. November 13th-14th, 2022 Pittsburgh (United States of America) Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Commonwealth Room The third Philosophy in Biology and Medicine (PhilInBioMed) Network Meeting took place in-person in Pittsburgh on November 13 and 14, 2022. The event immediately followed the conclusion of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Meeting in Pittsburgh (November 10-13, …
Ned Block is Silver Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology and Center for Neural Science at New York University (NYU), NY, USA. Video: https://youtu.be/KpVWN5bxkrQ Abstract This talk will argue that the reason that perception is fundamentally different from cognition is that perception is non-conceptual whereas cognition is conceptual. I will review evidence …
Samuel Alizon is a CNRS Researcher at the College de France in Paris, where he is the Head of the Ecology & Evolution of Health (EEH) team at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB). Samuel is a theoretical evolutionary ecologist specialized in the study of infectious diseases, with a particular interest in human parasites …
Summary AI techniques have led to spectacular advances in many different fields, such as image recognition, language processing, and chess. In the scientific context, the most recent example is the success of the AI system "AlphaFold" in predicting the folded structure of proteins based on their amino acid sequence. In medicine, AI-based methods promise to …