Graduate Students

Grief and Memory in Radically Extended Lives

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:09:15 +0000

Lecture by Michael Cholbi Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh

Leacock 232

Reception to follow

Open to all, registration required

Enculturating ML models: Why we need 'Abundant Intelligences'

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:31:09 +0000

Lecture by Ceyda Yolgörmez Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indigenous Futures Research Center at Concordia University

Leacock 927

Open to all, registration required

Workshop on AI and the philosophy of grief

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:18:45 +0000

Workshop by Michael Cholbi Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh

Leacock 927

Open to all, registration required

On the Implausibility of Moral Machines: Ai, Moral Agency and the Cognitive Role of Emotions

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:21:30 +0000

Work in Progress Series On the Implausibility of Moral Machines: Ai, Moral Agency and the Cognitive Role of Emotions Presented by Jocelyn Maclure and Christophe Facal Philosophy Department, ɬ�﷬

New Publication: “Avatars numériques post mortem et deuil : un point de vue éthique”

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:32:36 +0000

Written by Jocelyn Maclure, Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre, Karina Vold, Christophe Facal, and Isabelle Dumont

AI and Public Reason. Notes on the Explainability Debate

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:34:06 +0000

Presentation at the 4th International Conference on the Ethics of AI Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Porto, Portugal

Can chatGPT be your friend? Join us for a conversation on AI companionship

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:08:33 +0000

Join us for a conversation on AI companionship Speakers: Jocelyn Maclure, Michael Inzlicht, Karina Vold, more TBA

Free for Students, $5 for the public.

Should we worry about the welfare of AI? Roundtable discussion with Heather Alexander, Jonathan Simon and Jocelyn Maclure

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:11:50 +0000

Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology Research Group on Human Nature and Values, Lin Centre

Roundtable discussion with Heather Alexander, Jonathan Simon and Jocelyn Maclure

Regina Rini Conference: “Science: the Intellectual Leviathan”

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:16:13 +0000

Jarislowsky Chair Lecture Series Science: The Intellectual Leviathan Regina Rini

Department of Philosophy, York University

Reading Group Discussion: “Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?”

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:36:20 +0000

Reading Group Discussion on “Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?” by Stephen M. Campbell, Pengbo Liu & Sven Nyholm.

RGHNV: Discussion on Ranalli and Malcom's paper on echo chambers

julia.houwen@mcgill.ca — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:57:27 +0000

On December 13th, the Lin Centre Research Group on Human Nature and Values in the Digital Age (RGHNV) and Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology will hold a group discussion on Ranalli & M

Radio-Canada Special: L’intelligence artificielle décodée

julia.houwen@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:07:49 +0000

Artificial intelligence represents a true revolution that could profoundly change our world. For better or for worse? Patrice Roy explores this question in « L’intelligence artificielle décodée », a two-hour special broadcast live from the Maison de Radio-Canada in front of a studio audience.

Jeff Sebo Lecture: Next Steps for AI Welfare Research and Policy

alessandra.destison@mail.mcgill.ca — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:59:12 +0000

Date: April 23, 2026

Time: 4:00-6:00pm

Final Report on the Governance and Regulation of AI published by the Quebec Council for Innovation

julia.houwen@mcgill.ca — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:15:26 +0000

The Quebec Council for Innovation, for which Jocelyn Maclure was a co-leader for the working group on the societal impacts of AI, published a final report on the governance and regulation of AI.

Interview: “Les secrets de ‘La mafia médicale’: Le prix de la liberté”

julia.houwen@mcgill.ca — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:33:34 +0000

Jocelyn Maclure, the chairholder for the Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology, appeared on the Radio Canada podcast “Dérives” to be interviewed on the topic of academic freedom and disinformation.