[SydPhil] University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series, Thomas Corbin (joint work with Gene Flenady), (Macquarie University)

[Ryan Cox]

Hi everyone,

This week's speaker in the University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series is Thomas Corbin (joint work with Gene Flenady), (Macquarie University)

The title of the talk is "Teaching Philosophy in the Age of GenAI". Here is an abstract for the talk:

Generative AI (GenAI) has made teaching philosophy difficult. As the technology improves, and as other departments and faculties develop discipline appropriate adaptations, thing will get worse. One reason for this is simply that many of the solutions being proposed in other disciplines, for instance ‘authentic assessment’, work-integrated-learning, and practice-based assessments, do not easily apply to us.

This difficulty demands at least two things of philosophy teachers and departments. Firstly, an awareness of philosophy’s unique position within the ‘GenAI University’. Secondly, an awareness of the challenges GenAI either creates or shines a light on.

This talk covers both of these issues and will suggest three areas that demand our attention in particular: AI grading and tutoring systems, AI and assessment, and AI and philosophical reading. This talk will explain what is at stake in each of these three areas and present, if not solutions, at least ways of appropriately articulating the problem and the kinds of solutions available.

Thomas Corbin is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. His main focus is on Generative AI, particularly with a view to assessment. Dr Corbin leads a multi-institution research team working on the project "Teaching the Humanities in the Age of GenAI," which explores the challenges and opportunities presented by GenAI in humanities education, particularly within philosophy units operating in Australian Universities.

Gene Flenady is a lecturer in philosophy at Monash University. His research concerns the structure and social conditions of human rational agency, mobilising the resources of the German idealist tradition to normatively assess the implications of new technologies for meaningful work and tertiary pedagogy.

The seminar will take place at 3:30pm on Wednesday May 15 in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494).

Enquiries about the seminar series can be directed to ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au

Ryan Cox
Associate Lecturer in Philosophy
Discipline of Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Sydney
ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au
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