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Fei-Fei Li, Stanford UniversityWhat We See and What We Value: AI with a Human Perspective October 26, 20232022 Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University will deliver the 2022 Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Artificial Intelligence this fall at... |
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Alejandra Oliva, essayist, embroiderer, and translatorYou Can’t Translate What You Can’t See: Between Languages in the U.S. Immigration System April 21, 2022How are power structures and empathy implicated in translation? What do we owe asylum seekers, and the stories they bring? What does it mean to bear witness, or to take action? Based on her experiences as an observer... |
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Ian Phillips, Johns Hopkins UniversityPerception, Action, and Experience: Retying the Golden Braid April 12, 2022Intuitively, our mental life involves, as Andy Clark evocatively puts it, “a seamless unfolding of perception, action and experience: a golden braid in which each element twines intimately with the rest.” Cognitive... |
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James McAuley, columnist for The Washington PostJewish Survival and Holocaust Memory: Salo Baron and the Twentieth Century April 7, 2022This talk will examine the life and thought of Salo Baron, one of the great twentieth-century historians who was among the first to bring Jewish Studies to the American university. The talk will trace Baron’s... |
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David Chalmers, New York UniversityThe Meta-Problem of Consciousness March 29, 2022The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how physical systems give rise to subjective experience. The hard problem typically contrasts with the easy problems of explaining behavior. However,... |
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Joshua Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhat Kind of Computation Is Cognition? March 8, 2022Recent successes in artificial intelligence have been largely driven by neural networks and other sophisticated machine learning tools for pattern recognition and function approximation. But human intelligence is ... |
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Juliette Cherbuliez, University of MinnesotaMarch 3, 2022Despite the propensity by philosophers and political theorists for mining Greek tragedy in search of models of effective moral action, few have explored Medea as a salutary icon of positive action. In this talk, I... |
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Lori Gruen, Wesleyan UniversityCarceral Logics: An Abolitionist Critique December 7, 2021Mass incarceration is supported and sustained by carceral logics. In this lecture Professor Gruen will describe two types of carceral logics, discuss how they operate, and discuss reasons to abolish them. Lori... |
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Eric Karpeles, writer, translator, and painterJózef Czapski: Facing the Void October 13, 2021Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski lived into his ninety-seventh year, embodying the complex contradictions of the entire twentieth century. Having been witness to both Russian Revolutions of 1917 as well as the... |
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Namwali Serpell, Harvard UniversityRace Off: The Fantasy of Race Transformation September 23, 2021Namwali Serpell is the author of The Old Drift, which won the Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Fiction, the L.A. Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,... |