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