🫨Such an awesome start to our microworkshop on #AI and Close Personal Relationships. Amazed at the beauty of this model of academic interactions. Beats any conference!
The perfect set of interlocutors on AI and friendships, love, etc. + an intimate setting for work in progress.
#philtech #aiethics
The trust distinction comes from my dissertation work on the philosophy of trust and #philtech. The AI help was mostly in translating those ideas into the discourse of empirical finance, which I know through work and my MBA but not as a researcher.
Anyone interested in the History and Philosophy of Technology, be sure to check this call for abstracts! This is a great event. I presented on the last version, and had blast and learnt a lot.
#philtech #philosophy
Our call for our next history of philosophy of technology conference is out! Spread the word and submit your abstracts. Looking forward seeing you in Maastricht in October!
#philtech
Call for Abstracts
2nd International Conference
The History of the Philosophy of Technology
October 26-28, 2026
Maastricht University
Theme: national and regional traditions
Abstracts by 25 May 2026
fasos-research.nl/history-of-p...
#philtech #hopot #hopos #histtech
Article header from AI and Ethics (2025, vol. 5, pp. 3669–3680) titled "Can artificial intelligence embody moral values?" by Torben Swoboda and Lode Lauwaert.
Can #AI encode moral values such as fairness, honesty & harm-avoidance? In their recent 📃, Torben Swoboda & @lodelauwaert.bsky.social argue in the affirmative. They provide a framework and discuss evidence from text-based game environments 💻👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky #philtech #HPS
One of Habermas' many merits was to be the first to understand the reactionary form of postmodernism behind Adorno and Horkheimer's unduly influential Dialectics of Enlightenment.
No thinker ever did so much to restore the cause of reason.
#philsci #hps #philtech #sts #metascience
I’ve been busy the past 3 months. Doing what, you ask?
#polphil #PhilSci #PhilTech #PhilHist #PhilMind #PhilSky
2 days 3 talks! #AI and Loneliness, Artifactual Epistemology and AI, and Civilizational Risks and AI. First one to the greater community at Iowa State University, second to their philosophy department, third to a life learning community of retired academics in Oregon.
#philtech #philsci #AIethics
Two of our members, @masssimons.bsky.social and Darryl Cressman talk about Dutch philosophy of technology at Delft! #philtech
Today in Delft to talk about the history of philosophy of technology in the Netherlands #hopot #philtech
Sometimes I know what I’m looking for but don’t know where I’ll find it. Sometimes I don’t know but then I find it. Sometimes I am not looking for anything and something finds me. As the history of science has shown, serendipity is often enriching for research and the researcher.
#philsci #philtech
Automating SOME specific aspects of research/science may be fine. Doing so uncritically or for bad reasons is not. Thinking that something being “better” (faster/cheaper/more accurate, etc.) is by itself reason enough for it to replace something that is not, is a fallacy.
#philtech #philsci
I philosophize about #AI. Nothing that I have written or will ever write will ever use it. Not bc I distrust it or bc I think it couldn’t do it. Just bc, to me, figuring out ways to do some of the things it could do is part of the beauty, privilege, fun and the point of what I do.
#philtech
Why do people think the Turing test is abt machine intelligence? It’s clearly about OUR ability to discern/tell the difference given ONLY output/behavior concerning discreet tasks. Two completely different things. If you think otherwise, you didn’t read that paper correctly.
#AIethics #philtech
The lawful/unlawful angle wrt Anthropic + DOW debate seems like a red herring: mass surveillance of American citizens could become legal, that doesn’t make it any better/desirable/moral. Autonomous weapons could be legal, that doesn’t mean AI is ready/reliable/safe for them.
#AIethics #philtech
Our deadline for abstracts for the international association for computing and philosophy is tomorrow! If you are writing on philosophy and algorithms, AI, computers, models, etc., I hope you submit your abstracts!
#philtech #philsci #ai #aiethics #philsky
I really enjoy public talks, considering the audience before hand and then their questions at the end is the best exercise to make my ideas clearer. My writing and my lecturing are unavoidably enriched by these events. Here I’m talking about #AI and Loneliness at OSU’s PRAx.
#philtech #aiethics
Second time to attend @iaseai.bsky.social Presented my thoughts on blaming AI.
This time I had one of my own students accepted—Timothy Zhang! It was super cool to have a student of mine attending an AI ethics conference.
The conference overall was great. #aisaftey #philtech
Please share. The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is one of the best communities to engage with if you are doing any philosophy (epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, etc.) related to computational technologies.
Submit your abstract!
#philsci #philsky #philtech #AIethics
🚨A reminder that IACAP’s conference call for abstracts extended deadline is on Feb.28th.
If you are writing about AI, algorithms, models, simulations, and philosophy don’t hesitate to apply and engage with our great community!
#philsci #philtech #philsky
Although this was strongly written from the #philsci perspective, I hope it’ll be useful for #philtech, #sts, or #philsky in general. The ubiquity of simulations in natural/social science, medicine, policy/politics, should make them of at least some interest to anyone doing 21st century philosophy.
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I had the pleasure of reviewing @cjbartel.bsky.social's new book *Aesthetics and Video Games* for the Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism.
Here's an illustrated thread summarising the book and my thoughts:
You can read my full review here: philpapers.org/rec/FISAAV
#philtech #games #gamestudies
I wrote a follow-up to my Cheek Media piece on AI nudifying women on X — this time addressing the misconceptions I kept seeing in the comments. For better conversations, we need shared facts. Give it a read!
open.substack.com/pub/notesfro...
#philtech #philai #aiethics
