From cole at uow.edu.au Wed May 11 13:39:01 2022 From: cole at uow.edu.au (Sally Cole) Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 03:39:01 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Dr Tristan Bradshaw - Thursday 12 May, Agora Speaker Series Message-ID: The School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong invites you to attend the Agora Speaker Series Thursday 12 May, 3.30 to 5.00pm This is an in-person event at the University of Wollongong - Register here Dr Tristan Bradshaw (University of Wollongong) Aristotle and Marx: Configuring the History of the Human Animal, In and Out of Capitalism History and science make strange bedfellows. Or at least that's the view of Aristotle. And yet Marx-in one of his most famous texts-not only invokes science in the name of history, but on this basis turns to Aristotle to begin his first published analysis of capital. In this lecture, I try to account for this unlikely alliance. I suggest that there is exactly one place in Aristotle's vast corpus where he attempts a kind of 'scientific history', and that is his account of the human animal as a political animal in Politics. My reading of this famous part of Aristotle, which is admittedly unorthodox, is motivated by what I see as several persistent misinterpretations. I will attempt to correct the record and, in doing so, see how Marx's use of Aristotle evinces his critical approach to antiquity as well as capitalism. 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This talk will describe some of these ideas and compare them with a range of other, much older, ideas. Lurking at the heart of all of these ideas is the view that we are capable of shaping the world to a degree not commonly understood. WHEN: MONDAY 16TH MAY 2022 START : 5.30PM Location: F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 1, Room 501 Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86145485062 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... URL: From goetz.richter at sydney.edu.au Wed May 11 22:09:15 2022 From: goetz.richter at sydney.edu.au (Goetz Richter) Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 12:09:15 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] What is interpretation of music in performance? Message-ID: The final Musicology Colloquium presentation for the semester will be by Goetz Richter. What is interpretation of music in performance? Much confusion surrounds the nature of interpretation of music in performance. Ignoring its particular, embodied and temporal nature, we tend to regard performance as an event that can be objectively rendered in recordings or alternatively unfolds in virtual spaces. More recently we refer to performance as the object of analysis in so-called performance research. While there are some performing musicians (Sergiu Celibidache) who reject the possibility of the authenticity of recording, others (Glenn Gould) affirm recording as a privileged medium of performance. The urgency and significance of the question what the interpretation of music in performance actually is and how it takes place has been starkly highlighted by an unprecedented closure of performance and concert life over the past two years. Furthermore, endeavours to teach such interpretation of music, still a central concern of some Conservatoria, would seem to require a clear view of what it is that is supposed to be taught and what the merits of such a discipline actually are. In this paper, I develop a philosophical answer to the question of the interpretation of music in performance through Hans Georg Gadamer's discussion of the "hermeneutic consciousness" outlined in his Truth and Method. Gadamer's thinking opens a number of clear conceptual paths for any attempt to understand what modes of being, consciousness, knowledge or action are significant in this artistic activity. Following these paths we will resuscitate the case for the unique intellectual and spiritual importance of the interpretation of music in performance which seems increasingly suffocated by postmodern ideology and opportunistic higher education culture. 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When: 11am Sydney time, Tuesday 17 May Where: Online ? please register here https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/G2XwCyojxQTNLPRZOiZh2pj?domain=eventbrite.com.au ABSTRACT: The pandemic offered a novel opportunity to evaluate cognitive psychological theories about how people reason about cause and effect (for example, how viruses spread), and how they update their mental models with new information. The pandemic further revealed competing moral and normative frameworks for how society should respond to a public health threat. However, public debate about the pandemic response seemed to be conflating causal claims (e.g., how to stop the spread of the virus) with normative claims (e.g., should we stop the spread of the virus). In this talk, Dr Goldwater will present research about 1. the ?purely cognitive,? i.e., how people conceive of viral spread (and why that matters), 2. moral and normative thinking about pandemic responses, and 3. some ways to distinguish the two. This talk is presented by the Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV), School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tsN4CzvkyVCR4YA6WIXdl80?domain=uow.edu.au Best Yves -- *Dr. Yves Saint James C. Aquino, MD, PhD* He/him/his Postdoctoral Research Fellow Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values University of Wollongong, New South Wales, *Australia* Website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9323CANpgjC9EKz4pS9MFtv?domain=yvesaquino.com Twitter: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0XPJCBNqjlCV8XOjWUjD9yO?domain=twitter.com UOW Scholars Page Recent publication: Aquino, Y.S.J., Rogers, W.A., Scully, J.L. et al. Ethical Guidance for Hard Decisions: A Critical Review of Early International COVID-19 ICU Triage Guidelines. Health Care Anal (2021). https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zcrZCE8wmrtWp8NL4UQjr0d?domain=doi.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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According to the pretence view, Tolkien doesn?t in fact perform any speech act in writing (1). He merely pretends to assert that there lived a hobbit in a hole in the ground, and thus his action lacks illocutionary force altogether. On the make-believe view, Tolkien prescribes the readers to make-believe that there lived a hobbit in a hole in the ground. His action is thus similar to everyday directive speech acts, such as suggestions and requests. My first aim in this talk is to introduce examples of insincere fictional statements that challenge these two views. My second aim is to argue that the examples support the view that Tolkien?s statement is an assertion. This view has been frequently dismissed, for instance by Sir Philip Sidney in his famous remark that ?[t]he poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth?. I hope to show that the assertion view has been ruled out prematurely, and that a proper understanding of assertion in fiction allows for insights into the nature of assertion and insincere communication more generally.  When: Wed 18 May 2022 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Philosophy Seminar Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * elhulme at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/OYYJCzvkyVCR4XDZ5U4fgYO?domain=calendar.google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/I2cqCANpgjC9Ex0Xkt8Za5z?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/I2cqCANpgjC9Ex0Xkt8Za5z?domain=calendar.google.com/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Or, join us on zoom at this link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9kPjCyojxQTNLWLmWtZ7v3u?domain=macquarie.zoom.us Zoom Password: seminar Dr Thomas Corbin & Dr Alex Gillett (Macquarie University) Title Cicada hunting, distributed cognition, and skilled auditory perception Abstract There are estimated to be at least 800 undescribed cicada species in Australia today. Researching these species has obvious scientific merit within multiple sub-fields of biological science. Using a cognitive ethnography, in this paper we argue that such research is also of interest to philosophers and psychologists. Specifically, cicada hunting involves a unique form of skilled auditory perception in which there is triangulation, enumeration, and differentiation in a challenging high noise-to-signal environment. The Cicada-hunter community presents a valuable case study of ?little science? motivated and conducted by unpaid amateur enthusiasts developing skills and adapting existing technologies in unique ways. Cicadas are remarkably elusive creatures endowed by natural selection with a range of camouflaging traits and evading abilities. As such, successfully locating and catching specimens is difficult and requires extensive practice and the development of specifically tailored perception skills. Learning and mastering the patterned practices and skilled techniques involved in hunting cicadas leads to enculturated and skilled auditory perceptual capacities. We present this as a case study of distributed cognition in scientific practices. Find details of upcoming seminars on our department website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M5KhCANpgjC9EoEJoH9n6eb?domain=mq.edu.au. 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It is ranked #24 in the world and #2 in Australia and New Zealand according to the 2022 QS World University subject rankings. We offer a program that reflects a dedication to traditional philosophical pluralism, with long-standing strengths in applied ethics, social philosophy, and philosophy of mind. The Department has a commitment to diversity and inclusion with a focus on supporting women academics. It is home to the Macquarie University Centre for Agency Values and Ethics (CAVE). To learn more about the Department and CAVE click here and here. For questions, further details and how to submit an application, please contact Jane at jane.johnson at mq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: