From apr at aap.org.au Mon Apr 11 11:20:50 2022 From: apr at aap.org.au (APR Editor) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:20:50 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Reminder: Call for Proposals for Open Peer Commentaries: Australasian Philosophical Review - Dimitris Vardoulakis Message-ID: *Call for Proposals for Open Peer Commentaries: * *Australasian **Philosophical** Review* Theme: *Heidegger, Aristotle and the 'Ineffectual' * Lead Author: *Dimitris Vardoulakis* *"Toward a Critique of the Ineffectual: Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle and the Construction of an Action without Ends"* Curator: *Andrew Benjamin* Invited commentaries from: *Charlotta Weigelt, Adriel M. 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URL: From tbradshaw at uow.edu.au Mon Apr 11 16:45:13 2022 From: tbradshaw at uow.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 06:45:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop - Victoria Wohl Message-ID: <7EB4F6E4-D0F3-41ED-A4DE-FB9544BBF1F4@uow.edu.au> Dear all, Next week at the Critical Antiquities workshop, we have the great pleasure of hosting Victoria Wohl (University of Toronot) for her paper, ?Autobiography of a Daimon.? The event will be held on Wednesday, April 20 10-11:30am (Sydney time). That translates to the following times elsewhere: Singapore: Thursday, 8-9:30am Tokyo: Thursday, 9-10:30am Los Angeles: Wednesday, 5-6:30pm Mexico City: Wednesday 7-8:30pm Chicago: Wednesday, 7-8:30pm New York City: Wednesday, 8-9:30pm 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: Empedocles? Purifications begins with an exceptional statement. Greeting his fellow citizens of Acragas he proclaims ?I come to you, an immortal god, no longer mortal? (B112.4 KA). He goes on to tell of his thirty-thousand year exile as a ?daimon,? a narrative likewise recounted in the first person. This extraordinary first-person narrative invites us to read the poem as an autobiography in the root sense of the word, the written account (graph?) of the life (bios) of a self (autos). Empedocles? philosophy explodes each component of the word and scrambles the relation among them. Empedocles? cosmos is composed of four ?roots? (earth, water, fire, and air) that combine and separate continually under the alternating force of Love and Strife. This system of elemental transformation destabilizes the autos and reconfigures the metaphysical syntax of autobiography: in place of a masterful self that rises above life to write it, in Empedocles self, life, and writing coexist in a dynamic assemblage in which each is equally material and equally alive. Taking his poem as an example of what Deleuze and Guattari call a ?rhizomatic? text, my paper examines Empedocles? ?radical? experiment in materialist poetics and the paradoxes it produces. His wildly innovative poetic style, I propose, enacts the vibrant ontology of the roots as they live out their ?unstable life? (ou ?empedos ai?n, B17.11) but also indicates the limits of his materialist project, as Empedocles himself ? the author as stabilizing point of origin ? is figured as the one exception to Empedoclean ontology. 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: From tbradshaw at uow.edu.au Mon Apr 11 16:55:40 2022 From: tbradshaw at uow.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 06:55:40 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Correction - Critical Antiquities Workshop Message-ID: <3B65EDB3-164F-46DB-8BAD-B08F1D10C703@uow.edu.au> Dear all, There was an error in the previous announcement for the Critical Antiquities Workshop. Here is the correct day and time for the event: Sydney: Wednesday, April 20 10-11:30am Singapore: Wednesday, April 20 8-9:30am Tokyo: Wednesday, April 20 9-10:30am Los Angeles: Tuesday, April 19 5-6:30pm Mexico City: Tuesday, April 19 7-8:30pm Chicago: Tuesday, April 19 7-8:30pm New York City: Tuesday, April 19 8-9:30pm Apologies for that. Tristan 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... 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In Indian philosophy, the theist arguments are put forward mainly by the Ny?ya Vai?e?ika school. Only a few arguments are proposed by the Yoga Philosophers. But if there is a debate between the theist and atheist, the onus is on the theist to prove God's existence. The atheist only has to show that the arguments are not capable of proving the existence of God conclusively. This is the dominant attitude in Indian Philosophy. The C?rv?ka, the Buddhists, the Jainas, the S??khyas, and even the M?m??sakas and the Ved?ntins have put forward atheist arguments to prove the incapability of the theist arguments in proving the existence of God. In this webinar, I would try to evaluate the arguments from both sides as presented by Indian philosophers. With best wishes, Francisco de Assis Mariano The University of Missouri-Columbia LARA Secretary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thursday 14 April 2022 | 15:00-17:00 SAST | 13:00-15:00 GMT Zoom registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudeirqjgoHN23HAU16_1_DNyeeD3Wv1Uv Live: Faculty of Humanities Common Room C319, University of Johannesburg Abstract Why is it absurd to claim that you have forgotten the difference between right and wrong? The answer to this question sheds light both on the nature of moral knowledge and the nature of memory. Someone who knows the difference between right and wrong cares about what is right and wrong. Patterns of caring can change over time, but these changes cannot be characterized as forgetting. Remembering what is right and wrong involves not only semantic but also episodic and procedural memory. Bio Sven Bernecker is Humboldt Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cologne and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. His main areas of research are epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is the author of Reading Epistemology (Blackwell, 2006), The Metaphysics of Memory (Springer 2008), and Memory (OUP 2010). He is co-editor of Knowledge (OUP 2000), Companion to Epistemology (Routledge 2011), Handbook of Philosophy of Memory (Routledge 2017), Medical Knowledge in a Social World (Synthese Vol. 196, 2019), and The Epistemology of Fake News (OUP 2021). Looking forward to seeing you there, Veli --- Veli Mitova Professor and Director of ACEPS University of Johannesburg ________________________________ This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6-izCJyBrGf8B8qRJtVYiqo?domain=disclaimer.uj.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In Indian philosophy, the theist arguments are put forward mainly by the Ny?ya Vai?e?ika school. Only a few arguments are proposed by the Yoga Philosophers. But if there is a debate between the theist and atheist, the onus is on the theist to prove God's existence. The atheist only has to show that the arguments are not capable of proving the existence of God conclusively. This is the dominant attitude in Indian Philosophy. The C?rv?ka, the Buddhists, the Jainas, the S??khyas, and even the M?m??sakas and the Ved?ntins have put forward atheist arguments to prove the incapability of the theist arguments in proving the existence of God. In this webinar, I would try to evaluate the arguments from both sides as presented by Indian philosophers. With best wishes, Francisco de Assis Mariano The University of Missouri-Columbia LARA Secretary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 workshop brings together historians of ancient and early modern philosophy to examine the role of virtue in the acquisition of epistemic goods. Keynote speakers: Jacqueline Broad (Monash University) Mary Astell on Epistemic Virtue and Women?s Education: An Illusory Feminism? Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong) Three Ghosts of Virtue Epistemology ? Classical, Early Modern, Contemporary Location: This is a hybrid event The workshop will take place in person, Room N494, The Quadrangle (A14) The University of Sydney and online via Zoom. Limited places available for on-campus attendance. Please choose the on 'campus option' when you register if you wish to attend in person. For full programme and registration see: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/philosophy-workshop-april-2022/ Laura Kotevska, on behalf of the organisers Laura Kotevska, Anik Waldow, and Elena Gordon (University of Sydney) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vmitova at uj.ac.za Wed Apr 13 19:52:09 2022 From: vmitova at uj.ac.za (Mitova, Veli) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:52:09 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Change of venue: Sven Bernecker | The Memory of Morals | 14 April | ACEPS | University of Johannesburg Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Apologies for flooding your emails. Please note that we have had to make a last minute change to both the online and physical venues for this event. Professor Sven Bernecker ?The Memory of Morals? Thursday 14 April 2022 | 15:00-17:00 SAST | 13:00-15:00 GMT Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTVhZGU3YzMtODE1ZS00YmExLWE3OGItN2FmMTg5MzY5MTBj%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22fa785acd-36ef-41bc-8a94-89841327e045%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e05df517-45cb-41c4-b63e-fbd86f80927f%22%7d Live: The Conversation Conference Room, Madibeng, APK, University of Johannesburg Abstract Why is it absurd to claim that you have forgotten the difference between right and wrong? The answer to this question sheds light both on the nature of moral knowledge and the nature of memory. Someone who knows the difference between right and wrong cares about what is right and wrong. Patterns of caring can change over time, but these changes cannot be characterized as forgetting. Remembering what is right and wrong involves not only semantic but also episodic and procedural memory. Bio Sven Bernecker is Humboldt Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cologne and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. His main areas of research are epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is the author of Reading Epistemology (Blackwell, 2006), The Metaphysics of Memory (Springer 2008), and Memory (OUP 2010). He is co-editor of Knowledge (OUP 2000), Companion to Epistemology (Routledge 2011), Handbook of Philosophy of Memory (Routledge 2017), Medical Knowledge in a Social World (Synthese Vol. 196, 2019), and The Epistemology of Fake News (OUP 2021). Looking forward to seeing you there, Veli --- Veli Mitova Professor and Director of ACEPS University of Johannesburg ________________________________ This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZOHECgZ0N1ilq4kYoiNzB9e?domain=disclaimer.uj.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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