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Philosophy And AI Speaker Series – “Sentimental Machines” with Cameron Buckner (University of Houston)
April 17, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Philosophy Department and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are proud to present the fourth talk of our Philosophy and AI speaker series, by Professor Cameron Buckner, (University of Houston). Please see below for information about the talk. A reception will follow in Griffin-Floyd 303.
Title: Sentimental Machines: New Inspiration for Artificial Social and Moral Cognition from Adam Smith and Sophie De Grouchy
April 17, 2023, 4pm-6pm
Friends of Music Room (University Auditorium)
Speaker bio: Cameron Buckner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. His work focuses on the relationship between learning and meaning. A failure to take learning seriously has impeded research in a number of areas. In the philosophy of representation, it has led to an emphasis on teleosemantic views that freeze meaning during some idealized period of learning or evolution. In comparative psychology, it has led to oversimplified dichotomies between cognition and association. And in computer science, it has led to an emphasis on brute-force search strategies that overlook the kinds of elegant simplifying assumptions that structure biological action and search. I address these problems by offering approaches to mental content, cognition, and knowledge representation that take the latest empirical theories of learning as their starting point.