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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 22, April 2024 at 5:30pm

2024-04-16 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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Brownian motion, theory confirmation and the stratification of scientific
knowledge
Alan Chalmers

Dates: Monday, 22 April 2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 3, Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required.

Abstract: Jean Perrin’s experiments on Brownian motion are typically seen as
providing especially decisive evidence for the reality of molecules. Research
in the area has been raised to a new level of sophistication by George Smith
and Raglan Seth in their book Brownian motion and molecular reality. In this
paper I draw out and elaborate on key consequences of that work that are of
general interest. I use the case of Brownian motion to argue (i) That there is
more to the confirmation of scientific theories than the validation of their
predictive and explanatory power. The concordance of alternative measures of a
physical quantity offers a stronger kind of confirmation. Those scientists who
saw Perrin’s and associated research as bringing an end to the hypothetical
status of molecular-kinetic theory had a point. (ii) Perrin established
knowledge of Brownian motion at various levels, some involving no theory, some
assuming that the motions of Brownian granules is governed by Newton’s laws of
motion and some invoking the molecular-kinetic theory. Knowledge at each level
was vindicated by appeal to concordant measures of physical quantities,
implying that knowledge at each level has a similar epistemological status. It
is not the case that knowledge necessarily gets more speculative the further it
gets from what is directly observable to the senses nor is it the case that
knowledge at the atomic and molecular level is superior to that at the
observable level because it can in principle explain the latter and render it
redundant. Knowledge at the various levels and the relationship between them
are all key elements of scientific knowledge and its mode of progress. (iii) An
appreciation of the various levels of knowledge of Brownian motion helps to
dispel any puzzles that arise from an alleged clash between the time asymmetry
of many physical processes and the time symmetry of the laws governing the
micro-processes that give rise to them.

Bio: Alan Chalmers received a PhD in HPS from the University of London in 1971.
He then came to the University of Sydney as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the
Department of Philosophy . He remained at that institution until his
'retirement' in 1999. In 1985 he took up the position of Senior Lecturer in HPS
in the Science Faculty and started the process of converting the one-person
outfit it then was into the School of History and Philosophy of Science that it
has now become. His most important books are What is this thing called science?
The scientist's atom and the philosopher's stone and One hundred years of
pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton. He is the author of some 70 or so
articles in history and philosophy of the physical sciences.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 15, April 2024 at 5:30pm

2024-04-09 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

School of History and Philosophy of Science
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Experimental Philosophy of Health and Disease
Somogy Varga and Andrew J. Latham (Aarhus University)

Dates: Monday, 15 April 2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 3, Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required.

Abstract: While the philosophy of medicine has seen extensive discussions
focusing on the concepts of health, disease, and dysfunction, the exact content
of these concepts remains contested. In this talk, we will report some results
from a series of experimental philosophy studies which aimed to examine how
people understand and deploy these concepts, and the factors that influence
their judgments. We will then discuss the implications that these findings
carry for the philosophical debates and for health-related communication in
both clinical and public health settings..

Bio: Somogy Varga is professor of philosophy at Aarhus University and director
of the Center for Philosophy and the Health Sciences. His current research is
mostly concerned with topics in the philosophy of science, psychiatry, and
medicine. He is the author of four books: Science, Medicine, and the Aims of
Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, in press), Scaffolded Minds (MIT Press,
2019), Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder (Oxford University Press,
2015), and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal (Routledge, 2011). Some of his
research papers were published in leading medical/psychological journals (e.g.,
Psychological Review, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews), others in
philosophical journals(e.g., PPR, AJP).

Bio: Andrew J. Latham is an AIAS-PIREAU research fellow at Aarhus University.
He works at the intersection of metaphysics, ethics and cognitive science and
is interested in what empirical discoveries, particularly in the psychological
and brain sciences, reveal about the nature of phenomena. Andrew has authored
many papers in experimental philosophy, with many of them being published in
leading philosophy journals (i.e., Noûs, Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research). He was recently awarded both a Marie Curie
European Postdoctoral Fellowship and Discovery Early Career Research Award.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 08 April 2024 at 5:30pm

2024-04-01 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil



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Visualizing the Body with Text and Image: The Early Modern Grammar of 
Anatomical Illustration
Gideon Manning (Cedar-Sinai Medical Centre)

Dates: Monday, 8 April 2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 3, Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: The first anatomical images in printed books were the result of a now 
well-known negotiation between art, enterprise, and the study of nature. There 
have been many valuable contributions made to our understanding of these 
images—their genesis and function—by historians of science, historians of the 
book, and historians of art and visual culture. In this presentation, however, 
I will reflect on anatomical images with the history of medicine specifically 
in mind. I will argue that the early modern anatomist’s threefold distinction 
among historia-actio-usus served as the initial grammar of anatomical 
illustration. Examining the formal, investigative procedures of anatomists in 
the early modern period, at the precise moment when anatomical images became a 
standard feature of medical textbooks and works of natural philosophy, I will 
detail how the histo-ria-actio-usus distinction helps us understand the 
existence of divergent images, competing agendas, and disputes over accuracy. 
Case studies will come from early modern and later editions of Galen, Harvey, 
and Descartes, focusing on the mechanical body, as well as several more recent 
and non-Euro-Western anatomical illustrations.


Bio: Gideon Manning is Associate Professor of History of Medicine and 
Humanities at the Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, where he directs the Program in 
the History of Medicine.  initially trained as a philosopher, and later as an 
historian of science and medicine, Gideon’s research focuses especially on the 
emergence of a mechanical conception of nature and the human body.  He is the 
author more than two dozen articles and book chapters and the editor or 
co-editor of four books, most recently, “Women and the Life Sciences” and The 
Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar with Anne Marie Roos. Gideon is 
currently writing a monograph about the history of the good death and several 
papers related to the history of surgery.



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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 25 March 2024 at 5:30pm

2024-03-19 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


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Fieldwork and Methodologies in Studies of the History of Medicine, Health, and 
Epidemics in China: Barefoot Doctors and the Cholera Pandemic
Associate Professor Xiaoping Fang (Monash)
Dates: Monday, 25/3/2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 3, Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required
Abstract: This talk introduces fieldwork and methodologies in studies of the 
history of medicine, health, and epidemics in China based on the analysis of 
two major medical and public health movements in Mao’s China—the barefoot 
doctor program that provided primary health care in rural China in the 1960s 
and 1970s and the health emergency response to the global cholera pandemic that 
affected southeast coastal China from1961 to 1965.  These historical and 
ethnographical studies re-interpreted the stereotypical arguments of both 
government propaganda and academic communities by exploring bottom-up 
perspectives, local documents and oral materials, along with anthropological 
and sociological theoretical frameworks. The studies introduced two theoretical 
concepts “dynamic medical pluralism” and “the emergency disciplinary state” to 
shed light on the rise and evolution of state medical systems and the dynamic 
relationship between health governance and political governance in China.

Bio: Xiaoping Fang is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Monash 
University. His research interests focus on the history of medicine, health, 
and epidemics in China and the socio-political history of Mao’s China. He is 
the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Rochester, NY: 
University of Rochester Press, 2012) and China and the Cholera Pandemic: 
Restructuring Society under Mao (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh 
Press, 2021). He has published articles in journals such as Modern China, The 
China Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, and Medical History.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 18, March 2024 at 5:30pm

2024-03-12 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


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Aftercare as a rewriting of mental health history: the case of
Australia to 1920
Professor Catharine Coleborne (University of Newcastle)

Dates: Monday, 18/3/2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 3, Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: In my work Madness in the Family, I pioneered a focus on 214 cases of 
family interactions with institutions using a series of linked records (case 
material, correspondence, visitors’ books, records of leave of absence and 
trial home visits) that showed a deeper engagement between family, medical 
authorities, and institutional practices. This work provides me with a model 
for a new project about mental health aftercare between 1900 and 1960. 
Aftercare existed before psychotropic medications, community solutions and 
mental health support started to become the mainstay of post-institutional care 
from the 1960s when the processes of deinstitutionalisation began.

While my past work opened the question of the instability of the archive in the 
creation of knowledge about mental illness, it also pointed to the way that 
institutions operated in a dialogue with families and friends about mental 
breakdown. That dialogue contained clues about the way institutions reached 
into communities, as well as about experiments in care at an early stage of 
Australia’s evolving approach to mental health treatment. This paper for 
discussion will share my continued interest in the possibilities suggested by 
that dialogue of the latter decades of the nineteenth century by focusing on 
new work-in-progress based on some sources from the available records of After 
Care NSW and Gladesville Hospital to 1920. Given that aftercare was and is a 
form of assistance for people when they leave mental hospitals, such as the 
provision of practical help by charitable organisations to reintegrate them 
into work, families, and communities, I am curious about what was happening 
both outside and also between institutions during this period.

Studying extra-institutional care means examining the interactions, flows, 
transfers, and engagements between people with mental illness and those who 
sought to assist them. This ‘mobility of practices’ suggested by forms of 
aftercare - as geographer Tim Cresswell might say -  shatters previously held 
concepts of ‘closed institutions’, at the same time suggesting possibilities 
for models of mental health care in our present.


Bio: Professor Catharine Coleborne holds a new ARC Discovery Project grant with 
Dr Effie Karageorgos at the University of Newcastle focused on mental health 
aftercare from 1900 to 1960. Her next forthcoming book is Vagrant Lives in 
Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840 to 1910 (Bloomsbury 2024). 
Cathy has been based at the University of Newcastle since late 2015.

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[SydPhil] Fw: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 4, March 2024 at 5:30pm (Please ignore this is incorrect advert for 4 March 2024))

2024-02-26 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Dear All

Apologies, this is the incorrect Seminar advert for the 4th March 2024 HPS 
seminar.

The corrected version will be sent out shortly.

Regards

Cynthia


CYNTHIA KIU | EXECUTIVE OFFICER
The University of Sydney
Faculty of Science, History and Philosophy of Science

Rm No 389, Carslaw F07 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
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OFFICE HOURS ARE MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY

9AM TO 430PM


From: Cynthia Kiu on behalf of HPS Admin 
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 10:04 AM
To: (sydp...@arts.usyd.edu.au) 
Subject: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 4, March 2024 at 5:30pm


School of History and Philosophy of Science
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The Liar paradox, the halting problem and the edge of chaos
Mikhail Prokopenko (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 04/03/2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law (F10), Level 3, Seminar Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: We will explore several fundamental relations between formal systems, 
algorithms, and dynamical systems, focussing on the roles of self-reference and 
computational undecidability. This comparative analysis will emphasise three 
factors: (i) the program-data duality; (ii) the potential to access an infinite 
computational medium; and (iii) the ability to implement negation. Importantly, 
the program-data duality requires that a computational agent must be able to 
store and process encoded information, as well as create self-referential 
meta-level simulations. Finally, within Gödel – Turing – Post framework, we 
will argue that undecidability leads to novelty generation, via the emergence 
of functional self-descriptions across major transitions: genetic, linguistic 
and cultural.


Bio: Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko leads the Centre for Complex Systems at the 
University of Sydney. He holds PhD in Computer Science, MA in Economics, and 
MSc in Applied Mathematics. Mikhail has a strong international reputation in 
modelling and simulation of complex self-organising systems, with over 200 
publications and h-index of 43. His cross-disciplinary research in information 
theory, critical phenomena and artificial intelligence has been applied to 
pandemic and crisis modelling, systems biology, urban dynamics, and other 
diverse areas.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 4, March 2024 at 5:30pm

2024-02-26 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
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The Liar paradox, the halting problem and the edge of chaos
Mikhail Prokopenko (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 04/03/2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law (F10), Level 3, Seminar Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: We will explore several fundamental relations between formal systems, 
algorithms, and dynamical systems, focussing on the roles of self-reference and 
computational undecidability. This comparative analysis will emphasise three 
factors: (i) the program-data duality; (ii) the potential to access an infinite 
computational medium; and (iii) the ability to implement negation. Importantly, 
the program-data duality requires that a computational agent must be able to 
store and process encoded information, as well as create self-referential 
meta-level simulations. Finally, within Gödel – Turing – Post framework, we 
will argue that undecidability leads to novelty generation, via the emergence 
of functional self-descriptions across major transitions: genetic, linguistic 
and cultural.


Bio: Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko leads the Centre for Complex Systems at the 
University of Sydney. He holds PhD in Computer Science, MA in Economics, and 
MSc in Applied Mathematics. Mikhail has a strong international reputation in 
modelling and simulation of complex self-organising systems, with over 200 
publications and h-index of 43. His cross-disciplinary research in information 
theory, critical phenomena and artificial intelligence has been applied to 
pandemic and crisis modelling, systems biology, urban dynamics, and other 
diverse areas.

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[SydPhil] Fw: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 06, November 2023 at 5:30pm (POSTPONED to 2024)

2023-11-05 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Dear All

Please be advised that the seminar for Monday 06 November 2023 has been 
postponed to 2024.

There will be no Research Seminar for Monday 06 November 2023.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards

Cynthia


CYNTHIA KIU | EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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9AM TO 430PM


From: HPS Administration 
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 4:03 PM
To: HPS Admin 
Subject: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 06, November 2023 at 5:30pm

School of History and Philosophy of Science
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Hungry for a Breakthrough
The Effect of Psychedelics and Mystical Experiences on Psychoanalysis

Leslie Stein (USYD)

Dates: Monday, 06/11/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Madsen Building (F09), Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: We have an impenetrable mind that seeks its own justifications and 
needs concrete proof before it will allow any change.  This makes 
psychoanalysis, a deep excursion into those hidden forces that govern our 
personality and that emerge for consideration in the misty, seemingly 
irrational content of dreams, in visions, and projections, a difficult and long 
process.  Psychedelics promise instant revelation and have gained acceptance by 
its therapeutic use for PTSD, end-of-life despair, eating disorders, OCD and 
other intractable conditions. But do they really bring us to the hard questions 
about meaning and the mystery? Carl Jung wrote that mystical experiences are 
the “real therapy.” Does the importance of a breakthrough give psychedelics a 
place in the winding descent into the unconscious.


Bio: Leslie Stein trained as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in 
New York and is in private practice in Sydney, Australia.  His books include: 
Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God (Helios); Working with 
Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous (Routledge); 
The Self in Jungian Psychology: Theory and Practice (Chiron) – winner of the 
IAJS Award for the best book on Jungian theory, 2022; The Journey of Adam 
Kadmon: A Novel (Arcade, New York), Editor, Eastern Practices and 
Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts (Chiron);  Editor with Lionel Corbett 
of Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts (Chiron), and 
Editor with D. Rickles of the forthcoming work: Varieties of Nothingness 
(Chiron). He is on the Board of Directors of the Philemon Foundation, 
responsible for publication of the previously unpublished works of Jung.  He is 
also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urbanism in the Sydney School of 
Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney with a long 
career of advising governments in 18 countries and the UN on mental health 
outcomes in urban areas, as to which he has written 4 books, and has been the 
principal advisor on urban planning reform to the NSW government.



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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 23, October 2023 at 5:30pm

2023-10-15 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil




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Working towards new inoculation histories: Smallpox Vaccinations in Australia’s 
Coastal North

Chi Chi Huang (UNSW)

Dates: Monday, 23/10/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Madsen Building (F09), Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: This paper explores two neglected smallpox vaccination campaigns in 
the early twentieth century that took place along Australia’s coastal north. 
Not only does this paper argue that these were the first two pre-emptive, 
rather than reactive, vaccination programs directed toward First Nations 
people, but also suggests how these communities were embedded into a ‘hygienic 
border’ for the protection of white Australia. By telling this history, this 
paper draws out new (and tentative) avenues of research in thinking about this 
medical technology in the construction of Australia’s national identity. I do 
this by positing the following questions. In what ways and when were 
vaccinations and inoculations construed as an individual right or a civic duty? 
And, how can inoculation histories in Australia be told beyond the polarised 
attitudes towards this medical technology?

Bio: Chi Chi Huang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at UNSW, Sydney on an ARC-SRI 
funded project, ‘Rethinking medico-legal borders: From international to 
internal histories’. She is an environmental and medical humanities historian 
of the Asia-Pacific in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.



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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 16, October 2023 at 5:30pm

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Phenotypic Hands: Dermatoglyphics and Medical Genetics

Alison Bashford (UNSW)

Dates: Monday, 16/10/2023
Time: 5:30pm
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Abstract: Late nineteenth-century readers of hands often claimed their work to 
be a medical and scientific palmistry; not a telling of the future, but a kind 
of diagnostics, a modern version of physiognomy. In this paper I explore how, 
and for whom, patterns on the hands came to be read by actual, not 
aspirational, scientists. The study of dermatoglyphics emerged in the light of 
Galton’s fingerprint correlation studies, but also in the light of a 
psychoanalytic tradition of how the body might speak through the hands. A 
geometry of ridges, lines, and patterns yielded information that the Galton 
Laboratory at UCL, led by mathematician Lionel Penrose, correlated with 
chromosomal abnormalities. Reading signs on the hand as phenotypes crossed into 
and drew from the domain of traditional palmistry.


Bio: Alison Bashford is Scientia Professor of History at UNSW, and Director of 
the Laureate Centre for History & Population. Her most recent monograph is An 
Intimate History of Evolution (Penguin) and edited book, New Earth Histories: 
Geo-cosmologies and the making of the modern world (Chicago). She is currently 
writing The Strange History of the Hand (Chicago), a long history of 
sign-reading from physiognomy to palmistry to genetics.



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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 09, October 2023 at 5:30pm

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Narrative Gaslighting

Regina Fabry (MQ)

Dates: Monday, 09/10/2023
Time: 5:30pm
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Abstract: Self-narration, many philosophers assume, makes important
contributions to our mental lives. Two views on self-narration can be
distinguished. On the internalistic view, self-narration unfolds in the
secluded mind and does not require overt communication. On the situated view,
self-narration often depends on the conversational interaction with an
interlocutor. The situated view has many advantages over its internalistic
rival, including theoretical consistency and empirical plausibility. Yet,
research on situated conversational self-narration has been shaped by a harmony
bias, which consists in the tacit assumption that interlocutors contribute to
self-narration in ways that are beneficial and supportive, rather than
malicious and harmful. This paper seeks to mitigate the harmony bias by
considering the phenomenon of gaslighting, which is characterised by an
interlocutor’s erosion of someone’s sense of epistemic and moral competence. In
cases of narrative gaslighting, this erosion proceeds by maliciously
interfering with the self-narrator’s mnemonic, interpretational, and conceptual
abilities. Bringing together research on situated self-narration and
gaslighting for the first time, it will be argued that the emerging account of
narrative gaslighting has important implications for both.

Bio: Regina Fabry is a philosopher of mind and cognition with expertise in
empirically informed research on 4E cognition and enculturation. She is a
Lecturer and ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awardee in the Department of
Philosophy at Macquarie University. Her research interests include narrative
practices, literacy, mental disorders, grief, mind-wandering, mathematical
cognition, and human-technology interactions. Currently, Regina works on her
ARC DECRA project “Living to tell, telling to live: Experience, narrative and
the self.” In this project, she explores the relationship between lived
experience and self-narrative by integrating work in philosophy, the cognitive
sciences, and cognitive narratology.

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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 18, September 2023 at 5:30pm

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The Liar paradox, the halting problem and the edge of chaos
Mikhail Prokopenko (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 18/9/2023
Time: 5:30pm
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Abstract: We will explore several fundamental relations between formal systems, 
algorithms, and dynamical systems, focussing on the roles of self-reference and 
computational undecidability. This comparative analysis will emphasise three 
factors: (i) the program-data duality; (ii) the potential to access an infinite 
computational medium; and (iii) the ability to implement negation. Importantly, 
the program-data duality requires that a computational agent must be able to 
store and process encoded information, as well as create self-referential 
meta-level simulations. Finally, within Gödel – Turing – Post framework, we 
will argue that undecidability leads to novelty generation, via the emergence 
of functional self-descriptions across major transitions: genetic, linguistic 
and cultural.


Bio: Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko leads the Centre for Complex Systems at the 
University of Sydney. He holds PhD in Computer Science, MA in Economics, and 
MSc in Applied Mathematics. Mikhail has a strong international reputation in 
modelling and simulation of complex self-organising systems, with over 200 
publications and h-index of 43. His cross-disciplinary research in information 
theory, critical phenomena and artificial intelligence has been applied to 
pandemic and crisis modelling, systems biology, urban dynamics, and other 
diverse areas.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 18, September 2023 at 5:30pm

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The Liar paradox, the halting problem and the edge of chaos
Mikhail Prokopenko (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 18/9/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Madsen Building (F09), Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: We will explore several fundamental relations between formal systems, 
algorithms, and dynamical systems, focussing on the roles of self-reference and 
computational undecidability. This comparative analysis will emphasise three 
factors: (i) the program-data duality; (ii) the potential to access an infinite 
computational medium; and (iii) the ability to implement negation. Importantly, 
the program-data duality requires that a computational agent must be able to 
store and process encoded information, as well as create self-referential 
meta-level simulations. Finally, within Gödel – Turing – Post framework, we 
will argue that undecidability leads to novelty generation, via the emergence 
of functional self-descriptions across major transitions: genetic, linguistic 
and cultural.


Bio: Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko leads the Centre for Complex Systems at the 
University of Sydney. He holds PhD in Computer Science, MA in Economics, and 
MSc in Applied Mathematics. Mikhail has a strong international reputation in 
modelling and simulation of complex self-organising systems, with over 200 
publications and h-index of 43. His cross-disciplinary research in information 
theory, critical phenomena and artificial intelligence has been applied to 
pandemic and crisis modelling, systems biology, urban dynamics, and other 
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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 11, September 2023 at 5:30pm (Abstract Correction)

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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.


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

2023-09-03 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


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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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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 21, August 2023 at 5:30pm (Date Correction)

2023-08-16 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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Pain suffering and the self
Philip Gerrans (University of Adelaide)
Dates: Monday, 21/8/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Madsen Building (F09), Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required
Abstract: Pain, suffering and the self. Pain Aysmbolia as Depersonalisation?

The neuroscience of pain processing has moved steadily from a modular to a
network or matrix conception of pain processing. The matrix conception has been
applied to explain
variety of disorders characterised by pain and suffering, Pain Asymbolia,
Insensitivity to Pain, Chronic Pain, “Social” Pain (of humiliation or
exclusion) phantom limb pain and nocibo and placebo effects. Philosophers
interested in pain and suffering have offered a variety of accounts these
atypical cases. Examples are the idea that pain has dissociable affective and
sensori-motor components (shared by some classic neuroscientific accounts);
that the representative content of pain is imperative not descriptive,
eliminative accounts (there is no such thing as pain) and, more recently,
active inference accounts. One thing that is distinctive of the last is that
they treat pain as an aspect of biological regulation not primarily a
phenomenon of representation (e.g. of location and intensity of damage or of
value and significance to the self).

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: My main research interest is the use of psychological disorder to study
the mind. I have written on developmental disorders (autism and Williams
syndrome), cognitive neuropsychiatry, on moral psychopathologies (such as
psychopathology) and the emotions as well as a large monograph and associated
series of papers on delusion and disorders of rationality. I am an Associate of
the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences where I collaborate with philosophers
psychologists and neuroscientists. Currently I am completing a project on the
relationship between emotional processing and self-representation with an
emphasis on psychiatric disorders. Chris Letheby and I have just commenced a
project on philosophical issues raised by the nature of psychedelic experience.
In all these cases my focus is on the role of computational models linking
experience to neural processing.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 21, May 2023 at 5:30pm

2023-08-15 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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Pain suffering and the self
Philip Gerrans (University of Adelaide)

Dates: Monday, 21/5/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Madsen Building (F09), Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: Pain, suffering and the self. Pain Aysmbolia as Depersonalisation?

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[SydPhil] Updated: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 7th August 2023 at 5.30pm (date corrected)

2023-08-01 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


School of History and Philosophy of Science
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 Silvicultural Systems, Harold Swain (1883-1970), and the role of history
Berris Charnley (University of Queensland)
Dates: Monday, 07/08/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F09, Madsen Building, Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85722285732

Abstract: Around the turn of the twentieth century, a number of large and 
enduring systems were set in place. These systems were concerned with 
connecting and developing the global empires of Europe and America. 
Communication and energy are two obvious examples, but water, food, transport, 
manufacturing, bureaucracy and law were also sites of self-conscious 
systematizing work. Aside from their imperial purposes, several features 
distinguished these new systems. They were, their builders claimed, scientific. 
They often involved a new negotiation between the public good and private 
interests. And new laws were frequently a part of their operation.

This paper explores the new systems of the twentieth century through the 
archives of Harold Swain, an Australian forestry commissioner who sought to 
develop the timber industry and Australian society. Swain devised new taxonomic 
systems and new systems of tree-felling taxation. With these tools he hoped to 
get people out of unsustainable agriculture and into Australia's forests, along 
with the right trees. This paper's first task is to consider what Swain's 
system work tells us about science, ownership, and sustainable development in 
the twentieth century? In answering this question, by locating and analysing 
Swain's archive, it becomes obvious that he sought to use another tool in his 
work, history. The encounter with Swain the historian prompts the paper's 
second task, which is to analyse Swain's use of history and what this might 
mean for our work as historians in a climate emergency.


Bio: Berris Charnley is a historian of law and science. He is interested in 
seeds, genes, farms and food. How are these resources studied, measured, 
weighed, owned or shared? And what can the history of human relations with such 
resources tell us about their management in the future? More generally, he is 
interested in issues of participation and communication around knowledge 
production. He is also co-founder of the Intellectual Property and the 
Biosciences network, IPBio.
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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 23, May 2023 at 5:30pm

2023-08-01 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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Silvicultural Systems, Harold Swain (1883-1970), and the role of history

Berris Charnley (University of Queensland)

Dates: Monday, 07/08/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F09, Madsen Building, Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link:
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Abstract: Around the turn of the twentieth century, a number of large and
enduring systems were set in place. These systems were concerned with
connecting and developing the global empires of Europe and America.
Communication and energy are two obvious examples, but water, food, transport,
manufacturing, bureaucracy and law were also sites of self-conscious
systematizing work. Aside from their imperial purposes, several features
distinguished these new systems. They were, their builders claimed, scientific.
They often involved a new negotiation between the public good and private
interests. And new laws were frequently a part of their operation.

This paper explores the new systems of the twentieth century through the
archives of Harold Swain, an Australian forestry commissioner who sought to
develop the timber industry and Australian society. Swain devised new taxonomic
systems and new systems of tree-felling taxation. With these tools he hoped to
get people out of unsustainable agriculture and into Australia’s forests, along
with the right trees. This paper’s first task is to consider what Swain’s
system work tells us about science, ownership, and sustainable development in
the twentieth century? In answering this question, by locating and analysing
Swain’s archive, it becomes obvious that he sought to use another tool in his
work, history. The encounter with Swain the historian prompts the paper’s
second task, which is to analyse Swain’s use of history and what this might
mean for our work as historians in a climate emergency.

Bio: Berris Charnley is a historian of law and science. He is interested in
seeds, genes, farms and food. How are these resources studied, measured,
weighed, owned or shared? And what can the history of human relations with such
resources tell us about their management in the future? More generally, he is
interested in issues of participation and communication around knowledge
production. He is also co-founder of the Intellectual Property and the
Biosciences network, IPBio.
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 Toward a Connected History of Chinese Medicine: The Case of Phlegm

Natalie Koehle (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 29/5/2023
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
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Abstract: Phlegm (tan 痰) figures as a major cause and consequence of disease in 
late imperial Chinese medicine. Curiously, however, when we go back to the 
classics, the very notion of phlegm is entirely absent. The rise of phlegm 
represents one of the fundamental transformations in the history of Chinese 
medicine. In this presentation, I argue that a little-known chapter on phlegm 
in Wang Gui’s 王珪 (1264–1354) On the Art of Nourishing Life (1338), notable for 
discussing a host of unprecedented practices and concepts in Chinese phlegm 
theory, was pivotal for this transformation. I draw attention to a strong 
resemblance with Galenic medical theories and argue that this resemblance was 
the result of a hitherto overlooked knowledge transmission, that is the 
transmission of Galenic medical ideas to pre-modern China.

I show that, although at first sight, the work seems to be composed entirely 
within the framework of traditional Chinese medicine, it is actually a 
translation: Its author, Wang Gui, has rearranged existing emic notions and 
concepts and put them to work to ‘translate’ some of the core theories of 
Galenic medicine into a Chinese medical framework. I then go on to situate On 
the Art of Nourishing Life in the context of the corpus of earlier and later 
works in Chinese medicine and discuss the ways in which it promoted the rise of 
phlegm in Chinese medical theory, and how this rise, in turn, spurred major 
transformations in the understanding of sickness in China.


Bio: Natalie Koehle is a lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at 
Sydney University. She researches the history of Chinese medicine, and has 
comparative interests in the history of Indian, Tibetan, and medieval 
Greco-Islamic medical traditions. She works on two book projects: one on the 
longue durée history of Donkey Hide Gelatin (ejiao 阿膠), and one on the global 
history of Chinese phlegm (tan 痰). Natalie received her PhD from the Department 
of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University and has held 
previous appointments at the Australian National University and Hong Kong 
Baptist University. Her publications include an experimental edited volume, 
Fluid Matter(s): A Cross-cultural Examination of the Imagination of the Humoral 
Body (ANU Press, 2020), which explores the use of interactive, image-based 
storytelling for academic communication, and “The Many Colors of Excrement: 
Galen and the History of Chinese Phlegm,” forthcoming with the Bulletin of the 
History of Medicine.
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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 23, May 2023 at 5:00pm

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 Toward a Connected History of Chinese Medicine: The Case of Phlegm

Natalie Koehle (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 29/5/2023
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85722285732



Abstract: Phlegm (tan 痰) figures as a major cause and consequence of disease in 
late imperial Chinese medicine. Curiously, however, when we go back to the 
classics, the very notion of phlegm is entirely absent. The rise of phlegm 
represents one of the fundamental transformations in the history of Chinese 
medicine. In this presentation, I argue that a little-known chapter on phlegm 
in Wang Gui’s 王珪 (1264–1354) On the Art of Nourishing Life (1338), notable for 
discussing a host of unprecedented practices and concepts in Chinese phlegm 
theory, was pivotal for this transformation. I draw attention to a strong 
resemblance with Galenic medical theories and argue that this resemblance was 
the result of a hitherto overlooked knowledge transmission, that is the 
transmission of Galenic medical ideas to pre-modern China.

I show that, although at first sight, the work seems to be composed entirely 
within the framework of traditional Chinese medicine, it is actually a 
translation: Its author, Wang Gui, has rearranged existing emic notions and 
concepts and put them to work to ‘translate’ some of the core theories of 
Galenic medicine into a Chinese medical framework. I then go on to situate On 
the Art of Nourishing Life in the context of the corpus of earlier and later 
works in Chinese medicine and discuss the ways in which it promoted the rise of 
phlegm in Chinese medical theory, and how this rise, in turn, spurred major 
transformations in the understanding of sickness in China.


Bio: Natalie Koehle is a lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at 
Sydney University. She researches the history of Chinese medicine, and has 
comparative interests in the history of Indian, Tibetan, and medieval 
Greco-Islamic medical traditions. She works on two book projects: one on the 
longue durée history of Donkey Hide Gelatin (ejiao 阿膠), and one on the global 
history of Chinese phlegm (tan 痰). Natalie received her PhD from the Department 
of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University and has held 
previous appointments at the Australian National University and Hong Kong 
Baptist University. Her publications include an experimental edited volume, 
Fluid Matter(s): A Cross-cultural Examination of the Imagination of the Humoral 
Body (ANU Press, 2020), which explores the use of interactive, image-based 
storytelling for academic communication, and “The Many Colors of Excrement: 
Galen and the History of Chinese Phlegm,” forthcoming with the Bulletin of the 
History of Medicine.
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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday, 8 May 2023 at 5:30pm

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Who’s afraid of nutritionism?

Jonathan Sholl (USYD)

Dates: Monday, 8/5/2023

Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F10A, Law Building Annex, Level 4, Room 446
How to register: Free, no registration required
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Abstract: Various scientists and philosophers have heavily criticized what they 
see as problematic forms of ‘nutritional reductionism’ or ‘nutritionism’ 
whereby studying food-health interactions at the level of isolated food 
components produces largely misguided science and misleading interpretations. 
However, the exact target of this criticism remains elusive, and its 
implications are overstated, which may hinder scientific understanding. In this 
talk based on joint work, after presenting the key problems raised by these 
critiques, we disentangle types of reductionism and antireductionist claims to 
better determine what the debate is about and to propose ways to move it 
forward. We then present a qualified defense of the reductionist program that 
hinges on the ability to identify nutritional causes that make a difference. 
This defense is taken further by using insights from the philosophy of 
mechanisms to analyze how the field of nutritional ecology offers a synthetic 
framework to explain and test predictions about nutrient-organism interactions, 
which is premised on the biological mechanisms of nutrient-specific appetite 
regulation. The result is a strategic form of reductionism that avoids many, 
though perhaps not all, of the challenges raised by antireductionists, while 
further highlighting the potential of reductionism to identify nutritional 
difference makers. This project is co-written with David Raubenheimer.


Bio: Jonathan is an associate professor in the philosophy of medical sciences 
at Université de Bordeaux. He received his PhD in philosophy from KU Leuven in 
Belgium before having positions as a post-doc researcher at KU Leuven 
(researching medical sociology), as assistant professor of medical philosophy 
at Aarhus University (Denmark), and as post-doc researcher at Bordeaux 
(researching cancer and nutrition). As a visiting researcher at Sydney, he is 
focusing his attention on developing a research program around a philosophy of 
the nutrition sciences – with an emphasis on nutritional ecology – while also 
exploring questions within philosophy of medicine, such as the naturalization 
of health.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 1, May 2023 at 5:30pm

2023-04-23 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


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Fairchildren and factory girls: gender, family, and space in the Singapore 
electronics industry
Professor Hallam Stevens (JCU)

Dates: Monday, 1/5/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
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Abstract: We are now in the midst of what has been called a global "chip war" 
with China, the United States, and Taiwan considered to be the major players. 
This situation is the result of the globalization within the semiconductor 
industry that began in the 1960s. Southeast Asia was a major site for such 
outsourcing by US firms such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Hewlett Packard, and 
General Electric. This paper examines some of the local effects of the 
electronics and semiconductor industries in Singapore. In particular, it 
examines the effects of these industries on gender norms and family life in the 
newly independent city state. By examining the forms of labour and patterns of 
development associated with early semiconductor outsourcing, the paper aims to 
shed light on the long-term cultural and geopolitical effects of globalization 
within the chip industry.

Bio: I am an historian of science and technology specializing in the history of 
the life sciences and the history of information technology. My first book, 
Life out of sequence: a data driven history of bioinformatics (Chicago, 2013), 
examined the transformational role of computers and databases in recent 
biology. I am also the author of Biotechnology and society: an introduction 
(Chicago, 2016) and the co-editor (with Sarah Richardson) of Postgenomics: 
Perspectives on Biology After the Genome (Duke, 2015).

My work crosses between history and anthropology and more recently I have 
written about the political and social impacts of artificial intelligence, big 
data, and surveillance technologies, particularly in an Asian context. I am 
currently completing a book about the rise of the life sciences in China.

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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 17, April 2023 at 5:30pm

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A Wide & Open Land: a journey through landscape, language & identity in Western 
Sydney's Cumberland Plain
Peter Ridgeway

Dates: Monday, 17/4/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
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Abstract: The Cumberland Plain Woodland is one of Australia's best known and 
most critically endangered ecosystems. The landscape is immediately 
recognisable: a flat basin of fertile land ringed by rugged sandstone walls; 
two opposing worlds sharing almost none of their biodiversity between them.

The human community identifies along almost identical boundaries with this 
ecological community, a cultural landscape so linked to landscape that its 
ecological name has entered common public use.

But this landscape of the mind did not exist just 40 years ago. The Darug, 
Gundungurra and Dharawal people divided their world by rivers, and still do; 
the vast Plain surrounded by sandstone is not in their world. Perhaps uniquely 
in Australia, the settler communities who invaded the West adopted Aboriginal 
landscapes of identity; until very recently the community of Campbelltown 
identified not with 'the West' but with the Illawarra, adopting the relational 
landscape of Dharawal Country in preference to geographical proximity.

Working for 20 years as a conservation ecologist in the Cumberland Plain I have 
become fascinated by how identity has been invented, framed, and misused, and 
how an ecological concept framed in the late 1980s has not only served in 
conserving an ecosystem, but extended to frame the dominant social identity of 
millions of Australians.

These thoughts culminated in my decision to walk this landscape end to end, 
meeting farmers, traditional owners, property developers and conservationists 
along the way, seeking to understand what 'the West' means. In the book which 
resulted I explore the entangled lives, histories and ecologies of one of 
Australia's most diverse and contested landscapes.

Bio: Peter Ridgeway is a conservation ecologist from Western Sydney where he 
leads the restoration of Cumberland Plain Woodland and its endangered plant and 
animal species. He works extensively with local Aboriginal communities, 
farmers, community groups and government to save one of Australia’s most 
critically threatened landscapes. In 2019 he walked 179 kilometres across rural 
Western Sydney to highlight the destruction of 'the West' and its impact on our 
communities both human and natural, subsequently publishing his account in A 
Wide & Open Land: walking the last of Western Sydney’s Woodlands.
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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 17, April 2023 at 5:30pm

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A Wide & Open Land: a journey through landscape, language & identity in Western 
Sydney's Cumberland Plain
Peter Ridgeway

Dates: Monday, 17/4/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85722285732

Abstract: The Cumberland Plain Woodland is one of Australia's best known and 
most critically endangered ecosystems. The landscape is immediately 
recognisable: a flat basin of fertile land ringed by rugged sandstone walls; 
two opposing worlds sharing almost none of their biodiversity between them.

The human community identifies along almost identical boundaries with this 
ecological community, a cultural landscape so linked to landscape that its 
ecological name has entered common public use.

But this landscape of the mind did not exist just 40 years ago. The Darug, 
Gundungurra and Dharawal people divided their world by rivers, and still do; 
the vast Plain surrounded by sandstone is not in their world. Perhaps uniquely 
in Australia, the settler communities who invaded the West adopted Aboriginal 
landscapes of identity; until very recently the community of Campbelltown 
identified not with 'the West' but with the Illawarra, adopting the relational 
landscape of Dharawal Country in preference to geographical proximity.

Working for 20 years as a conservation ecologist in the Cumberland Plain I have 
become fascinated by how identity has been invented, framed, and misused, and 
how an ecological concept framed in the late 1980s has not only served in 
conserving an ecosystem, but extended to frame the dominant social identity of 
millions of Australians.

These thoughts culminated in my decision to walk this landscape end to end, 
meeting farmers, traditional owners, property developers and conservationists 
along the way, seeking to understand what 'the West' means. In the book which 
resulted I explore the entangled lives, histories and ecologies of one of 
Australia's most diverse and contested landscapes.

Bio: Peter Ridgeway is a conservation ecologist from Western Sydney where he 
leads the restoration of Cumberland Plain Woodland and its endangered plant and 
animal species. He works extensively with local Aboriginal communities, 
farmers, community groups and government to save one of Australia’s most 
critically threatened landscapes. In 2019 he walked 179 kilometres across rural 
Western Sydney to highlight the destruction of 'the West' and its impact on our 
communities both human and natural, subsequently publishing his account in A 
Wide & Open Land: walking the last of Western Sydney’s Woodlands.
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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 3, April 2023 at 5:30pm

2023-04-02 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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7 March 2023

"Biological Essentialism Re-interred"

Samir Okasha, University of Bristol

Dates: Monday, 3/4/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required

Zoom Link:
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Abstract: In his forthcoming OUP book, which builds on his much-discussed 2008
paper "Biological Essentialism Resurrected", Michael Devitt offers a forthright
defence of biological essentialism, the doctrine that biological species (and
possibly other taxa too) have partly intrinsic, probably genetic, essences.
Devitt's position is striking, since the consensus in the philosophy of biology
has long been that intrinsic essentialism of this sort is incompatible with
both evolutionary theory and with standard taxonomic practice. However, Devitt
argues that this consensus rests on a mistake. He argues that the
anti-essentialist consensus stems from a failure to distinguish between the
taxon question, which asks what makes an organism a member of one species
rather than another, and the category question, which asks what all the
different species taxa have in common. Devitt claims that a "relational" answer
to the category question is compatible with an "intrinsic essence" answer to
the taxon question. I scrutinize this claim and find it to be untenable, on the
basis of a logical analysis of the relationship between the taxon and the
category questions. I take this to refute Devitt's claim that the
anti-essentialist consensus rests on a mistake.

Bio: Dr. Samir Okasha has been a Principal Investigator (2008-2011) on one of
the major AHRC-funded research project, titled ‘Evolution, Cooperation and
Rationality’ in collaboration with Professor Ken Binmore. The project led to a
series of publications and an edited volume Evolution and Rationality (CUP
2012).

Dr. Okasha was the Principal Investigator (2011-2016) on a research project
entitled 'Darwinism and the Theory of Rational Choice', funded by a European
Research Council Advanced Investigator Award. The project focused on
understanding formal and conceptual connections between Darwinian Evolutional
Theory and the Theory of Rationality. The project culminated in a book: Agents
and Goals in Evolution, published by OUP in 2018.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 3, April 2023 at 5:30pm

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7 March 2023

"Biological Essentialism Re-interred"

Samir Okasha, University of Bristol

Dates: Monday, 3/4/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required

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[SydPhil] Updated: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 13, March 2023 at 5:30pm

2023-03-12 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Dear All

Please be advised that this is a major update to the advertised seminar below.

This Seminar has been changed from hybrid of on campus and zoom to just a Zoom 
seminar (only).

The time of the seminar was previously advertised as 5.00pm, this is also 
incorrect. The correct time for the Seminar is 5.30pm.

To confirm:

  *   The Seminar below is now a Zoom only Seminar. Please do not come on 
campus.
  *   The Seminar starts 5.30pm.

Regards

Cynthia

CYNTHIA KIU | EXECUTIVE OFFICER
The University of Sydney
Faculty of Science, History and Philosophy of Science
Rm No 389, Carslaw F07 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
+61 2 9351 4161
hps.ad...@sydney.edu.au  | 
sydney.edu.au
OFFICE HOURS ARE MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
9AM TO 430PM



From: Cynthia Kiu on behalf of HPS Admin 
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 10:19 AM
To: (sydp...@arts.usyd.edu.au) 
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School of History and Philosophy of Science

RESEARCH SEMINAR

[The University of Sydney]

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8 March 2023



A HISTORY OF PLAGUE IN JAVA, 1911-1942

Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, Leiden University

Dates: Monday, 13/3/2023

Time: 5:30 pm

Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required

Zoom Link: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85722285732



Abstract: In his first book, Meerwijk explores the Dutch colonial response to 
an outbreak of plague in Java that began in 1911. Drawing on a large archive 
that includes hundreds of photographs, the book traces the origins and 
development of one of the most invasive, sustained, and best-advertised health 
interventions of the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia: home improvement. 
Eager to combat the disease, Dutch health officials would integrate the 
traditional bamboo houses of the Javanese into plague’s “rat-flea-man” 
transmission scheme and embarked on a tremendous project to break this chain. 
Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt across 
Java in an attempt to build out the rat, millions more were subjected to 
periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging 
that sought to “rat-proof” their practices and beliefs along with their houses. 
Plague control, in short, facilitated an unprecedented expansion of Dutch 
oversight, control, and cultural influence in rural Java. The transformation of 
the built and natural environment was extensively documented in photographs and 
broadcast to diverse audiences as evidence of the “ethical” nature of Dutch 
colonial rule. These outcomes of plague control proved so advantageous that 
home improvement would persist even when more efficient alternatives to plague 
control such as inoculation became available and new pathogenic threats 
resulting from the scheme emerged.

Bio: Maurits Meerwijk is a scientific secretary at the Health Council of the 
Netherlands as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History, 
University of Leiden. In Leiden, he works on a new project exploring the 
development of public health education by means of visual materials in early 
twentieth-century Southeast Asia.



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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 13, March 2023 at 5pm

2023-03-07 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil



School of History and Philosophy of Science

RESEARCH SEMINAR

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8 March 2023



A HISTORY OF PLAGUE IN JAVA, 1911-1942

Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, Leiden University

Dates: Monday, 13/3/2023
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: F23, Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
How to register: Free, no registration required

Zoom Link: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85722285732



Abstract: In his first book, Meerwijk explores the Dutch colonial response to 
an outbreak of plague in Java that began in 1911. Drawing on a large archive 
that includes hundreds of photographs, the book traces the origins and 
development of one of the most invasive, sustained, and best-advertised health 
interventions of the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia: home improvement. 
Eager to combat the disease, Dutch health officials would integrate the 
traditional bamboo houses of the Javanese into plague’s “rat-flea-man” 
transmission scheme and embarked on a tremendous project to break this chain. 
Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt across 
Java in an attempt to build out the rat, millions more were subjected to 
periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging 
that sought to “rat-proof” their practices and beliefs along with their houses. 
Plague control, in short, facilitated an unprecedented expansion of Dutch 
oversight, control, and cultural influence in rural Java. The transformation of 
the built and natural environment was extensively documented in photographs and 
broadcast to diverse audiences as evidence of the “ethical” nature of Dutch 
colonial rule. These outcomes of plague control proved so advantageous that 
home improvement would persist even when more efficient alternatives to plague 
control such as inoculation became available and new pathogenic threats 
resulting from the scheme emerged.

Bio: Maurits Meerwijk is a scientific secretary at the Health Council of the 
Netherlands as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History, 
University of Leiden. In Leiden, he works on a new project exploring the 
development of public health education by means of visual materials in early 
twentieth-century Southeast Asia.



Zoom: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/857222857



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Re: [SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm

2023-03-05 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Dear all,

The link in the invitation isn’t working but the Zoom ID is correct.

Please try again:

https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

Kind regards,
Jen


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From: Marcus Strom 
Date: Monday, 6 March 2023 at 5:29 pm
To: HPS Admin , (sydp...@arts.usyd.edu.au) 

Subject: Re: Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm
Zoom link does ‘t work

From: Cynthia Kiu  on behalf of HPS Admin 

Date: Monday, 6 March 2023 at 2:41 pm
To: (sydp...@arts.usyd.edu.au) 
Subject: Fw: Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm
Dear All

In addition to the earlier reminder. Please find attached the handout to 
accompany today's seminar.

CYNTHIA KIU | EXECUTIVE OFFICER
The University of Sydney
Faculty of Science, History and Philosophy of Science
Rm No 389, Carslaw F07 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
+61 2 9351 4161
hps.ad...@sydney.edu.au  | 
sydney.edu.au
OFFICE HOURS ARE MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
9AM TO 430PM


From: Cynthia Kiu on behalf of HPS Admin 
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 11:00 AM
To: (sydp...@arts.usyd.edu.au) 
Subject: Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm




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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2023
MONDAY 6TH MARCH 2023
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

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RODERICK O'DONNELL (PhD)

Invisible and Visible Hands. Why is Adam Smith Still Relevant to Economics and 
Social Science?  An Investigation on the 300th anniversary of his birth.

Abstract: Although most famous as an economist, Smith is better characterised 
as a philosopher-economist or philosopher of science. This seminar presents an 
overview of his writings aimed at better understandings of four topics: (i) his 
thought as a whole; (ii) the meaning and relevance of his famous invisible hand 
remarks; (iii) his major contributions to economics and social science; and 
(iv) his position in terms of ongoing, polarised debates over the best 
foundations for economic theorising and policy-making, a matter even more 
pressing in our increasingly challenged world. A rarely noticed connection, 
between Smith’s own economic debate and the history of the land now called 
Australia, is also noted.

Bio: Today’s speaker is over-educated with four degrees.  The first was in 
civil engineering from the University of Queensland. This taught him to be 
practical: good structures must function properly whatever their nature. To his 
knowledge, none of his structures have collapsed and he hopes the same applies 
to his arguments.

After 5 years working in Australia, PNG and Africa, he returned to academia to 
take degrees in economics and philosophy at the University of Sydney.  His 
final degree was a Cambridge PhD, a pioneering thesis on Keynes’s philosophy 
and economics. After an active teaching and research career in Australia, 
including chairs at two universities and publications in both economics and 
philosophy, he’s now affiliated with HPS. His current research is focused on 
using philosophical tools to evaluate and improve economic theorising.


WHEN:  MONDAY 6TH MARCH 2023
START : 5.30PM
Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501

Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

All Welcome | Registration not required | Free
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[SydPhil] Fw: Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm

2023-03-05 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Dear All

In addition to the earlier reminder. Please find attached the handout to 
accompany today's seminar.

CYNTHIA KIU | EXECUTIVE OFFICER
The University of Sydney
Faculty of Science, History and Philosophy of Science
Rm No 389, Carslaw F07 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
+61 2 9351 4161
hps.ad...@sydney.edu.au  | 
sydney.edu.au
OFFICE HOURS ARE MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
9AM TO 430PM



From: Cynthia Kiu on behalf of HPS Admin 
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 11:00 AM
To: (sydp...@arts.usyd.edu.au) 
Subject: Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm




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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2023
MONDAY 6TH MARCH 2023
FROM 5:30PM

Location:   F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:   
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

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RODERICK O'DONNELL (PhD)

Invisible and Visible Hands. Why is Adam Smith Still Relevant to Economics and 
Social Science?  An Investigation on the 300th anniversary of his birth.

Abstract: Although most famous as an economist, Smith is better characterised 
as a philosopher-economist or philosopher of science. This seminar presents an 
overview of his writings aimed at better understandings of four topics: (i) his 
thought as a whole; (ii) the meaning and relevance of his famous invisible hand 
remarks; (iii) his major contributions to economics and social science; and 
(iv) his position in terms of ongoing, polarised debates over the best 
foundations for economic theorising and policy-making, a matter even more 
pressing in our increasingly challenged world. A rarely noticed connection, 
between Smith’s own economic debate and the history of the land now called 
Australia, is also noted.

Bio: Today’s speaker is over-educated with four degrees.  The first was in 
civil engineering from the University of Queensland. This taught him to be 
practical: good structures must function properly whatever their nature. To his 
knowledge, none of his structures have collapsed and he hopes the same applies 
to his arguments.

After 5 years working in Australia, PNG and Africa, he returned to academia to 
take degrees in economics and philosophy at the University of Sydney.  His 
final degree was a Cambridge PhD, a pioneering thesis on Keynes’s philosophy 
and economics. After an active teaching and research career in Australia, 
including chairs at two universities and publications in both economics and 
philosophy, he’s now affiliated with HPS. His current research is focused on 
using philosophical tools to evaluate and improve economic theorising.

WHEN:  MONDAY 6TH MARCH 2023
START : 5.30PM
Location:   F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:   
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

All Welcome | Registration not required | Free
Copyright © *2023* *HPS,  All rights reserved.





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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm

2023-03-05 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2023
MONDAY 6TH MARCH 2023
FROM 5:30PM

Location: F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

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RODERICK O'DONNELL (PhD)

Invisible and Visible Hands. Why is Adam Smith Still Relevant to Economics and
Social Science? An Investigation on the 300th anniversary of his birth.

Abstract: Although most famous as an economist, Smith is better characterised
as a philosopher-economist or philosopher of science. This seminar presents an
overview of his writings aimed at better understandings of four topics: (i) his
thought as a whole; (ii) the meaning and relevance of his famous invisible hand
remarks; (iii) his major contributions to economics and social science; and
(iv) his position in terms of ongoing, polarised debates over the best
foundations for economic theorising and policy-making, a matter even more
pressing in our increasingly challenged world. A rarely noticed connection,
between Smith’s own economic debate and the history of the land now called
Australia, is also noted.

Bio: Today’s speaker is over-educated with four degrees. The first was in
civil engineering from the University of Queensland. This taught him to be
practical: good structures must function properly whatever their nature. To his
knowledge, none of his structures have collapsed and he hopes the same applies
to his arguments.

After 5 years working in Australia, PNG and Africa, he returned to academia to
take degrees in economics and philosophy at the University of Sydney. His
final degree was a Cambridge PhD, a pioneering thesis on Keynes’s philosophy
and economics. After an active teaching and research career in Australia,
including chairs at two universities and publications in both economics and
philosophy, he’s now affiliated with HPS. His current research is focused on
using philosophical tools to evaluate and improve economic theorising.

WHEN: MONDAY 6TH MARCH 2023
START : 5.30PM
Location: F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar 6th March 2023 at 5.30pm

2023-02-26 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Location: F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

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RODERICK O'DONNELL (PhD)

Invisible and Visible Hands. Why is Adam Smith Still Relevant to Economics and
Social Science? An Investigation on the 300th anniversary of his birth.

WHEN: MONDAY 6TH MARCH 2023
START : 5.30PM
Location: F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86760410958

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar Monday 20th February 2023 at 5.30pm

2023-02-12 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2023
MONDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2023
FROM 5:30PM

Location:   F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:   https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938 


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DAVID SCHEEL

Meeting Giants: Lost science, Indigenous cultural knowledge, and octopuses in 
Alaska

Abstract: The giant Pacific octopus is regarded as the world’s largest octopus 
species. But how big is that? I will relate a few accounts of large octopuses 
from Indigenous cultural knowledge, examine some older published accounts from 
north America of very large octopuses and consider how they are currently 
regarded, and examine the provenance of the largest octopuses records commonly 
cited in accounts of the species. This examination is an interesting journey 
but it may only deepen the mystery.

WHEN:  MONDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2023
START : 5.30PM
Location:   F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:   https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938 


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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar Monday 7th November at 5.30pm

2022-11-01 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F10A Law Building Annex, Level 3, Seminar Room 342
Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938 


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EMILY O'GORMAN (PhD)
Associate Professor, Macquarie University

WETLANDS AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: MORE-THAN HUMAN HISTORIES

Abstract: Ecologists estimate that the most of the world’s wetlands have been 
lost since 1700, with these losses accelerating from 1900. Wetlands have been 
drained to prevent disease, encourage urban growth, and diverted to support 
intensive agriculture. This loss of wetlands has had a range of consequences, 
from reduced biodiversity to the erosion of cultural sites. Only in the 1960s 
and 1970s did “wetlands” become an international category and object of 
conservation amidst growing efforts in global environmental protection. This 
paper considers these contested wetland histories in more-than-human terms. It 
first discusses the approach of more-than-human histories in relation to 
wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. It then examines Australia’s 
involvement in international wetlands conservation. Here, changing 
understandings of transcontinental bird migrations, Pacific diplomacy, and 
ideas of habitats and habitat loss, converged to shape government scientists’ 
involvement in the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance 
1971. This paper examines wetlands as sites defined by and laden with specific 
sets of values, which were shaped by particular expertise and relationships 
with certain animals and plants, and were deeply connected with Australasian 
and Pacific circulations.

Bio: Emily O’Gorman is an Associate Professor at Macquarie University. Her 
research is situated within environmental history, and the interdisciplinary 
environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges 
within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. This 
has been supported by nationally competitive research grants as well as a 
Carson Writing Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich. She is the 
author of Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin 
(2012) and Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human Histories of Australia’s 
Murray-Darling Basin (University of Washington Press, 2021). She co-leads the 
Environmental Humanities research group at Macquarie University, was a founding 
Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (2012-2014) and a 
founding co-editor of the Living Lexicon in that journal (2014-2020). She is 
currently the Convenor of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental 
History Network.




WHEN:  MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 2022
START: 5.30PM
Location:
F10A Law Building Annex, Level 3, Seminar Room 342

Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938 


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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar 17/10/2022 at 5:30pm.

2022-10-16 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil




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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 17th OCTOBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM


Location:

F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501

Zoom:

https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83458114235

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ELIZABETH ROBERTS-PEDERSEN
'WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO STARVE' : HUNGER IN THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN STARVATION 
(1950)



Abstract: Between November 1944 and October 1945, researchers from the 
Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene at the University of Minnesota induced 
semi-starvation in a group of young male volunteers drawn from the Civilian 
Public Service labour pool. Housed for the duration of the experiment in 
temporary facilities under the university’s Memorial Stadium, most volunteers 
lost a quarter of their body weight on a semi-starvation diet designed to 
replicate nutritional conditions in parts of occupied Europe. In 1950 the 
results were published as The Biology of Human Starvation, a landmark 
two-volume work describing the systemic effects of undernutrition. In this 
publication the Minnesota researchers proposed that semi-starvation produced ‘a 
special kind of person’, one quantifiably different ‘morphologically, 
chemically, physiologically, and psychologically from his well-fed 
counterpart.’ Yet for all the data they compiled, the researchers struggled to 
conclusively quantify or describe a fundamental element of the experiment: the 
volunteers’ experience of hunger. In this paper I discuss the Minnesota 
researchers’ attempts to grasp ‘what it feels like to starve’, as The Biology 
of Human Starvation put it, and how these efforts can help frame a broader 
history of ideas about hunger.



Bio: Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in History at the 
University of Newcastle, where she recently finished an ARC DECRA fellowship on 
the uses of psychiatry during the Second World War. She is completing two 
monographs under contract: one on psychiatry and suffering during the Second 
World War, and the other on the history of the idea of mental health.






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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar 24th October 2022 at 5.30pm

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 24th OCTOBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:   F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:   https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85650294167

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KATE E. LYNCH (PhD)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Charles Perkins 
Centre, University of Sydney.

CAUSE OF DEATH: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF DEATH CERTIFICATION

Abstract: Assigning a cause of death is required on death certificates in every 
UN member state. Cause of death information informs national and global 
mortality trends, which influences research, policy, and public health 
initiatives. Death certification procedures for documenting cause(s) of death 
first emerged in the context of infectious disease pandemics. They have since 
been refined with ongoing revisions to the World Health Organisation’s 
International Classification of Disease, now in its 11th edition (ICD-11). This 
talk explores the history of death certification and its legacy in current 
practice. I suggest that 1) the changing nature of death and disease, and 2) 
increasing causal knowledge about health and disease mechanisms, are not 
adequately reflected in current WHO guidelines and corresponding medical 
practice.

Bio: Kate is post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, 
University of Sydney. She has background working as both a philosopher and 
biologist. Her work uses a combination of experimental approaches philosophical 
theory to understand conceptual issues intersecting the two fields. Kate is 
involved in multiple collaborative projects with ecologists, geneticists, 
ethologists, psychologists, medical practitioners and philosophers.



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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar 17/10/2022 at 5:30pm.

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 17th OCTOBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:
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ELIZABETH ROBERTS-PEDERSEN
'WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO STARVE' : HUNGER IN THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN STARVATION 
(1950)

Abstract: Between November 1944 and October 1945, researchers from the 
Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene at the University of Minnesota induced 
semi-starvation in a group of young male volunteers drawn from the Civilian 
Public Service labour pool. Housed for the duration of the experiment in 
temporary facilities under the university’s Memorial Stadium, most volunteers 
lost a quarter of their body weight on a semi-starvation diet designed to 
replicate nutritional conditions in parts of occupied Europe. In 1950 the 
results were published as The Biology of Human Starvation, a landmark 
two-volume work describing the systemic effects of undernutrition. In this 
publication the Minnesota researchers proposed that semi-starvation produced ‘a 
special kind of person’, one quantifiably different ‘morphologically, 
chemically, physiologically, and psychologically from his well-fed 
counterpart.’ Yet for all the data they compiled, the researchers struggled to 
conclusively quantify or describe a fundamental element of the experiment: the 
volunteers’ experience of hunger. In this paper I discuss the Minnesota 
researchers’ attempts to grasp ‘what it feels like to starve’, as The Biology 
of Human Starvation put it, and how these efforts can help frame a broader 
history of ideas about hunger.

Bio: Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in History at the 
University of Newcastle, where she recently finished an ARC DECRA fellowship on 
the uses of psychiatry during the Second World War. She is completing two 
monographs under contract: one on psychiatry and suffering during the Second 
World War, and the other on the history of the idea of mental health.




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[SydPhil] 2022 Dyason Lecture this THURSDAY: Prof Peter Godfrey-Smith "The Evolution of Sentience"

2022-10-10 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

2022 Dyason Lecture: Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith

AUTHOR TALKS: "The Evolution of Sentience"

In the 2022 Dyason Lecture presented by the Australasian Association for the 
History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Professor Peter 
Godfrey-Smith considers the evolution of sentience.



13 October 2022 6pm to 7:30pm

General Admission: Free

State Library of New South Wales
Gallery Room, Ground Floor, Mitchell Building
1 Shakespeare Place
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

REGISTER HERE: 
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How did evolution give rise to feelings, such as pleasure and pain? And which 
organisms experience the events of their lives in this way? Do insects feel 
pain? Octopuses? How about plants? Where might we locate the true limits of 
sentience?

In the 2022 Dyason Lecture presented by the Australasian Association for the 
History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Professor Peter 
Godfrey-Smith considers the evolution of sentience.



Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith is a professor in the School of History and 
Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His undergraduate degree is 
from the University of Sydney, and he has a PhD in philosophy from UC San 
Diego. He taught at Stanford University between 1991 and 2003, and then 
combined a half-time post at the Australian National University and a visiting 
position at Harvard for a few years. He moved to Harvard full-time and was 
Professor there from 2006 to 2011, before moving to the CUNY Graduate Center. 
Since 2015 he has also had a half-time position in the HPS Unit at the 
University of Sydney.

Peter's main research interests are in the philosophy of biology and the 
philosophy of mind. He also works on pragmatism (especially John Dewey), 
general philosophy of science, and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology. 
Peter has written six books: Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature, 
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Darwinian 
Populations and Natural Selection, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award, Philosophy 
of Biology, Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of 
Consciousness, and Metazoa: Animal Life and the Both of the Mind. Peter's 
photos and videos have appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, The 
Guardian, Science, The Boston Globe and elsewhere.



Regards
Cynthia
Cynthia Kiu | Executive Officer (HPS) (Mon - Wed) / Education Support Officer 
(M) (Thur - Fri)
The University of Sydney
Faculty of Science, School of History and Philosophy of Science and School of 
Mathematics and Statistics
Room 389 (Mon - Wed) 521 (Thur - Fri), Carslaw Building (F07) | The University 
of Sydney | NSW | 2006
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I respectfully acknowledge Australia's First Peoples and the traditional 
custodians of the country of which I work on everyday, the Gadigal people of 
the Eora nation and the Darug and Gundagurra peoples. I further pay my respects 
to their elders past, present and emerging. This land was never ceded.


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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 10th October 2022 at 5.30pm. (Update: Date and time corrected in bottom of advert)

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*Reminder*

Dear All

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 10th OCTOBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM


Location:

F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501

Zoom:

https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84404949969

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YVES SAINT JAMES AQUINO
AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF "AESTHETIC DIAGNOSIS" IN APPEARANCE-ORIENTATED 
MEDICAL SPECIALTIES


Dr Yves Saint James Aquino MD PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre for 
Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, School of Health and Society, ASSH, 
University of Wollongong


Abstract: Medical specialties concerned with physical appearance, such as 
dermatology and cosmetic surgery, increasingly frame aesthetic concerns could 
be diagnosed in an objective and scientific manner. Such framing is further 
supported by practitioners who claim that features deemed unattractive-despite 
being free of disease or injury-are pathological, and medical or surgical 
procedures to modify such features are therapeutic. This paper complements the 
large body of political and feminist literature discussing 
appearance-orientated medical specialties by  offering an epistemological 
critique of aesthetic diagnosis as a fundamental basis of appearance-orientated 
medical specialties. My analysis demonstrates the failure of aesthetic 
evaluation in meeting the knowledge requirements to perform diagnostic 
processes that occur in mainstream medical practices. These processes are a) 
performing preliminary examination and testing, b) generating candidate disease 
entities (differential diagnosis) and c) establishing appropriate management or 
intervention.



Bio: Yves is a doctor and philosopher of medicine, with expertise in 
philosophical accounts of disease, ethics of cosmetic surgery, and ethics of 
Artificial Intelligence. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the 
Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of 
Wollongong working on an NHMRC Ideas Grant project that examines the ethical, 
legal and social implications of using AI for diagnosis and screening. He is a 
member of Macquarie University's Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics and the 
Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare. Twitter: 
@yvessj_aquino





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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 10th October 2022 at 5.30pm. (Update: Date and time corrected in bottom of advert)

2022-09-30 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Dear All

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 10th OCTOBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM


Location:

F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501

Zoom:

https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84404949969

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YVES SAINT JAMES AQUINO
AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF "AESTHETIC DIAGNOSIS" IN APPEARANCE-ORIENTATED 
MEDICAL SPECIALTIES


Dr Yves Saint James Aquino MD PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre for 
Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, School of Health and Society, ASSH, 
University of Wollongong


Abstract: Medical specialties concerned with physical appearance, such as 
dermatology and cosmetic surgery, increasingly frame aesthetic concerns could 
be diagnosed in an objective and scientific manner. Such framing is further 
supported by practitioners who claim that features deemed unattractive-despite 
being free of disease or injury-are pathological, and medical or surgical 
procedures to modify such features are therapeutic. This paper complements the 
large body of political and feminist literature discussing 
appearance-orientated medical specialties by  offering an epistemological 
critique of aesthetic diagnosis as a fundamental basis of appearance-orientated 
medical specialties. My analysis demonstrates the failure of aesthetic 
evaluation in meeting the knowledge requirements to perform diagnostic 
processes that occur in mainstream medical practices. These processes are a) 
performing preliminary examination and testing, b) generating candidate disease 
entities (differential diagnosis) and c) establishing appropriate management or 
intervention.



Bio: Yves is a doctor and philosopher of medicine, with expertise in 
philosophical accounts of disease, ethics of cosmetic surgery, and ethics of 
Artificial Intelligence. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the 
Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of 
Wollongong working on an NHMRC Ideas Grant project that examines the ethical, 
legal and social implications of using AI for diagnosis and screening. He is a 
member of Macquarie University's Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics and the 
Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare. Twitter: 
@yvessj_aquino





WHEN:  MONDAY 10th October 2022
START: 5.30PM

Location:

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 10th October 2022 at 5.30pm.

2022-09-28 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil


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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 10th OCTOBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:

https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84404949969

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YVES SAINT JAMES AQUINO
AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF "AESTHETIC DIAGNOSIS" IN APPEARANCE-ORIENTATED 
MEDICAL SPECIALTIES

Dr Yves Saint James Aquino MD PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre for 
Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, School of Health and Society, ASSH, 
University of Wollongong

Abstract: Medical specialties concerned with physical appearance, such as 
dermatology and cosmetic surgery, increasingly frame aesthetic concerns could 
be diagnosed in an objective and scientific manner. Such framing is further 
supported by practitioners who claim that features deemed unattractive—despite 
being free of disease or injury—are pathological, and medical or surgical 
procedures to modify such features are therapeutic. This paper complements the 
large body of political and feminist literature discussing 
appearance-orientated medical specialties by  offering an epistemological 
critique of aesthetic diagnosis as a fundamental basis of appearance-orientated 
medical specialties. My analysis demonstrates the failure of aesthetic 
evaluation in meeting the knowledge requirements to perform diagnostic 
processes that occur in mainstream medical practices. These processes are a) 
performing preliminary examination and testing, b) generating candidate disease 
entities (differential diagnosis) and c) establishing appropriate management or 
intervention.

Bio: Yves is a doctor and philosopher of medicine, with expertise in 
philosophical accounts of disease, ethics of cosmetic surgery, and ethics of 
Artificial Intelligence. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the 
Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of 
Wollongong working on an NHMRC Ideas Grant project that examines the ethical, 
legal and social implications of using AI for diagnosis and screening. He is a 
member of Macquarie University’s Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics and the 
Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare. Twitter: 
@yvessj_aquino


WHEN:  MONDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER 2022
START: 5.30PM
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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar on Monday 12/9/2022 Starts at 5.30pm

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

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SARA MAROSKE
LIFE WRITING AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: A BIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE DUCKER 
(1909-2004), REFUGEE AND PHYCOLOGIST

Abstract: Life writing is a popular form in the history of science for both 
authors and readers. Like all kinds of life writing, biography has challenges 
such as  a lack of sources or too many sources, but are there any that are 
specific to the history of science? Dr Sara Maroske, co-editor of Historical 
Records of Australian Science, discusses this question (and her responses to 
it) in the context of her biography of Prof. Sophie Ducker, a twentieth-century 
woman of privilege, and persecution, who found an academic home in Australia 
studying seaweeds and seagrasses.





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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
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SARA MAROSKE
LIFE WRITING AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: A BIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE DUCKER 
(1909-2004), REFUGEE AND PHYCOLOGIST

Abstract: Life writing is a popular form in the history of science for both 
authors and readers. Like all kinds of life writing, biography has challenges 
such as  a lack of sources or too many sources, but are there any that are 
specific to the history of science? Dr Sara Maroske, co-editor of Historical 
Records of Australian Science, discusses this question (and her responses to 
it) in the context of her biography of Prof. Sophie Ducker, a twentieth-century 
woman of privilege, and persecution, who found an academic home in Australia 
studying seaweeds and seagrasses.





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[SydPhil] Resending: HPS Research Seminar on Monday 29/8/2022 Start 5.30pm (Presenter Surname corrected)

2022-08-23 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

Dear All,

Resending the advert. The presenter’s surname was corrected and affiliation was 
added.

If you have registered to receive zoom link, there is no need to re-register 
again.
Regards
Cynthia
Cynthia Kiu | Executive Officer (HPS) (Mon – Wed) / Education Support Officer 
(M) (Thur – Fri)
The University of Sydney
Faculty of Science, School of History and Philosophy of Science and School of 
Mathematics and Statistics
Room 389 (Mon – Wed) 521 (Thur – Fri), Carslaw Building (F07) | The University 
of Sydney | NSW | 2006
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sydney.edu.au<http://sydney.edu.au>

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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MONDAY 29th AUGUST 2022
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RONALD PLANER (ANU)
COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND ORIGINS OF SHARED INTENTIONALITY

Abstract: It has seemed to many theorists that our nature as a cooperatively 
breeding species is crucial to understanding how we became human. This article 
examines a particular strand within this thinking, according to which 
cooperative breeding drove the evolution of human skills and motivations for 
sharing intentionality. I focus on a model of the evolution of these skills and 
motivations offered by Tomasello and González-Cabrera (2017) (see also 
Tomasello [2019]). Their model is “composite” in that it also recognizes an 
important role for collaborative foraging in the evolution of shared 
intentionality. I argue that their model faces at least two problems—what I 
call the “reflexive metacognition problem” and the “bonding problem.” These two 
problems (as their names would suggest) concern the cognitive and 
emotional-motivational dimensions of the evolution of shared intentionality, 
respectively. I sketch an alternative model which also posits a dual role for 
collaborative foraging and cooperative breeding. However, there are some 
crucial differences between the two models. In particular, Tomasello and 
González-Cabrera appeal to cooperative breeding to explain the origin of basic 
skills and motivations for sharing intentionality. In contrast, I argue that 
cooperative breeding, at least initially, primarily served to drive down the 
age of development of preexisting skills and motivations for sharing 
intentionality that originally evolved to support collaborative foraging. This 
alternative model avoids the reflexive cognition and bonding problem, and has 
other advantages which I highlight.

Tomasello, M., & Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2017). The role of ontogeny in the 
evolution of human cooperation. Human Nature, 28(3), 274-288.

Tomasello, M. (2019). Becoming human. In Becoming Human. Harvard University 
Press.



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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar on Monday 29/8/2022 Start 5.30pm

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 29th AUGUST 2022
FROM 5:30PM

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RONALD PLANNER
COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND ORIGINS OF SHARED INTENTIONALITY

Abstract: It has seemed to many theorists that our nature as a cooperatively
breeding species is crucial to understanding how we became human. This article
examines a particular strand within this thinking, according to which
cooperative breeding drove the evolution of human skills and motivations for
sharing intentionality. I focus on a model of the evolution of these skills and
motivations offered by Tomasello and González-Cabrera (2017) (see also
Tomasello [2019]). Their model is “composite” in that it also recognizes an
important role for collaborative foraging in the evolution of shared
intentionality. I argue that their model faces at least two problems—what I
call the “reflexive metacognition problem” and the “bonding problem.” These two
problems (as their names would suggest) concern the cognitive and
emotional-motivational dimensions of the evolution of shared intentionality,
respectively. I sketch an alternative model which also posits a dual role for
collaborative foraging and cooperative breeding. However, there are some
crucial differences between the two models. In particular, Tomasello and
González-Cabrera appeal to cooperative breeding to explain the origin of basic
skills and motivations for sharing intentionality. In contrast, I argue that
cooperative breeding, at least initially, primarily served to drive down the
age of development of preexisting skills and motivations for sharing
intentionality that originally evolved to support collaborative foraging. This
alternative model avoids the reflexive cognition and bonding problem, and has
other advantages which I highlight.

Tomasello, M., & Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2017). The role of ontogeny in the
evolution of human cooperation. Human Nature, 28(3), 274-288.

Tomasello, M. (2019). Becoming human. In Becoming Human. Harvard University
Press.

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[SydPhil] HPS Seminar Room 8/8/2022 at 5.30pm

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 8th AUGUST 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:   Zoom Only
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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).




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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar 30th May 2022

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2022
MONDAY 30TH MAY 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
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WENDY ROGERS & JACQUELINE DALZIELL
ETHICS OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: "ALL OF IT IS A PROBLEM. ALL OF IT IS GOOD AND BAD 
AT THE SAME TIME:

Wendy Rogers, Distinguished Professor, Philosophy Department, Macquarie 
University
Jac Dalziell, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology Post-doctoral 
Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University

Abstract: In this paper, we present the results of an empirical qualitative 
study with members of the ARC-funded Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology 
(CoESB). The aim of the study was to investigate scientists’ views of the 
ethical issues they encounter doing synthetic biology.

We performed 34 interviews with 31 individuals, ranging from PhD students 
through to Chief Investigators.
Our results fall into three main areas related to ethical issues raised by (i) 
the products of synthetic biology; (ii) the practice of synthetic biology; and 
(iii) the social context of the research. Our participants articulated 
recognised issues such as the potential benefits of synthetic biology products 
and their associated risks including dual-use research of concern, escape of 
engineered organisms with subsequent environmental impact, and public mistrust. 
In addition, they described the impact of precarious academic employment on 
their capacity to do ‘good science’; the impact of hype and industry 
influences; and the challenges of developing and following a research agenda to 
ensure that synthetic biology is harnessed to address some of the ‘grand 
challenges’ facing humanity.

Our results show that current ethical analyses of synthetic biology fail to 
take account of the way that the science is done, shaped by factors both 
internal and external to the laboratory.

Bio: Wendy Rogers is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy, 
and the School of Medicine at Macquarie University and a Chief Investigator in 
the ARC-funded Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology. She has broad 
research interests in bioethics, including research ethics, ethics of 
innovative technologies, organ donation, philosophy of medicine, and conflicts 
of interest in research and practice.
As well as being widely published in specialist and generalist journals, she 
has made contributions to policy and ethical guidance at the state and national 
level, through her two terms on the Australian Health Ethics Committee. Prof. 
Rogers received the 2019 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 
Ethics Award, and was included in Nature’s 10 list of ‘People who matter in 
science’ in 2019 for her work leading to retractions of unethical Chinese 
transplant research.

Jacqueline Dalziell currently holds a post-doctoral position in the Department 
of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, where she conducts 
bioethics/feminist science studies research in the ARC Center of Excellence in 
Synthetic Biology. She received her Ph.D in sociology from UNSW Sydney, in 
2018. Prior to coming to Macquarie, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 
the ARC Center of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and technology at 
UNSW, producing feminist science studies research. Her research merges 
contemporary social theory with perspectives from classical social theory. Her 
research interests include feminist theory, sociology of science, continental 
philosophy, and psychoanalytic thought.




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[SydPhil] HPS Seminar Monday 16th May 2022

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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SEMESTER ONE 2022
MONDAY 16TH MAY 2022
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DEAN RICKLES
QUANTUM EXISTENTIALISM

Abstract: By contrast with older views of physics, some not unreasonable new 
approaches to quantum mechanics, known collectively as Participatory Realism, 
ascribe what appear to be cosmogonical powers to those putting questions to the 
world. This talk will describe some of these ideas and compare them with a 
range of other, much older, ideas. Lurking at the heart of all of these ideas 
is the view that we are capable of shaping the world to a degree not commonly 
understood.




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[SydPhil] Reminder: HPS Research Seminar - 4th April 2022 at 5.30pm (updated: 30/3/2022)

2022-04-04 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2022
MONDAY 4TH APRIL 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
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https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86947851186

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MITCHELL GIBBS
FIRST NATIONS KNOWLEDGE OF SHELLFISH IN AUSTRALIA

Abstract: Throughout the world, there has been increasing recognition of the 
importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), held by First Nations 
peoples, and its incorporation in shellfish aquaculture and coastal management. 
In Australia, however, this understanding and incorporation of First Nations 
TEK of shellfish aquaculture and coastal management is in its infancy. In 
contrast to Australia, in Aotearoa (New Zealand), there is a rich history of 
knowledge of shellfish, understanding of cultural practices and the use of 
stories and ancestral sayings. We reviewed the current state of incorporation 
of TEK of shellfish in both Australia and Aotearoa. We find that TEK in 
Aotearoa has improved aquaculture and provides evidence of the value of 
incorporating TEK in the production of shellfish. We are only now just 
beginning the journey in Australia to understand and document TEK and practices 
held by First Nations people. Aotearoa provides valuable lessons on the 
importance of TEK and guidance for the respectful incorporation of TEK into 
shellfish aquaculture and coastal management in Australia. If we are to 
appropriately restore and manage our coasts, then we need to incorporate First 
Nations Australians knowledge, and respect and protect their connections to 
traditional sea management.




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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar - 4th April 2022 at 5.30pm (updated: 30/3/2022)

2022-03-29 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2022
MONDAY 4TH APRIL 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
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https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/86947851186

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MITCHELL GIBBS
FIRST NATIONS KNOWLEDGE OF SHELLFISH IN AUSTRALIA

Abstract: Throughout the world, there has been increasing recognition of the 
importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), held by First Nations 
peoples, and its incorporation in shellfish aquaculture and coastal management. 
In Australia, however, this understanding and incorporation of First Nations 
TEK of shellfish aquaculture and coastal management is in its infancy. In 
contrast to Australia, in Aotearoa (New Zealand), there is a rich history of 
knowledge of shellfish, understanding of cultural practices and the use of 
stories and ancestral sayings. We reviewed the current state of incorporation 
of TEK of shellfish in both Australia and Aotearoa. We find that TEK in 
Aotearoa has improved aquaculture and provides evidence of the value of 
incorporating TEK in the production of shellfish. We are only now just 
beginning the journey in Australia to understand and document TEK and practices 
held by First Nations people. Aotearoa provides valuable lessons on the 
importance of TEK and guidance for the respectful incorporation of TEK into 
shellfish aquaculture and coastal management in Australia. If we are to 
appropriately restore and manage our coasts, then we need to incorporate First 
Nations Australians knowledge, and respect and protect their connections to 
traditional sea management.




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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar - 4th April 2022 at 5.30pm

2022-03-28 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil



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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER ONE 2022
MONDAY 4TH APRIL 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
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MITCHELL GIBBS
FIRST NATIONS KNOWLEDGE OF SHELLFISH IN AUSTRALIA

Abstract: Throughout the world, there has been increasing recognition of the 
importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), held by First Nations 
peoples, and its incorporation in shellfish aquaculture and coastal management. 
In Australia, however, this understanding and incorporation of First Nations 
TEK of shellfish aquaculture and coastal management is in its infancy. In 
contrast to Australia, in Aotearoa (New Zealand), there is a rich history of 
knowledge of shellfish, understanding of cultural practices and the use of 
stories and ancestral sayings. We reviewed the current state of incorporation 
of TEK of shellfish in both Australia and Aotearoa. We find that TEK in 
Aotearoa has improved aquaculture and provides evidence of the value of 
incorporating TEK in the production of shellfish. We are only now just 
beginning the journey in Australia to understand and document TEK and practices 
held by First Nations people. Aotearoa provides valuable lessons on the 
importance of TEK and guidance for the respectful incorporation of TEK into 
shellfish aquaculture and coastal management in Australia. If we are to 
appropriately restore and manage our coasts, then we need to incorporate First 
Nations Australians knowledge, and respect and protect their connections to 
traditional sea management.




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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar on Monday 21st March 2022

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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SEMESTER ONE 2022
MONDAY 21ST MARCH 2021
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Location:
 Carslaw Building (F07) Level 3, Seminar Room 354

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COLIN KLEIN
TRANSDUCTION, CALIBRATION, AND THE COGNITIVE PENETRATION OF PAIN

Abstract: Pains are subject to obvious, well-documented, and striking top-down 
influences. This is in stark contrast to visual perception, where the debate 
over cognitive penetrability tends to revolve around fairly subtle experimental 
effects. Several authors have recently taken up the question of whether 
top-down effects on pain count as cognitive penetrability, and what that might 
show us about traditional debates. I review some of the known mechanisms for 
top-down modulation of pain, and suggest that it reveals an issue with a 
relatively neglected part of the cognitive penetrability literature. Much of 
the debate inherits Pylyshyn’s stark contrast between transducers and cognition 
proper. His distinction grew out of his running fight with the Gibsonians, and 
is far too strong to be defensible. I suggest that we might therefore view 
top-down influences on pain as a species of transducer calibration. This 
resolves few questions, supports nobody’s position, and makes the whole debate 
even messier than it was before---though hopefully in a fruitful way.





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[SydPhil] FW: Reminder Tonight HPS Research Seminar : "A Few Lame Laws of their Own Making:” Places of Experiment and Disorder in Restoration London

2021-04-11 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil




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MR PADDY HOLT
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

“A Few Lame Laws of their Own Making:” Places of Experiment and Disorder in 
Restoration London


Abstract: Some of the most canonical work on sites of experiment in Restoration 
London, and indeed on the “place of experiment” more generally, has been 
largely concerned with settings that offered particularly rich resources for 
severing experiments from ambient vices, and forging authoritative connections 
with powerful virtues. Thus, Robert Boyle’s “house of experiment” has been 
looted for the various ways it could be “managed” – its output “witnessed” and 
its access “controlled” – to secure experiments among sociabilities 
instantiating the political priorities of the restored Stuart monarchy. But 
even in the wake of the civil war, it was not long before experiments could be 
seen emerging from settings of conflict and chaos, settings evincing the 
fragility of the new order. Experiments were not only conspicuously associated 
with such troublesome settings, they often depended on them for their very 
performance. In this talk, I will look at how the dispersal of experiments into 
these less sanctified corners of metropolitan life, and their entanglement with 
perceived threats to the restored peace, could produce scepticism about the 
worth of experiment itself. Rather than viewing experiments as a solution to 
the problem of social order, I will explore how disorder could be one of their 
most essential and provoking features.






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