The Center for Philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences is organizing a national academic conference titled “Beyond the Algorithm- Philosophical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence and Its Uses.”
The conference will bring together researchers from various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to examine the philosophical assumptions, possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, as well as the implications of its use in contemporary society.
At the heart of the conference will be the question of what artificial intelligence development means for our understanding of mind, knowledge, morality, and society. Participants will explore whether thinking is exclusively human or whether machines can think, where the boundary lies between intelligence and its simulation, and how algorithmic problem-solving relates to understanding the world.
The conference’s thematic areas include the philosophy of mind and language, the ethics and epistemology of artificial intelligence, political philosophy and law, the philosophy of science, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Particular attention will be devoted to the ethical, legal and social questions raised by the use of artificial intelligence.
The conference aims to encourage critical analysis and constructive scholarly discussion through interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue between different theoretical approaches and traditions of thought.