Ernst Mach Workshop

OMG, tne 11th Ernst Mach Workshop is coming to town! See you all next Tuesday, May 23.

EMW 10th anniversary edition begins in 3 days!!! Here's the official poster with a program:

Ernst Mach Workshop returns! After one year hiatus, we celebrate EMW 10th anniversary with none other than Professor David Chalmers, who will introduce to us his latest book, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022), and a host of international colleagues who will comment on various aspects of Chalmer's philosophy of virtual reality. Come to Prague on July 7-8, 2022!

Dear friends! I know, it's been a while. The covid years affected our plans like everybody else's. So, the Ernst Mach Workshop IX, which took place in 2020 (on 17-18 September), was only an online event. It's theme was "Non-Causal Explanation in Physics." Sure, the topics and papers were great, but Zoom is but an imperfect substitute for a personal presence... At any rate, the program of the workshop is attached here😊

Some of the participants of this year's EMW, including Prof. Susan Schneider.

The poster for the upcoming Ernst Mach Workshop 8 is ready!

The program of the upcoming Ernst Mach Workhop 8, FUTURE MINDS, is now complete!

June 12
10:00 – 11:30 Susan Schneider (University of Connecticut), “Could you Merge with AI?”
11:30 – 12:10 Judit Szalai (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), “Future Minds and the Philosophy of Mind”
12:10 – 02:00 Lunch
02:00 – 02:40 François Kammerer (Université Catholique de Louvain), “I Am Not a Self Yet, but I Might Become One”
02:40 – 03:20 Sonia de Jager (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), “Building Boundless, Reasonable Machines”
03:20 – 03:30 Coffee Break
03:30 – 04:10 Deke Gould (Augustana College, Rock Island, IL), “Future Minds and Anti-Natalism”
04:10 – 04:50 Robin Kopecký – Michaela Košová (Charles Univeristy, Prague), “How Young Minds See Future Minds”
05:00 – 07:00 Banquet

June 13
10:00 – 11:30 Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Vienna), “AI Ethics: Ethical Issues and Policy Challenges”
11:30 – 12:10 László Bernáth (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), “Defending the Standard Approach about Moral Status”
12:10 – 02:00 Lunch
02:00 – 02:40 Allan McCay (University of Sydney and Macquarie University), “Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Future of Criminal Law”
02:40 – 03:20 Frank Rösl (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg), “CRISPR-Cas: Social Impact and the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Personalized Medicine”
03:20 – 03:30 Coffee Break
03:30 – 04:10 Caterina Moruzzi (University of Nottingham), “Intentionality and Creativity in AI-Generated Music”
04:10 – 04:50 Tomáš Hříbek (Czech Academy of Sciences), “Can Machines Create Art?”

The EMW 2019 will be called FUTURE MINDS! We shall explore the topics at the intersection of philosophy of AI, posthumanism and the ethics of emerging technologies. Our keynote speakers will be Prof. Susan Schneider (U of Connecticut) and Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh (U of Vienna). Very exciting!

Dear friends, the 8th Ernst Mach Workshop will take place on June 12-13!

Here we go! Our poster for the upcoming EMW, complete with a program... except we still don't know the title of Prof. Prinz's talk. But we are certainly looking forward to it!😎😉