Thursday, March 16, 2023

Presentations, May 29 - April 6

I have some travel and talks coming up. If you're interested and in the area, and if the hosting institution permits, please come by!

Mar 29: Claremont McKenna College, Athenaeum Lecture: Falling in Love with Machines

Mar 30: University of Washington, Seattle, brown bag discussion: Moral Reflection and Moral Behavior [probably closed to outsiders]

Mar 30: University of Washington, Seattle, brown bag discussion: The Demographics of Philosophy [probably closed to outsiders]

Mar 31: University of Puget Sound, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference keynote: Does Studying Ethics Make People More Ethical?

Apr 2 (remote): Northeastern University, Information Ethics Roundtable: Let's Hope We're Not Living in a Simulation

Apr 3: University of California, Office of the President (Oakland): Principles Governing Online Majors. [This one is definitely not public, but I welcome readers' thoughts about what University of California policy should be regarding the approval of online majors.]

Apr 5: American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (San Francisco), Society for the Philosophy of Animal Minds: The Mind of a Garden Snail, or What Is It to Have a Mind?

Apr 5: American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (San Francisco), Science Fiction and Philosophy Society: TBD, either Science Fiction as Philosophy or Science Fiction and Large Language Models.

Apr 6: American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (San Francisco), Book Symposium on David Chalmers' Reality+: Let's Hope We're Not Living in a Simulation

Yes, that's nine presentations in nine days, on seven different topics. Perhaps I'm spreading myself a little thin!

1 comment:

Arnold said...

This story-line-plot for your consideration presentation April 5...

"In the beginning: Does humanity suffer (need energy) when hungry with hunger pains...
...6 million years of gathering foods has helped..."

"In the beginning: Does AI suffer (need energy) when there are...
...electrical shorts or inefficiencies in the systems they are processing..."

"That some AI"s may feel the heat of a tangent field attracting or repulsing them...
...to change...like everything in our cosmos...and thanks"


When 80 "spread to thin" is a reality...Good luck...