[IPMC 2026 Spring Seminar in Philosophy] Guanze Liao (Institute of Learning Sciences and Technologies, National Tsing Hua University) will give a talk titled “From AI Consciousness to Artificial Consciousness: Tracing a Philosophical and Empirical Trajectory” on May 8, 15:30–17:20 (UTC+08:00).

[COMPAIN LECTURES | 2026 SPRING] 📌 Title Chronic pain and unrecognised grief: epistemic barriers to personal and social recognition 🗓 Time May 6, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30 CEST and 16:00–17:30 CST 🔗 Meeting Link fau.zoom-x.de/j/4479678418... 👤 Speaker Chris McCarroll

[COMPAIN LECTURES | 2026 SPRING] 📌 Title The Pathologisation of Suffering and Pain 🗓 Time April 22, 10:00–11:30 (CEST) / 16:00–17:30 (CST) 🔗 Meeting Link fau.zoom-x.de/j/4479678418... 👤 Speaker Noelia Bueno Gómez

As part of the Philosophy of Mind Graduate Institute Fall Lecture Series, Jessica Wilson and Benj Hellie (University of Toronto) will give talks titled “The Emergence of Life” and “Expressivism and the Mind-Body Problem” on Friday, April 17, 15:30–18:00 Taipei time (UTC+08:00).

[COMPAIN Lectures: The Complexity of Pain and Its Normative Implications] The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join a new COMPAIN Lecture Series this spring, featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

As part of the Bochum–Grenoble–Taipei Memory Colloquium, Francesco Fanti Rovetta (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will give a talk titled “Ruminative Remembering and the Flexibility of Scenario Construction” on Tuesday, April 14, 18:15–19:45 Taipei time (UTC+08:00).

As part of the Humanities AI Seminar series, Katsunori Miyahara (Hokkaido University) will give a talk titled “The Problem of Artificial Agency” on April 9 (Thu), 15:30–17:20 Taipei time (UTC+08:00). Join us at Guangfu Campus (HC103), Yangming Campus (YX502), or via Google Meet (QR code on poster).

[Lecture Promotion] 📌 Lecture Title Practical Philosophy Overseas Guest Talk Respect the Dead in the Age of AI: The Ethics of Grief Bots 🗓 Time April 2 (Thursday) 14:00–16:00 (UTC+8) 👤 Speaker Alexandre Erler National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University nycu.academia.edu/AlexandreErler

As part of IPMC 2026 Spring Seminar in Philosophy, Faith Liao (Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities Taipei Medical University) will give a talk titled “Human Flourishing: (RE)humanising Medical Education in Practice” on Friday, March 27, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC+08:00).

As part of IPMC 2026 Spring Seminar in Philosophy, Timo Speith (Department of Philosophy, University of Bayreuth) will give a talk titled “Positive AI Ethics: A Constructive Approach to Ethically Desirable AI” on Friday, March 13, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC+08:00).

Happy horse year! 🐴

[COMPAIN lecture series] Time: Nov. 27, 12:00-13:30 CET and 19:00-20:30 (Taiwan time) Speaker: Hadeel Naeem (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) Title: Pain, epistemic injustice, and AI

[COMPAIN lecture series] “Pain and the Life-World: Somatization and Psychologization” by Saulius Geniusas on 20 November 2025 (12:00-13:30 CET and 19:00-20:30 CST) Zoom link: uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/2720643197...

As part of IPMC 2025 Fall Seminar in Philosophy, Kate Vredenburgh (Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics) will give a talk titled “AI, work, and skills” on Friday, Nov 14, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC +08:00).

Join our AI workshop this Friday!

Yiying Peng (Department of Philosophy, Western University) will give a talk titled “An Aristotelian response to the gamer’s dilemma” on Friday, Nov 7, 10:00-12:00 Taipei time.

陳以森 I-Sen Chen (Soochow University) will give a talk titled “The indispensability of representation to machine learning” on Friday, Oct 31, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.

COMPAIN Lectures: The Complexity of Pain and Its Normative Implications The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join the COMPAIN Lecture Series featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The promise of AI is everywhere, but what can AI do for us today that we cannot do better ourselves? This workshop confronts expectations versus reality—and the future of AI in academia and beyond……

Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; thomasmetzinger.com) will give a talk titled “Introduction into the Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) research program” on Friday, Oct 17, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.

Hio Ngou Chio (Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) will give a talk titled “Thought experiment: Fiction & modal friction” on Friday, Oct 3, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time

Claire Chang (Taipei Medical University) will give a talk titled “Investigating memory in the brain through movies and spoken narratives” on Friday, Sep 12, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time (UTC +08:00). Details: phil.nycu.edu.tw/en/ipmc-autu...