Session 4 - Audio File

The audio file for today's session, led by Helena Barbas, is now available to listen here. 



Session 5 will take place on Tuesday, March 10, and the selected texts will be announced soon.

See you there!

Next Session – 24 February 2015

The fourth session will be led by Helena Barbas, who has selected the following texts for discussion:

- Helena Barbas, Avatars and the Imitation Game - Can Machines smile? 

- and two opposing views: on the one side, computer simulation with Computationally Modeling Human Emotion, and on the other a neurological approach with Carnegie Mellon Researchers Identify Emotions Based on Brain Activity

We hope to see you there!

Session 3 - Audio File

The audio file for session 3, led by Luís Moniz Pereira http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~lmp/, is now available to listen here. Enjoy!

Next Session - 10 February 2015

The third session will be led by Luís Moniz Pereira, who selected the following texts for discussion:

L. M. Pereira,    Evolutionary Tolerance, in: L. Magnani, L. Ping (eds.), Philosophy and Cognitive Science - Western & Eastern Studies. SAPERE series. ISSN 2192-6255, vol. 2, pp. 263-287, ISBN 978-3-642-29927-8, Springer-Verlag, 2012.

L. M. Pereira and  A. Saptawijaya. Bridging Two Realms of Machine Ethics To appear in "Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology", 2015.

See you there!

Second Session - 27 January 2015

The second session, led by Francisco José Diaz Marcilla, focused on the History of Emotions with the discussion of a chapter by Barbara Rosenwein, one of the most well-known historians on that field. 

You can access the text here:  Problems Methods History Emotions

First Session - 13 January 2015

This first session offered a contemplation of morality through the discussion of the following texts proposed by Sara Silva:

 - Chapter 9 "Morality Binds and Blinds" from Jonathan Haidt's landmark book Righteous Minds (2012) The Righteous Mind

(also attached is his entry on morality from the Handbook of Social Psychology) haidt.kesebir

- Kurzban et al. article on Hamilton vs. Kant kurzban et al KTP in press

- A recent paper by Peter DeScioli et al. on moral values and self-interest Proc._R._Soc._B-2014-DeScioli--libre

- A rather compelling  article by Michael Petersen on  "moralisation" (2012) Moralization_as_protection