Seminars & Reading Groups

Seminar: Recent publications in the philosophy and ethics of AI

We discuss recent publications (papers and book chapters) in the philosophy of AI, including ethics. The idea of the class is that participants are brought up to speed on the main tenets of the present state of research in the various areas of the philosophy of AI, such as normative ethics, metaethics, language, knowledge, perception, rational choice, consciousness, etc.

Runs Mondays 16:00–18:00 c.t. at the Meeting Room 01.015 at Nürnberger Straße 74, 1st floor. One paper per week.

If you’d like to join, please write to björn.lundgren@fau.de or register on StudOn (if you are a student of FAU).

Reading Group: Feminist Philosophy of Technology

Some PAIR members run a Feminist Philosophy of Technology reading group. They meet on Thursdays 3 to 4:30 pm (CEST) once every three weeks to discuss recent works at the intersection of feminist theory and technology studies.

Previous readings have included Edwards and Palermos’ collection “Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies”, Helen Longino’s “Knowledge, Bodies, and Values: Reproductive Technologies and their Scientific Context”, parts of Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto”, Sylvie Borau’s “Deception, Discrimination, and Objectification: Ethical Issues of Female AI Agents”, Gen Eicker’s paper “Social Media Experiences of LGBTQ+ People: Enabling Feelings of Belonging”, and Laboria Cuboniks’ “Xenofeminism”.

If you’d like to join, please write to hadeel.naeem@fau.de