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Epistemology Current Themes Seminar: Winnie Ma (KCL) “Towards an Ethics of Belief for AI: with a Focus on AI Profiling and Algorithmic Discrimination”
Online Meeting via TeamsAbstract: Philosophical research in AI has hitherto largely focused on the ethics of AI. Here we suggest that the time has come to start a...
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Language and Mind Seminar | Independent Learning Week (no meeting)
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Epistemology Current Themes Seminar: Emilia Wilson (St Andrews) “Epistemic Corrosion and Informative Falsity”
Online Meeting via TeamsAbstract: In this presentation, I examine the how epistemic value of a piece of information can come apart from its accuracy and argue that this...
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Language and Mind Seminar | Justin D’Ambrosio “The Indeterminacy of Consciousness”
Edgecliffe G03 +1 moreMuch recent work in the philosophy of consciousness has centered around the Determinacy thesis: the thesis that for each , it is determinate whether is conscious. Whether this thesis...
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Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Michael Rea
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Epistemology Current Themes Seminar: Rachel Fraser (Oxford) “Practical Assurance”
Online Meeting via TeamsAbstract: Suppose I intend to give up smoking, having never tried to quit before. I know that 95 per cent of smokers fail to give...
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Language and Mind Seminar | Mahrad Almotahari “Blameless Irrationality and Frege’s Puzzle”
Edgecliffe G03 +1 moreI sketch a new puzzle about rational belief and use it to motivate the coherence of blameless irrationality. Relying on a recent framework developed by...
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Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Elizabeth Barnes
Edgecliffe G03Title: The Limits of Trust: First Person Testimony, Unreliability, and the case of ‘Medical Gaslighting’ Abstract: Recent work in social and feminist epistemology has emphasized...
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Epistemology Current Themes Seminar: Jessie Munton (Cambridge) “Resilient Ignorance or, All The Things I Do Not Know and Refuse To Learn”
Online Meeting via TeamsAbstract: I am ignorant of many things. Sometimes that ignorance seems epistemically permissible. At other times it seems impermissible. The problem of permissibility is the...