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Colin Allen
@wileyprof.bsky.social
Philosophy prof at UCSB
(10) Lars Chittka, Sarah Skeels, Olga Dyakova and Maxime Janbon; (11) Masanori Kohda, Shumpei Sogawa and Redouan Bshary; (12) Gianmarco Maldarelli and Onur Güntürkün; (13) Joseph LeDoux; (14) Colin Klein and Andrew B. Barron; (15) Albert Newen and Carlos Montemayor.

Thanks to all!
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
(4) Léa Moncoucy, Krzysztof Dołęga, Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Axel Cleeremans; (5) Kristin Andrews and Noam Miller; (6) Antonella Tramacere; (7) Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, Julio Hechavarria and Lucia Melloni; (8) Simon Brown and Jonathan Birch; (9) Jonathon Crystal; [cont'd]
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1939
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In case you’re wondering where this link went, there had to be some re-editing so the new *permanent* link is this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS_g...
September 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Have you been wondering what we've been doing in our TWCF @templetonworld.bsky.social project on animal joy? This video wonderfully produced by Richard Sergay @storiesofimpact.bsky.social explains all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkY...
Diverse Intelligences: The Search for Joy in Animals
YouTube video by Templeton World Charity Foundation
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Rocket launch. Here’s a similar one from Vandenburgh over Goleta a few weeks ago
February 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Reposted by Colin Allen
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 PAMBA Prize essay contest in the philosophy of animal minds for early-career researchers. The winning paper will be published in Biology & Philosophy and presented as a keynote at the meeting in Santa Barbara. For details: www.the-pamba.com/prize
PAMBA Prize — PAMBA
www.the-pamba.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Nice commute :)
August 29, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Submission deadline: September 30, 2023. Submissions should include:
(1) a 1-2 sentence biography of the participant,
(2) a 1-2 sentence statement of interest for attending the workshop, and
(3) an abstract or a description of your proposed contribution of no more than 500 words.
July 28, 2023 at 7:07 PM
Keynote speakers:
Megan Stevenson, University of Virginia Law School
Shakeer Rahman, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Pablo Nuñez, Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania (CESeC)
Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College, Department of Philosophy
July 28, 2023 at 7:07 PM
but not limited to philosophy, law, and the social sciences. Participants will be invited to contribute to a special report on carceral AI.
July 28, 2023 at 7:06 PM
how such technologies both inform and interact with topics including incarceration, policing, migration, privatization, surveillance, racial and gender justice, and resistance. We welcome contributions from civil society organizations and academic researchers from disciplines including ...
July 28, 2023 at 7:06 PM
AI systems can interact in complicated ways with existing social and legal structures, reinforce or mask existing structural injustices, and expand the reach of carceral systems under the guise of scientific rigor. Participants in this workshop are invited to explore ...
July 28, 2023 at 7:05 PM
electronic monitoring, and audio gunshot locators. Such technologies are often introduced as 'smart', 'evidence-based', or 'data-driven' reforms that claim to reduce bias and increase efficiency, such as 'evidence-based' sentencing and 'smart' borders. In practice, however, ...
July 28, 2023 at 7:05 PM
a broad class of algorithmic and data-driven practices implicated in the control and incarceration of people. Examples include predictive policing, facial recognition, recidivism risk assessment instruments, automatic license plate readers, border surveillance systems, biometric databases, ...
July 28, 2023 at 7:04 PM
Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI February 9-10, 2024
This cross-disciplinary workshop will provide an interactive meeting point for researchers to address the expanding use of AI in criminal legal contexts. We use the term 'carceral AI' to refer to ...
July 28, 2023 at 7:03 PM
More info about the workshop at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/prediction-and-punishment-cross-disciplinary-workshop-on-carceral-ai/
#philsci #aiethics

Text version of flyer text at this site or below...
July 28, 2023 at 7:02 PM
CfP for February workshop "Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI" that Dasha Pruss (with a tiny amount of help from me) is organizing at the Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science. Please forward widely and consider submitting something.

More info in posts below
July 28, 2023 at 7:02 PM