Department of Philosophy

The concept of intelligence has been difficult to get one’s arms around. Surprisingly, the same can be said also of the notion of reasoning. This talk aims at shedding some light on certain aspects of human reasoning - reasoning for practical life. This will put us in a better position to make some comparisons between (some aspects of) human reasoning, and what Large Language Models (LLMs) are doing - they look to be doing quite different things.  Reasoning, at least as humans do it, involves architecture that Computer Science has apparently abandoned for the current generation of AI models. We will pose questions about whether this current generation is capable of moving past their present obstacles.

“I will compare and contrast the thought of C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and James Boggs in the 1950s to early 60s, focusing on their efforts to make sense of industrial automation and project new goals for revolutionary movements. This is the period when James Boggs’ and Grace Lee Boggs’ distinctive philosophical orientation, dialectical humanism, begins to emerge.”

An interdisciplinary symposium exploring ethical issues involving AI and machine learning