Date: Nov 5-6, 2026 (Thur – Fri) Full Day Venue: Nov 5 – AM & PM @ Rm4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Nov 6 – AM @ XR Space, Art Tech Lab, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Nov 6 – PM @ Rm4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial […]
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Date: September 11, 2026 (Friday) Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Venue: Rm 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Andrew Brenner, Hong Kong Baptist University Registration: here Abstract: A being has moral status if the way that being is treated matters morally, and it matters for the sake of the being in
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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
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Date: 30 January 2026 (Friday) Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speakers: Prof Mark Coeckelbergh, Philosophy, University of Vienna Abstract: Democracy theories assume that citizens have some form of political knowledge. But apart from widespread attention to the phenomenon of fake news and misinformation, less attention has been
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Date: 12 September 2025 (Friday) Time: 1530 – 1700 Venue: Room 10.13, 10/F, Seminar Room, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Registration: Here Speakers: Prof David Thorstad, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Abstract: Recent years have seen increasing concern that artificial intelligence may soon pose an existential risk to humanity. One leading ground for concern is
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Date: 19 September 2025 (Friday) Time: 1530 – 1700 Venue: To be announced Registration: Here Speakers: Geoffrey Keeling, Senior Research Scientist, Google Winnie Street, Senior Research Scientist, Google Abstract: (To be announced)
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Updated on 2 June 2025 Date: 26-27 Jun 2025 Venue: The University of London The Department of Philosophy of The University of Hong Kong together with the Institute of Philosophy of the University of London will jointly organise Conference on LLMs and externalism in London. It will be held from 26th to 27thJune 2025 at
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The Peking University, Beijing Normal University and The University of Hong Kong has jointly organised a workshop on Philosophy and AI, funded by the Research Funds for Excellent Interdisciplinary Research Groups at Beijing Normal University. Dates: April 26-27, 2025Venue: Berggruen Institute China Center, No. 54 Yannan Garden, Peking University, Beijing Host Department of Philosophy
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Date: April 11, 2025 (Friday) Speaker: Professor Regina Rini Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition Department of Philosophy, York University PhD, New York University, 2011 B.A., Georgetown University, 2004 Canada Research Chair in Social and Moral Cognition and Associate Professor of Philosophy. Research background in moral psychology, ethical theory,
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Abstract: In recent work, I argued that there is an AI-specific no miracles argument (NMA) which is at least as plausible as the traditional NMA. In this talk, I will express two doubts about this claim, relative to the AI-specific NMA that I previously proposed. I will then develop a new AI-specific NMA in response,
What’s hidden inside predictively successful deep learning models? Read More »