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AI, Public Reason and the Right to Explanation

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:46:09 +0000

Seminar given by Jocelyn Maclure with the Social and Political Theory Group at Pompeu Fabra University.

RGHNV : Michael Cholbi (Edimburgh) "Grief and Memory in Radically Extended Lives"

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:31:36 +0000

Jarislowky Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology

Grief and Memory in Radically Extended Lives

admin — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:09:16 +0000

Lecture by Michael Cholbi

Leacock 232

Reception to follow

Open to all, registration required

To register, please email alessandra.destison [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Workshop on AI and the philosophy of grief

admin — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:18:46 +0000

Workshop by Michael Cholbi

Leacock 927

Open to all, registration required

To register, please email alessandra.destison [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Hugo Cossette Lefebvre Co-Authors New Paper in Journal of Ethics

admin — Wed, 28 May 2025 00:55:42 +0000

We are pleased to share that Hugo Cossette Lefebvre, a postdoctoral researcher for the Jarislowsky Chair, recently co-authored a paper with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University). The paper is titled "Neither Direct, Nor Indirect: Understanding Proxy-Based Algorithmic Discrimination" and was recently published in the latest issue of the Journal of Ethics. Please see below to read the abstract, and the paper.

New Publication : "Avatars numériques post mortem et deuil : un point de vue éthique"

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:32:36 +0000

Written by Jocelyn Maclure, Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre, Karina Vold, Christophe Facal, and Isabelle Dumont

New Publication : Between precedent autonomy and the patient's best interests: a reasonable path for advance medical assistance in dying requests

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:45:56 +0000

This chapter, written by Jocelyn Maclure and Naïma Hamrouni, was published in Research Handbook on Voluntary Assisted Dying Law, Regulation and Practice edited by Ben White. Access the work here

Event Work-in-Progress Session- Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre: "Can AI Systems Hold Wrongful Beliefs? Doxastic Wrongs in Machine Reasoning"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:07:57 +0000

The Jarislowsky Chair will be hosting Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre, a Postdoctoral Researcher for the chair, for a WIP session on March 17, 2025 at noon.

Event "Should We Worry About the Welfare of AI?" Roundtable with Jocelyn Maclure, Jonathan Simon and Heather Alexander

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:12:47 +0000

*THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Please email julia.houwen [at] mcgill.ca to register*

Keven Bisson, "Longtermism's Techno-Narrative and its Criticisms"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:11:50 +0000

Work in Progress Seminar Series | Winter 2023 “Longtermism's Techno-Narrative and its Criticisms”

Keven Bisson
Friday, March 3, 2023
3:30-5:30 PM
Leacock Building, Room 927

Eric Wilkinson, "Logical Intuitionism"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:14:11 +0000

Work in Progress Seminar Series | Winter 2023 “Logical Intuitionism”

Eric Wilkinson
Friday, March 24, 2023
3:30-5:30 PM
Leacock Building, Room 927

Philosophy Departmental Advising

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:16:08 +0000

Topic: Philosophy Departmental Advising
Time: August 26, 2020 01:30-2:30 PM Montreal
Join Zoom Meeting: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/97848622142

Panel discussion: Women in Early Modern Philosophy

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:11:00 +0000

Sponsored by the Equity and Climate Committee of the Department of Philosophy and funded by the SSHRC Partnership projectNew Narratives in the History of Philosophy.

Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series

saleema.nawaz@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:01:39 +0000

"Casual Definitions and the Unity of Substance in Metaphysics Z"

Prof. Michael Ferejohn

Department of Philosophy

Duke University

All are welcome.

Jennifer Nagel - Disagreement and Variation in Epistemic Intuition

susan.kirichu@mcgill.ca — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:21:29 +0000

Philosophy Speakers Series