Shaun Gallagher. An Adventure in Ethics. The Virtue of the Virtual Self | Martineau Lecture 2024 @Badger_Made

Badger Made An adventure in ethics: The virtue of the virtual self
Prof. Shaun Gallagher

The 2024 Martineau Lecture. Hosted by the University of Tasmania.
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Professor Shaun Gallagher is Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA. He is known for his work on phenomenology, embodied cognition, social cognition, agency, intersubjectivity, the philosophy of time, and the self. He is also known for his philosophical work on the effects of solitary confinement and the philosophy of psychopathology. Professor Gallagher was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation (2012–2018). He was part of the research project Minds in Skilled Performance with funding from the Australian Research Council (2017-2020). He was principal investigator on several previous grants, including a European Commission Marie Curie Actions Grant: TESIS: Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity (2011-15), and a Templeton Foundation grant (2011-2013) which funded an empirical and phenomenological study of astronauts' experiences during space flight. Since 2014 he has been Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He has held visiting positions at Keble College, Oxford; Humboldt University, Berlin; Ruhr Universität, Bochum; Husserl Archives, ENS (Paris); École Normale Supérieure, Lyon; the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen; and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University. Professor Gallagher is the founding editor and a co-editor-in-chief of the highly cited journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

An adventure in ethics: The virtue of the virtual self

In a series of lectures on Ethical Know-How, Francisco Varela explains that he is venturing ‘into the territory of ethical thought … Ethics is a new terrain for me, and what I have to say here must be taken in the sphere of adventure more than anything else'. On this adventure Varela is very much influenced by Hubert Dreyfus and his analysis of expertise. Similar to the way that Dreyfus attempts to formulate an ethical theory derived from his analysis of expertise, Varela attempts to do this based on his enactive principles. I’ll argue that, despite being inspired by Dreyfus’ account of expert practice and embodied coping, and retaining the term ‘ethical expertise’, Varela offered important correctives to the specific limitations that can be found in Dreyfus’s view. I’ll also argue that we can resolve some tensions in Varela’s account, and extend it to include a skillful form of deliberation that can play an important role in setting up environments or even rules of society, which through the enactive reciprocity of relations between agentive organism and environment, can facilitate our actions and make us who we are.

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Shaun Gallagher. An Adventure in Ethics. The Virtue of the Virtual Self | Martineau Lecture 2024

Badger Made 2024-03-25 | An adventure in ethics: The virtue of the virtual self
Prof. Shaun Gallagher

The 2024 Martineau Lecture. Hosted by the University of Tasmania.
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Professor Shaun Gallagher is Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA. He is known for his work on phenomenology, embodied cognition, social cognition, agency, intersubjectivity, the philosophy of time, and the self. He is also known for his philosophical work on the effects of solitary confinement and the philosophy of psychopathology. Professor Gallagher was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation (2012–2018). He was part of the research project Minds in Skilled Performance with funding from the Australian Research Council (2017-2020). He was principal investigator on several previous grants, including a European Commission Marie Curie Actions Grant: TESIS: Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity (2011-15), and a Templeton Foundation grant (2011-2013) which funded an empirical and phenomenological study of astronauts' experiences during space flight. Since 2014 he has been Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He has held visiting positions at Keble College, Oxford; Humboldt University, Berlin; Ruhr Universität, Bochum; Husserl Archives, ENS (Paris); École Normale Supérieure, Lyon; the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen; and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University. Professor Gallagher is the founding editor and a co-editor-in-chief of the highly cited journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

An adventure in ethics: The virtue of the virtual self

In a series of lectures on Ethical Know-How, Francisco Varela explains that he is venturing ‘into the territory of ethical thought … Ethics is a new terrain for me, and what I have to say here must be taken in the sphere of adventure more than anything else'. On this adventure Varela is very much influenced by Hubert Dreyfus and his analysis of expertise. Similar to the way that Dreyfus attempts to formulate an ethical theory derived from his analysis of expertise, Varela attempts to do this based on his enactive principles. I’ll argue that, despite being inspired by Dreyfus’ account of expert practice and embodied coping, and retaining the term ‘ethical expertise’, Varela offered important correctives to the specific limitations that can be found in Dreyfus’s view. I’ll also argue that we can resolve some tensions in Varela’s account, and extend it to include a skillful form of deliberation that can play an important role in setting up environments or even rules of society, which through the enactive reciprocity of relations between agentive organism and environment, can facilitate our actions and make us who we are.

Camera & Production: Badger Made. Billy Badger & Christine Badger
Edit & Graphics. Billy Badger

Clarence Jazz Festival 2025 | The Jazz Scholars

Badger Made 2025-03-12 | The recipients of the 2025 Clarence Jazz Festival Scholarship are Orlaith Badger, from Elizabeth College on Trumpet, Xavier Stanford, from Rosny College on drums, Jamie Walton, a vocalist from Hobart College, and Ruben Beretta-Grande from Elizabeth College on guitar.

The scholars, all in their final year of college, were selected from a strong field of candidates for the 15th iteration of the annual Scholarship Program, which is an integral component of the annual Clarence Jazz Festival and represents a significant investment in emerging jazz musicians by the council.
Source: https://www.ccc.tas.gov.au/2024/09/clarence-jazz-festival-scholarship-recipients-announced/

The Violin Maker

Badger Made 2024-10-24 | Christine Badger is a violin maker living in Hobart Tasmania. Check out her YouTube channel here youtube.com/@BadgerViolins?si=c4kLNknkFsEguqFo

A Camera Sony FX3
B Camera Sony FX30

Lenses Tamron 35-150 f2-2.8; Tamron 28-75 f2.8; Sony 20 f1.8

Nova Muse Festival 2023

Badger Made 2023-10-18 | Entering its third consecutive year, the Nova Muse Festival welcomes music lovers and string players to share inspiration in a nurturing atmosphere special to Penguin in North West Tasmania.
Thank you to the Artistic Director, Susan Collins, all the Festival sponsors, mentors and participants
https://www.novamuse.com.au/

The Nova Muse Festival is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Camera & Production
Billy Badger
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Nova Muse Festival 2023

Badger Made 2023-10-17 | Entering its third consecutive year, the Nova Muse Festival welcomes music lovers and string players to share inspiration in a nurturing atmosphere special to Penguin in North West Tasmania.
Thank you to the Artistic Director, Susan Collins, all the Festival sponsors, mentors and participants
https://www.novamuse.com.au/

Note: The person identified at 5:09 is Arabella, not Abigail. See corrected version here youtu.be/85TgMFBABhs

The Nova Muse Festival is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Camera & Edit
Billy Badger
billygbadger (at) gmail.com