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National Conference “Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Perspectives”: April 18, 2026

de | apr. 2, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte

National Conference “Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Perspectives”

April 18, 2026

The programme and more details are going to be posted soon. 

For any information, you can send a message to: paula_pompilia.tomi@upb.ro

Artificial Intelligence is a rapidly expanding field of inquiry. Philosophical engagement with AI spans multiple areas, including ethics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. It raises fundamental questions such as: Can an AI know? Does an AI understand? What conception of truth is appropriate in the context of AI? Can an AI be considered a moral agent? Who is responsible when AI systems fail? These questions are not merely theoretical; they have direct implications for technological development and practice. The conference aims to bring together philosophers and engineers working on AI, encouraging dialogue across fields and a deeper understanding of the conceptual and practical challenges raised by artificial intelligence.

For more information please visit https://philevents.org/event/show/147729 

O nouă prezentare DFT-CELFIS: Mariona Eiren Miyata-Sturm, ‘The metacognitive account of aesthetics in science’, 30 martie 2026

de | mart. 28, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Conferences, Conferinte, Seminar cercetare DFT

Următoarea prezentare din cadrul seriei de seminare de cercetare ale Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS aparține dr. Mariona Eiren Miyata-Sturm (Universitatea din Oxford). Titlul prezentării sale este ‘The metacognitive account of aesthetics in science’. Rezumatul comunicării este:  
‘What has beauty to with science? Quite a lot, judging by what scientists say and do. It is quite common, for instance, to invoke judgements of beauty, aptness, and harmony when evaluating theories, cleaning data, or making field sketches, to favour simple models, and to be guided by a sense of elegance when solving problems. Through examples, primarily taken from the earth sciences, I show that aesthetics plays a role not just in theorising but also in scientific practice. I argue that this aesthetic aspect of knowledge acquisition can be explained as a special case of affective cognition, and that we can explain broadly aesthetic feelings and judgements in scientific and other epistemic contexts as upshots of metacognitive processes which monitors the quality and likely success of our cognitive engagement with theory and evidence. This allows aesthetic feelings to be rough-and-ready signals of epistemic value and thus explain how they can play a positive role in science. I use the natural sciences as a test case, but if what I argue is on the right track, then this is a common feature of human cognition and so generalises to other epistemic contexts.’

Iată şi o biografie a autoarei:

‘Dr Miyata-Sturm is a Stipendiary Lecturer at New College and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Oxford, and will be a Postdoctoral Fellow on the ERC-funded project Know-How at the University of Glasgow from July 2026. She works on the aesthetics of science, with a special focus on plate tectonics, and is the author of “Aesthetic Considerations in the Development of Plate Tectonics” (2024), published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and “Aesthetic Feelings in Scientific Reasoning” (2024).’
Conferinţa va avea loc faţă în faţă, în amfiteatrul ‘Titu Maiorescu’ (TM), etajul 1, la sediul Facultății de Filosofie din Splaiul Independenței nr. 204, București. Mai multe detalii despre seria DFT-CELFIS din acest an puteţi afla aici: https://philevents.org/event/show/141649 Înregistrări ale unor seminare anterioare şi ale altor evenimente cu tematică înrudită puteţi găsi pe canalul YB Filosofie Teoretică: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgUq3dN8CXI4L6DhZT1f_Q  
Organizarea prezentării este susţinută de activitatea de practică a studentelor şi studenţilor din programul masteral în ştiinţele cogniţiei ‘Mind the Brain’ (program în limba engleză) de la Facultatea de Filosofie a UB. Mai multe detalii despre program puteţi afla aici: https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/master-of-arts-in-cognitive-science-mind-the-brain/ Doritorii se pot înscrie la etapa de pre-admitere până pe 30 aprilie potrivit detaliilor de aici: https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/admitere-master/  şi mă pot căuta, pentru orice amănunte, la andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro
Vă aşteptăm!

The workshop “New approaches to philosophy of mind and psychiatry” – March 28th-29th 2026

de | mart. 27, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte, Scoala Doctorala

The workshop “New approaches to philosophy of mind and psychiatry”

Faculty of Philosophy, March 28th-29th 2026

The event is organised by drd. Sandra Branzaru, drd. Cătălin Teoharie, Doctoral School of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, in collaboration with Alexandra Ciubotaru (resident in Psychiatry, Alexandru Obregia Psychiatry Hospital), Alexandru Bîcu and Olguţa Barizi (alumni Cognitive Science BA, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science). Chairs: David Urzică (Cognitive Science, BA, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, UB), Elena Luiza Costache (Cognitive Science, BA, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, UB), Horeanu Ionuţ (Doctoral School of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, UB)

This workshop aims to explore, but it is not limited to, conceptual clarification of psychiatric concepts, especially in light of new approaches in philosophy of mind, such as embodied, situated, extended and enactive cognition, but also predictive processing. We will also explore pluralistic approaches to the nature of psychiatry as a science, as well as ontological, explanatory, and value pluralism. Recent developments in bioethics and applied ethics also call for philosophical refection in regards to equal access to mental healthcare, the autonomy and agency of patients, and decision-making with respect to potential treatment schemas.  AI (artificial intelligence) has also been integrated in mental healthcare, so we are interested in understanding the risks and benefits of their use. On the one hand, they might aid or enhance diagnostic precision, personalized treatment and care option, pre-evaluation of treatment efficacy. On the other hand, this raises challenges such as privacy of highly sensitive patient data or regulatory, policy and standardization issues that arise from the lack of regulation of mental health uses of AI.

The final programme can be found on https://philevents.org/event/show/147329

For registration, face to face or online – in order to receive the zoom connection details, please contact sandra-catalina.branzaru@fpse.unibuc.ro

O nouă prezentare la seminarul de cercetare DFT-CELFIS: Erik Myin (Universitatea din Antwerp)

de | mart. 25, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Conferences, Conferinte, Seminar cercetare DFT

Următoarea prezentare din cadrul seriei de seminare de cercetare ale Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS aparține prof. Erik Myin, ce predă Filosofie la Universitatea din Antwerp, unde este afiliat şi Centre for Philosophical Psychology şi, respectiv, Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC). Mai multe amănunte despre vorbitor puteţi afla de la: https://philpeople.org/profiles/erik-myin  https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/erik-myin/research/   https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OW9D7l4AAAAJ&hl=en
Titlul prezentării sale este ‘Of a Different Mind’. Prezentarea introduce publicului românesc noul său volum, în curs de apariţie la MIT Press, ce poartă acelaşi titlu: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052993/of-a-different-mind/  Prin apertura sa tematică, prezentarea prof. Myin poate interesa atât filosofi, psihologi, antropologi şi sociologi ai comunicării, dar şi etologi şi specialişti ai neuroştiinţelor comportamentului. Vă aşteptăm pentru discuţie!
Prezentarea este susţinută de activitatea de practică a studentelor şi studenţilor din programul masteral în ştiinţele cogniţiei ‘Mind the Brain’ (program în limba engleză) de la Facultatea de Filosofie a UB. Mai multe detalii despre program puteţi afla aici: https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/master-of-arts-in-cognitive-science-mind-the-brain/  Doritorii se pot înscrie la etapa de pre-admitere până pe 30 aprilie potrivit detaliilor de aici: https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/admitere-master/  şi îl pot căuta, pentru orice amănunte, pe andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro
Conferinţa va avea loc în regim hibrid. Cei ce vom fi faţă-în-faţă ne întâlnim în amfiteatrul Mircea Florian, etajul 1, la sediul Facultății de Filosofie din Splaiul Independenței nr. 204, București. Vorbitorul va participa, însă, virtual. Pentru detaliile Zoom, vă rugăm scrieţi-i lui andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro
Mai multe detalii despre seria DFT-CELFIS din acest an puteţi afla aici: https://philevents.org/event/show/141649 Înregistrări ale unor seminare anterioare şi ale altor evenimente cu tematică înrudită puteţi găsi pe canalul YB Filosofie Teoretică: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgUq3dN8CXI4L6DhZT1f_Q