From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Oct 14 13:56:28 2019 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:56:28 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar - Dr Julia Haas - MORAL GRIDWORLDS Message-ID: View this email in your browser<*|ARCHIVE|*> [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WChACE8kz9tNKGrAtNiRCP?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SYDNEY CENTRE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE PRESENTS SEMESTER TWO 2019 RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RUAmCGvmB5iQolxyC7E9VS?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] Julia Haas Research Fellow School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University MORAL GRIDWORLDS The nascent field of moral AI asks how best to ensure that artificially intelligent (AI) systems instantiate and promote human moral norms and values. A growing number of proposals have suggested that the best way to achieve this objective is by developing artificial moral cognition, that is, artificial systems that recognize and respond to situations of moral significance. However, extant approaches involve building sophisticated cognitive architectures into these artificial systems, resulting in intractable frameworks. I present a new technical framework for modeling artificial moral cognition. Specifically, I propose to use reinforcement learning-based environments that teach artificial systems to learn, value, and respond to moral content and contexts. To illustrate the view, I describe a basic ?moral gridworld,? designed to model the moral cognitive capacity of fairness, here quantified in terms of the Ultimatum Game. I then discuss a suite of variations that can be introduced into the gridworld to represent a range of moral cognitive features, including cross-cultural variability and the simulation of signature moral dilemmas. 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A growing number of proposals have suggested that the best way to achieve this objective is by developing artificial moral cognition, that is, artificial systems that recognize and respond to situations of moral significance. However, extant approaches involve building sophisticated cognitive architectures into these artificial systems, resulting in intractable frameworks. I present a new technical framework for modeling artificial moral cognition. Specifically, I propose to use reinforcement learning-based environments that teach artificial systems to learn, value, and respond to moral content and contexts. To illustrate the view, I describe a basic ?moral gridworld,? designed to model the moral cognitive capacity of fairness, here quantified in terms of the Ultimatum Game. I then discuss a suite of variations that can be introduced into the gridworld to represent a range of moral cognitive features, including cross-cultural variability and the simulation of signature moral dilemmas. 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Committee: Carla Bagnoli, Garrett Cullity, Nicholas Southwood, Daniel Star ====================================================== The APR is seeking proposals for open peer commentaries on John Broome "Rationality versus Normativity". Proposal abstracts should be brief (100-500 words), stating clearly the aspects of the lead article that will be discussed, together with an indication of the line that will be taken. More details are available on the APR website, https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/j3dkC6X13RtBQ035HpW_U6?domain=aap.org.au Abstract submissions for APR 5.1 are due on *15 November 2019*. Invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued on 15 December 2019. 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In this paper I seek not to answer this question, but rather to highlight various alternative mereotopological options for the fetus-gestator relationship and to raise methodological concerns regarding how to adjudicate between these options. Should we be looking for evidence and data within the realm of metaphysics or the philosophy of biology? Should we be learning about pregnancy from our philosophical and scientific theories or should we update our theories based upon what we otherwise know about pregnancy? My positive suggestion will be to adopt a method of reflective equilibrium. The aim of this is to ensure that pregnancy be included in the tribunal of experience to which our theories are held up against such that our theories can accommodate what we say about pregnancy, whilst also ensuring that what we say about pregnancy be theoretically informed. NB: Tea starts at 15:15...there will be tim tams.... When: Wed 16 Oct 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * sequoiah at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UUaSCr8DLRtGo6kwc7GdBK?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kNxYCvl0PoC3K4YOcXKwiY?domain=google.com You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Seminars. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kNxYCvl0PoC3K4YOcXKwiY?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser and be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or to modify your RSVP. 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This paper explores a new strategy which will have similar benefits to my own, but allows analytic functionalists to still hold that there view about consciousness and experience is analytic. I do this by invoking a similar conditional analysis about the underlying nature of causation while leaving the story about mental states unconditional. When: Thu 17 Oct 2019 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: The Muniment Room, Main Quad Calendar: Current Projects Who: * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ceovCq7BKYtoD73JcZOrBi?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LRPXCr8DLRtGpDY4czBaNs?domain=google.com You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Current Projects. 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Causal Conditionalism My preferred solution to the Conceivability Argument against physicalism about the mind involves a departure from the truth of analytic functionalism about the mind: the so-called conditional concepts strategy. This makes functionalism (probably) true, but no longer a priori: what?s analytic is not functionalism, but a conditional which has the truth of functionalism in its consequent. This paper explores a new strategy which will have similar benefits to my own, but allows analytic functionalists to still hold that there view about consciousness and experience is analytic. I do this by invoking a similar conditional analysis about the underlying nature of causation while leaving the story about mental states unconditional. Associate Professor Kristie Miller ARC Future Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 407, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9TBgC5QZ29FDopgQTzvMeG?domain=kristiemiller.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rather, the pied-piper exploits variation in an audience's interpretation of a term, along with audience's background evaluative commitments, in order to manufacture agreement, and so prompt action. Thus, I call the intentions involved in pied-piping purely manipulative linguistic intentions; Orwellian communication occurs when such intentions are realized. Purely manipulative linguistic intentions are essentially hidden -- recognition of these intentions by an audience prevents them from being realized. It follows that in Orwellian communication, the speaker does not speaker-mean or assert anything with her utterance. I then discuss connections between pied-piping, dog whistling, sloganeering, and various forms of propaganda. NB: Tea starts at 15:15...there will be tim tams.... When: Wed 23 Oct 2019 15:30 ? 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * sequoiah at gmail.com- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Cbj8CE8kz9tNqkmOfNGvUk?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wlFXCGvmB5iQ82mEt7KRj3?domain=google.com You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Seminars. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wlFXCGvmB5iQ82mEt7KRj3?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser and be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or to modify your RSVP. 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In this sense both A-theorists and B-theorists reject ?spatialization of time?. The aim of this talk is to propose what is called ?C-theory?, which can be regarded as radical spatialization of time. Although my usage of ?C-theory? owes its genesis to McTaggart, it is closer to that used by Farr (2018) or Baron and Miller (2018) rather than McTaggart?s original usage. According to this view, there is no objective difference between time and space. Temporal direction is just a projection of our agentic perspective. This talk consists of two parts. In the first part I explicate what C-theory is. In the second part I argue that if we deny dynamic theory of time we should prefer C-theory to B-theory. 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