No talk this week.
Each seminar is preceded by a brief meeting of the PAICS Research Group. If you arrive early, please enter quietly.
For more information or to reserve a speaking slot, contact the seminar organizer Paul Loader. Diverse participation is encouraged, as shown by the membership, which is drawn departments and schools across the university, including faculty, research fellows, DPhil students, and masters students.
14 Jan: Ron Chrisley:
Primate Gambling and the Iconic/Symbolic Distinction
21 Jan: Rob Clowes:
Virtuality and the Self
04 Feb: Blay Whitby:
Overview of the Philosophy of Alan Badiou
11 Feb: Anna Dumitriu:
Enactive Dialectics
18 Feb: Paul Loader:
Epistemic and Pragmatic Actions
25 Feb: Steve Torrance:
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Ethical Intelligence, Part 2
04 Mar: Mike Beaton:
The Oxymoronic Conceptual Given
11 Mar: Simon Bowes:
What's Happening?
e-in-TEN-tion-al-i-ty n: ...
"We needed a name and deliberately didn't want to make it boring, like 'The Philosophy of AI and Cognitive Science Research Group Work in Progress Seminar'. We wanted it to help forge a common approach, without being too restrictive. We noticed that a lot of people's work had 'e-' words in them: 'evolutionary', 'embodied', 'experiential', 'externalist'.... As for 'intentionality', we wanted something that would circumscribe all these things we're interested in, and systems that exhibit "aboutness" seemed a good take on this. But why did we really choose that name? Come and buy us a drink, and we'll tell you."
