Ekaterina Kubyshkina will present joint work with M. Petrolo “What is normal?” at the 1st MoLoCo (Modal Logic Collective) meeting held at the University of Bologna on May 30rd, 2025. TITLE. What is normal? ABSTRACT. On the basis of the definition of a normal modal system, it is common to distinguish between normal and non-normal […]
Three part lecture series on the Philosophy and Ethics of AI Sanjay Modgil Reader in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Informatics, King’s College London Part 1:Moral Machines and the Ethical impact of AI Venerdì 6 giugno, ore 10:30, aula 111 Festa del Perdono I review some of the challenges faced when designing and deploying moral agents as […]
Title: Revealing reasons: from philosophy to AI Joint work with Brian Hill (CNRS, GREGHEC). Abstract: Explanations that uncover why a conclusion holds—those that provide its reasons—are central across disciplines, from philosophy and logic to artificial intelligence. There exists a rich philosophical tradition, stretching from Aristotle to Frege and including figures like Leibniz and Bolzano, that emphasizes this […]
Title: Synthetic disinformation Abstract: Infodemics are the plague of online information. Yet, disinformation is not a new phenomenon. What has changed with with the advent of digital technologies and generative AI? In this talk, building on earlier work in the philosophy of techno-science, and on the collaboration of EU-funded SOLARIS project, I will sketch the countours of […]
Title: Towards Zetetic Social Epistemology Abstract: Much of the work in social epistemology is based on the assumption that inquisitive or zetetic norms (guiding one’s inquiry) are reducible to epistemic ones (guiding one’s beliefs). Sometimes zetetic norms are even considered irrelevant for the study of epistemic norms. This neglect of the dimension of inquiry sharply contrasts with […]
CANCELLED Title: The Illusion of Majority in Social Networks Abstract: The popularity of an opinion in one’s direct circles is not necessarily a good indicator of its popularity in one’s entire community. For instance, when confronted with a majority of opposing opinions in one’s circles, one might get the impression that one belongs to a […]
Leonardo Ceragioli will present joint work with G. Pirmiero “A Proof-Theoretic Approach to Bias” at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Colloquium (University of Tübingen, Germany) on April 30rd, 2025. Abstract. Although widely applied, ML systems are at most as reliable as the data they are trained with. Among other reasons, biases may arise because causal […]
Title: Standardizing mean differences: A cautionary tale from a rational choice perspective Abstract: In applied areas of science such as education research or medicine, researchers often report the effect sizes of tested interventions to inform people aiming to decide between these interventions. For continuous outcome variables (such as depression or literacy skills), researchers measure an […]
Title: Partial Communication (and, if time allows, Arbitrary Partial Communication) Abstract: While the paradigmatic dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) allows us to reason about agents receiving information from an external source (Public Announcement Logic as well as the Action Models framework), communication within groups of agents has lately become interesting for researchers in the area. This talk discusses […]
Title: E is the New P Abstract: How much evidence do the data give us about one hypothesis versus another? The standard way to measure evidence is still the p-value, despite a myriad of problems surrounding it. In this talk I will provide a gentle introduction to the e-value (wikipedia), a recently popularized notion of evidence which overcomes some […]
