Language Model Reading Group
ZoomA presentation by Peter Hase, on belief in language models and model editing. (On Zoom). Prereading is Daniel Dennett’s short “Do animals have beliefs?” Zoom link to be posted on aip.unc.edu/events
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Balter Lecture: Myisha Cherry
The Misuses of Anger Audre Lorde, Self-Hatred, and the Anger it Fuels Feminist thinker Audre Lorde’s “Uses of Anger” is a canonical text in feminist philosophy. In the essay, first given as a speech in 1981, Lorde defends anger’s … Read more
PPE Speaker Series: “Why is Manipulation Wrong?” with Massimo Renzo (KCL)
Davie 112 235 E. Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NCAbstract: The notion of manipulation is increasingly invoked in relation to pressing issues discussed in the news and in public discourse. Consider, for example, the heated debates on how propaganda and misinformation have been recently used to lead people to … Read more
Language Model Reading Group
ZoomLanguage Model Reading Group: we will discuss “Language models as agent models” by Jacob Andreas. Please see aip.unc.edu/events for more information.
2023 Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop
Caldwell 213The fifth annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop will be held in Chapel Hill on April 14 — 16, 2023. The workshop aims to provide a forum for stimulating and constructive exchange among philosophers currently working on issues concerning normativity, broadly construed … Read more
PPE Speaker Series: “Forgiveness: Personal and Political” with P. Quinn White (Harvard)
Caldwell 105 ,This talk is free and open to the public. Pizza will be provided after the talk! Abstract: What is forgiveness? And why forgive? I mean this in two ways: What reasons bear on the question of whether to offer … Read more
Parr Center Presents: Adrienne Martin (Claremont McKenna College)
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PPE Speaker Series: “Curtailing Freedoms to Protect Freedom: Regulating Against Behavioural-Informed Infringements on a Fair Exchange” with Adam Oliver (LSE)
Caldwell 105 ,Abstract: Behavioural public policy is a relatively new, but already substantial, subfield of public policy. To date, paternalistic frameworks have tended to dominate this subfield, at least in terms of the rhetoric, but attempts at informing public policy with findings … Read more
PPE Speaker Series: “An Egalitarian Case for the Gendered Division of Labor” with Jessica Flanigan (University of Richmond)
In some subcultures, women are encouraged to stay home and raise multiple children and men are encouraged to work outside the home.Proponents of these gendered family subcultures argue that a gendered division of labor (GDL) is generally an efficient way … Read more