Knowledge and Understanding in Analytic Philosophy - Helen Beebee (Leeds)
Seminar
Speaker: Helen Beebee Abstract: Grant that pervasive and persistent peer disagreement undermines justification. If so, then — individually and collectively — we have very little philosophical knowledge, and the prospects for any radical turnaround in our epistemic fortunes don’t look good. And yet…
Finding wisdom in distress: meditation and horror as tools for changing the mind - Bryce Huebner (Georgetown University)
Seminar
Speaker: Bryce Huebner I have recently defended the view that minds are composed of complex collections of analog and digital effects, which manipulate and transform the flow of information to generate the ‘music’ of experience; and I have argued that these effects are not centrally controlled,…
Values as Vectors - Daniel Muñoz (University of North Carolina)
Seminar
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. With vectors, we can elegantly define Chang’s concept of parity, deepen Rabinowicz’s fitting attitudes account of betterness, and…
Barriers to Change, Possibilities for Resistance: A Pre-Implementation Challenge to Conceptual Engineering - Paul-Mikhail Podosky (Macquarie University)
Seminar
Speaker: Paul-Mikhail Podosky Abstract: Conceptual engineering has strong political roots. But if conceptual engineering, understood as the development of non-dominant conceptual practices, is to be a useful tool to promote social justice, there must be a means by which the concepts we design…
Emotion, Anticipation, and Predictive Processes
Workshop
Speakers: Bronwyn Finnigan (ANU) Bryce Huebner (Georgetown) Colin Klein (ANU)
Julia Markovits (Cornell)
Seminar
Julia Markovits (Cornell) 12–1PM 10 June 2022 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the…
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)
Seminar
Speaker: Yves Saint James Aquino Artificial intelligence (AI), specifically machine learning (ML), systems hold great potential in improving clinical processes, from diagnosis and screening to targeted therapy. One of the key challenges of implementing ML systems is the regulation of something…