Errors and mistakes: so wot?Yasemin J. Erden (St Mary's University College)
Twickenham
United Kingdom
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St Mary’s University, Philosophy
Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture
Dr Yasemin J. Erden, Lecturer/Programme Director Philosophy, SMU
Errors and mistakes: so wot?Wednesday 23rd October 2014 5.15-6.45pm followed by a drinks reception
Senior Common Room, St Mary’s University, TwickenhamAbstract
This talk will serve as an introduction to this year’s series on Error, and will ask key questions about the nature of concepts like error, mistakes, and failure. Alongside this we’ll think about questions of risk, consequence and accountability. Some key examples from science, technology and politics will be explored, alongside delightful mistakes and errors from a range of philosophers.
About the Speaker
Yasemin is the Programme Director for Philosophy at St Mary’s University, and her research interests range from interdisciplinary (with science and technology) to philosophy of language, aesthetics, and ethics. Her most recent publications include topics in thinking, agency and recognition; Neural implants and human identity, and; nanovaccines and global equity. She has recently guest edited a symposium issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and has been a committee member of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) since 2012. In her spare time she is unavoidably committed to watching too many disappointing football games.
Registration
All lectures are free and open to the public without registration. Lectures start at 5.15pm and last for 45 minutes, with 45 minutes for questions and further discussion. This is then followed by a wine reception.
Venue
Senior Common Room, St Mary’s University, Waldegrave Road, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham TW1 4SX
Directions to the University can be found at www.smuc.ac.uk/contact/directions.htm
For further information please contact: Dr Marije Altorf – [email protected]
Programme
The full lecture series is copied below. More information is available by clicking the following link: http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/rip-lectures-14-15/Pages/yasemin-erden-23-oct.aspx 23 October 2014Errors and mistakes: so wot?
Dr Yasemin J. Erden
Lecturer/Programme Director in Philosophy, St Mary's University
Sentenced By Our Words
Professor Paul Standish
Professor of Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education
Failures of Understanding
Dr Roxana Baiasu
Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University, and Birmingham University
The Augumentative Muse: recent philosophical poems by Christopher Norris
Professor Christopher Norris
Distinguished Research Professor, Philosophy, Cardiff University
Statistical predictions are always true (and that's why they are not about me)
Dr Ardo van den Hout
Lecturer in Statistics at the Department of Statistical Science, University College London
Are we accountable for our unconscious biases?
Professor Helen Beebee
Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester
[Title TBC]
Professor Michael Brady
Professor of Philosophy, Glasgow University
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