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Susanna Siegel named 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Philosophy

Susanna Siegel named 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Philosophy

April 6, 2023

Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, was named one of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's 2023 Fellows. The fellowship is awarded to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

Congratulations, Professor Siegel! 

Learn more about the Guggenheim Fellowship here: https://www.gf.org/

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Zoë Johnson King to give Stanford Colloquium

April 5, 2023

Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will give a colloquium lecture at Stanford University on April 7th. In the talk, titled “Reluctant Heroes,” Professor Johnson King will use essential workers at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study to discuss the ethics of praise.

For more information, see Stanford’s event page here: https://philosophy.stanford.edu/events/colloquium-zoe-johnson-king-harvard

Jeff Behrends gives keynote at 2023 Gateway Graduate Conference

Jeff Behrends gives keynote at 2023 Gateway Graduate Conference

April 1, 2023

Jeff Behrends, Senior Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer on Philosophy, gave one of the keynote lectures at the 2023 Gateway Graduate Conference at the University of Missouri – St. Louis on April 1. Professor Behrends’ talk was titled “Reason, Reasons, and Instrumental Transmission,” and spoke to the conference's topics of metaethics, metaepistemology, and metanormativity.

Zoe Jenkin (Harvard PhD 2020) gave the keynote on March 31.

 

For more information on the conference, please see their website here:...

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Jeff Behrends speaks at Global Perspectives on Teaching AI Ethics workshop

Jeff Behrends speaks at Global Perspectives on Teaching AI Ethics workshop

March 30, 2023

Jeff Behrends, Senior Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer on Philosophy, presented at the Global Perspectives on Teaching AI Ethics workshop on "Imagining the future: how should AI ethics be taught?" at the University of Cambridge on March 30. The workshop brought together teachers of AI Ethics at a university level to discuss course topics, pedagogical strategies, assessment, and more.

For more information about the workshop, please see the information page here: ...

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Trystan Goetze presents at Computer Science Education Technical Symposium

Trystan Goetze presents at Computer Science Education Technical Symposium

March 15, 2023

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, attended the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, where they presented a paper on different approaches to teaching ethics in computing programmes (the paper is published in the proceedings). They also helped deliver a workshop on teaching...

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Trystan Goetze and William Cochran present at Stanford Embedded Ethics Conference

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran present at Stanford Embedded Ethics Conference

February 28, 2023

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran, both Postdoctoral Fellows, delivered a teaching demo of an Embedded EthiCS module at the Stanford Embedded Ethics Conference: Strategies for Teaching Responsible Computing Within the Computer Science Curriculum on February 28.

Learn more about the conference in this article: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/teaching-responsible-computer-science  

A recording of the entire conference is available; the teaching demo starts at 4:55:50 and runs to 5:25...

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Trystan Goetze presents at Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Society Conference

January 27, 2023

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, presented a paper titled “AI Art is Theft” at the Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Society workshop at Stanford University on January 27. This workshop sought to “…bring together philosophers addressing important normative questions about the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence and related applications of digital technologies on society.”

Learn more about the workshop here: https://philevents.org/event/show/105429