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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Philosophy @ UWS Seminars 2015</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Philosophy @ UWS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/sandra-field/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1F497D">Assistant Professor Sandra Field</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Humanities (Philosophy)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Title:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/research_seminars/research_seminars_2015/sandra_field"><span style="color:#1F497D">The
personhood of the multitude</span></a></span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Date/Time:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Wednesday April 22, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Place:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">[How
to get to Bankstown Campus]</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Abstract
</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Democratic theory often makes appeal to the will of the people. But what exactly is this will? Individual humans in a society each have their own will; how and under what conditions
can the multiple individual wills be combined to form a single collective will? In this paper, I interrogate the answer to these questions provided by Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes is a polemically anti-democratic thinker, but nonetheless I will argue that there are
lessons in his analysis for contemporary democratic theory. First, a caution for those wishing to claim to speak in the voice of the people; and second, a caution for those hoping to find a spontaneous democratic tendency in the power of the multitude.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5C5C5C"><br>
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</span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bio</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5C5C5C"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/sandra-field/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Dr Sandra Field</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5C5C5C"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">is
Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College. Her research focusses on early modern political philosophy (especially Hobbes and Spinoza), and how it connects with contemporary political theory. Her papers have appeared in the journals such as Theoria
and Journal of History of Philosophy.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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