Zina Ward: 'Rational Analysis and Human Variation'
Seminar
Rational Analysis and Human Variation Rational analysis is a research program in psychology that tries to understand the mind by identifying the problems it is attempting to solve and deriving optimal solutions to those problems. The optimal solutions are then used to build models and make…
"Recent work on attention" workshop
Workshop
A workshop featuring leading philosophers and cognitive scientists working on Attention and surrounding topics. Program: 09:00 - 09:15 Intro & Welcome 09:15 - 10:30 Chris Mole “The imperative to attend” 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea 11:00 - 12:15 Julia Haas “Attention, reward, and value” 12:…
David Bronstein (Georgetown): Aristotle's Virtue Epistemology
Seminar
Aristotle's Virtue Epistemology Neo-Aristotelian virtue theorists typically argue that acts get their moral and epistemic worth from the capacities from which they issue: an action is morally right because it issues from moral virtue; a true belief is justified, and counts as an instance of…
Emily Katzenstein (uChicago): Race(d) Futures: Race and Risk in the Life Insurance Industry
Seminar
In a recent article, Charles Mills and Katrin Flikschuh ask us to consider what we mean when we speak of racial justice. “‘Racial justice’”, they point out, “is a term widely used in everyday discourse, but little explored in philosophy”. In this paper, I ask what we mean when we speak of racial…
Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced): From attention to self
Seminar
Abstract: A popular view of the self is that it exists inside the head. Movies sometimes present the self as a tiny person living inside of our skulls, seeing the world through our eyes. However, this concept of a 'homunculus,' or little human, is not popular in contemporary philosophy of mind…
Ross Pain and Szymon Bogacz (ANU): Philsoc seminar - TPR's
Seminar
Ross Pain: Thesis Proposal Review (3.30-4.30pm) In this paper I examine the inferential framework employed by Palaeolithic cognitive archaeologists, particularly with respect to transitions in technological complexity. I distinguish between minimal-capacity inferences and cognitive-transition…
Joshua Neoh (ANU): Law Imprisons, Love Liberates
Seminar
The received conventional wisdom from Paul in the New Testament is deceptively simple: law imprisons but love liberates. If we separate the chaff from the wheat, we will discover a grain of truth in this received wisdom. The purpose of this paper is to separate the chaff from the wheat. In what way…