This Tuesday 17th June, Deakin’s own Professor Stan van Hooft caps off his storied and celebrated career with a talk on his “Theory of Everything.”
The talk will be held at 4-5:30pm, room C2.05 Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood. (Details on PhilEvents)
All welcome!
The philosophy group at Deakin is saddened by the passing of Professor Emeritus Max Charlesworth AO, who passed away on 2nd June 2014 in Melbourne aged 89.
Professor Charlesworth was Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne before becoming Planning Dean of the School of Humanities at the newly-formed Deakin University in 1976 and Professor of Philosophy from 1980.
Across his long career Max made outstanding contributions to philosophy in Australia, principally in the fields of Contemporary European philosophy, bioethics and the philosophy of religion, not least as the founder of the journal Sophia. He made many innovations in education and was a prominent public intellectual.
As a founder and leading light of this department for many years, Deakin philosophy owes him an enormous debt of gratitude, and he leaves behind many friends and admirers here. He will be greatly missed.
The Australasian Association of Philosophy has established a Tributes Page, where those who knew Max are invited to share their recollections.
Deakin’s Dr Matthew Sharpe will give a talk at La Trobe University this week, on the topic “’Not for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, profit, fame, or power …’ Francis Bacon as Virtue Epistemologist.” It’s happening on Wednesday 16th April at 4 pm, at La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus, room ED1 402.
The abstract is as follows:
Outside of the continuing scholarly literature on his oeuvre, Francis Bacon has been widely reviled since 1945 as reducing knowledge to power, subordinating contemplative inquiry to instrumental and technical concerns, and for inventing a machine-like method which puts to violent death the long classical tradition which associated the love of wisdom with knowers’ own attempts to live well. This paper challenges these images, by reading Bacon in the light of recent analytic literature on virtue epistemology. Zagzebski and other “responsibilist” virtue epistemologists draw on Aristotle as a historical precedent for their attempts to appeal to intellectual virtues as necessary or sufficient conditions for knowing, despite their shared hesitations about Aristotle’s attempt to segregate the theoretical from the ethical virtues, seating them in a separate faculty for knowing changeless things above the hurly burly of the passions. Continue reading Francis Bacon as Virtue Epistemologist