What? A reading group focused on comparative and theoretical issues in the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, with particular focus on the puzzles, insights, and challenges presented by non-human intelligence.
When? Thursdays, 11am–12.30pm
Where? Upstairs Boardroom (unless otherwise specified), Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Convener: Henry Shevlin
Lent Term 2020
Part 1: Comparative Cognition
| 9 January | Guest: Konstantinos Voudouris. Inside Insight: Against a Thorpean Dogma. Supplementary reading: Anthropomorphomania and the Rise of the Animal Mind: A Conversation. Barker & Povinelli (2019). Journal of Folklore Research. |
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| 16 January | No meeting |
| 23 January | Guest: Henry Shevlin. Rethinking creative intelligence: comparative psychology and the concept of creativity. (Paper under review). |
| 30 January | Guest: Benjamin Farrar. The illusion of science in comparative cognition. Farrar & Ostojic (2019). Psyarxiv. Change of location: CFI Downstairs Boardroom |
| 6 February | Understanding the replication crisis as a base rate fallacy. Bird (forthcoming). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. |
| 13 February | No meeting |
Part 2: Artificial Intelligence
| 20 February | On the measure of intelligence. Chollet (2019). Arxiv. |
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| 27 February | The rhetoric and reality of anthropomorphism in artificial intelligence. Watson. (2019). Minds & Machines. |
| 5 March | Deep learning: a philosophical introduction. Buckner (2019). Philosophy Compass. |
| 12 March | Guest: John Zerilli. Algorithmic decision-making and the control problem. Zerilli et al. (2019). Minds & Machines. |
| 19 March | Guest: Catherine Stinson. From implausible artificial neurons to idealised cognitive models: Rebooting philosophy of artificial intelligence. Stinson (2019) Philosophy of Science. |