Tokyo Forum For Analytic Philosophy

Program

Friday 11 Apr 2025
Josh Armstrong

TBA

Speaker: Josh Armstrong
From: UCLA
URL: https://www.josharmstrongphilosophy.net/
Abstract: TBA

 
 
Friday 18 Apr 2025
Margot Strohminger

TBA

Speaker: Margot Strohminger
From: Australian Catholic University
URL: https://webpublic.acu.edu.au/staffdirectory/?margot-strohminger=
Abstract: TBA

 
 
Friday 2 May 2025
Eva Weber-Guskar

Thinking about Emotional AI: Personal Bonds with Social Chatbots?

Speaker: Eva Weber-Guskar
From: Ruhr-University Bochum
URL: https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/i/phil-ethik-emotion/index.html.en
Abstract: “Emotional AI” refers to systems that can detect or stimulate emotions in people, or visually or vocally simulate emotions. This technology is increasingly being combined with linguistic AI, which we know as ChatGPT, LaMDA and similar “large language models”, so that powerful social chatbots like Replika are emerging. While ChatGPT is designed only as an organizational assistant, the function of social chatbots is to engage in personal conversations and stimulate social feelings. More and more people report that they have relationships with such digital counterparts. How can we grasp what is really going on in these cases and what should we think of this new phenomenon from an ethical perspective? Are these kinds of systems and their use problematic, reprehensible, or a welcome addition to our lives? In the lecture, I will present different possible types of relationships and discuss them in terms of their potential and challenges.

 
 
Friday 16 May 2025
Ben Winokur

TBA

Speaker: Ben Winokur
From: University of Macau
URL: http://benwinokur.com/
Abstract: TBA

 
 
Friday 30 May 2025
Tatyana Kostochka

TBA

Speaker: Tatyana Kostochka
From: Ashoka University
URL: https://www.ashoka.edu.in/profile/tatyana-kostochka/
Abstract: TBA

 
 
Friday 27 Jun 2025
Bronwyn Finnigan

TBA

Speaker: Bronwyn Finnigan
From: Australian National University
URL: http://bronwynfinnigan.com
Abstract: TBA

 
 
Friday 11 Jul 2025
Fabian Wendt

TBA

Speaker: Fabian Wendt
From: Kellogs Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Virginia Tech University
URL: https://www.fabianwendt.com/
Abstract: TBA

 
 
Friday 10 Oct 2025
Igal Kvart

TBA

Speaker: Igal Kvart
From: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
URL: https://en.philosophy.huji.ac.il/people/igal-kvart
Abstract: TBA

 
 
Friday 7 Nov 2025
Thomas Hofweber

TGBA

Speaker: Thomas Hofweber
From: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
URL: https://www.thomashofweber.com/
Abstract: TBA