BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T150013Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240401T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240401T000000 SUMMARY:New Narratives and Methods in the History of 20th Century Philosophy UID:20240329T150041Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Warandelaan 2\, Tilburg\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:
*Call for Papers*
\n*New Narratives and Methods in the History of 20th Century Philosophy*
\n*19-20 August 2024*
\nExiled Empiricists ERC Project - University of Tilburg
\nThe history of twentieth century philosophy has largely been written within a single overarching narrative describing the rise of a sharp divide between two opposing traditions\, analytic and continental philosophy. Despite its widespread use\, this narrative of a philosophical divide fails to address many intellectual and social changes that philosophy underwent in the twentieth century. Philosophy became an independent discipline within academia and dramatically increased a focus on specialization. Standards shifted how to write a philosophical text and how to comprehend its intended readership. Also important socio-political events had a major impact on the intellectual and institutional identity of philosophy in the 20th century. Among the most salient were the two World Wars\, the fight for gender-equality and civil rights\, and the de-colonization of the global south. Until now\, all of the above developments have not been given much interest as a way to understand developments in 20th century philosophy as a whole.
\nThe dominant divide-narrative primarily originated from the philosophical self-understanding that arose in the Anglophone world after the Second World War. Therefore\, it offers little conceptual tools to describe and understand the above broader changes. The divide-narrative also struggles to provide a coherent interpretation of any philosophic development outside of\, or at the margins of\, the analytic tradition. The category of "continental" fails to describe in a meaningful way many philosophical traditions that drove intellectual developments in 20th century philosophy\, like pragmatism\, Neo-Kantianism\, critical theory\, feminism\, phenomenology or post-colonialism. In turn\, the category of "analytic" philosophy is itself problematic. Construed as philosophy inspired by Frege\, Russell\, Moore and Wittgenstein\, it fails to do justice to the diversity of interests\, aims and influences of all 20th century philosophers who are characterized as "analytics".
\nThis conference aims to explore potential alternative conceptualizations and problematizations of what happens to philosophy in the 20th century from an intellectual\, social and institutional perspective. By doing this\, we hope to enrich contemporary philosophers&rsquo\; self-understanding of what they are doing in the 21st century.
\nWe invite scholars to submit proposals for papers that explore the social\, cultural\, political\, and intellectual developments of philosophy in the 20th century. We invite potential contributors to consider topics related to questions such as:
\nThis conference will be organized in conjunction with the conference &ldquo\;Quantitative Studies of Philosophy&rdquo\;\, which will take place on 21-22 August\, also at Tilburg University.
\n*Keynotes*
\nAlan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
\nRachael Wiseman (University of Liverpool)
\nEric Schliesser (University of Amsterdam)
\n*Submission guidelines*
\nPlease submit an abstract (max. 500 words) suitable for blind review.
\nThe deadline for submissions is April 1.
\nPlease send your abstracts to F.R.P.Dewulf[at]tilburguniversity.edu and P.T.vanGemert[at]tilburguniversity.edu
\n*Dates and Deadlines*
\nApril 1: Submission deadline
\nApril 15: Notifications
\nAugust 19-20: Conference
\n\nQuestions about the conference can be directed at F.R.P.dewulf[at]tilburguniversity.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Fons Dewulf;CN=Ties van Gemert;CN=Sander Verhaegh: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T150013Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240415T233000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240415T233000 SUMMARY:9th Descartes Lectures: Large Language Models & Philosophy of Mind UID:20240329T150042Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Tilburg\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:CFP: Large Language Models &\; Philosophy of Mind
\nThe 9th Descartes Lectures
\nTilburg University (The Netherlands)
\n29-31 July 2024
\n*****
\nEvery other year\, a distinguished philosopher visits Tilburg Universityand the Tilburg Center for Moral Philosophy\, Epistemology\, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) to deliver the René\; Descartes Lectures.
\nWe are happy to announce that the 2024 Descartes Lectures will be delivered by \;Prof. David Chalmers (NYU) on the topic of &lsquo\;Large Language Models and the Philosophy of Mind&rsquo\;. Each of Prof. Chalmers&rsquo\; lectures will be followed by an invited commentary from our \;panel of respondents: Prof. Vincent C. Mü\;ller (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)\, Dr. Emily Sullivan (Utrecht)\, and Prof. Pä\;r Sundströ\;m (Umeå\;).
\nParallel to the lectures &\; invited commentaries\, Tilburg University will host a workshop on the topic of LLMs &\; The Philosophy of Mind.
\nTo that end\, we invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up to 500 words excluding notes and references) concerning relevant issues to be submitted by \;15 April 2024.
\nPotential topics include but are not limited to:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Could LLMs or some nearby extensions be said to be conscious?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Can LLMs be said to &lsquo\;understand&rsquo\;?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Does the lack of sensory grounding impact whether LLMS genuinely think?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How does the use of LLMs relate to the extended mind thesis?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Do LLMs genuinely refer to the real world when producing language?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; LLMs and representationalist philosophy of mind
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The notion of general intelligence and how it might be manifested
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Are LLMs just &ldquo\;Blockheads&rdquo\; (Block 1981)?
\nAbstracts prepared for blind review\, together with a separate cover sheet including author name(s) &\; contact/affiliation information\, should be submitted via \;email to n.w.wildman@tilburguniversity.edu. Please mention 'Descartes Lectures Submission' in the subject line.
\nSuccessful submissions will be notified by 10 May 2024.
\nNote that\, unfortunately\, we are unable to fund the accommodation or travel costs of those selected to present at the workshop.
\nFor more information about the Lectures and workshop\, please see the conference webpage: https://descarteslectures2024.wordpress.com/And if you have any further questions\, please contact the organizers via email at n.w.wildman@tilburguniversity.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Nathan Wildman;CN=Matteo Colombo;CN=Ties van Gemert;CN=Stefaan Blancke: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T150013Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240418T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240419T170000 SUMMARY:The Ethics of Travel UID:20240329T150043Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Tilburg\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:The workshop The Ethics of Travel is now open for registrations both for in-person and online attendance. We will have talks on the ethics of flying\; the relationship of travel with rights\, justice\, and the good life\; the influence of tourism on local communities\; the epistemic and existential (dis)value of travel\; and the ethics of specific kinds of travel such as dark tourism and sport fan tourism. We are hoping for a lively discussion on site\, as well as online in an asynchronous manner: online attendants will be able to post comments that speakers can reply to after their talks\, and we have also a few short lightning talks that will be pre-recorded and available throughout the workshop.
\nThe conference will take place on 18th-19th April 2024 at Tilburg University (The Netherlands)\, and will be broadcast live through a closed YouTube channel. We will provide with access to registered attendees a few days prior the conference\, so please register before 10th April to ensure your participation online or to accommodate you at the venue if you are attending in person.
\nRegistration form: https://forms.gle/xeiixjShvFQFRy6XA \;
\nProgram and conference poster (all times are CET): https://shorturl.at/hjswO \;
\nThis conference and will launch the subfield of the ethics of travel\, with a particular focus on leisure travel (as opposed to\, for example\, medical tourism\, migratory travel\, or business travel). After the conference\, there will be a special issue in \;The Journal of Ethics to be published in 2025. \;
\nOrganisers and issue editors
\nWillem van der Deijl-Kloeg (Tilburg University)
\nPilar Lopez-Cantero (Tilburg University)
ORGANIZER;CN=Willem van der Deijl;CN=Pilar Lopez-Cantero: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T150013Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240704T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240705T170000 SUMMARY:Digital Technologies and Identity UID:20240329T150044Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Mindlabs\, Tilburg\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence\, algorithms\, and other digital technologies impact and transform our identities in various ways.
\nAlgorithms perform a wide range of tasks for us\, changing the nature of work and our identities as workers. They decide who gets a mortgage\, who earns parole\, and who is invited to a job interview\, constraining our life choices. Algorithms on social media influence how we vote\, what groups we align with\, and how we express our identities to others. We anthropomorphize and form close relationships with digital technologies embedded in chatbots and robots. Meanwhile\, generative AIs proficient at generating text\, music\, and images raise questions about our creative identities and authenticity of expression. As digital technologies are integrated into our brains and bodies\, new forms of hybrid\, cyborg identities emerge. \;
\nOur interactions with digital technologies shape who we are\, and what we feel\, think\, and do. Digitalization therefore transforms our professional\, political\, moral\, and personal identities. At the same time\, the digitization of human experience raises questions about our ability to capture multifaceted identities in terms of raw data. \;
\nThis symposium aims to deepen our understanding of the effects of digital technology on our identities\, focusing on the following questions:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; What is the nature of human (personal or social) identity\, and how do digital technologies transform it?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; How do digital technologies influence the ways in which we express and communicate our identities (to ourselves\, others\, or machines)?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; What are the practical\, political\, and moral effects of the &ldquo\;datafication&rdquo\; of human identities?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; How do digital technologies affect (specific) identities\, e.g.\, our identities as workers\, friends\, or creatives?
\nWe aim to answer these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. We invite speakers to present on a broad range of topics including\, but not limited to\, the cognitive (e.g.\, the effects of digital technologies on perception of the self\, others\, and machines)\, arts and media (e.g.\, the role of virtual reality in narratives about human identity)\, philosophical (e.g.\, the nature of human identity\, philosophy of technology\, moral analyses)\, linguistic (e.g.\, digital technology and stylometry\, profiling\, human-AI communication)\, artificial intelligence (e.g.\, the nature and properties of algorithms and datasets as they relate to human identity)\, and communication and information studies (e.g.\, chatbots and friendship\, social media and online identity).
\nSubmitted abstracts ideally (but not necessarily) feature digital humanities methods or reflect on digital media and technologies.
\nThis 2-day\, hybrid symposium - part on-site in Tilburg\, part online - brings together scholars from a range of disciplines\, including Philosophy\, Culture Studies\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence\, Cultural\, Literary\, and Media Studies\, Communication and Information Sciences\, Computational Linguistics\, and Cognitive Science\, to engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue on these matters.
\nKeynote speakers to be confirmed.
\nWe invite interested speakers to submit (i) an anonymized abstract of max. 300 words\, and \;
\n(ii) a cover sheet including your name\, \; and institutional affiliation\, and whether you would prefer to give a talk in person or online to DHsymposium@tilburguniversity.edu by April 30\, 2024. You&rsquo\;ll be notified on May the 15th.
\nOrganizers:
\nRichard Heersmink
\nWilliam Marler
\nMirella De Sisto
\nSaif Shahin
\nBarend de Rooij
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T150013Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240729T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240731T170000 SUMMARY:9th Descartes Lectures: Large Language Models & Philosophy of Mind UID:20240329T150045Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Tilburg\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:The use and effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT-3+\, and especially their ability to generate increasingly humanlike outputs\, raise a number of pressing philosophical questions.
\nThe 2024 Descartes Lectures focus on how LLMs impact debates in the philosophy of mind. Questions to consider here include: Can language models or their extensions be conscious? Can such model be said to &ldquo\;understand&rdquo\;? Can these systems think\, given the (apparent) absence of sensory grounding? Can LLMs extend the human mind\, and\, if so\, how?
\nBy reflecting on these questions\, we will not only get a better grip on the capacities of AI systems\, but also shed light on more traditional issues in the philosophy of mind.
\n*****
\nEvery other year\, a distinguished philosopher visits Tilburg Universityand the Tilburg Center for Moral Philosophy\, Epistemology\, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) to deliver the René\; Descartes Lectures.
\nWe are happy to announce that the 2024 Descartes Lectures will be delivered by \;Prof. David Chalmers (NYU) on the topic of &lsquo\;Large Language Models and the Philosophy of Mind&rsquo\;. Each of Prof. Chalmers&rsquo\; lectures will be followed by an invited commentary from our \;panel of respondents: Prof. Vincent C. Mü\;ller (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)\, Dr. Emily Sullivan (Utrecht)\, and Prof. Pä\;r Sundströ\;m (Umeå\;).
\nParallel to the lectures &\; invited commentaries\, Tilburg University will host a workshop on the topic of LLMs &\; The Philosophy of Mind.
ORGANIZER;CN=Nathan Wildman;CN=Matteo Colombo;CN=Ties van Gemert;CN=Stefaan Blancke: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T150013Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240819T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240820T170000 SUMMARY:New Narratives and Methods in the History of 20th Century Philosophy UID:20240329T150046Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Warandelaan 2\, Tilburg\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:*New Narratives and Methods in the History of 20th Century Philosophy*
\n*19-20 August 2024*
\nExiled Empiricists ERC Project - University of Tilburg
\nThe history of twentieth century philosophy has largely been written within a single overarching narrative describing the rise of a sharp divide between two opposing traditions\, analytic and continental philosophy. Despite its widespread use\, this narrative of a philosophical divide fails to address many intellectual and social changes that philosophy underwent in the twentieth century. Philosophy became an independent discipline within academia and dramatically increased a focus on specialization. Standards shifted how to write a philosophical text and how to comprehend its intended readership. Also important socio-political events had a major impact on the intellectual and institutional identity of philosophy in the 20th century. Among the most salient were the two World Wars\, the fight for gender-equality and civil rights\, and the de-colonization of the global south. Until now\, all of the above developments have not been given much interest as a way to understand developments in 20th century philosophy as a whole.
\nThe dominant divide-narrative primarily originated from the philosophical self-understanding that arose in the Anglophone world after the Second World War. Therefore\, it offers little conceptual tools to describe and understand the above broader changes. The divide-narrative also struggles to provide a coherent interpretation of any philosophic development outside of\, or at the margins of\, the analytic tradition. The category of "continental" fails to describe in a meaningful way many philosophical traditions that drove intellectual developments in 20th century philosophy\, like pragmatism\, Neo-Kantianism\, critical theory\, feminism\, phenomenology or post-colonialism. In turn\, the category of "analytic" philosophy is itself problematic. Construed as philosophy inspired by Frege\, Russell\, Moore and Wittgenstein\, it fails to do justice to the diversity of interests\, aims and influences of all 20th century philosophers who are characterized as "analytics".
\nThis conference aims to explore potential alternative conceptualizations and problematizations of what happens to philosophy in the 20th century from an intellectual\, social and institutional perspective. By doing this\, we hope to enrich contemporary philosophers&rsquo\; self-understanding of what they are doing in the 21st century.
\nWe invite scholars to submit proposals for papers that explore the social\, cultural\, political\, and intellectual developments of philosophy in the 20th century. We invite potential contributors to consider topics related to questions such as:
\n\nThis conference will be organized in conjunction with the conference &ldquo\;Quantitative Studies of Philosophy&rdquo\;\, which will take place on 21-22 August\, also at Tilburg University.
\n\n*Keynotes*
\nAlan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
\nRachael Wiseman (University of Liverpool)
\nEric Schliesser (University of Amsterdam)
ORGANIZER;CN=Fons Dewulf;CN=Ties van Gemert;CN=Sander Verhaegh: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR