Conferences and Lectures

The recordings from the 2023 Whitehead Lectures by Peter Godfrey-Smith are now available on the department's YouTube channel. Limits of Sentience, Boundaries of Consideration April 13-14, 2023 Harvard University Work in several fields has made it appear...

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...

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...

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...

Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, gave the annual Clemson / University of South Carolina Joint Philosophy Lecture on March 3rd. She presented her paper "Working on Yourself." For more information about the talk, see the event page here...

Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, gave the keynote lecture at the 16th Annual Mark L. Shapiro Graduate Conference at Brown University on February 18 th. Professor Johnson King’s talk, “Working on Yourself,” spoke to the conference’s...

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...

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...

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...

Philosopy concentrator Ilana Cohen ('23) will speak about the Fossil Free Research movement on the "Shifting Academic Institutions" panel at the 2023 Philosophers for Sustainability Philosophy & the Climate Conference. The conference will be on held on...