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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.

 

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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.

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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

J. L. A. Donohue to attend Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women Faculty in Philosophy

J. L. A. Donohue to attend Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women Faculty in Philosophy

January 26, 2023

J. L. A. Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, will be attending the Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Missouri from Sunday, June 11, to Tuesday June 13.

As its name suggests, the workshop brings together early career women in philosophy with mentors and other early career women to discuss their research as well as strategies for success in the discipline. There is mounting evidence that mentoring is important for success in academia, and the workshop aims to build long-term mentoring relationships between eminent...

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