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SUMMARY:David Landy: "Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume's Treatise"
DESCRIPTION:In the Appendix to his Treatise\, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented\, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue that such scholars have largely overlooked an important clue: the fact that Hume twice presents the problem as one with any theory that purports\, “to explain the principles\, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness.” The key here\, I will suggest\, lies in understanding Hume’s notion of explanation. The two most prominent accounts of Hume on explanation lie at the extreme ends of an interpretive spectrum\, and are both philosophically and exegetically untenable. The first is that scientific explanation aims at nothing more than subsuming particular observations under inductively-established universal generalizations. The second is that Hume makes explanatory appeals to certain substances and causal powers that we cannot in any way represent\, but to which we can nonetheless refer. The first gets right Hume’s insistence on the connection of explanation to experience. The second gets right that it is the universal regularities of experience that stand in need of explanation\, not that do the explaining. So\, I will present a new account of Hume’s understanding of explanation that takes these successes and failures into account\, and will show that this interpretation perfectly predicts everything that Hume finds wrong with his account of personal identity. \nDavid Landy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He works primariy on the history of Modern philosophy\, especially Hume and Kant\, and also has interests in German Idealism and the work of Wilfrid Sellars.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-landy-explanation-and-personal-identity-in-the-appendix-to-humes-treatise-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T173000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Ellis: "Motivated Reasoning\, Heavy and Light"
DESCRIPTION:At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. \nThe format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nJonathan Ellis\nMotivated Reasoning\, Heavy and Light\nThursday\, May 19\, 2016\nLocation: Humanities 1\, Room 202\nTime: 4:00 – 5:30 \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-ellis-motivated-reasoning-heavy-and-light-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160503T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20160426T172844Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Lee: "The Greeks had a word for it: thumos"
DESCRIPTION:Paul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard\, MIT\, and UC Santa Cruz\, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967. \nIn 1976 alongside Paige Smith\, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry Brown’s administration. Dr. Lee organized and proposed the Greenbelt Initiative to save the Pogonip in 1978. In 1985 he founded the organization that became Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center. \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops.  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-lee-the-greeks-had-a-word-for-it-thumos-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Provost House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T160000
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SUMMARY:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong "Implicit Moral Attitudes"
DESCRIPTION:Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However\, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process dissociation procedure) and then explore potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for philosophical theories of moral epistemology\, responsibility\, and virtue. If there is time\, I will discuss practical uses of these findings in criminal law\, especially regarding the treatment of psychopaths and prediction of their recidivism. \nWalter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has published widely on ethics (theoretical and applied as well as meta-ethics)\, empirical moral psychology and neuroscience\, philosophy of law\, epistemology\, philosophy of religion\, and informal logic. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as uses of neuroscience in legal systems.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/walter-sinnott-armstrong-implicit-moral-attitudes-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T174500
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SUMMARY:Gayle Salamon: "Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry"
DESCRIPTION:This talk revisits the essentialism debates within feminism\, and reconsiders the impasse in which those debates landed. What understanding of “essence” was operative in those conversations about gender essentialism? And might there be a different way of thinking about the relation between essence and gender? I turn to singular and plural essences in Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s concept of eidetic variation\, showing that that phenomenology offers an articulation of essence in which variation and temporal unfolding\, rather than fixity and atemporality\, are primary. The phenomenological concept of essence\, I will argue\, offers a way to reconsider essentialism that steers clear of the straits of bilogical determinism and social constructionism that have deadlocked previous conversations about gender and essence. \nAbout:\nGayle Salamon is an Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Research interests include phenomenology\, queer and trans theory\, feminist philosophy\, 20th Century Continental philosophy\, psychoanalysis\, and disability studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gayle-salamon-gender-essentialism-and-eidetic-inquiry-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T174500
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CREATED:20160122T213621Z
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SUMMARY:Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
DESCRIPTION:This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control\, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation\, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation\, which have been regarded as central both in the traditions in which the practices arose and in the scientific literature on meditation. I analyze them in terms of their characteristic intentions\, distingush them from concentration and mindfulness in general\, and examine the relations between them. Concentration involves keeping the mind focused on a single object\, while mindfulness requires noticing whatever mental states occupy the focus of one’s consciousness. In the course of the investigation I examine the role of phenomenology and volition in the activity of meditating\, and how they change as meditative capacities develop. \nAbout: \nNoa Latham is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Interests: Ethics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophy of Action\, Philosophy of Mind
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noa-latham-meditation-and-self-control-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151201T173000
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CREATED:20151120T214808Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Jonathan Ellis: "Philosophy and the Public"
DESCRIPTION:The Works in Progress Talk by Jonathan Ellis has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for a date in January. Please stay tuned for more information.\n  \n\nJonathan Ellis Works in Progress: Philosophy and the Public \nAt least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. \nThe format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-and-the-public-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T180000
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CREATED:20151009T224532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T224532Z
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SUMMARY:Casey O'Callaghan "The Multisensory Character of Perception"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: My thesis is that perceptual awareness itself is richly multisensory. I argue for this conclusion on the grounds that certain forms of multisensory perceptual experience are incompatible with the claim that each aspect of a perceptual experience is associated with some specific sensory modality or another. First\, I explicate what it is for some feature of a conscious perceptual episode to be associated with a given modality\, or to be modality specific\, since no clear criterion yet exists in the literature on multisensory perception. Then\, I argue based on philosophical and experimental evidence that some novel intermodal features are perceptible only through the coordinated use of multiple senses. The cases to which I appeal involve consciously perceptible feature instances and feature types that could not be perceptually experienced through the use of individual sense modalities working on their own or simply in parallel. Thus\, not every feature of a conscious perceptual episode is associated with some specific modality or another. Finally\, I offer an account of how to type perceptual experiences by modality that makes room for richly multisensory experiences. The key is rejecting the presumption that perceptual experiences apportion neatly into modality-specific components – an experience’s being visual does not preclude its being auditory. \nPre-reading: The Multisensory Character of Perception \nAbout: Casey O’Callaghan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Research Interests: Focus on philosophical questions about perception\, auditory perception and the nature of its objects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/casey-ocallaghan-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T180000
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SUMMARY:Imogen Dickie "Proper Names: Transition to the End Game"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nI shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms\, descriptivisms\, and crosses between; and identify two questions around which the next phase in discussions of reference-fixing for proper names should be structured. \nAbout: \nImogen Dickie is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Research Interests: Philosophy of language and mind: theory of reference\, metasemantics\, acquaintance\, perception\, communication\, singular thought. Some topics in epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of action. \nacademia.edu: Imogen Dickie academic page \nhttp://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/dickie.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imogen-dickie-proper-names-transition-to-the-end-game-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150528T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150528T180000
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CREATED:20150519T211842Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Colloquium & Graduation Celebration
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our End of Year Celebration\, the Philosophy Department will showcase the excellent academic work of students nominated by our faculty. \nCamille Charette\, “Humanitarian Intervention\, a Feminist Perspective”\nAndrew Bunn\, “On Thomas Nagel’s ‘Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness’ ” \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nAll are welcome! \n\nPast (2014) Presenters:\nMatthew Strebe\, “Schopenhauer and Aesthetic Experience”\nLia Salaverry\, “Design Logic and Community Building in Public Transportation”\nAlex Dor\, “Construction of Nation and Nationalism”\nLisa Clark\, “Knowing When I’m Right”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/annual-philosophy-undergraduate-colloquium-graduation-celebration-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150430T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150430T174500
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SUMMARY:Shelly Wilcox: "Immigration Justice in Nonideal Circumstances"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn recent years\, political philosophers have begun to interrogate the methodology they use to construct normative principles. Some have voiced the concern that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles are constructed under idealized assumptions and thus are ill-suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically\, critics have raised three related objections to so-called ideal theory: (1) ideal theory cannot help us understand current injustices in the actual\, nonideal world; (2) ideal principles are not sufficiently action-guiding; and (3) ideal theory is counterproductive or even dangerous because it tends to reflect and perpetuate illicit group privilege. \nThis paper explores recent work on the ethics of immigration in light of these methodological criticisms\, focusing on the open borders debate. The central question in this debate is whether liberal states have a moral right to restrict immigration. I argue that prominent arguments on both sides of this issue are subject to the standard criticisms of ideal theory\, and thus that a nonideal normative approach to immigration in urgently needed. I then develop several methodological desiderata for such an approach and draw upon these criteria to outline the broad contours of an adequate nonideal theory of justice in immigration. \n*** \nBiography: \nShelley Wilcox is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works in the areas of social and political philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, and applied ethics\, with a special interest in immigration\, global justice\, and urban environmental issues. She has published articles on the ethics of immigration and globalization in Philosophical Studies\, Social Theory and Practice\, Journal of Social Philosophy\, Philosophy Compass\, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\, as well as in numerous anthologies. She is currently working on a book manuscript on urban environmental ethics and serving as Book Review Editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelly Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\n  \nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shelley-wilcox-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150407T173000
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE & LOCATION: Works in Progress: Samantha Matherne
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Samantha Matherne. \nAt least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served. \n\n  \nReviving Philosophy of History \nPaul Roth\nTuesday\, January 20\, 2015 \n*** \nWhy Does Space Have More than One Dimension? \nAbe Stone\nThursday\, February 19\, 2015 \n*** \nErnst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics \nSamantha Matherne\nThursday\, April 9\, 2015
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/works-in-progress-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150312T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150312T174500
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SUMMARY:Felipe De Brigard: "The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMany philosophers of memory have wondered whether or not it is indispensible to postulate the existence of memory traces to explain remembering. In this talk I will offer an argument in favor of the explanatory indispensability of memory traces. To that end\, I will begin by demonstrating that the main arguments in favor of the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering share the logical structure of a inference to the best explanation. As a result\, most arguments against the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering aim to show that we can have equally successful explanations that do not require the postulation of such entities. My argument aims to show that there is a large number of memory phenomena for which explanations that do not postulate the existence of memory traces would be inadequate. \n*** \nAbout: \nFelipe De Brigard\nAssistant Professor\nCenter for Cognitive Neuroscience\nPhilosophy\, Arts & Sciences\nDuke University \n*** \nResearch Interests: Philosophy of Mind\, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience; Neurophilosophy; Moral Psychology \nMost of my research focuses on the way in which memory and imagination interact. So far\, I have explored ways in which episodic memory both guides and constrains episodic counterfactual thinking (i.e.\, thoughts about alternative ways in which past personal events could have occurred)\, and how this interaction affects the perceived plausibility of imagined counterfactual events. I also explore the differential contribution of episodic and semantic memory in the generation of different kinds of counterfactual simulations\, as well as the effect of counterfactual thinking on the memories they derive from. In addition\, my research attempts to understand how prior experience helps to constrain the way in which we reconstruct episodic memories. Finally\, I am also interested in the role of internal attention during conscious recollection. To address these issues I use behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques\, as well as the conceptual rigor of philosophical analysis. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelley Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/felipe-de-brigard-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150306T140000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Kukla CHANGED TO MARCH 6: "The Sedimentation of Bias in Medical Institutions"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nBias is becoming an increasingly central topic in both moral psychology and bioethics. We have ample evidence that biases shape our interactions\, including interactions between health professionals and patients\, in complicated and penetrating ways that are resistant to first person access and to manipulation. Typically\, biases are presumed to be distortions at the level of individual cognitive processes. I examine how bias can be built into the institutions\, spaces\, policies\, and practices of medicine\, quite apart from any person-level cognitive distortions. I examine three types of examples: (1) judgments of scientific uncertainty and epistemic risk in health care research and delivery; (2) material medical environments that perpetuate specific ideological distortions; (3) the inflation of drug-treatable diseases and the overvaluing of pharmaceutical interventions. The upshot is that bias in medicine requires structural solutions\, not just the ‘education’ of individuals. \nAbout: \nRebecca Kukla is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her research interests include social epistemology (including the epistemology and methodology of medical research)\, philosophy of language\, feminist philosophy\, metaethics\, reproductive ethics and the culture of pregnancy and motherhood\, and research ethics. Much of her research bridges ethics\, epistemology\, and philosophy of language. She also has serious interests in eighteenth century philosophy\, especially the work of Rousseau and Kant. \nShe received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. From 2003-2005\, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2004\, she was a Visiting Scholar at the USDA\, studying ethical issues concerning food and nutrition assistance programs. She also received her Sommelier certification from Algonquin College in 2007. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelley Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-kukla-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150219T173000
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress: Abe Stone
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Abe Stone. \nAt least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served. \n\n  \nReviving Philosophy of History \nPaul Roth\nTuesday\, January 20\, 2015 \n*** \n“Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?” \nAbe Stone\nThursday\, February 19\, 2015 \n*** \nErnst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics \nSamantha Matherne\nThursday\, April 9\, 2015
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/works-in-progress-abe-stone-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150108T174500
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20141215T175536Z
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SUMMARY:Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
DESCRIPTION:Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not\, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior\, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models of the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (boosterism\, epiphenomenalism\, rationalization\, and inert discovery). I then present convergent evidence from studies of about a dozen different types of moral behavior. The results suggest that ethicists behave no morally better on average or any more consistently with their espoused values\, compared to other groups of professors. Using a combination of direct observation and self-report measures\, I examine: the misappropriation of library books\, voting in public elections\, courtesy at professional meetings\, responsiveness to student emails\, charitable donation\, organ and blood donation\, staying in touch with one’s mother\, vegetarianism\, honesty in responses to surveys\, nonpayment of conference registration fees\, Nazi party membership in the 1930s\, and peer evaluation of overall moral behavior. The overall results will be compared with the predictions of the four models. \nEric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. He has written extensively on consciousness\, self-knowledge\, attitudes\, and moral psychology. His most recent book is Perplexities of Consciousness. He blogs at The Splintered Mind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-schwitzgebel-the-moral-behavior-of-ethics-professors-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141211T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20141125T024941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141125T024941Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
DESCRIPTION:At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/abe-stone-why-does-space-have-more-than-one-dimension-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T174500
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20141016T223354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141016T223354Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
DESCRIPTION:Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not\, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior\, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models of the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (boosterism\, epiphenomenalism\, rationalization\, and inert discovery). I then present convergent evidence from studies of about a dozen different types of moral behavior. The results suggest that ethicists behave no morally better on average or any more consistently with their espoused values\, compared to other groups of professors. Using a combination of direct observation and self-report measures\, I examine: the misappropriation of library books\, voting in public elections\, courtesy at professional meetings\, responsiveness to student emails\, charitable donation\, organ and blood donation\, staying in touch with one’s mother\, vegetarianism\, honesty in responses to surveys\, nonpayment of conference registration fees\, Nazi party membership in the 1930s\, and peer evaluation of overall moral behavior. The overall results will be compared with the predictions of the four models. \nEric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. He has written extensively on consciousness\, self-knowledge\, attitudes\, and moral psychology. His most recent book is Perplexities of Consciousness. He blogs at The Splintered Mind. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelley Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-schwitzgebel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20140421T201812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T201812Z
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SUMMARY:Mikkel Johansen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective\, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today\, this absolutistic view of mathematics has been challenged by a number of different theories. Most noticeably\, social constructivists such as David Bloor and Donald MacKenzie have stress the influence social factors have had on the development of mathematics\, and Bloor simply describes mathematics as a social institution. Other theorists such as Rafael Núñez and George Lakoff have claimed mathematics to be embodied and fundamentally shaped by sensory-motor experience and certain cognitive strategies. In my talk I will report from a qualitative study of the practice of working mathematicians. The study shows that the production of mathematical knowledge is clearly conditioned both by social factors and by our experience of and ability to actively use the material world. Thus\, the study confirms some of the basic ideas of the two approaches mentioned above. However\, the study also gives reason to questions the reductionism inherent in both the social constructivistic and the embodiment approach. Mathematics cannot be reduced either to the social or to sensory-motor experience. \nADVANCE READING: Whats in a diagram? \nMikkel Willum Johansen is an assistant professor at the faculty of science\, University of Copenhagen. He has a PhD in the philosophy of the mathematical sciences and has worked extensively with mathematical cognition and with the different version of naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics. In 2014 he published the book Invitation til matematikkens videnskabsteori (Eng: Invitation to the philosophy of the mathematical sciences). \nPlease click here for more information
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mikkel-johansen-material-and-social-conditions-for-the-development-of-mathematics-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20140319T185613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140319T185613Z
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SUMMARY:Ned Block: "Conscious\, Preconscious\, Unconscious"
DESCRIPTION:There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious\, but can become reportable with a shift of attention and do not have many of the signature properties of unconscious states. This lecture discusses whether these states might be phenomenally conscious in the light of the close conceptual tie between conscious perception and first person authority. \nAdvance reading: Consciousness\, accessibility\, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience \nProfessor Block is the Silver Professor of Philosophy\, Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ned-block-conscious-preconscious-unconscious-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20140212T000953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140212T000953Z
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SUMMARY:Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision\, in isolation\, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance\, figure\, magnitude\, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not\, strictly speaking\, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an universal language of the Author of nature.” For typical humans\, this language of vision comes naturally. Berkeley identifies two sorts of objects of vision: primary (light and colors) and secondary (distance\, figure\, magnitude\, situation). But Berkeley also appeals to a third class of a different sort: visible figure\, magnitude\, and situation\, constituting the vocabulary of the language of vision. By considering two perceivers who lack this vocabulary we may better understand this third category and the difference between those who must learn the language of vision and those for whom it is a natural endowment. \nRead the paper here: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision\n  \nRebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College\, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy\, Thomas Reid\, and Philosophy of Mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy\, Res Philosophica\, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly\, Philosophical Quarterly\, History of Philosophy Quarterly\, The Journal of the History of Philosophy\, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy\, 1800 – 1950 (University of Toronto Press\, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Thomas Reid’s theory of mind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/becko-copenhaver-berkeley-on-the-language-of-nature-and-the-objects-of-vision-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131114T170000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20131104T221827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131104T221827Z
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium with Seth Yalcin: "Epistemic Modality De Re"
DESCRIPTION:I describe some new puzzles about the interaction of epistemic modality with quantification. I offer to dissolve the puzzles using a nonstandard kind of situation semantics. On the theory I develop\, possibilities are partial\, and quantification involves tacit modality. \n(Ph.D.\, MIT) Professor Yalcin works primarily in the philosophy of language\, though his research extends to issues in the philosophy of mind\, metaphysics\, formal epistemology\, and linguistics. Yalcin runs the Meaning Sciences Club at UC Berkeley\, which is focused on semantics and related topics in syntax\, pragmatics\, logic\, cognitive science\, and the philosophy of language.  Yalcin is also co-organizer of The History and Philosophy of Logic\, Mathematics\, and Science group at UC Berkeley\, a Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Working Group devoted to the discussion of historical and philosophical issues in symbolic logic\, mathematics\, and science.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-with-seth-yalcin-epistemic-modality-de-re-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20130924T172416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130924T172416Z
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SUMMARY:Otávio Bueno: "Seeing with a Microscope"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly\, in microscopy). To motivate the view\, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen’s empiricist proposal will be provided. \nOtávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. His research concentrates in philosophy of science\, philosophy of mathematics\, and philosophy of logic. He has published widely in these areas in journals such as: Noûs\, Mind\, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science\, Philosophy of Science\, Synthese\, Journal of Philosophical Logic\, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science\, and Analysis. He is editor-in-chief of Synthese. In his free time\, he enjoys to run ultramarathons.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/otavio-bueno-seeing-with-a-microscope-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130628
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20130607T161835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T161835Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Things
DESCRIPTION:Note: due to two unfortunate cancellations\, the session originally planned for Tuesday evening\, June 25th\, will not take place. The workshop will begin Wednesday morning. \nAll conference events will take place in Humanities 1\, Room 210. \n\nWednesday\, June 26th \n10:00–11:30 David Hyder (University of Ottawa) “Time and object in Transcendental Deduction §24”\nModerator: Dennis Des Chene \n11:45–1:15 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) “Kant on the qualities of things”\nModerator: David Hyder \n1:15–2:45 Lunch \n2:45–4:15 Dennis Des Chene (Washington University St. Louis) “The emergence of mere things”\nModerator: Ori Simchen \n4:30–6:00 Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia) “Things of semantic value”\nModerator: Abe Stone \n6:00-7:00 Tea and Cookies Reception \nThursday\, June 27th\n9:30–11:00 Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris VII) “Res extensae\, res publicae\, and the political dimensions of things”\nModerator: Ori Simchen \n11:15–12:45 Nick Stang (University of Miami) (title TBA)\nModerator: Justin E.H. Smith \n12:45–1:45 Lunch \n1:45–3:15 Abe Stone “Kant on substances and things”\nModerator: Nick Stang
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-on-things-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20130514T180821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130514T180821Z
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SUMMARY:Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
DESCRIPTION:I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard\, David Velleman\, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent’s desires are part of the self\, and that their effects include the self’s decision and action. \nNeil Sinhababu is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore. He works on Ethics and Metaethics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neil-sinhababu-desires-explanations-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072642
CREATED:20130306T214250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130306T214250Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Guevara: "Has Traditional Ethical Theory Been Made Defunct by Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory?"
DESCRIPTION:Work-in-Progress: Daniel Guevara\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, UC Santa Cruz \nThis talk is based on a paper by Sandra Dreisbach (PhD\, Philosophy\, UC Santa Cruz 2012) and Daniel Guevara. It is a critical assessment of Kahneman and Tversky’s Nobel Prize winning Prospect Theory – especially their so-called Asian Disease Problem – and its bearing on certain important issues in traditional ethical theory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/daniel-guevara-has-traditional-ethical-theory-been-made-defunct-by-kahneman-and-tverskys-prospect-theory-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072643
CREATED:20130222T171645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130222T171645Z
UID:10005384-1362499200-1362504600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:C.D.C. Reeve: Beginning and Ending with Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics
DESCRIPTION:C.D.C. Reeve is the Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in ancient Greek philosophy\, especially Plato and Aristotle. His books include\, Philosopher-Kings (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006)\, Socrates in the Apology (Hackett 1989)\, Practices of Reason(Oxford\, 1992) Substantial Knowledge (Hackett 2000)\, Love’s Confusions (Harvard 2005)\, andAction\, Contemplation\, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Harvard 2012). He has translated Plato’s Cratylus (1997)\, Euthyphro\, Apology\, Crito (2002)\, Republic (2004)\, and Meno (2006) as well as Aristotle’s Politics (1998). \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-d-c-reeve-beginning-and-ending-with-happiness-in-aristotles-ethics-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130207T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072643
CREATED:20130129T180837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T180837Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kaplan: "Turning social categories into biological realities: 'Race' made biological"
DESCRIPTION:Biological facts can neither determine nor justify the racial categories identified in our ordinary social discourse. Claims to the contrary confuse our ability to find biological correlates to populations with our social reasons for picking out and maintaining those categories over time. Using recent arguments surrounding “race” and medicine as an example\, I argue that rejecting misguided claims regarding the biological nature of “race” remains important if we are to respond appropriately to the injustices inherent in the fundamental importance that socially ascribed racial categories continue to have in determining people’s life-prospects \nDr. Jonathan Kaplan‘s main research interests lie in the Philosophy of Biology and in Social and Political Philosophy. His recent publications include work on human behavior genetics\, on the conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology\, on issues surrounding the roles that race plays in medicine and in housing\, and on the discourses surrounding race and human biology more generally. He is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.\nArticle of interest: \nPrisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation\, and the Very Concept of “Race”\nby Jonathan Michael Kaplan & Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-kaplan-turning-social-categories-into-biological-realities-race-made-biological-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130202T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072643
CREATED:20130114T171113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130114T171113Z
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SUMMARY:2013 California Regional High School Ethics Bowl Competition
DESCRIPTION:An Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event\, more nuanced than debate\, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament\, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight into ethical and philosophical issues.\nLocation:\nCollege Nine: Social Science 1\, Rooms 110 and 161 \nCollege Ten: Social Sciences 2\, Rooms 71\, 75 and 179\nSchedule: \n8:00 Judges Training: Social Science 2\, Room 141 \n8:45 Welcome \n9:00 Round 1 \n10:10 Round 2 \n11:20 Round 3 \n12:30 Lunch \n1:30 Round 4 \n3:00 Final Round with reception ending at 5:00\nFor more information\, please visit: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/ethicsbowl/highschoolethicsbowl.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2013-california-regional-high-school-ethics-bowl-competition-2/
LOCATION:Multiple Venues\, College 9 & College 10\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121201T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121201T170000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072643
CREATED:20121121T214824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121121T214824Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl
DESCRIPTION:The philosophy department is proud to announce that UCSC will be hosting two Ethics Bowl debate competitions this year. \nOn December 1st\, 2012\, UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl\, a qualifier for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Ethics Bowl is a team debate competition where teams of five undergraduates analyze case studies that demonstrate ethical dilemmas drawn from a wide range of areas (environmental ethics\, biomedical ethics\, business ethics\, institutional ethics\, personal ethics\, etc.). Come see the UCSC team\, the defending California Regional Champions\, compete! \nThe competition is open to the public\, and any interested students\, faculty\, and community members are invited to attend. \nThe event is all day (8:30-5pm). Spectators can pick-up a schedule at the the check-in/information table located at Stevenson 150. For more information\, please visit: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/ethicsbowl/2012caregionalethicsbowl.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/california-regional-ethics-bowl-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T072643
CREATED:20121110T012108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121110T012108Z
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium ~ Scott Gilbert: "We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality"
DESCRIPTION:4:00pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 210\nCo-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy\, History of Consciousness\, Cultural Studies\, and Science and Justice Working Group \n ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics\, immunology\, evolution\, development\, anatomy\, and physiology. Each of these biological sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality\, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade\, nucleic acid analysis\, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques\, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding significant interactions of animals and plants with symbiotic microorganisms that disrupt the boundaries which heretofore had characterized the biological individual. Animals cannot be considered individuals by anatomical\, or physiological criteria\, because a diversity of symbionts are both present and functional in completing metabolic pathways and serving other physiological functions. Similarly\, these new studies have shown that animal development is incomplete without symbionts. Symbionts also constitute a second mode of genetic inheritance\, providing selectable genetic variation for natural selection. The immune system also develops\, in part\, in dialogue with symbionts\, and thereby functions as a mechanism for integrating microbes into the animal-cell community. Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts– as a critically important unit of anatomy\, development\, physiology\, immunology\, and evolution\, opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological sub-disciplines have heretofore characterized living entities. \nABOUT: Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College\, where he teaches developmental genetics\, embryology\, and the history and critiques of biology. He received his B.A. in both biology and religion from Wesleyan University (1971)\, and he earned his PhD in biology from the pediatric genetics laboratory of Dr. Barbara Migeon at the Johns Hopkins University (1976). His M.A. in the history of science\, also from The Johns Hopkins University\, was done under the supervision of Dr. Donna Haraway. He pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin in the laboratories of Dr. Masayasu Nomura and Dr. Robert Auerbach. Dr. Gilbert has been Chair of the Division of Developmental and Cell Biology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology\, and he is a member of the education committee of the Society for Developmental Biology. \nHe has also been elected a fellow of the AAAS and the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists. He currently has three books in print:Developmental Biology (a textbook in its eighth edition)\, Bioethics and the New Embryology (a volume\, co-authored with two students\, that discusses new findings in developmental biology with respect to philosophy and religion)\, and Ecological Developmental Biology\, a textbook co-authored with David Epel which integrates developmental plasticity\, epigenetics\, and symbiosis into discussions of medicine and evolution. Scott has received several awards\, including the Medal of François I from the Collège de France\, the Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writing Award\, the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award\,  honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki and the University of Tartu\, and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant. In 2002\, the Society for Developmental Biology awarded him its first Viktor Hamburger Prize for Excellence in Education\, and in 2004\, he was awarded the Kowalevsky Prize in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. He has recently become a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki and has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to work on that most interesting of topics-how the turtle forms its shell-and he continues to do research and write in both developmental biology and in the history and philosophy of biology. \nOutside the class and laboratory\, his interests include hiking\, photography\, and he plays piano in KNISH\, one of Swarthmore’s premier Klezmer bands
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-scott-gilbert-we-are-all-lichens-how-symbiosis-research-has-reconstituted-a-new-realm-of-individuality-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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