Month: July 2024

Humanity vs. Technology (in 5 minutes)

July 31, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Biotech, Blog2024+, critical thinking, Democracy, Digital Humanities, Emergent Tech, Ethics, Internet, Justice, Labor Issues, Machine Learning, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, Posthuman, Public Philosophy, Social Media, Surveillance, Teaching, Technology, Technology and Human Values, Uncanny Valley 0 Comments

Dr. Leigh M. Johnson summarizes the challenges technology poses to humanity (and the humanities) in 5-minute PowerPoint.

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Lying Artificial Intelligence

July 27, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blog2024+, Emergent Tech, Ethics, Hotel Bar Sessions, Internet, Justice, Machine Learning, Media, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, podcast, Politics, Posthuman, Social Media, SPEP, Technology, Technology and Human Values 0 Comments

Should we worry about a robot capable of lying about being a robot?

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Determining a Judgment of Taste

July 16, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Aesthetics, Blog2024+, critical thinking, Ethics, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, Relativism, Uncategorized 0 Comments

On Kant’s strange anecdote of the rue de la Huchette

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Paying It Forward

July 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Blog2024+, Digital Humanities, Philosophy, Professional Academy, Public Philosophy, Teaching, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Are you a recent grad student who just got hired or a junior faculty member stressing out about your Fall syllabi? I’m here to help.

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