"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…
Luara Ferracioli (Sydney): Moral Parenthood and Moral Commitment
Seminar
Moral Parenthood and Moral Commitment Abstract: In this paper I focus on the following question: what gives a person a moral right to parent a particular child? I first argue that the correct answer to this question must (i) take seriously the interests of both parents and children, (ii) include…