We meet for one hour on Zoom (15 min. presentation + 45 min discussion). For its fourth term, PhilMod functions as an online speaker series. All information required to participate in the Zoom meetings is sent to members of the community via a mailing list.
Fall 2024 Schedule
Monday, September 16 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am PT. Manuela Travaglianti. Title: “Ethics Tools for T&S Practitioners.”
Monday, September 30 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am PT. Tim Bernard. Title: “Philosophical Underpinnings of Child Safety Laws.”
Monday, October 28 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am PT. Amanda Greene. Title: “Social Media and Mass Empowerment.”
Monday, November 11 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am PT. Eric D. Berg. Title: “Propagandists as Hackers.”
Monday, December 2 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am PT. Keith Raymond Harris. Title How Misinformation Threatens Knowledge and What (Not) To Do About It.
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Spring 2024 Schedule
Monday, February 12 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Tarleton Gillespie. Title: “Redteaming in Generative AI: Content Moderation 2.0?”
Monday, March 4 from 9 am to 10 am PT. JP Messina.
Title: “Private Censorship and Content Moderation.”
Monday, March 25 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Claire Benn.
Title: “Deepfakes, Pornography and Consent.”
Monday, May 13 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Henrik Kugelberg. Title: “Online Freedom and Equality.”
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Fall 2023 Schedule
Thursday, September 14 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Work-in-Progress: Jonathan Stray (UC Berkeley) on “Democratic Control of Recommender Systems.”
Thursday, October 5 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Industry Deep Dive: The Oversight Board’s Decision in the “Iran Protest Slogan” case. Discussion led by Sarah Fisher (University College London).
Thursday, October 26 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Work-in-Progress: Ting-an Lin (Stanford/UConn). Title: “Democratizing AI”: A Suitable Response to Algorithmic Injustice?
Thursday, November 9 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Industry Deep Dive: Algorithmic Nudging. Discussion led by Hanna Gunn (UC Merced).
Thursday, November 30 from 9 am to 10 am PT. Work-in-Progress: Kate Klonick (St. John’s University). Title: Big Speech.
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Spring 2023 Schedule
Thursday January 12 at 9am PT. Introductory Meeting and Social.
Thursday January 19 at 9am PT. Regina Rini and Leah Cohen. “Deepfakes, Deep Harms.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 2022.
Thursday February 2 at 9am PT: Michael Randall Barnes. “Online Extremism, AI and (Human) Content Moderation.” Feminist Philosophical Quarterly. 2022.
Thursday February 16 at 9am PT: Neil Levy. “Echoes of Covid Misinformation.” Philosophical Psychology. 2021.
Thursday March 9 at 9am PT: Megan Fritts & Frank Cabrera. “Fake News and Epistemic Vice: Combating a Uniquely Noxious Market.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 2022.
Thursday March 16 at 9am PT: Andrew I. Cohen and Andrew J. Cohen. “The Possibility and Defensibility of Nonstate ‘Censorship.’” In J.P. Messina. New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech. London: Routledge. 2022.
Thursday March 30 at 9am PT: Evelyn Douek. “Content Moderation as Systems Thinking.” Harvard Law Review. 2022.
Thursday April 13 at 9am PT: Raphael Millière. “Deep Learning and Synthetic Media.” Synthese. 2022.
Thursday April 27 at 9am PT: Matthew Shields. “Rethinking Conspiracy Theories.” Synthese. 2022.
Thursday May 11 at 9am PT: Claire Benn and Seth Lazar. What’s Wrong With Automated Influence? Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 2022.
Thursday May 25 at 9am PT: Ugur Aytac. Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy. Political Studies. 2022.
Thursday June 1 at 9am PT: Planning for Fall 2023 and End of Term Social