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Rotman Visiting Speaker: Regina Rini
Room 36 - Physics & Astonomy Building 1151 Richmond Street, London"The mirage of a trustless society" Abstract: This chapter — part of a book about the power and danger of relying on others for knowledge — explores the concept of trust. It argues for a revival and reinterpretation of philosopher Annette Baier’s influential framing of trust as accepted vulnerability to the will of [...]
Rotman Visiting Speaker: Eric Hochstein
Room 4190 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 4190, London"Why Pan Pancomputationalism?" Abstract: Pancomputationalism is the view that every system in nature (e.g. brains, digestive tracts, rocks, buckets of water, etc.) can be understood as computing or running a program, effectively making everything in nature a kind of computer. In response, an increasing number of philosophers have argued that while we can [...]
Rotman Visiting Speaker: Cameron Buckner
Room 1130 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western Interdisciplinary Research Building, London"LLMs as Models of Reasoning" Abstract: Recent advances in large language models that use self-prompting like GPT’s o1/o3 and DeepSeek have begun to encroach on human-level performance on “higher reasoning” problems in mathematics, planning, and problem-solving tasks. OpenAI in particular has made ambitious claims that these models are reasoning and that by scrutinizing [...]