of my previous work with an account of what play itself is, then build an account of playfulness on the back of that account of play. I then defend what I consider a plausible sufficient condition for a character trait's being a moral virtue. With all of these pieces in place I offer several considerations in favour of the hypothesis that playfulness as I have characterized it is indeed a moral virtue - or, more cautiously, that for most people with a basic level of moral integrity and moral competence, playfulness is a moral virtue. The playfulness of Loki and the Joker is another matter.  If time allows I will discuss what I consider the most powerful objections to this view and some possible directions for future research. 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The event will be held on Thursday, March 24 10-11:30am (Sydney time). That translates to the following times elsewhere: Singapore: Thursday, 7-8:30am Tokyo: Thursday, 8-9:30am Los Angeles: Wednesday, 4-5:30pm Mexico City: Wednesday 5-6:30pm Chicago: Wednesday, 6-7:30pm New York City: Wednesday, 7-8:30pm To receive a Zoom link, please sign up for Critical Antiquities Network announcements here. If you have already subscribed to the mailing list, you will receive the Zoom link and need not sign up again. Here is the abstract: Recent insights regarding the continuing (omni)presence of institutional sexism, and the forceful response of the MeToo movement demand that Classical scholars bring a fresh eye to the pressing issue of the representation and valuation of women in ancient sources. On first blush, Plato?s Symposium appears unpromising grounds for exploring, let along celebrating women and the feminine. Symposia are traditionally male-dominated spaces, and in Plato?s drinking part women are dismissed from performing even the minor functions for which they were typically employed ? as entertainers and courtesans. Furthermore, each of the early speakers of the dialogue offer phallocentric accounts of er?s, banishing women from the world of respectable erotics. However, Socrates crashes this ?sausage party?, granting the feminine a starring fore by offering his own encomium of love in the voice of a woman, Diotima. The conspicuous inclusion of the feminine comes to a head at 206b1-e5, in her (in)famous gambit regarding possession at 206b1-e5. This passage is striking for prominent inclusion of a panoply of distinctly feminine sexual imagery, including tiktein (?giving birth?), kuein (?pregnancy?), gennan (?bearing?), and ??dis? (?birth pangs?). In interpreting this passage, the standard scholarly move has been to read ?Plato? here to be appealing to a technical Asclepian doctrine regarding embryology that relegates women merely to receptables of male seed, systematically minimising their contribution to reproductive processes to nearly nothing. On this reading, this passage represents the apogee of the dismissal of the feminine from erotic discourse in the Symposium. Against this reading, I seek to re-establish the value, prominence, and presence of the feminine in this passage. Furthermore, I argue that the treatment of possession here represents one of the few places in the dialogues in which the feminine is given priority over the masculine. Through appealing to female sexual imagery, I establish that Diotima seeks to re-orient her audience?s conception of possession away from a male mode ? concerned with domination, instrumentality, and interchangeability ? with a feminine mode of possession ? concerned with nurturing, and allowing the objects of desire to change most basically who one is. The dramatic suggestion that i) all people are androgynous (in a way) and ii) that ta erotika demands the priority of our feminine part represent significant contributions to discourse regarding the valuation of women in Plato?s dialogues, and the Greek world more generally. We hope to see you there. Tristan and Ben Tristan Bradshaw Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | Building 19 Room 1085 University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia T +61 2 4221 3850 uow.edu.au Honorary Associate The University of Sydney School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Wollongong CRICOS: 00102E -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CAW-flyer-mar-jun-2022[2].pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 404750 bytes Desc: CAW-flyer-mar-jun-2022[2].pdf URL: From cole at uow.edu.au Wed Mar 16 14:48:06 2022 From: cole at uow.edu.au (Sally Cole) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:48:06 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Sophia Annual Public Lecture - University of Wollongong Message-ID: The School of Liberal Arts invites you to the Sophia Annual Public Lecture. To be delivered by Professor John Frow. Title: On Intergenerational Justice Date: Thursday 7 April 2022 Time: Registrations from 5.30pm. Lecture commences at 6pm. Venue: University of Wollongong, Building 67.104 RSVP: To confirm your attendance please register online by Tuesday 29 March 2022. Enquiries: sola-enquiries at uow.edu.au or ph: 4221 4160 Abstract: On Intergenerational Justice Each generation transfers a world to those who come after. We can think of this as tradition, the passing on of a culture, a language, a stock of knowledge, a way of life. The transfer can take the form of the wealth amassed during a lifetime and passed on to the next generation. Or the world that is transferred can be understood literally, as the planet earth as it has been handed on from generation to generation. That passing on can, however, take the form of an injustice: my generation is handing on a natural world degraded by pollution, climate heating and species extinction; and the transmission of wealth can act as one of the central mechanisms for the consolidation of class differences. My talk explores some of the ethical dilemmas posed by the intergenerational transfer of the world. Professor John Frow John Frow is a graduate of the ANU and Cornell University and is currently Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was formerly Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne (2004-2012), the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University (2000-2004), and Darnell Professor of English at the University of Queensland (1990-1999). He works at the boundary between literary studies and cultural studies, and his books include Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), Genre (2006/ 2015), Character and Person (2014), and On Interpretive Conflict (2019). A collection of essays, The Practice of Value, was released in 2013, and the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory is just about to be published. He is a member of numerous editorial boards, including New Literary History, Textual Practice, the Journal of Cultural Economy, and Cultural Studies Review, of which he was the editor from 2006-12, and with two colleagues he edits the series Approaches to the Novel for Oxford University Press. He is currently working on a book on theories of value. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Several authors have recently taken up the question of whether top-down effects on pain count as cognitive penetrability, and what that might show us about traditional debates. I review some of the known mechanisms for top-down modulation of pain, and suggest that it reveals an issue with a relatively neglected part of the cognitive penetrability literature. Much of the debate inherits Pylyshyn?s stark contrast between transducers and cognition proper. His distinction grew out of his running fight with the Gibsonians, and is far too strong to be defensible. I suggest that we might therefore view top-down influences on pain as a species of transducer calibration. This resolves few questions, supports nobody?s position, and makes the whole debate even messier than it was before---though hopefully in a fruitful way. 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Speaker: Purushottama Bilimoria (University of Melbourne, Australia; San Francisco State University, USA; RUDN University, Russia) Chair: Anand Vaidya (San Jos? State University, USA). Please register in advance! https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jdb1CL7EwMfRz2pRgCB6GwQ?domain=logicandreligion.com Abstract: There has been of late a wave of interest in panentheism, which is pertinent to religious philosophies of both the Western and Eastern traditions. The dominant contemporary descriptions of panentheism however appear to be biased toward theistic presuppositions ? the Missing God help, even toward monotheism! Here I offer an alternative account, paying heed to the term?s etymology, and the concept?s roots in Indian religions, with its close counterparts in pantheism and polytheism. I next turn to panpsychism and explore various approaches to this thesis, with particular reference to certain conceptual problems (such as the ?binding issue?) that have been raised in recent literature. I then draw on Indian theories to address this problem, particularly from the Vi?i?t?dvaita, S??khya and Jaina philosophical systems. The principal concern in the second part will be on the question of the kind of ? if any ? relation that can be drawn between pantheism and panpsychism: is there a necessary connection? Even so, could it be that certain forms of panentheism entail a version of panpsychism (or the converse); or, to put it another way (a thesis I will propose and defend), that panentheism without panpsychism (of a particular kind) is blind, and panpsychism without panentheism (of a particular kind) is empty. With best wishes, Francisco de Assis Mariano The University of Missouri-Columbia LARA Secretary lara at logicandreligion.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We've recently defended an answer to this question, which carries the practical implication that whether emitting and offsetting is permissible can depend on the form that the offsetting takes. If you offset by sequestering, such that you remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as you put in (for example by planting trees), then according to our view you can successfully offset. But when you offset by forestalling?preventing others from putting additional carbon into the atmosphere (for example by paying them not to emit, or providing them with more energy efficient stoves), you typically cannot. After explaining our view and considering some objections that others have presented to it, we introduce and discuss an important distinction between various harms to which your conduct can be causally related. 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