World Philosophy Day

Thursday November 21st is World Philosophy Day, an opportunity to highlight the importance of reflection and critical thinking in building fairer, more equal, and inclusive societies—especially in times of crisis.

This World Philosophy Day 2024 edition will focus on "Philosophy: bridging social gaps," highlighting philosophy's vital role in mending the social fabric and fostering a more cohesive society

The event will run from 5:30 to 8:30

Opening remarks: H.E. Ambassador Simona-Mirela Miculescu

Opening Speech: Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO

Keynote lecture by Hartmut Rosa "Why we need a concept of social energy?" 

High-level plenary session " Philosophy supporting Youth inclusion" with Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO, Charlotte Casiraghi, Founder of Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco, Hartmut Rosa, philosopher and sociologist, Edwige Chirouter, philosopher and Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair Philosophy with children

Youth introduction by secondary students from Maison de la Philosophie (Romainville) and high schoolers from Quebec's Philo-Jeunes network 

Video message from Daniel Innerarity, "Philosophy helping to navigate the social divides created by AI"

Panel " Philosophy and Poverty: repairing social cohesion" with: Mario Pezzini, Senior consultant and special advisor for the MOST Programme (moderator), François Jomini from ATD Fourth World, Amina Zakhnouf, co-founder of Je m'engage pour l'Afrique and investment Officer at the Fonds d'innovation pour le développement (Esther Duflo's fund), Júlia Casamasso Mattoso, brazilian philosopher, collaborator of ATD Quart Monde, councillor for the city of Petrópolis, Brazil

The panel is organized in partnership with the ATD Fourth World Association and will show how philosophy can contribute to the fight against poverty.

Closing speech 

The entire event will be interpreted in both French and English.

Keynote lecture: Why we need a concept of social energy?

On November 20th, 2024 starting at 5:30 pm GMT a World Philosophy Day 2024 public lecture will be held at conference room 1 UNESCO Headquarters.

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The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

International Conference on Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence.

Call for Contributions

Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.

International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), Symposium.

IACAP's members have contributed to shaping the philosophical and ethical debate about Computer science, Information and communication technologies, and Artificial intelligence.

University of Oregon

ESSAI 2024 is the second edition of the annual summer school on AI held under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.

ESSAI 2024 will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in all areas Artificial Intelligence of and also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. ESSAI is a central meeting place for students and young researchers in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research and share knowledge.

The first edition of ESSAI was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in between the 24th and 28th of July 2023 and was extremely successful, attracting over 500 participants. ESSAI 2024 will be held in Athens, Greece between the 15th and 26th of July 2024.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days. Or is it? Plenty of things get labeled "AI", but what exactly is meant by that label?

SESSION TWO: July 08, 2024 - July 19, 2024 GRADE(S): 9-11 SCHEDULED CLASS TIME* 08:00 AM - 11:00 AM (PDT)

This initial question leads to some deep and interesting philosophical issues:

What is it to think?

Are thought and intelligence separable from conscious experience?

How different can a form of thinking or experience be from our own, and yet still count as thinking or experience?

And even if we set these matters aside, the "AI" that is already around us - more and more each day - raises huge social and ethical questions. Does reliance on algorithms and machine learning (e.g. when banks make lending decisions or when courts impose criminal sentences) improve fairness or actually make things worse? As machines become more "intelligent" (e.g. self-driving cars or healthcare robots), who is held responsible if things go wrong? Will the machines themselves eventually have to be seen as having rights of their own? Students will explore these wide-ranging issues through readings, discussion, and a variety of activities and projects.

By exploring the philosophical significance of concepts and themes in Nineteen Eighty-Four and other works, we discover how Orwell's insights are relevant to contemporary society and the philosophy of AI.

This course is part of the Oxford University Summer School for Adults (OUSSA) programme.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at an astonishing speed and will soon influence many aspects of our lives. This unit is an introduction to the fascinating philosophical questions concerning AI: Can machines really have a mind? Are we ourselves just biological machines? What are the risks and benefits of AI? Will there ever be super-intelligent machines? Is it possible to survive mind-uploading?

Topics may include: (1) the computational theory of mind; (2) Connectionism and neural networks; (3) the nature of computation and implementation; (4) the Turing Test; (5) Searle's Chinese Room argument (6) the extended mind hypothesis; (6) the theoretical prospects for and practical consequences of superintelligent AI; (7) the alignment problem for AI; (8) AI risk; (9) Mind-uploading.

By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual.

On this Day of collective exercise in free, reasoned and informed thinking on the major challenges of our time, all of UNESCO’s partners are encouraged to organize various types of activities - philosophical dialogues, debates, conferences, workshops, cultural events and presentations around the general theme of the Day, with the participation of philosophers and scientists from all branches of natural and social sciences, educators, teachers, students, press journalists and other mass media representatives, and the general public.

Philosophy is an inspiring discipline as well as an everyday practice that can transform societies. By enabling to discover the diversity of the intellectual currents in the world, philosophy stimulates intercultural dialogue. By awakening minds to the exercise of thinking and the reasoned confrontation of opinions, philosophy helps to build a more tolerant, more respectful society. It thus helps to understand and respond to major contemporary challenges by creating the intellectual conditions for change.

Resolutions and decisions adopted by the UNESCO Executive Board at its 86th session, Paris, 16-18 November 1970