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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:32:30 +0000
From: Marta Halina <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Kinds of Intelligence 3: Cognitive Science Beyond the Human
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that the third annual Kinds of Intelligence
conference will be taking place this June at Murray Edwards College. Please
find information about the conference and how to submit an abstract for
presentation below. The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 15th.
All are welcome!
Best wishes,
Marta
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Kinds of Intelligence 3: Cognitive Science Beyond the Human
June 22-25 2020, University of Cambridge
Confirmed speakers
⢠Andrew Barron (Biological Sciences, Macquarie University)
⢠Feryal Behbahani (Artificial Intelligence, DeepMind)
⢠Carl Craver (Philosopher of Neuroscience, Washington University)
⢠John Danaher (School of Law, University College, Galway)
⢠Carrie Figdor (Philosophy and Psychology, University of Iowa)
⢠Alison Gopnik (Psychology and Philosophy, University of California,
Berkeley)
⢠Julia Haas (Philosophy and Neuroscience, Rhodes College)
⢠Diana Maynard (Computer Science, University of Sheffield)
⢠Richard Moore (Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Warwick)
⢠Stephen Neale (Philosophy of Language, CUNY Graduate Center)
⢠Samir Okasha (Philosophy of Science, University of Bristol)
⢠Catherine Stinson (Philosophy and Ethics of AI, University of Bonn).
Conference Website: www.kindsofintelligence.com
<http://www.kindsofintelligence.com/>
Registration: https://bit.ly/31AADKt <https://bit.ly/31AADKt> (Early Bird
registration closes 22nd April)
Organisers: Dr Alexandria Boyle and Dr Henry Shevlin
We are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the 2020 Kinds of
Intelligence conference to be held at the University of Cambridge, June
22nd-25th 2020. Those whose abstracts are accepted will be allotted a 30-minute
slot (of which up to 10 minutes can be reserved for questions). In the event
that we receive a large number of high quality submissions, a poster session
will be held to accommodate further selected submitted material. Speakers
giving talks will receive up to £100 to defray travel expenses. Additionally,
a conference prize will be awarded for the best talk by an early career
researcher (understood as including graduate students and those who completed
their PhD in the last five years).
This will be the third Kinds of Intelligence conference, with previous speakers
including Margaret Boden, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Daniel Dennett. The goal of
the event is to bring together researchers from across cognitive science to
address questions concerning the structure, function, and nature of cognition
and mentality, with a particular emphasis on artificial and non-human
biological intelligence. Examples of questions relevant to the conference
include the following:
⢠What is intelligence? How can we quantify or otherwise classify diverse
forms of intelligence?
⢠What can artificial intelligence researchers learn from their colleagues
in philosophy, psychology, and biology about building smarter machines?
⢠What approaches or conceptual schemata should be employed to determine
whether an animal or AI is conscious?
⢠How can we move towards more robust interdisciplinary approaches for
determining the presence of capacities like emotion, theory of mind, and causal
understanding in non-human systems?
⢠What useful applications are there for frameworks from philosophy of
science for comparative cognition and machine learning?
⢠What special ethical issues arise in relation to our dealings with
non-human intelligences?
If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please take careful note of
the following.
(1) Abstracts should be anonymised and submitted in Word or PDF format to
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> no later
than April 15. The subject line should read "Kinds of Intelligence 2020 submission".
(2) Abstracts should be 'long form' - around 500 words (excluding references).
(3) Please indicate in your submission email (i) whether you would be willing
to present a poster in the event that we cannot accommodate your talk, and (ii)
whether you are an early career researcher (defined for present purposes as a
graduate student or researcher who obtained their PhD within five years of June
22nd 2020).
We aim to make the conference accessible, in light of the BPA/SWIP guidelines for
accessible conferences. The conference will be held at the Kaetsu Conference Centre,
Murray Edwards College. You can find information about accessibility at Murray
Edwards College here:
http://www.murrayedwardsevents.co.uk/visitor-information/accessibility-statement/
<http://www.murrayedwardsevents.co.uk/visitor-information/accessibility-statement/>.
If you would like more information about accessibility, or anything else relating to
the conference, please feel free to contact the conference organisers at
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
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Marta Halina
University Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Programme Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Fellow, Selwyn College
University of Cambridge
www.martahalina.com <http://www.martahalina.com/>
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