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SUMMARY:Reasoning in the Age of AI: Philosophical Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis workshop explores the conceptual foundations of reasoning and asks whether artificial systems can genuinely be said to reason. It deals with how human thinking\, which is shaped by beliefs\, intentionality and experience\, differs from the more formal\, rule-based processes of AI. By discussing different perspectives from philosophy\, cognitive science\, and AI research\, we aim to better understand whether artificial reasoning could ever be considered real reasoning\, and what this might mean for our understanding. \nProgram: \n09:30     Welcome (Gabriele Gramelsberger) \n09:45     Markus Pantsar (RWTH Aachen): Towards an Epistemology of AI Reasoning \n10:30     Jacqueline Bellon (University Tübingen): Reasoning by Accident and Intelligence beyond Belief: Is Statistical Reasoning Rational and are Humans? \n11:15     Coffee Break \n11:30     Jakob Ohlhorst (RWTH Aachen): Theory of Mind\, (joint) Reasoning\, and Large Language Models \n12:15     Lunch \n13:45     Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (University Leipzig): Higher level Reason in Dialectical and Speculative Reflections. On the limited “Rationality” of Automatable Thinking \n14:30     Stefania Centrone (Technical University Munich): Deductive Reasoning in Leibniz\, Boole\, and Beyond \n15:15     Coffee Break \n15:30     Daniel Wenz (RWTH Aachen): What is the Reason behind Artificial Reasoning? \n16:15     Final Discussion \nPlease find the program and of the workshop in this document. \n.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/reasoning-in-the-age-of-ai-philosophical-perspectives/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Conference HaPoC 2025
DESCRIPTION:The KHK c:o/re is proud to host the 8th edition of the international conference on History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC)\, taking place every two years under the auspices of the DHST/DLMPST Interdivisional Commission on History and Philosophy of Computing (www.hapoc.org). \nInitiated in 2011\, the conference has the aim of building an interdisciplinary community and environment to address the various facets of computing and computing  technology\, bringing together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to discuss the past and present cultures\, practices and images of computing. \nFind the program on our website or as a pdf document. \n\nKeynote Speakers:\nLiesbeth De Mol\, CNRS/Université de Lille\, France\nRobin K. Hill\, University of Wyoming\, US\nAlexandre Hocquet\, Université de Lorraine\, France \nProgram Committee:\nArianna Borrelli\, TU Berlin and RWTH Aachen\, Germany\nJianqing Chen\, Washington University at Saint Louis\, US\nJack Copeland\, University of Canterbury\, Christchurch\, NZ\nBeatrice Fazi\,  University of Sussex\, UK\nGabriele Gramelsberger\, RWTH Aachen\, Germany\nThomas Haigh\, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, US\nAndrei Korbut\, CAIS Center for Advanced Internet Studies Bochum\, Germany\nAlfred Nordmann\, TU Darmstadt\, Germany\nMitsuhiro Okada\, Keio University\, Tokyo\, Japan\nBen Peters\, University of Tulsa\, US\nMate Szabo\, University of Southern California\, US \nLocal Organising Committee at RWTH Aachen University:\nGabriele Gramelsberger (philosophy of science)\nStefan Böschen (sociology of science)\nDawid Kasprowicz (philosophy of science)\nPhillip Roth (science and technology studies)\nSaskia Nagel (ethics of science)\nTorsten Voigt (science and technology studies)
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/hapoc-2025-conference/
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SUMMARY:A Portrait of the Scientist as a User - Alexandre Hocquet (Nancy)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhy are computational chemists so peculiar ? The history of their relationship with software brings an interesting case study to understand how software may shape scientific activity. We present four key moments in this history — from 1962 to 2024 — to illustrate how visions of openness and user agency have evolved. These include a software-sharing initiative\, controversies over licensing and user management\, and debates about the Alphafold AI tool. \nThe multifaceted category of ‘users’ is key to understand discourses about opennness. We identify patterns of evolution in the relationship between software packages and the computational chemistry community. Throughout our narration\, the notion of ‘users’ becomes more complex\, in line with the commodification of programs into packages and the increasing complexity of the packages themselves. \nThrough the dyanmics of sharing\, the legal consequences of software licenses\, Non-Discolsure Agreements\, and End-User Licence Agreements\, we point out that the overall resulting pattern of evolution amounts to a kind of dispossession of scientists’ agency in their relationships with their tools. We propose to view the history of computational chemistry as the formation of a particular ‘repertoire’ where software is central and where the issue of the forms of collaboration and interaction among practitioners implies visions of openness of software development\, circulation\, maintenance and uses\, all in friction. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/a-portrait-of-the-scientist-as-a-user-alexandre-hocquet-nancy/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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SUMMARY:What Is a Computer Program? Or\, How I Liberate(d) Myself as a Computer User - Liesbeth De Mol (Lille)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe aim of this talk is to present the PROGRAMme project\, a collective work amongst researchers from diverse disciplinary and ideological backgrounds who met for several years to work on the question “What is a computer program?”. In that project we develop a research programme which assumes it is possible /and/ necessary to work together across disciplinary and other boundaries to turn around a number of fundamental problems we are facing in connection to “programs”. In that regard\, the project is first of all a humanistic work: while programs have been interpreted before as an exemplification of cold\, inhuman rationality\, it is clear that more humanistic visions are possible. I present the project from a personal perspective and show how my version of PROGRAMme is deeply anchored in a more activist stance aimed at user liberations which\, in my case\, goes hand-in-hand with so-called academic nomadisms. I conclude with some concrete proposals for the future of the history and philosophy of computing. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/what-is-a-computer-program-or-how-i-liberated-myself-as-a-computer-user-liesbeth-de-mol-lille/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
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SUMMARY:Art Event: The Ambiguity of Sorting
DESCRIPTION:The Ambiguity of Sorting\nHow do technologies of separation bring us together? \nDigital systems are based on acts of transformation from continuity and unity into discreteness and separation. These acts of transformation have been popularized in the multiple ways in which humans engage with AI systems and other forms of digital technologies. Everything we do is transformed\, one could say\, automatically into data. It is transformed into discrete units that can be computed. Digital technologies have become more than tools for research; people produce knowledge with them\, engage emotionally through and with these systems\, generating new forms and spaces of intimacy. At the same time\, these technologies carry a history of creating disconnections\, failing to account for different ways of engaging with the world. They are the result of a certain imaginary of the human and intelligence\, one that leaves aside many other existing ways to be in the world. What kind of communities are enabled by technologies? What kind of technologies are successful in bringing communities together? Can we imagine a history of technology that is based on plural ways of understanding intelligence and the human? How can we design technologies that bring people together? How can we imagine technologies that enable communities? \nThe Ambiguity of Sorting is a pop-up exhibition and a panel discussion that takes place during the 8th edition of the Conference of the Society for the History and Philosophy of Computing. The event brings together installation\, performance\, and conversations to discuss how the history of intelligent systems embodied ideas of intelligence\, the human\, and how we live together. With the panel\, we invite to think of a different history of computing\, one where those that were not thought to be fitting within their categories were creating their own technologies all along. \nWith contribution by: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz\, Ren Loren Britton\, and Verena Friedrich \nOrganization and moderation: Ana Maria Guzmán Olmos \nFind out more about the artists and their artworks on this website. \nHeader photo: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz\, On the Subject of Tests: Opening Boxes\, 2022. Video.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/art-event-ambiguity-of-sorting/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C – Generali Saal 639\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Desktop to Discourse: Philosophy Born of Wordstar and VisiCalc - Robin Hill (Laramie)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhile the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Computers started its mission with community tech help and suggestions\, the path proceeded through technique\, practice\, and application to philosophy. To explore interesting stages along the way\, this talk identifies and follows features of office software through their effects and implications to emerging philosophical questions. Some are known\, some are trivial\, but we find questions of potential depth concerning the affordances and constraints of naming\, values\, separation\, and structure\, all appropriate for the philosophy of computing. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/desktop-to-discourse-philosophy-born-of-wordstar-and-visicalc-robin-hill-laramie/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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