Reminder: Workshop on Value Exploration June 3–5, 2024
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The Workshop on Value Exploration is happening next week on June 3–5, 2024, at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano) and Zoom.
Invited speakers: Ralf M. Bader, Krister Bykvist, Olivier Massin, L. A. Paul, Peter Schaber, Dean Zimmerman.
Description: Value and its varieties, values, are often viewed as magnitudes. However, value magnitudes appear to be unlike familiar, physical magnitudes such as mass. The Workshop on Value Exploration aims to develop a better understanding of the specific nature of value magnitudes based on the latest findings in value theory, the metaphysics of value, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.
Attendance is free but registration is required (registration is mandatory also for online attendance, and the Zoom link will be provided after registration).
For registration, please contact: events.isfi(a)usi.ch<mailto:events.isfi@usi.ch>.
More information is available here: https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/28055.
An event of the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI), with generous support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Project: Alain Pe-Curto, TMPFP1_210654).
1 month, 3 weeks
Reminder: "Lugano Philosophy Colloquia"
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We are pleased to announce that on Friday, May 31 at 17:30 (CEST), Laurie Ann Paul (Yale University) will give the talk The computational self: location in space, time, and possibility as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Spring 2024 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in the Multiuso room, Theology Building, USI West Campus and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining it online, please write to events.isfi(a)usi.ch
For more information: https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/26653
Here is the abstract of the talk:
To think for yourself, you need to be able to solve new and unexpected problems. This requires you to identify the space of possible environments you could be in, locate yourself in the relevant one, and frame the new problem as it exists relative to your location in this new environment. Combining thought experiments with a series of self-orientation games, I will discuss collaborative work that explores the structure of how we perform this computational task. In particular, we propose that the way humans exploit their ability to center on themselves as physical agents in the real world mimics the way we solve what we call "the avatar problem" in a First-person game. In real life, human agents perform the very same computational task, triangulating their perceptual and proprioceptive inputs with different third person representations of themselves to represent themselves as an embodied agent in the world. Understanding this computational feat is relevant for AI researchers trying to build an artificial agent that can truly think for itself and to philosophers interested in centered worlds epistemology.
2 months
Reminder: "Lugano Philosophy Colloquia"
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We are pleased to announce that on Friday, May 17 at 17:30 (CET), Francesca Poggiolesi (University Paris 1) will give the talk Explaining with reasons: from Aristotle to Explainable AI as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Spring 2024 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in the Multiuso room, Theology Building, USI West Campus and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining it online, please write to events.isfi(a)usi.ch
For more information: https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/26653
Here is the abstract of the talk:
Explanations, and in particular explanations which provide the reasons why their conclusion is true, are a central object in a range of fields. On the other hand, there is a long and illustrious philosophical tradition, which starts from Aristotle, and passes through scholars as Leibniz, Bolzano and Frege, that give pride to this type of explanations, and is rich with brilliant and profound intuitions. Recently, Poggiolesi (2024) has formalized ideas coming from this tradition using the logical tools proper to proof theory. On the one hand, recent work has focused on Boolean circuits that compile some common machine learning classifiers and have the same input-output behavior. In this framework, Darwiche and Hirth (2023) have proposed a theory for unveiling the reasons behind the decisions made by Boolean classifiers, and they have studied their theoretical implications. In this talk we will show the deep links behind these two trends: in particular, we will show that the proof-theoretic tools introduced by Poggiolesi can be used to compute the complete reasons behind the decisions made by Boolean classifiers and we will illustrate them using examples. This is a joint work with B. Hill (GREGHEC, Paris).
2 months, 2 weeks
Workshop on Philosophy of Spontaneous Collapse
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We are pleased to announce the workshop Philosophy of Spontaneous Collapse, scheduled for 20-21 May 2024 at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano).
The aim of the workshop is to discuss the main philosophical implications of the spontaneous collapse models (SCM) of quantum mechanics. Since they were first proposed in the late '80s, the SCM have been among the most discussed solutions to the measurement problem.
In this workshop, some of the main figures in the debate on these models (both physicists such as Angelo Bassi and Daniel Sudarsky, as well as philosophers like David Albert, Valia Allori, Matthias Egg, and Tim Maudlin) will discuss the viability, the future prospects, and the ontological consequences of SCM.
The workshop is organised within Cristian Mariani SNF Ambizione project ‘Quantum Indeterminacy' (grant #208762).
More information is available here: www.usi.ch/en/feeds/27363<http://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/27363>
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2 months, 3 weeks