Apr 28, 20182 minGrappling 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...
Apr 18, 20181 minFace-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,...
Apr 9, 20181 minHuman Plasticity and Human-Machine InterfaceHow are our biologies, neurologies, and cultural norms affected by implantation of microdevices, social media, and alterations in our...
Mar 15, 20181 minAccountability 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...
Feb 20, 20181 minOpen Access and Research into History: Issues of CopyrightCasey Westerman (Archivist for the Institute for Advanced Study) spoke about Gödel’s MaxPhil notebooks and the complex issues around...
Feb 5, 20181 minDay of ApparatgeistA one day meeting to critically examine the sociological theory developed by Katz and Aakhus in 1999 (cf. Katz and Aakhus, eds. Perpetual...
Jan 22, 20181 minDigitizing Human Rights, Archiving ActivismA discussion of several projects promoting ethics and activism with technology as well as archiving of activism. Speakers included Alexa...
Dec 11, 20171 minTuring’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...
Nov 27, 20171 minIs 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...
Oct 23, 20172 minPhilosophy 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...
Sep 25, 20171 minPhilosophical Platforms: Arendt, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein: Preserving the Diversity of Interpretations in an Age of Hypermedia. Prof. Alois Pichler (Univ. of Bergen, director of the project...
Apr 23, 20172 minJournalism 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...
Apr 3, 20171 minThe 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...
