[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 11, September 2023 at 5:30pm

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School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
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Evolution and resilience of academics and marine animals in the Anthropocene
Pauline Ross (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 11/9/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Madsen Building (F09), Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: This seminar will explore an ecological approach to understand the evolution and resilience of the academic role and academics in the higher education ecosystem in Australia which for decades has been facing change and successive challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic and the transgenerational responses to stress of marine animals in the Anthropocene. Expectations are that increasing academic workforce diversity in the socio-ecological ecosystem of higher education will increase resilience and adaptive capacity, but this is not necessarily a given that new academic roles will deliver on expectations of educational quality and persist. Similarly, if marine organisms are to persist through the Anthropocene, they will need to be resilient, but can resilience of marine organisms build within a single lifetime or over generations? Research on resilience of marine organisms has concentrated on responses of specific species and single climate change stressors. It is unknown whether phenotypic plasticity and adaptation of marine organisms including molluscs, echinoderms, polychaetes, crustaceans, corals, and fish will be rapid enough for the pace of climate change and the multiple stressor ecosystem which is now here.

This paper shows how the active inference account can integrate representational and regulatory accounts of pain and suffering. The core idea is that processing across the mind is anchored by a multidimensional self-model that co-ordinates active inference. The dimensional structure of pain and suffering  reflects the dimensional structure of that model. I show how the phenomenon of pain asymbolia and other atypical conditions can be explained by this idea.


Bio: Ross is a Professor of Marine Biology and Higher Education, Deputy Head of School and Teaching Principal for Life, Earth and Environmental Science (LEES) in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK. Pauline is known for excellence in education being one of Australia’s most awarded educators with multiple Australian awards for excellence in education and leadership, including the Australian Award for University Teaching in Biology and Health related fields, five Vice Chancellors Excellence Awards and two “Oscars” from Quacquarelli Symonds. Pauline has an interdisciplinary track record in science and education research on the response to stress and resilience of academics in the higher education ecosystem and marine animals in the Anthropocene. Her science research is funded by the Australian Research Council is developing oysters to sustain an industry that generates more than $1 billion a year in sales and employs thousands of Australians. Her education research is done in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CHSE) at the University of Melbourne, in a higher education Australian economy worth 37 billion.


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