From calendar-notification at google.com Tue May 17 15:29:51 2022 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 05:29:51 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Emanuel Viebahn, "Description: The poet affirmeth: on spe... @ Wed 18 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <0000000000000be67f05df2e6edc@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Emanuel Viebahn, "Description: The poet affirmeth: on speech acts in fiction" Presented on campus in the seminar room; simulcast via Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/81657154525The poet affirmeth: on speech acts in fictionAbstract: What kinds of speech acts do authors produce in writing works of fiction? For example, what kind of speech act does Tolkien perform in writing (1)?(1)            In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.In the philosophical debate on this question, by far the two most popular answers are the pretence view and the make-believe view. 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/CN5gClx1NjioPAY7mUGE570?domain=calendar.google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/p_G5CmO5glu5PAQ28UOm2Ut?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/p_G5CmO5glu5PAQ28UOm2Ut?domain=calendar.google.com/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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Prof. Simon Lumsden (UNSW) Title Culture After the End of Nature Abstract The culture-nature division is one of the core dualisms of the Enlightenment and western modernity. In environmental thought the idea of nature as a domain independent of the human has had a powerful role in motivating what it is that environmental thought strives to value, understand and protect. It has been argued that in the Anthropocene this division is impossible to sustain, and that this ideal of nature preserves an unproductive human-nature divide. On this view all landscapes are cultured; there is no nature independent of human practices because modernity has transformed ?nature' into an environment shaped by human activity. In this paper I argue that in Australia, for the settler population, conceiving of a human-culture-in-nature is challenging if not impossible because of colonisation and the enduring legacy of the notion of culture that animates western modernity. 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URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Thu May 19 15:29:47 2022 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 05:29:47 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Jose Zalabardo, "The Meaning of Meaning Ascription" @ Wed 25 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <0000000000007cc08b05df56a9aa@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Jose Zalabardo, "The Meaning of Meaning Ascription" The Meaning of Meaning Ascriptions: Assertibility Conditions and Meaning FactsDescription:Presented on campus in the seminar room; simulcast via Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88445107980Kripke finds in Wittgenstein an argument for the conclusion that there are no meaning facts, and considers the consequences of this outcome for the meaning of meaning-ascribing sentences, such as ?Jones means addition by ?plus??. One immediate consequence is that their meaning cannot be given by their truth conditions?the states of affairs on whose obtaining their truth value depends. Kripke proposes instead that meaning ascriptions obtain their meaning from (a) their assertibility conditions and (b) the non-representational function that the practice of asserting these sentences in these conditions plays in our lives, accepting that these sentences can?t play the role of representing the world. I present a strategy for avoiding this outcome. Meaning ascriptions obtain their meanings from their assertibility conditions, but they successfully perform the function of representing the world. No other, non-representational function is part of their meaning. The states of affairs they represent can be singled out with definitions by abstraction, using the synonymy conditions generated by their assertibility conditions. When meaning facts are construed in this way, the argument that Kripke finds in Wittgenstein does not establish that they don?t exist. When: Wed 25 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/6zAQCYW8Noc3pzRzlu0NZYx?domain=calendar.google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/44-fCZY1NqiM83Z3gsj15v7?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/44-fCZY1NqiM83Z3gsj15v7?domain=calendar.google.com/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. 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The Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV) invites you to a webinar on: ALGORITHMIC BIAS IN HEALTHCARE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE When: 3:00pm-4:30pm Sydney time, Thursday, 23 June 2022 Where: Online, Zoom link will be released to registered attendees closer to the date Summary: This webinar will address a key social and ethical concern for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare: algorithmic bias, which occurs when automated decision-making results in a pattern of unfair or inequitable outcomes. In this webinar, we will present preliminary findings from our project The Algorithm Will See You Now (NMRC Ideas Grant 1181960). We held qualitative interviews with diverse professional experts involved in the development, application and regulation of healthcare AI. Our findings show that views about the nature of algorithmic bias were broadly split into two groups. In the first group, participants acknowledged that algorithmic bias exists, but did not ascribe any responsibility for this, and did not see any need to address the problem. The second group acknowledged algorithmic bias and linked it to a critical argument that recognised systemic injustice and proposed that it requires response. In this group views regarding possible mechanisms to address bias were varied, ranging from scientific and technical to social approaches. This included varied views on the role of social variables: how the social categories that underpin biased decision-making are conceptualised and operationalised. The presentation will be followed by responses from three expert panellists specialising in algorithmic bias through the lens of disability studies, data science and human rights. Event is free but please register through Eventbrite: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/IbboCXLW2mUnDPXDzS6C9Mz?domain=bit.ly For any queries, please email Dr Yves Saint James Aquino yaquino at uow.edu.au Speaker: Dr Yves Saint James Aquino, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong Panellists: ? Prof Jackie Leach Scully, Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales ? Prof Rachel Thomas, Professor of Practice (Data Scientist in Residence), Centre for Data Science, Queensland University of Technology ? Prof Edward Santow, Industry Professor (Responsible Technology), University of Technology Sydney; Australia?s Human Rights Commissioner (2016-2021) Chair: Prof Stacy Carter, Director of the Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong For bios, please check the Eventbrite page: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/IbboCXLW2mUnDPXDzS6C9Mz?domain=bit.ly. 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/oeT2CYW8Noc3pWLp4FGY0FJ?domain=yvesaquino.com Twitter: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rv3uCZY1NqiM8q58pFKL9VJ?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. 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Abstracts can be submitted for papers, panel sessions, including author meets critics and multi-author presentations, as well as for posters. The Presidential Address will be given by *Dirk Baltzly* on the topic ?The Plato Cult?. Keynote speakers: *John Sutton*, *Gillian Russell*, *Monima Chadha*, *Bryan Mukandi *and *Jessica Whyte* (winner of the 2021 Annette Baier prize). Special session on 'Writing for the Media' organised by *Sam Baron*: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/86VXCOMKzVTAZDA55sv5CBw?domain=aap.org.au -- AAP Conference Organisers Nick Munn & Joe Ulatowski, University of Waikato -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: