Erica Fung

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Wayne Wu, University of Pittsburgh Abstract: What are the tools we need to make progress on consciousness? The central tool has been introspection, but I raise questions about introspection

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Keith Frankish, University of Sheffield Abstract: The concept of consciousness as a private inner show of phenomenal qualities is broken. It creates the Hard Problem without helping neuroscience or

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China  Speaker:Professor Matti Eklund, Uppsala University Abstract: In earlier work I have considered the possibility of alien languages: languages with alien elements, different in kind from elements of familiar languages. Here is

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China  Speaker: Professor Andrew Lee, University of Toronto Abstract: I argue that the most promising direction for the future of consciousness research is to follow a path that recurs across the history

Date: Novermber 17, 2025 (Mon) Time: 15:00-17:00 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce , C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Commentors: Professor Jiji Zhang (The Chinese University of HK) Professor Boris Babic (Hong Kong University) Professor Simon Goldstein (Hong Kong University) Professor Kangyu

Date: Novermber 14, 2025 (Friday) Time: 15:30-17:00 Venue: MB142, 1/F, Main Building, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce , C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Abstract: After introducing the notion of credal accuracy, and explaining why formal epistemologists use strictly proper scoring rules to measure it, I will introduce some well-known accuracy

Date: April 23-24, 2026 (Thursday – Friday) Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm Venue: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU (Exact room to be confirmed) Speakers:  Professor Brian Earp, National University of Singapore    

Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Time: 10:00am – 17:30pm Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Keynote Speakers/Titles/Abstracts: Professor Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh, Caring and Consciousness Professor Keith Frankish, University of Sheffield, Reactivity as Replacement: Re-Engineering Consciousness for Science and Policy Professor Matti

Date: December 5, 2025 (Friday) Time: 15:30-17:00 Venue: Rm 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Prof Ryan M. Nefdt, University of Cape Town Abstract: There is a veritable cornucopia of options for scholars interested in using the tools of philosophy and cognitive science to interpret the behaviour of large language models

Date: October 28, 2025 (Tue) Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Venue: P603 IDS Office, Graduate House, HKU Speaker: Prof Frederick Eberhardt, Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology Moderator: Prof Boris Babic, Dept of Philosophy & Law (by courtesy), HKU Abstract: Causal representations are models of real-world data that retain causal information, so in particular, they provide