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Dasha Pruss Wins Pitt Data & Society Grant and PSA Best Student Essay Award
Graduate student Dasha Pruss has been awarded a grant from Pitt's Data & Society program to produce quantitative and qualitative analyses of fairness outcomes when courts in Pennsylvania use A.I. to guide sentencing decisions. Dasha also won the Philosophy of Science Association's Mary B.
Colin Allen Receives Grant for International Project on Joy in Animals
Faculty member Colin Allen has received a $600,000 dollar grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation for a project titled "Joyful by nature: a comparative approach to the evolution and function of joy in intelligent species." The University of Pittsburgh will be the lead institution with scientist-partners at the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury in New Zealand, St.
Edouard Machery receives award for cross-cultural study of AI principles
Faculty member Edouard Machery has been awarded a grant under the University of Pittsburgh's "Momentum Funds" program for an international study of "
New Video from Prof. Edouard Machery's Geography of Philosophy Project
Prof. Edouard Machery's Geography of Philosophy Project has published its first video – “The Future of Philosophy” – on YouTube.