Natural Philosophy Forum

Scott Aaronson We're pleased to host Scott Aaronson to give a special seminar for the Natural Philosophy Forum. His title is  Neurocryptography and AI Alignment Scott is a theoretical computer scientist and a leader in quantum computing and computational complexity theory. He has recently become interested in artificial intelligence and especially the alignment problem. His […]

Racialized Forgiveness

Myisha Cherry (University of California, Riverside) I shall introduce a concept that I refer to as ‘racialized forgiveness.’ Cases that exemplify certain conditions which I take as paradigmatic of the problem of racialized forgiveness includes instances in which: (a) Who is forgiven and not is determined by the race of the offender; (b) Praise and criticisms of forgiveness are determined by the race of the victim; and (c) […]

Value and Cost of Open and Inclusive Decision-Making in Health Financing

Lower Level Conference Room, Deering Hall, JHU Berman Institute for Bioethics, 1809 Ashland Ave Baltimore MD

Alex Voorhoeve, : London School of Economics A new World Bank Report, Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage (worldbank.org), proposes a novel conception of fair decision processes in health financing. It argues that such procedural fairness can contribute to fairer outcomes, strengthen the legitimacy of decision processes, build trust in authorities, and promote […]

Jessica Moss

A Lovejoy Lecture, "Belief-that is Belief-in"

Tim Maudlin

An Achinstein Lecture Gilman Hall 132, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

Lucy Allais

Political Moral Thought, details coming soon.

Geoffrey West

Natural Philosophy Forum, details coming soon.

Hsueh Qu

Early Modern History, details coming soon.

Richard Moran

Gilman Hall 132, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

Kant Tercentennial Gala at Johns Hopkins

A Staged Reading of Thomas Bernhard’s play Immanuel Kant (March 8 at JHU and March 10 at the Goethe-Institut in DC) Meet Immanuel Kant! He’s traveling with his attentive wife on a steamship somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, near the same iceberg that sank the Titanic. He is on the way to America to receive an […]

Chris Yoemans

Political Moral Thought, topic coming soon.