Toni Erskine (ANU): Flesh-and-Blood, Corporate, Robotic? Moral Agents of Restraint and the Problem of Misplaced Responsibility in War
Seminar
Who – or what – are ‘moral agents of restraint’ in war? This is a critical moment for such an enquiry. Two different movements – one in the academic sphere, another in the realm of practice – contribute to its timeliness. First, within the just war tradition, a recent rift between ‘traditionalists…
Revisiting the evolution of kinship workshop
Workshop
Kinship is central to social life, bringing together the biological facts of reproduction and relatedness with the social facts of how family relationships are categorised. The evolution of more complex systems is likely to have played a key role in expanding the social universe of early humans or…
Gustaf Arrhenius (IFFS): Population ethics under risk
Seminar
Population axiology concerns how to evaluate populations in terms of their moral goodness, that is, how to order populations by the relations “is better than” and “is as good as”. The task has been to find an adequate theory about the moral value of states of affairs where the number of people, the…
Professor Kate Crawford (NYU): The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence - Public Lecture
Lecture
Professor Kate Crawford, Distinguished Research Professor, New York University, and co-founder and co-director of the AI Now InstituteAbstract: In this talk, Kate Crawford traces the planetary resources required when you ask an Amazon Echo to play your favorite song. From material resources, to…
Seth Lazar (ANU): What's wrong with machine ethics?
Lecture
Head of School, Associate Professor Seth Lazar, will be presenting a public talk next Thursday 13 December on artificial intelligence and ethics, What’s wrong with machine ethics? This will coincide with the Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence lecture, presented by Professor Kate Crawford, later…
Susan Pennings: ‘The Capability Approach and Chronic Pain’ (Pre-submission)
Seminar
Abstract: Many philosophers have argued that a key advantage of the application of the Capability Approach to distributive justice is that it can straightforwardly account for the needs of people who are ill or who have disabilities. Martha Nussbaum’s version of the Capability Approach does this by…
Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Helsinki): The Future of Predictive Ecology
Seminar
Prediction is an important aspect of scientific practice, because it helps us to confirm theories and effectively intervene on the systems we are investigating. In Ecology, prediction is a controversial topic: even though the number of papers focusing on prediction is constantly increasing, many…