Counterfactuals Workshop
Workshop
Workshop Agenda9:30 - 10:00 Greetings, muffins, and coffee10:00 - 11:00 Adam Wingardh: "Why Conditionals Are Ambiguous”Short break11:15 - 12:15 Karen Lewis (by Zoom): "Contextual Relevance for Counterfactuals”12:15 - 1:15 …
2025 John Passmore Lecture with Professor Niko Kolodny
Lecture
Join us for the 2025 John Passmore Lecture by Professor Niko Kolodny on Two Concepts of Consent. Niko will explore how consent transforms moral duties and what conditions give it normative force. A compelling discussion on ethics, autonomy, and the power of permission.AbstractIn his exploration of…
Are there neural representations?
Seminar
Are there neural representations? This talk lays out traditional philosophical criteria for mental representations, and considers whether neuroimaging provides evidence of them. It briefly reviews previous work suggesting that FMRI, and in particular, Representational Similarity Analysis, provides…
Appearance or Reality: Does AI Need Emotions?
Seminar
Commercially available AI systems for the detection of sentiment or emotions from human faces, text, and non-verbal behavior are already widely deployed, even if they don’t fully live up to the marketing hype. At the same time, generative AI models are now capable of producing text and images that…
Logic for Virtual Worlds
Seminar
In the second half of "Two Dogmas", Quine argued that there could be empirical grounds to revise logic---at least in principle. Since then, the most (though still not very) popular proposal for what those empirical grounds might actually be has involved quantum mechanics. Still, most logicians…