Upcoming events
19
May
2022
Agency: Who is Morally Responsible? - Monima Chadha (Monash University)
Speaker: Monima Chadha
Abstract: In the Abhidharmakośa-Bhāṣya, Vasubandhu defends a no-agent view. Actions, he argues, can be explained in terms of causal...
26
May
2022
Modelling as an Epistemic Activity in Ecology - Eden Smith (University of Melbourne)
Speaker: Eden Smith
In addition to representing knowledge, models function as tools that contribute to generating new knowledge during investigative practices...
02
Jun
2022
The making of emotional habits: A top-down approach - Elena Walsh (University of Wollongong)
Speaker: Elena Walsh
Abstract: Adaptations that trade false positives for speed are ubiquitous in evolutionary design. Many, like blinking, are inflexible....
09
Jun
2022
Can We Step into the Same Algorithm Twice? Examining the Metaphysical Problem of Identity in the Context of Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Regulation - Yves Saint James Aquino (University of Wollongong)
Speaker: Yves Saint James Aquino
Artificial intelligence (AI), specifically machine learning (ML), systems hold great potential in improving clinical...
10
Jun
2022
Julia Markovits (Cornell)
Julia Markovits (Cornell)
12–1PM 10 June 2022
Location: RSSS room 6.71 ...
16
Jun
2022
Barriers to Change, Possibilities for Resistance: A Pre-Implementation Challenge to Conceptual Engineering - Paul-Mikhail Podosky (Macquarie University)
Speaker: Paul-Mikhail Podosky
Abstract: Conceptual engineering has strong political roots. But if conceptual engineering, understood as the development of non...
23
Jun
2022
Values as Vectors - Daniel Muñoz (University of North Carolina)
Speaker: Daniel Muñoz
Abstract: I defend a new kind of value theory that represents values not as single numbers or intervals, but as many-dimensional vectors...
