October Events at UOW

October will be a busy month for philosophy at UOW. We have four speakers scheduled for our Philosophy Research Seminar: Peter Slezak (UNSW) on October 6th, Keith Horton (UOW) on October 13th, Jacqui Poltera (UWS) on October 20th, and Jordi Fernandez (Adelaide) on October 27th -- see the calendar for abstracts and further details.

Before we get to October, we have the Expertise, Skill and Pedagogy workshop on September 25th in room 30.111 -- see below for the program and abstracts of papers.

We'll have more events in November and December, including Neil Levy (Melbourne/CAPPE/Oxford) on November 3rd and Stephen Hetherington (UNSW) on November 10th and our Embodied Cognition workshop in December. All are welcome!

UOW Workshop: Expertise, Skill and Pedagogy

Friday 25 September, room 30.111

Recent work in philosophy and education theory has seen a growing interest in the concepts of skill and expertise. Drawing on work of, for example, Ryle, Dreyfus, Bourdieu and Wittgenstein, and on recent developments in cognitive science, theorists have been developing alternatives to the intellectualist-individualist-disembodied paradigm that has long dominated work on cognition, learning and interaction. The move to a perspective that takes the thinking, learning subject as primarily engaged and embodied has profound implications for our understanding of teaching and learning, and of cognition more generally. These developments in philosophy and education have tended to proceed in isolation, however, and this workshop will provide an opportunity to bring the two strands together, to examine differences and similarities of approach, and to explore the possibilities of collaboration across discipline areas.

The workshop is open to all.

View abstracts and bios of the papers and presenters.

Program

9:00 WELCOME AND COFFEE
9:30 – 10:45 David Beckett (Education, University of Melbourne): Climbing the Ladder – and Kicking it Away: How Inferential Understanding Can Grow Expertise
10:45 – 11:00 MORNING TEA
11:00 – 12:15 Richard Menary (Philosophy, University of Wollongong): Representational Intentionality and Motor Intentionality: What are their respective roles in skilled Activity?
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 2:45 Wilma Vialle & Irina Verenikina (Education, University of Wollongong): The development of expertise in communities of practice
2:45 – 4:00 David Simpson (Philosophy, University of Wollongong): Ryle, Skill, and Embodiment
4:00 – 4:15 AFTERNOON TEA
4:15 – 5:30 Nicola Johnson (Education, University of Wollongong): A sociological view of technological expertise

For further information, please contact:

David Simpson
Philosophy
Rm. 19.1101
Ext 3620
dsimpson@uow.edu.au

Sept 8th talk cancelled

Unfortunately, today's seminar talk by Stephen Hetherington has been cancelled. Hopefully we'll be able to reschedule for another time later this year.

Stephen Hetherington @ UOW

On September 8th, Dr. Stephen Hetherington (UNSW) will be speaking on "Scepticism as an Intellectualist Mistake" at 5:30 in room 19.1003 at UOW. All are welcome.

Abstract: How many philosophers have claimed to uncover a fundamental failing within sceptical thinking about knowledge? All too many; perhaps the quest is foolhardy. Maybe irrationally undaunted, though, this paper joins that fray — armed with the Rylean distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how. The paper’s conclusion is that sceptical thinking which would deny us knowledge relies upon a mistaken metaphysical presumption about the nature of knowledge and knowing.

Philosophy @ UOW

Philosophers and philosophy seminars at UOW can be found in building 19. Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays, starting at 17:30 in room 1003.

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