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, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Convener: Henry Shevlin
Michaelmas Term 2019
PART 1: Methodology and Theory
| 3 October | Miracchi (2019), A competence framework for artificial intelligence research |
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| 10 October | Brown (2019), Infer with care: a critique of the argument from animals |
| 17 October | Figdor (2017), On the proper domain of psychological predicates |
| 24 October | Guest: Ali Boyle. The impure phenomenology of episodic memory |
PART 2: Scientific Frontiers
| 31 October | Marino and Merskin (2019), Intelligence, complexity, and individuality in sheep |
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| 7 November | Ha & Schmidhuber (2018), World models |
| 14 November | Gagliano (2017), The mind of plants: thinking the unthinkable |
| 21 November | Guest: Dan Williams. Socially adaptive belief |
PART 3: Ethics, Intelligence, and AI
| 28 November | Haas & Klein (draft), Modeling moral problems |
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| 5 December | Monsó, Benz-Schwarzburg, & Bremhorst (2018), Animal morality: what it means and why it matters |
| 12 December | Tomasik (2014), Ethical issues in artificial reinforcement learning |