From tbradshaw at uow.edu.au Mon May 23 15:54:08 2022 From: tbradshaw at uow.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 05:54:08 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop - Demetra Kasimis Message-ID: Dear all, At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are delighted to host Demetra Kasimis (UChicago) for her paper, ?The Not-So-Hidden Problem of ?Private Wives?: What Gender Has to Do with Stasis in Aristotle.? The event will be held on Wednesday, June 8 10-11:30am (Sydney time). That translates to the following times elsewhere: Singapore: Wednesday, June 8 8-9:30am Tokyo: Wednesday, June 8 9-10:30am Los Angeles: Tuesday, June 7 5-6:30pm Mexico City: Tuesday, June 7 7-8:30pm Chicago: Tuesday, June 7 7-8:30pm NYC: Tuesday, June 7 8-9:30pm To receive a Zoom link, please sign up for Critical Antiquities Network announcements here. Please note, if you have already subscribed to the mailing list, you will receive the Zoom link and need not sign up again. Abstract: Aristotle is the foremost ancient theorist of stasis and conventionally read to argue that the cause of stasis are the tensions between mass and elite (men) or democrats and oligarchs. But in the Politics, Aristotle also treats the oikos (and, with it, practices of bridal exchange and dowries) as a dynamic political institution, rather than a pre-political or natural space, that can slow or quicken stasis. My talk will look at how, in his account, relations of the oikos and specifically the exchange of women in marriage induce regime erosion and stasis. The household re-emerges on this view as a site of class struggle and breakdown in and of itself. To appreciate that Aristotle affords the gender relations that sustain the oikos a central role in matters of political economy and, for this reason, regime erosion is not to recover a critique of patriarchy in the Politics itself but rather to shift our critical attention from questions of women?s membership exclusion?where studies of gender in classical Greek thought have often focused?to the strategic role that the conjugal family form plays in managing democratic equality and stability. This different perspective throws light on the full reach of women?s subordination in sustaining and imperilling democracy as a regime. 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 | criticalantiquities.org 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 calendar-notification at google.com Tue May 24 15:30:13 2022 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 05:30:13 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Jose Zalabardo, "The Meaning of Meaning Ascription" @ Wed 25 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00 (AEST) (Seminars) Message-ID: <00000000000048f0bf05dfbb407b@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. 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Active inference under the FEP is a very ambitious form of model-based science, being applied to explain everything from neurobiological structure and function to the biology of self-organization. In this context, some find apparent discrepancies between the map (active inference models based on the FEP) and the territory (target systems) a compelling reason to defend instrumentalism about such models. We take this to be misguided. We identify an important fallacy made by those defending instrumentalism about active inference models. We call it the literalist fallacy: this is the fallacy of accepting or affirming instrumentalism based on the claim that the properties of active inference models based on the FEP do not literally map onto real-world, target systems. We conclude that a version of scientific realism about active inference models under the FEP is a live and tenable option. 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URL: From hps.admin at sydney.edu.au Wed May 25 11:55:37 2022 From: hps.admin at sydney.edu.au (HPS Admin) Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 01:55:37 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar 30th May 2022 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AtOsCROND2urR03ZXu9-ZFo?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RESEARCH SEMINAR SEMESTER ONE 2022 MONDAY 30TH MAY 2022 FROM 5:30PM Location: F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501 Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86562926806 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gQdPCVARKgCl5kpQ8HzEaki?domain=mcusercontent.com] WENDY ROGERS & JACQUELINE DALZIELL ETHICS OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: "ALL OF IT IS A PROBLEM. ALL OF IT IS GOOD AND BAD AT THE SAME TIME: Wendy Rogers, Distinguished Professor, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University Jac Dalziell, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University Abstract: In this paper, we present the results of an empirical qualitative study with members of the ARC-funded Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (CoESB). The aim of the study was to investigate scientists? views of the ethical issues they encounter doing synthetic biology. We performed 34 interviews with 31 individuals, ranging from PhD students through to Chief Investigators. Our results fall into three main areas related to ethical issues raised by (i) the products of synthetic biology; (ii) the practice of synthetic biology; and (iii) the social context of the research. Our participants articulated recognised issues such as the potential benefits of synthetic biology products and their associated risks including dual-use research of concern, escape of engineered organisms with subsequent environmental impact, and public mistrust. In addition, they described the impact of precarious academic employment on their capacity to do ?good science?; the impact of hype and industry influences; and the challenges of developing and following a research agenda to ensure that synthetic biology is harnessed to address some of the ?grand challenges? facing humanity. Our results show that current ethical analyses of synthetic biology fail to take account of the way that the science is done, shaped by factors both internal and external to the laboratory. Bio: Wendy Rogers is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy, and the School of Medicine at Macquarie University and a Chief Investigator in the ARC-funded Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology. She has broad research interests in bioethics, including research ethics, ethics of innovative technologies, organ donation, philosophy of medicine, and conflicts of interest in research and practice. As well as being widely published in specialist and generalist journals, she has made contributions to policy and ethical guidance at the state and national level, through her two terms on the Australian Health Ethics Committee. Prof. Rogers received the 2019 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ethics Award, and was included in Nature?s 10 list of ?People who matter in science? in 2019 for her work leading to retractions of unethical Chinese transplant research. Jacqueline Dalziell currently holds a post-doctoral position in the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, where she conducts bioethics/feminist science studies research in the ARC Center of Excellence in Synthetic Biology. She received her Ph.D in sociology from UNSW Sydney, in 2018. Prior to coming to Macquarie, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ARC Center of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and technology at UNSW, producing feminist science studies research. Her research merges contemporary social theory with perspectives from classical social theory. Her research interests include feminist theory, sociology of science, continental philosophy, and psychoanalytic thought. WHEN: MONDAY 30TH MAY 2022 START : 5.30PM Location: F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 1, Room 501 Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86562926806 All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2022* *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... 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