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Past Events

Feb

6

Lecture

"Social Robots with AI: Last Call for Robophilosophy" by Johanna Seibt

Location:
on Zoom or watch with us in EWFM 625
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Virtual:
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Never in its history has philosophy been as socially relevant as today: we are blindly entering the “automation age” (McKinsey) without any reliable means of risk calculation: the creation of intelligent embodied artificial ‘social’ agents, increasingly equipped with generative…

Nov

28

Lecture

Philosophy Seminar Series: Lorraine Juliano Keller, "Polysemy, Analogy, and Ineffability"

Location:
Scheler Family Humanities Forum (LI 200)
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Contemporary linguists have been impressed by the pervasiveness of polysemy, the sort of lexical ambiguity that goes beyond mere homonymy, whereby the distinct meanings of words are related. For example, instances of ‘bark’ in ‘dogs bark’ and ‘tree bark’ are mere homonyms, while…

Nov

10