Video Interview: Prof Peter Railton, AI and moral obligations

Opponents of immunity passports point out (correctly) that we do not know for certain the degree to which natural infection or vaccination reduces risk of transmission. However, it is a grave moral issue – verging on wilful ignorance – that…

The most likely ways in which ambient intelligence will capture public space is via security and economic surveillance. Police forces will seek as much data on those inhabiting public spaces in the name of predicting and preventing crime or disorder….

I’d learnt this and other tricks through a few years of writing wide-ranging essays on neuroscience for my publication The Spike: often I’d write about cool new work that was at the very fringes of my expertise – like breakthroughs…

I periodically remind people of a couple of venues for work in the philosophy of neuroscience:The Synthese Topical Collection on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy. The deadline is purely nominal; submissions are processed as they come in and published online shortly…

‘Meaning’ and truth can, then, be conceptualised not as single, fixated and decidable, but as phenomena in a relatively open space of uncertainty and possibility. And communication of and theorising about them can, accordingly, be meaningfully conducted as suspensive rather…