From hps.admin at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 2 11:59:54 2022 From: hps.admin at sydney.edu.au (HPS Admin) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 01:59:54 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Seminar Room 8/8/2022 at 5.30pm In-Reply-To: References: <377ed99b00666e1febb7dbbc056269515a7.20220801013705@mail148.atl171.mctxapp.net> Message-ID: *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nOCpCJyBrGf80Z4JEtVA-Ao?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RESEARCH SEMINAR SEMESTER TWO 2022 MONDAY 8th AUGUST 2022 FROM 5:30PM Location: Zoom Only Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88373972283 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/yhhdCK1DvKTq3OAo5tvb84x?domain=mcusercontent.com] TIM KEOGH CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOPATHY AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS: WHO IS GUILTY? Abstract: The seminar will examine the history and some of the pivotal contemporary research findings about psychopathy and, with reference to developments in the field of epigenetics, consider how these findings might challenge some of our previous assumptions about psychopathy. It will also address why some philosophers have suggested that the profile of psychopaths, as it has developed, might have implications about the level of moral accountability and moral agency that can be ascribed to their crimes or from another vertex to ask, when it comes to psychopathy, who is guilty? Bio: Timothy Keogh PhD is a clinical and forensic psychologist a psychoanalyst and a recent adjunct faculty member of the School of History and Philosophy of Science (University of Sydney). Other roles he holds include founding President of the Australian Forensic Psychotherapy Association (AFPA) founding President of Penthos, Project Coordinator of the Global Scientific Life Project of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), member of the IPA International Committee on Violence and Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Australian Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies (ACCP). WHEN: MONDAY 8TH AUGUST 2022 START : 5.30PM Location: Zoom only Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88373972283 All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2022* *HPS, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*]update your preferences or [*|UNSUB|*]unsubscribe from this list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kathryn.mackay at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 2 15:18:31 2022 From: kathryn.mackay at sydney.edu.au (Kathryn MacKay) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 05:18:31 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] JOBS: Level B - Bioethics - 2 Posts Message-ID: <7A666190-0306-4260-95F1-8B4BC9CFA122@sydney.edu.au> JOBS: Lecturers in Bioethics, Sydney Health Ethics Two full time, continuing positions available Opportunity to join Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney Base Salary $113,184 - $134,403 per annum + 17% superannuation Sydney Health Ethics and the Sydney School of Public Health are seeking to appoint two Lecturers in Bioethics (Level B). We seek scholars trained in bioethics or closely associated fields. You will be given the opportunity and support to grow your program of research while teaching into the Sydney Master of Bioethics Program, as well as teaching into other postgraduate degree programs in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. One Lecturer will have a substantial role in the development and delivery of ethics education in the Sydney Medical Program (MD). Scholars from all areas of bioethics are encouraged to apply, however we are specifically looking to hire one person with expertise in clinical ethics and one person with experience in empirical bioethics (who may or may not be the same person). For more information or to apply: https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/details/Lecturer-in-Bioethics_0095006 Applications close 14 August 2022 Best wishes, Kathryn Dr. Kathryn MacKay Sydney Health Ethics | School of Public Health | The University of Sydney Associate Editor, Public Health Ethics | Advisory Board Member, IJFAB Rm 133, Edward Ford Building A27 | The University of Sydney | NSW 2006 T+61 2903 63403 | M +61 402931232 Twitter: @KLMacKay I live and work on Gadigal land. Always was, always will be. 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However, an opposing view is becoming more popular--one whereby what we are in and through time depends on, and is determined by, what we take ourselves to be. This latter view is intriguing, but I will argue that it has a fatal defect?one that applies to any view (whether actual or merely potential) whereby what we are is determined by what we take ourselves to be. This defect has to do with what might constitute a ?take? on ourselves. I will argue that there is no way of construing a ?take? such that we (either individually or corporately) have a take on what we are that can do the work defenders of any take-dependent view need it to do. Thus, I will conclude that what we are is not determined by what we take ourselves to be. In this sense, we are not self-made. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/D9YdCD1vlpTBgGWBOIWKcE6?domain=calendar.google.com You are receiving this email because you are an attendee of the event. 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Speaker: Prof. Timothy O'Leary (Philosophy, UNSW) Thursday, August 11 6:00pm - 7:10pm Bookings online or call 9367 9266 Full details as well as registration for the event are available from this link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M3QsClx1Njiog3gmJsGM1CB?domain=eventbrite.com.au Bio: Timothy O?Leary is Head of the School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Sydney. Timothy has worked and studied in Ireland, Paris, Hong Kong and Australia. His main fields of study include contemporary European philosophy, ethics, politics and the philosophy of literature and art. Abstract: There are, quite simply, too many things in the world. We knew this before COVID struck, but it seems to be something that is even more obvious today. Not only do we spend most of our time producing and consuming stuff, but we have entire industries dedicated to helping us to manage and control the things we accumulate. This has always prompted some people ? especially philosophers ? to ask whether things are really necessary for our happiness; and if so, what kinds of things, how many things, and so on? But one of the effects of COVID was to force us all, as individuals and as societies, to grapple with the question of what, really, is essential for our well-being. Do we really need hairdressers? In the words of the NSW Health Minister, ?Are essential oils essential?? Is close physical contact a crucial component of human well-being? By raising these questions, COVID also gave renewed urgency to the question of how we might replace a grasping, clutching attitude with an appreciative, light touch that takes a more flexible and resilient approach to what is essential. 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Counterfactual decision theory is importantly different from, and superior to, causal decision theory. Causation and counterfactuals come apart in three kinds of cases. In cases of overdetermination, an act can cause a good outcome without the latter counterfactually depending on the former. In cases of constitution, an act can constitute a good outcome rather than causing it. In cases of determinism, either the laws or the past counterfactually depend on your act, even though your act cannot cause the laws or the past to be different. In each of these cases, it is counterfactual decision theory which gives the right verdict, and for the right reasons. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/VDuiCGv0oyCJG1M3wUK2Nov?domain=calendar.google.com You are receiving this email because you are an attendee of the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. 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ZOOM URL https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88599051681?pwd=WDQrOGdielNCckxhWEt5ZThRS1JZdz09 All welcome 9.00-10.30 Cei Maslen (Victoria University of Wellington) Causal Relativism: Dissolving the cement of the universe Over the past few years, MacFarlane has argued for a view known as ?New Relativism?. He has argued for a limited position, not a global position. E.g. he makes a strong case for the relative truth of taste claims and knowledge claims. The purpose of this paper is to investigate extending this type of relativism to another class of statements ? causal claims. Can ?c causes e? be true for me but not for you? One may be tempted to dismiss such a suggestion out of hand, as threatening the status of causation as the ?cement of the universe?. But this would be over-hasty. 10.30-12.00 Helen Beebee (Leeds University) Causation: how can experimental philosophy shed light on metaphysics? There is a burgeoning literature on the phenomenon of ?causal selection?. There is now considerable evidence that our ordinary causal judgements, as elicited in standard ex-phi surveys, select from among various candidate causes on broadly normative grounds. What light, if any, do ? and can ? such ex-phi surveys shed on the nature of causation itself? We explore this question indirectly, via asking what light ex-phi sheds, or could shed, on whether or not our ordinary concept of causation is ?egalitarian?. On the face of it, causal selection might seem to settle that question. In fact, however, things are quite a lot more complicated than this. Neither standard ex-phi methodologies for exploring our ordinary judgements nor the main explanatory focus of much ex-phi work in this area ? namely the best psychological explanation of causal selection ? are conducive to delivering much evidence concerning the ordinary concept of causation. We consider whether ? and if so, how ? experimental philosophy might deliver better evidence concerning egalitarianism. 1.00-2.30 Ant Eagle (University of Adelaide) Humeanism and Context It is widely supposed that nested counterfactuals like ?Had there been nothing but a lone electron, then had there been more electrons than one, the force between any two would have accorded with Coulomb?s law? pose a problem for Humeanism about laws. The objection, at least when raised within a broadly Lewisian framework for the evaluation of counterfactuals, requires a premise to the effect that the standards of similarity applied to the nested counterfactual are those of the closest antecedent world, not the actual world. I argue that Humeans have no reason to accept this premise, and very good reasons from similar cases involving other context-sensitive expressions to reject it. 2.30-4.00 Richard Corry (University of Tasmania) Power, Influence, and the Interaction Gap Over the last few decades, an ontology of powers has become increasingly popular among metaphysicians. According to this view, at least some properties have a powerful, or dispositional, essence, which is manifested in appropriate circumstances and remains a potentiality otherwise. Power theorists regard powers as the foundation of causal interaction, and thus claim that an ontology of powers will help us understand the philosophically perplexing notion of causation. In particular, for example, power theorists claim that an ontology of powers can shed light on how a number of causes can combine to produce an effect. Recently, however, Baltimore has argued that when it comes to understanding how powers combine there is an explanatory gap that power theorists are yet to close. He calls this the ?interaction gap?. He considers two theories of how powers combine (?contribution combination? and ?mutual manifestation?) and argues that only one of these theories has the resources to bridge the interaction gap. In this paper I argue that the interaction gap is bigger than Baltimore recognises, and show that neither contribution combination nor mutual manifestation can bridge it. I then consider a third view: the ontology of power and influence and argue that this view has the resources to fully bridge the interaction gap. 4.00-5.30 Sam Baron (Dianoia Institute, Australian Catholic University) Causation and spacetime In the mid 20th century, a group of theorems showed that much of the metric structure of general relativity could be recovered from causal structure. This led a number of philosophers to defend a causal theory of spacetime, in which spatiotemporal relations were reduced to causal relations. The causal theory met with fierce opposition by the likes of Earman and Smart, and was largely abandoned within philosophy. In physics, however, the story is different: the theorems that motivated the causal theory of spacetime were developed into two approaches to quantum gravity: causal set theory and causal dynamic triangulation. In this talk, I will return to the causal theory of spacetime in light of recent physics and show that there is a version of it that endures philosophical scrutiny. 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