The Human Measure and the Measure of all Minds (Steve Fuller)
2022-05-18 12:00 - 2022-05-19 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
The workshop addresses the big questions that post- and transhumanism are tackling with: What does it mean to be ‘human’? To what extent does being human depend on the existence of the ‘non-human’? Can a being transition in and out of being ‘human’? Can qualities such as mentality and personhood, which have been seen as distinctly human, be realized – perhaps even more fully – in non-human beings? The workshop title is inspired by Jose Hernandez Orallo who will also give a presentation.
An opening statement on the topic of the workshop by Steve Fuller can be found in our blog.
Please find the programm here.

Explainable and Verifiable Machine Learning. A Grand Challenge for Computer Science (Kim Guldstrand Larsen)
2022-05-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Kim Guldstrand Larsen is professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University within the Distributed, Embedded Systems and Intelligent (DEIS) Unit and director of the ICT-competence center CISS, Center for Embedded Software Systems. Being the prime investigator of the award winning tool UPPAAL as well as its branches, his talk will highlight ongoing research towards explainable and verifiable learning-based CPS pursued within the context of the modelling and verification tool UPPAAL
Stratego.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Space, Literacy and Citizenship in the Digitalization of Law (Jean Lassègue)
2022-05-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Jean Lassègue is Senior Researcher at CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) and member of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His talk will give insight into his work around the history and epistemology of computer science, theory of forms and symbolic activities, from exact sciences to sciences of culture and an anthropology of writing and of law.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Traffic as a Socio-Technical System: Opportunities for AI (Ana Bazzan)
2022-04-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Ana Bazzan is c:o/re fellow and Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Informatics and Leader of the Artificial Intelligence Group, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her talk will go into detail on her research surrounding multiagent systems or more recently, smart cities focussing on transportation.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Enlightenment Now! (Steve Fuller and Frederik Stjernfelt)
2022-04-21 10:00 - 18:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
In this seminar, we would like to draw a line between recent intense research into the intellectual history of the Enlightenment and our present situation. What would Radical Enlightenment mean today? How would a 17-18th century Enlightenment view on our present predicament look like? – given pressing issues of academia today, the fate of the universities, the development of AI, tech, the new West-East cold war, populism, globalization, post/trans humanism, the future of humanity?
Beside talks by c:o/re Fellows Frederik Stjernfelt and Steve Fuller, the seminar will include contributions by historian Jonathan Israel (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton), Rens Bod, professor of Digital Humanities and History of the Humanities (Amsterdam) and scholar of cultural studies Cheryce von Xylander (Lüneburg).
Please find the program here.

Behavioral Objects, Agonistic Objects. How and why to design art robotic objects fighting against and for their being conditions? (Samuel Bianchini)
2022-04-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Samuel Bianchini is an artist and associate professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs—Paris (EnsAD) / PSL University Paris. His talk will provide insight into his work on the relationships between the most forward-looking technological “dispositifs”, modes of representation, new forms of aesthetic experiences, and sociopolitical organizations.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Interdisciplinary Research in Robotics and AI (Joffrey Becker)
2022-04-20 12:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
This event is planned by Joffrey Becker as a short workshop that brings together different experts on the topic of Robotics and AI.
Please find the program here.

What is the value-added of being human? The beginning of a conversation (Steve Fuller)
2022-04-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Steve Fuller is c:o/re fellow and Professor of Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England. In his talk, he will give insight into his work around the future of humanity or a “humanity 2.0”.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Scientific Explanations from Machine Learning? (Stefan Buijsman)
2022-04-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Stefan Buijsman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft, Netherlands. In his talk, he will be discussing the issue of obtaining scientific explanations from machine learning models.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Computational Reproducibility and Open Science (Alexandre Hocquet)
2022-03-23 10:00 - 2022-03-24 15:00 | FZ Jülich/ Stadtpalais/ Online
The workshop organised by Alexandre Hocquet is part of the “Engineering Practices” Series in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University.
Please find the program here.

Certifiable "Artificial Intelligence" for Reliable Systems (Jobst Landgrebe)
2022-02-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Jobst Landgrebe is founder of Cognotect Cologne, a consulting company that combines Life Science and data analytics to support companys in data- and science-based branches. With 25 years of professional experience as a doctor, biochemist and mathematician, his talk will be giving insights on his work surrounding mathematical foundations and the philosophical implications of AI technology.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research – Digitalization.

Explainable AI and explanations in AI (Markus Pantsar and Frederik Stjernfelt)
2022-02-02 13:00 - 2022-02-03 15:30 | HumTec/online
The objective of the event is to explore the functions of AI and its relationship to humans. The workshop pays attention particularly to the analogies which characterize intelligent systems design and to the mental processes they give rise to. Leaning on ethnographic case studies, it tries to show that intelligent systems are devices of a recursive kind which convey norms, representations and various ideas about the life processes and the social relations they intend to imitate. As part of the workshop, Jobst Landgrebe (Founder Cognotekt Köln) gives a talk on “Certifiable ‘Artificial Intelligence’ for Reliable Systems” within the c:o/re Lecture Series “Cultures of Research – Digitalization of Research“.
Confirmed speakers are: Jobst Landgrebe (Cognotekt Köln), Markus Pantsar (University of Helsinki, c:o/re), Frederik Stjernfelt (Aalborg University Copenhagen, c:o/re), Joffrey Becker (Laboratoire d‘Anthropologie Sociale, c:o/re), Daniel Wenz (CSS Lab RWTH Aachen), and Andreas Kaminski (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart).
Please find the program here.

“Only the Initiates Will Have the Secrets Revealed”. The Politics and Materialities of Open Science (Alexandre Hocquet)
2022-01-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Alexandre Hocquet is c:o/re fellow and Professor of History of Science at the Université de Lorraine, France, and Member of the Laboratory Archives Henri-Poincaré—Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies. Based in STS, his talk will provide insights into his work on open science and the relationships between software and the production of knowledge.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research – Digitalization.
A recording of the talk is available on the RWTH YouTube channel, click here to find the video!

Developing Artificial Human-Like Numerical Cognition (and Why) (Markus Pantsar)
2022-01-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Markus Pantsar is c:o/re fellow and Senior Grant Researcher in Theoretical Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland. In his talk, he will give insights into his work discussing computational modeling of cognitive processes involved in mathematics and their complexity.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research – Digitalization.
A recording of the talk is available on the RWTH YouTube channel, click here to find the video!

Traveling with TARDIS. Prediction, Parameterization, and Ontology in Molecular Modeling and Simulation (Johannes Lenhard)
2022-01-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Johannes Lenhard is a Senior Research Fellow at the chair for Thermodynamics at the TU Kaiserslautern, Germany and philosopher. Based in philosophy of and in science, his talk will give insights into his work on simulation models, which rely on unmeasurable or empirically unknown data and their creation, maintenance and reception.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research – Digitalization.

Parameters and Computer Simulations (Alexandre Hocquet)
2022-01-12 12:00 - 2022-01-13 12:00 | HumTec/online
The workshop explores the role of software and code in computational research. Alexandre Hocquet (Archives Henri-Pointcaré, c:o/re) and Frédéric Wieber (Archives Henri-Pointcaré) will give a talk on “Software as the Elephant in the Room”. The presentation is followed by commentaries by Gabriele Gramelsberger (c:o/re director) and Johannes Lenhard (TU Kaiserslautern). In the evening, Johannes Lenhard gives a talk on “Traveling with TARDIS. Prediction, Parameterization, and Ontology in Molecular Modelling and Simulation” as part of the c:o/re Lecture Series “Cultures of Research – Digitalization of Research“. As part of the workshop, the group is working on a Panel proposal for for SPSP Conference in 2022.
Please find the program here.

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future. An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies (Bernd Carsten Stahl)
2021-12-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Bernd Carsten Stahl is Professor of Critical Research in Technology and Director the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His talk will be exploring philosophical issues arising from the intersections of business, technology, and information.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research – Digitalization.

Computer Simulations Seen from the Standpoint of Symbols (Franck Varenne)
2021-12-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Franck Varenne is associate professor of philosophy of science at the University of Rouen (Normandy, France) and associate researcher at the IHPST (Paris, CNRS). In his talk, he will discuss computer simulations in contemporary science from an epistemological standpoint that is historical, comparative and immersive, i.e. observational (empirical) and interactional (coactive).
This talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research – Digitalization.

Humans, Machines and the Anthropology of Cybernetic Practices (Joffrey Becker)
2021-12-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Joffrey Becker is c:o/re fellow and research associate and member of the Anthropology of Life team at the LAS (Laboratoire d‘Anthropologie Sociale) at the Collège de France. In his talk, he will give an insight into his work on the relations between humans and so–called intelligent systems with a project called “Living besides Machines/Living inside Machines”.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research – Digitalization.
A recording of the talk is available on the RWTH YouTube channel, click here to find the video!
