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Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi 4:00 pm
Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi @ NYU room 801
Sep 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
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Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the project Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning, and various other[...]
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Philosophy Colloquium: The Dialectic of Mind Design. Zed Adams (NSSR) 6:00 pm
Philosophy Colloquium: The Dialectic of Mind Design. Zed Adams (NSSR) @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103
Sep 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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In this paper, I explore the role that metaphor plays in the development of new scientific models. My goal is to illustrate metaphor’s fecundity in this regard, the way in which it extends our understanding in surprisingly diverse ways. As Mary Hesse put this point, “it is precisely in its extension that the fruitfulness of the model may lie” (1980, 114).   The particular focus of my paper is on the history of what John[...]
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Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds
Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds @ Starr Foundation Hall (UL102)
Sep 11 – Sep 15 all-day
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Join us for a series of keynote presentations as part of the 2023 Institute for Philosophy and New Humanities: Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds. Artifacts are a primary object of study in the humanities. They are products and, thus, manifestations of human thought, action, and self-determination without which they cannot be understood. At the same time, human mindedness depends on artifacts, and as well as other objects – a dependence that is manifest in the form[...]
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Designing Space 6:30 pm
Designing Space @ Havemeyer Hall (Room 309) & Online
Sep 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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How do we experience space? And what does this mean for the spaces we design? We explore these questions by bringing together speakers from Architecture, Neuroscience, and Virtual Reality, with two specific aims: First, we explore what Architecture and Virtual Reality can learn from each other, as two distinct approaches to “spatial design”. Whilst spatial experience has long been a central question of Architecture, Virtual Reality is only beginning to grapple with these questions, as[...]
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