This year’s Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups will take place in person this year! Please join me in welcoming the students selected to take part in the 6th Pittsburgh Summer Program!
Walton Yan, University of Chicago
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Matthew Trager, Macalester College
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Aydin Moheseni will be a “Senior Fellow” in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and Ravit Dotan will be the head of research at the Ethical AI Governance Group and will be doing research on AI and ethics with a grant from the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab.
We caught up with Alison Fernandes, before her online Featured Former Fellow talk on Tuesday April 19th at 12:00pm EST. Here’s what she had to say:
Where are you now?
Dublin, working in the Philosophy Department at Trinity College.
What are you working on?
I’ve just finished a book ‘The Temporal Asymmetry of Causation’ for the Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Physics series. Next up is book on the function and ontology of modal relations in science (law, causation, chances).
Favorite memory of The Center:
I really enjoyed dinners with the fellows at the centre. Perhaps my favourite memory being overspending on cheese platters at one fancy place and having to make up for it next week with a true mid-west bar meal.
Greatest non-professional achievement since leaving the Center (can be anything from running a marathon to organizing your sock drawer!):
Starting a garden.
5. Best book/movie/tv you’ve seen lately:
I’ve been re-reading the Jane Austen cannon—a regular indulgence.
Remember to register for this online event through Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99203256212
Read “Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US” where Serife explains her research and the importance of interpersonal therapy as opposed to chatbots. Full article here.
Join us for the rescheduled workshop “Causation with a Human Face: James Woodward Book Workshop” on April 29th at 3:00pm. For more information on this event, click here!