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• Hybrid conference on Perception

  • Start
    05 Jun 2023
  • End
    06 Jun 2023
  • Location
    ACU and Deakin

  Registration is now open for a two-day dual-hosted hybrid conference on *Perception* on 5-6 June, to be held at:

  * Deakin University (Day 1): Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 Building, 727 Collins St, Collins Square;

  and

  * Australian Catholic University (Day 2): Greg Craven Conference Centre, Teresa of Kolkata Building

  As a hybrid event, talks will be delivered in a combination of in person and livestream via Zoom (with some speakers delivering from overseas).

  Registration is free. Please register your interest via email to Jack Reynolds by 3 June (email: jack.reynolds@deakin.edu.au).

  When registering, please indicate whether you plan on attending:

  * On Day 1, or Day 2, or both;

  * In person or online;

  Those registering for online attendance will be sent a link in the days leading up to the conference.

  Space is limited, so please register at earliest convenience.

  Program:

  Day One: Phenomenological and Analytical Approaches (5 June) Deakin

  9:30 Richard Colledge (ACU): "Knowledge as Lived Perception: From Plato to Gadamer via Merleau-Ponty"

  10:30 Claude Romano (ACU): "Realism about Colours"

  Coffee break

  11:45 Vania Alarcón Castillo (ACU): "Perception as a Normative Experience. Remarks on the Husserlian approach to Normativity in Perception"

  Lunch

  2:00 Jakob Hohwy (Monash): "Consciousness, active inference and self-evidencing"

  Tea

  3:15 Samuel Baron (Dianoia, ACU) (online): "Perception and time"

  4:15 Marilyn Stendera (Wollongong) online: "Phenomenology and Synaesthesia"

  Day Two: Perception and Culture (6 June) ACU

  9:30 Jack Reynolds (Deakin): "Perception and phenomenal experience in Merleau-Ponty and beyond: An alternative to contemporary 'illusionism'"

  10:30 Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne): "To unsee the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is: Heidegger in the settler-colony"

  Coffee break

  11:45 Christina Dietz (Dianoia, ACU) and John Hawthorne (Dianoia, ACU) (online USA), "Hearing Things"

  Lunch

  2:00 Riccardo McMillan (Deakin): "Perceiving beyond perception: navigating the psychedelic turn in phenomenology" (online)

  Break

  3:30 Peter Howard (ACU) "Constructing and perceiving images theologically: the Visual Art of Preaching in Renaissance Italy" (online).

  Afternoon Tea

  4:30 Richard Kearney (Boston College) "Touching Perception" (online)

  
  

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• Philosophy of Biology Workshop

  • Start
    21 Jun 2023
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    (AEST)
  • End
    23 Jun 2023
  •  
    (AEST)
  • Location
    Australian National University

  Philosophy of Biology workshop

  Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences, Australian National University

  The aim of the meeting is to provide a regular mid-year workshop for the philosophy of biology community across Australia and New Zealand, with a focus on highlighting work by graduate students, early career researchers and visiting scholars. We welcome submissions from anyone based in, or visiting, Australia and New Zealand. Priority for speaking slots will be given to graduate student and early career submissions. 

  Organisers:

  Dr. Rachael Brown, ANU
  Dr. Kate Lynch, Uni of Melbourne
  Dr. John Matthewson, Massey University
  Dr. Emily Parke, University of Auckland
  

  For further information about the meeting, see here:  and a form for abstract submission is available here: https://anzphilbio.weebly.com
  
  
  

  
  

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• 2023 AAP Conference

  • Start
    02 Jul 2023
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    9:00 AM (AEST)
  • End
    06 Jul 2023
  •  
    5:00 PM (AEST)
  • Location
    Australian Catholic University

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  AAP  Conference   July 2023

  Registrations are available at AAP member, and Non Member rates, for weekly, daily or two day registration. 

  Discount available for postgraduates, retirees and those earning under $35,000 p.a. 

  Discount rate available for Undergraduate students. 

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• Space, Time, and Location Workshop

  • Start
    10 Jul 2023
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    (ACST)
  • End
    14 Jul 2023
  •  
    (ACST)
  • Location
    Tarndanya/Adelaide

  Space, Time, and Location Workshop

  The metaphysics of persistence has obvious connections with the physics of matter. This workshop aims to bring together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics to explore foundational questions about spacetime, material objects, and the nature of locative relations between them. Speakers will explore the historical and conceptual dimensions of debates over topics including:

  • The prospects of supersubstantivalism, and the role of objects/particles in physical theory;
  • The nature of location in quantum mechanics;
  • The fundamentality of spacetime, and the metaphysics of space and time;
  • The locative turn in the metaphysics of persistence;
  • The ontology of field theories;
  • The role of spacetime in formulations of quantum mechanics.

  The workshop is part of the Australian Research Council funded project, Everything in its Place.

  Registration deadline: June 9, 2023, 9:00am +09:30
  

  For further information, see: https://philevents.org/event/show/101966

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• The International Association for the Philosophy of Time Conference

  • Start
    27 Jul 2023
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    (AEST)
  • End
    30 Jul 2023
  •  
    (AEST)
  • Location
    University of Sydney

  The International Association for the Philosophy of Time (IAPT) Conference.

  The conference will be held at the University of Sydney, Australia from July 27 to July 30, 2023.

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• Australasian Logic Colloquium

  • Start
    06 Sep 2023
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    (AEST)
  • End
    07 Sep 2023
  •  
    (AEST)
  • Location
    University of Queensland & by zoom

  Australasian Logic Colloquium

  A two-day hybrid conference bringing together logicians working in mathematical, computational or philosophical logic.

  CALL FOR PAPERS

  The Australasian Logic Colloquium (ALC) 2023 aims to bring together logicians, either based in Australasia or with the desire to connect with logicians based in Australasia, working in mathematical, computational, or philosophical logic. The Colloquium is intended to provide a platform for presentation and exchange of ideas. Thus, we invite contributions in all areas of logic, especially if you would like to advertise your best results to logicians outside your own subfield. We welcome published or unpublished work.

  If you would like to present a paper at this conference, either online or in person please submit a 1-2 page abstract that explains what the talk is about to the organizers: Guillermo Badia (g.badia@uq.edu.au) and Sasha Rubin (sasha.rubin@sydney.edu.au).

  The soft deadline for submission is 1 August 2023.

  After the ALC, there will be an open call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation. Submission of papers is encouraged but not a necessary condition for presenting at the conference.

  For more information, see: https://sites.google.com/view/australasianlogcolloquium2023/home

  
  

  
  

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• Philosophy and Literature: T. S. Eliot and Religion conference

  • When
    28 Oct 2023
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    (AEDT)
  • Location
    Gabriel Marcel Institute of Philosophy, Sydney

  Philosophy and Literature: T. S. Eliot and Religion conference

  The Gabriel Marcel Institute of Philosophy, Sydney is hosting its inaugural conference this October on the subject of T. S. Eliot and Religion. The conference is catered and is mixed mode (both face-to-face and Zoom). Papers from the Conference and other submissions will be selected for the Institute’s new journal, The Marcellian, which will go out to subscribers annually after the Conference.

  For further information, see: https://www.rockhurst.edu/gabriel-marcel-society/October-2023-Conference

  
  

  
  

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• Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2023

  • Start
    28 Nov 2023
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    (NZDT)
  • End
    30 Nov 2023
  •  
    (NZDT)
  • Location
    University of Otago, New Zealand

  Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2023

  The University of Otago will host the third ASEMP in Dunedin, New Zealand, from November 28-30, 2023. We hope to include both individual presentations and panels of 2-4 speakers on figures and themes in seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy.

  Plenary Speakers:

  Karolina Hübner (Cornell)

  Peter Thielke (Pomona)

  For more information, see: https://www.australasiansemp.org/upcoming-events.html

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• New Zealand Association of Philosophers Conference

  • Start
    03 Dec 2023
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    (NZDT)
  • End
    07 Dec 2023
  •  
    (NZDT)
  • Location
    University of Waikato’s Tauranga Campus

  The 2023 meeting of the New Zealand Association of Philosophers will take place at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga Campus from 3-7 December. Around the middle of the year, we will issue a call for abstracts and open registration via the conference website.
  
  

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• 47th Annual Conference of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle

  • Start
    04 Dec 2023
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    (AEDT)
  • End
    06 Dec 2023
  •  
    (AEDT)
  • Location
    Deakin University

  Merleau-Ponty and Embodiment: Between the Cognitive, Aesthetic, and Socio-Political

  Merleau-Ponty’s seminal work on embodiment has been of enduring interest and influence in a wide range of fields. It has, for example, played a significant role in research on embodied cognition and enactivism, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, affectivity, movement, art, place, and more. Although sometimes criticized for providing an account of embodiment that is too general, Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical foregrounding of embodiment has also facilitated critical phenomenological studies attending to the specificities of how particular bodies inhabit social and political environments, through considerations of race, gender, disability, aging, and illness. This year’s meeting of the IMPC seeks to bring together these rich and varied strands of enquiry, in order to think with, against, and beyond Merleau-Ponty’s own contributions on the lived body.

  Only its third time outside North America, this year’s meeting of IMPC will take place in Melbourne (Narrm), Australia, on the traditional and unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. The conference is being directed by Helen Ngo and Jack Reynolds, with support from Andrew Inkpin and others. Keynote and plenary speakers will be announced shortly. The conference will be held at the centrally located and accessible Deakin Downtown campus, and recommended accommodation options will be provided nearer the date.

  Full paper submissions of no more than 3,500 words are due by May 15, 2023. As is custom, submissions on any aspect of Merleau-Ponty’s work, in addition to the conference theme, are also welcome.

  This year’s conference will include a thematic stream on Race, place, and bodies curated by Helen Ngo for a research project funded by the Australian Research Council (DE220100329). A small number of bursaries will be available for students and unwaged early career researchers presenting in-person in this stream. Participants wishing to be considered for this are asked to indicate so on the cover letter of your submission.

  For more information, see: https://www.merleauponty.org/conference/

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASSP) Conference

  • Start
    06 Dec 2023
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    (AEDT)
  • End
    08 Dec 2023
  •  
    (AEDT)
  • Location
    Australian National University

  The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2023 Conference will be held at The Australian National University, Canberra from 6-8 December 2023. This three-day conference will bring together scholars and students at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Keynote speakers will include Tim Bayne (Monash), Julie Henry (UQ), Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie), Mark Nolan (Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt), and Jess Taubert (UQ)

  We invite submission of abstracts for individual papers and symposia on any topic in philosophy and psychology, broadly construed. You may submit an abstract via our online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMTT5AdLV5iHGD8f4VJEsf3HHq-wEu-eR1V0A3b2lecCS64g/viewform. For more information about the conference itself, including a poster version of the call for abstracts: http://theaspp.org/conference2023/ASPP%202023%20Flyer.pdf visit the ASPP 2023 Website: http://theaspp.org/conference2023/index.html

  Abstract submission closes August 15th.

  
  

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