Grappling with the Futures: Insights from Philosophy, History and Science, Technology and Society
https://grapplingwiththefutures.com/ Sunday event at Harvard; Monday morning and lunch event at Boston University. Co-sponsored with the...
The BU Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar
2016-2018
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Face-Off: Human Plasticity and Human-Machine Interface.
Face-Off An international day long event covering facial recognition’s role in philosophy, psychology, computer and behavioral science,...
Human Plasticity and Human-Machine Interface
How are our biologies, neurologies, and cultural norms affected by implantation of microdevices, social media, and alterations in our...
Accountability in an Age of Algorithms: How Should Ethics and Technology Converse?
Professor Susan Schneider (Philosophy, Cognitive Science University of Connecticut; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Yhouse, NY...
Open Access and Research into History: Issues of Copyright
Casey Westerman (Archivist for the Institute for Advanced Study) spoke about Gödel’s MaxPhil notebooks and the complex issues around...
Day of Apparatgeist
A one day meeting to critically examine the sociological theory developed by Katz and Aakhus in 1999 (cf. Katz and Aakhus, eds. Perpetual...
Digitizing Human Rights, Archiving Activism
A discussion of several projects promoting ethics and activism with technology as well as archiving of activism. Speakers included Alexa...
Turing’s Imitation Game: What Does it Tell us about the Nature of Intelligence?
Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland and Professor Diane Proudfoot, of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, co-founders and...
Is this an Epistemological Revolution? Big Data and the Philosophy of Science.
Professors Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) and John Symons (University of Kansas) on data inequity, management of biological data...
Philosophy of Popular Culture: Skepticism, Care, and Ordinary Life.
Sandra Laugier, Professor of Philosophy, Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Scientific deputy director at the Institute for...
Philosophical Platforms: Arendt, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein:
Preserving the Diversity of Interpretations in an Age of Hypermedia. Prof. Alois Pichler (Univ. of Bergen, director of the project...
Journalism and the Search for Truth in an Age of Social Media:
Implications of “Fake News” and Internet Trolling for Democracy, Politics and Citizen Inclusion Social media-based production and...
The Documedial Revolution. Prof. Maurizio Ferraris
(University of Turin, President of LabOnt – Laboratory for Ontology, Collège d’études mondiales, Paris http://www.labont.it/ferraris). It...
