Tags: Research/Outreach

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Southern Aesthetics Workshop Held at UGA

    The Southern Aesthetics Workshop was held at the Demosthenian Hall and the Athenaeum on September 19-20. This year the program was co-chaired by Michael Dickson from the University of South Carolina and UGA’s own Aaron Meskin, Head of the Philosophy Department.  This annual pre-read workshop is an opportunity for philosophers working in aesthetics to receive more in-depth feedback on ongoing projects than they might at an…
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SWEET Success

The inaugural Southern Workshop on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies (SWEET) was held at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens on April 19-20, 2024. Led by Philosophy Assistant Professors Jeremy Davis and Youjin Kong, the event brought together a group of regional scholars--five from Georgia and three from Florida, as well as a handful of attendees--for two days of discussion and evaluation of cutting-edge research on the ethics of…
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Philosophy for Children Class Enrolling for Fall 2022

The Department of Philosophy & the UGA Office of Service Learning are pleased to enroll PHIL 3900S “Philosophy for Children” for Fall 2022. In partnership with the Athens Regional Library System’s teen afterschool program, “Let’s Talk About That: Philosophy for Teens," UGA philosophy students work with local middle and high school students at the Athens-Clarke County Library engaging in critical thinking and discussion of a wide variety of…
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Aaron Meskin
Meskin Leads Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Grant Team

Philosophy department head Aaron Meskin is the primary investigator on the grant project “From AI Ethics to AI Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence and Aesthetic Harm,” which has been awarded a UGA Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant. Joining Meskin are Pengyuan Wang, Rosanna Smith, and Carolina Salge of the Terry College of Business; David Saltz, Isabelle Wallace, and Katie Geha of the…