Digest Week 1 Michaelmas Term 2024

MT24, Week 1 (13th-19th October)

If you have entries for the weekly Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Tuesday the week before the event. 

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Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar (Wednesday - Week 1, MT24)

16 October 2024
Lily Xu (University of Oxford): 'Algorithmic Decision Making and Participation for Biodiversity Conservation'
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday - Week 1, MT24)

16 October 2024
Sally Atkins: 'Asking for Ourselves: Recognition of Other Reasoners in Kant'. 
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Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar (Thursday - Week 1, MT24)

17 October 2024
Eleanor March: 'What is minimal coupling, really?'
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Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday - Week 1, MT24)

17 October 2024
David Wallace (University of Pittsburgh): ''The local quantum vacuum as the Past Hypothesis' 
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, MT24)

17 October 2024
Phillipp Brüllman (Heidelberg University): 'The look at nature: A Cynic tool and its Stoic use'
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Institute for Ethics in AI Colloquium (Thursday - Week 1, MT24)

17 October 2024
Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Department of Computing, Imperial College London: 'How to Think About Large Language Models​​​​​​​'
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The Jowett Society (Friday - Week 1, MT24)

18 October 2024
David Wallace (University of Pittsburgh): 'Learning to Represent: Mathematics-first accounts of representation and their relation to natural language'.

Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab

Monday 14th October  1:00pm -2:00pm.

Seminar Room in Suite 1, Uehiro Institute, 1st Floor of Littlegate House, OX1 1PT

This interdisciplinary lab uses methods of experimental philosophy and moral psychology to empirically investigate human judgment and agency, particularly with respect to ethics and morality, and explores the implications of empirical work for philosophical debates. Meetings focus on works-in-progress presentations and emphasise friendly and constructive discussion and feedback. We meet weekly during term-time. Lab meetings are held in the. Students and faculty are warmly invited to attend; please email the lab convenor or email moralpsychlab@philosophy.ox.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

 'Expanding the Community of Fate by Expanding the Community of Care',

Speaker: Margaret Levi (Stanford University) with Jonathan Herring (Oxford Law) opening discussion.

Thursday 17th October  5:00pm -7:00pm.

Old Library, All Souls College.

Use this link to read the paper here. 

If you have any interest in attending this session, please send an email to plp@law.ox.ac.uk indicating: Your name, department, degree programme (if a student) / Whether you would like to come to the dinner at Quod.

 For a full list of this year's PLP Colloquium, go to: PLP Colloquium