Annual Philosophy Awards Ceremony April 10th 2024
Hagey hall 373
Why Stand Point (still) Matters: A Prospectus
Alison Wylie
Dark Matter and Black People: Misleading Analogies in Physics
Doreen Fraser
Hagey Hall room 334
12 PM - 2PM
Four speakers visit the Philosophy Department every Fall and Winter term to discuss their research. Check here to see the list of speakers and the dates.
For the first Philosophy Colloquium talk of the new academic year, we look forward to hearing from Patricia Marino, who will deconstruct formal models and their use to determine if and how these models are working for or against us.
Gender identity is a popular concept when it comes to explaining trans people and our genders—especially when those genders are exploratory, expansive, or resistant. But what is this concept? What does it really do for us? Is it the best concept for that job? Find out more.
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.”
We are pleased to welcome Tim Kenyon back to speak with us on Audience Accommodation and Testimonial Complication.
Join us for our next instalment of the Philosophy Colloquium Speaker Series. On February 14th at 3 pm, we welcome Usha Nathan to the Waterloo Philosophy department. They will present their research on Responsibility for Implicit Bias & Beyond: An Aristotelian Proposal
The Waterloo Initiative for Solarpunk and Hope (WISH) warmly invites you to two events introducing you to the transformative power of Solarpunk art and literature.
On Wednesday, February 26, join us for A Better Here--Writing to Nurture a Better Future, a virtual talk/workshop with Jerri Jerreat, author and Executive Director of the Youth Imagine the Future festival in Kingston, Ontario.