From apal2923 at mail.usyd.edu.au Mon Sep 8 08:43:05 2008 From: apal2923 at mail.usyd.edu.au (apal2923@mail.usyd.edu.au) Date: Mon Sep 8 08:43:10 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] Russellian Society Drinks (5 pm Manning Bar, 9th September) Message-ID: <1220827385.48c458f92a17f@www-mail.usyd.edu.au> Hi! Just a reminder that the Russellian Society drinks will be on tomorrow (9th September) at Manning Bar (5 pm). Again, everyone's welcome, no entry fee and you should be able to find us congregating around a tray filled with jugs of beer (probably on the balcony). Thanks, Abhijit ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From dbm at mail.usyd.edu.au Mon Sep 8 11:12:17 2008 From: dbm at mail.usyd.edu.au (David Braddon-Mitchell) Date: Mon Sep 8 11:12:26 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar THIS WED moral behaviour Message-ID: <1096C00C-5533-44DB-95D1-B999E3C31987@mail.usyd.edu.au> Dear all This Wed, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) at 3.30 in The Refectory: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors If philosophical moral reflection improves moral behavior, then one might expect professional ethicists to behave especially well. Unfortunately, there are no published empirical studies of the moral behavior of ethics professors. I have several studies in progress on the question, with the following results so far: (1.) The majority of philosophers do not believe that ethicists behave, on average, better than non-ethicists of similar social background. (2.) Ethics books are actually more likely to be missing from academic libraries than non-ethics philosophy books of comparable age and popularity, and the result holds both for widely-known classics and for the obscure professional monographs likely to be borrowed only by professors and advanced students of philosophy. (3.) Ethicists and political philosophers are no more likely to vote in public elections than are other professors, though political scientists are more likely to vote. (4.) Although philosophy students are among the most generous in giving to student charities at University of Zurich, their rates of giving do not increase over the course of their education, with increased exposure to philosophical ethics. However, it is not easy to sustain the view that philosophical moral reflection is behaviorally inert without giving up one or another of several plausible or appealing normative or empirical theses. All welcome Talk by Eric for graduate students, honours students and interested others to introduce the topic at 2PM in the philosophy common room -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/pipermail/sydphil/attachments/20080908/7f28b999/attachment.html From dbm at mail.usyd.edu.au Mon Sep 8 14:33:06 2008 From: dbm at mail.usyd.edu.au (dbm@mail.usyd.edu.au) Date: Mon Sep 8 14:33:16 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] Eldred NOT Schwitzgebel This Wed! Message-ID: <1220848386.48c4ab020586b@www-mail.usyd.edu.au> Dear All This Wednesday at 3.30 PM in The refectory Michael Eldred will be speaking to us about "Hiedegger's Question concerning Technology" At 2PM in the common room the pre-talk for all interested will take place. Please not that it is Michael Eldred this Wed, not Eric Schwitzgebel as previously announced. Prof Schwitzgebel will be speaking to us on Wed 5 Nov. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From dbm at mail.usyd.edu.au Mon Sep 8 16:53:08 2008 From: dbm at mail.usyd.edu.au (David Braddon-Mitchell) Date: Mon Sep 8 16:53:18 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] Seminar by Stephen Gauckroger in History series Message-ID: <1E5C8367-713E-42F0-8E5B-957CE1FAEC0E@mail.usyd.edu.au> Dear All, A forthcoming seminar in the History dept by Stephen Gauckroger of interest to philosophers: HISTORY SEMINAR Next Monday (15 September) 12.10-1.30 in the Kevin Lee Room, Level 6, Lobby H, Main Quad Stephen Gaukroger (Department of Philosophy): The Acad?mie des Sciences and the Republic of Letters: Fontenelle's Role in the Shaping of a new Natural-Philosophical Persona, 1699-1734. From goju_sydney at hotmail.com Wed Sep 10 13:14:08 2008 From: goju_sydney at hotmail.com (Adrian Tan) Date: Wed Sep 10 13:14:17 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] Philosophy Circle: Twilight of the Idols Message-ID: Next discussion group 6.15pm (for a 6.30pm start), Thursday 10 September 2008 TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS Discussion of themes from Nietzsche's book. Location: members bar, floor 1 (keep winding up to the top of the stairs), The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, Sydney (100 metres from a Central railway station exit). Look for a group of people with notepads and books who are taking it in turns to speak. Usually we'll be armed with the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and a bell. Probably we'll be ***out on the terrace***. No cost. No prerequisite reading. All welcome! Regards, Adrian _________________________________________________________________ It's simple! Sell your car for just $40 at CarPoint.com.au http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/pipermail/sydphil/attachments/20080910/5d8ab3c0/attachment.html From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Thu Sep 11 09:48:59 2008 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Thu Sep 11 09:49:08 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] Current Projects Mark Jago - Vagueness Message-ID: <125466.68491.qm@web54502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Greetings all, This coming Monday, 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room, Mark Jago from Macquarie University will talk to us about "the modal account of vagueness" Abstract This talk is about some recent attempts to give a new way of thinking about vagueness in the world. The idea is a story about ontic vagueness which looks a lot like supervaluationism: there's a number of admissible ways to sharpen up any vague matter, none of which are any better than the others, so what's true (simpliciter) is what's true according to each sharpening. According to the ontic account, it's the world (rather than our language) that gets sharpened. The sharpenings are themselves worlds, and so vagueness-talk ends up looking a lot like talk about possibility and necessity. I don't think these modal accounts of vagueness work. I'll go through several proposed modal accounts of vagueness and show that each falls short of the mark. See you all there.... Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: kristie_miller@yahoo.com Email: kmiller@usyd.edu.au Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html From furedy at psych.utoronto.ca Fri Sep 12 03:21:33 2008 From: furedy at psych.utoronto.ca (John Furedy) Date: Thu Sep 11 10:23:25 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] Current Projects Mark Jago - Vagueness References: <125466.68491.qm@web54502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <007401c91432$d6c2c9e0$0301010a@JJCFthink> Kristie, I'll try to make it to this one, which looks interesting in content, and may give me an idea of the general format. All the best, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristie Miller" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:48 PM Subject: [SydPhil] Current Projects Mark Jago - Vagueness > Greetings all, > > This coming Monday, 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room, Mark Jago > from Macquarie University will talk to us about "the modal account of > vagueness" > > Abstract > > This talk is about some recent attempts to give a new way of thinking > about vagueness in the world. The idea is a story about ontic > vagueness which looks a lot like supervaluationism: there's a number > of admissible ways to sharpen up any vague matter, none of which are > any better than the others, so what's true (simpliciter) is what's > true according to each sharpening. According to the ontic account, > it's the world (rather than our language) that gets sharpened. The > sharpenings are themselves worlds, and so vagueness-talk ends up > looking a lot like talk about possibility and necessity. I don't think > these modal accounts of vagueness work. I'll go through several > proposed modal accounts of vagueness and show that each falls short of > the mark. > > See you all there.... > > > > Dr. Kristie Miller > Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow > School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and > The Centre for Time > The University of Sydney > Sydney, Australia > > Room 411, A18 > Email: kristie_miller@yahoo.com > Email: kmiller@usyd.edu.au > Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 > Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 > http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html > _______________________________________________ > SydPhil mailing list > SydPhil@arts.usyd.edu.au > List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil > > NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/sydphil@arts.usyd.edu.au/ > From lcan9239 at mail.usyd.edu.au Thu Sep 11 10:46:04 2008 From: lcan9239 at mail.usyd.edu.au (lcan9239@mail.usyd.edu.au) Date: Thu Sep 11 10:46:10 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <007401c91432$d6c2c9e0$0301010a@JJCFthink> References: <125466.68491.qm@web54502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <007401c91432$d6c2c9e0$0301010a@JJCFthink> Message-ID: <1221093964.48c86a4cbe154@www-mail.usyd.edu.au> please remove me from this mailing list thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From huw at mail.usyd.edu.au Thu Sep 11 10:57:05 2008 From: huw at mail.usyd.edu.au (Huw Price) Date: Thu Sep 11 10:57:14 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] How to unsubscribe Message-ID: Please note that the way to unsubscribe from this list is to use the web interface on the list info page: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil Please don't ask the list administrators to unsubscribe you, and in particular, PLEASE don't try to reach them by sending a message to -- that address goes to the entire list. Many thanks Huw & Brad On 9/11/08, lcan9239@mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: > please remove me from this mailing list > thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > _______________________________________________ > SydPhil mailing list > SydPhil@arts.usyd.edu.au > List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil > > NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/sydphil@arts.usyd.edu.au/ > From Cynthia.Townley at scmp.mq.edu.au Thu Sep 11 11:52:21 2008 From: Cynthia.Townley at scmp.mq.edu.au (Cynthia Townley) Date: Thu Sep 11 11:52:43 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] PHilosophy @ Macquarie Message-ID: <48C90675020000600001C176@gwc2cn01.its.mq.edu.au> Hi all, the next Philosophy Seminar at Macquarie will be held from 11-1, Tuesday 16 September, W6A Rm 127. Sarah Sorial (Macquarie University) will present a paper titled: Law, Cosmopolitan Law, and the Protection of Human Rights All are welcome to attend. Further details of the seminar series can be found at http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/events/index.html Cynthia Townley Philosophy Department Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia Tel: +61 2 9850 8812 Fax: +61 2 9850 8892 From slortahauz at hotmail.com Thu Sep 11 12:42:00 2008 From: slortahauz at hotmail.com (Aidan Popely) Date: Thu Sep 11 12:42:10 2008 Subject: [SydPhil] General Meeting of the Russellian Society. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Russellian Society will be having a General Meeting at 5:45pm on Thursday 18th September 2008; Holme Building common room During this GM we will be voting on three constitutional changes as well as electing members to the positions of: 1. Event Manager (the second of two such positions) 2. First Year Representative Nominations (to admin@russoc.com) for these positions begin as of 10th September 2008 and close upon the opening of the meeting. All executive members *must *have an Access card. The constitutional changes are as follows: *1. Membership fee will be changed to $5.00, from $0.00* *2. The addition of a non-profit clause for tax purposes, under Property and Finances: 11.4 "The assets and income of the Society shall be applied solely in the furtherance of its above-mentioned aims and activities and no portion shall be distributed directly or indirectly to the members of the Society except as bona fide compensation for services rendered or expenses incurred on behalf of the Society. That is, the Society will be run on a non-profit basis in terms of tax purposes." 3. And also the modification of our aims (for tax purposes we need to be a cultural organisation and as such must be shown in the constitution), through the addition of 2.1.iii: "2.1 The aims of the Society shall be to: i) Promote issues broadly related to philosophy. ii) Engage the university community in philosophical discussion. iii) Contribute to the cultural life of the community" * The current constitution may be found here: http://www.russoc.com/node/15 Love, Aidan Popely, Russoc Secretary Ps: We have a really great talk by Marcus Colyvan on The Relativity of Value afterwards at 6:30pm. Two great reasons to show up. DOO EET! Find great deals on eBay Net yourself a bargain _________________________________________________________________ Are you a friend magnet? Play now to win prizes for you and your friends! http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/106906016/direct/01/?href=http://www.friendmagnet.com.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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