Three Ways of Thinking AI Philosophically

Date

04 sep 2026 11:30 - 12:00

[ ONLINE ]

Online conference by Joseph Tanke, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, specialist in 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, and fellow for a one-month writing residency at the Paris IAS in September 2026, as part of the "Paris IAS Ideas" series.

The "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series features short and stimulating presentations from fellows of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, marking the beginning of 1-month writing residencies.

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Presentation

This project identifies three of the main ways in which AI has been conceptualized within the discipline of philosophy and endeavors to develop a new model for grasping its social significance. In this way, it engages what might be called Turing’s “other test”—not the imitation game announced in “Computer Machinery and Intelligence,” but the idea that the advent of machine learning forces humanity to interrogate itself from the standpoint of that which exceeds its capacity for reason.

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04 September 2026, 11:30 - 12:00

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Fellows

Joseph Tanke, University of Hawaii, United States (Writing residency)

Research project

Three Ways of Thinking AI Philosophically

Dates of stay

01 September 2026 - 30 September 2026