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As part of his NSF-funded project, Professor Yuri Balashov organized a symposium on “Philosophy of Translation, Human and Machine” in the framework of the 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in New Orleans in November 2024. He also gave a talk “On the potential significance of ‘dust’ in ‘industrial’: Lessons from deep learning” at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, at the…

The third Chattahoochee Aesthetics Workshop was held in Athens on the weekend of April 26-27, 2025. This regular meeting of UGA and Auburn University faculty and students interested in philosophical aesthetics took place at the Athenaeum, The University of Georgia's Downtown Gallery Space.  Speakers included Professor Richard Winfield and Dr. Rene Jagnow from UGA’s Department of Philosophy, Professor David Saltz from UGA’s Department…

This year Professor Aaron Meskin spearheaded a new philosophy working group: the University of Georgia Aesthetics Lab. The Aesthetics Lab, modeled on labs in STEM fields, served as a way for graduate students and faculty to receive thoughtful constructive feedback on works in progress ranging from roughed out ideas for a publication to qualifying papers and dissertation chapters. In addition, the Aesthetics Lab functioned at times as a reading…

Longtime Philosophy faculty member Raymond Woller recently passed away at the age of 83. A scholar of Ontology, Metaphysics, Analytic Philosophy, and John Locke, Dr. Woller taught at UGA from 1994 until his retirement in 2011, serving as a lecturer, Philosophy undergraduate advisor, Cognitive Science undergraduate coordinator, fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Center, and department representative to the Board of Regents Philosophy Advisory…

Professor Yuri Balashov was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to support his interdisciplinary project exploring cognitive, linguistic, and philosophical aspects of human and machine translation. Balashov's research is a bottom-up case study of the history and current state of translation technologies conducted from the complementary perspectives of multiple disciplines and informed by first-hand knowledge of human…

UGA Philosophy professor Yuri Balashov has received an NSF grant in the amount of $136,969 to support his interdisciplinary project exploring cognitive, linguistic, and philosophical aspects of human and machine translation. Building on prior work, this project brings educational and research tools illustrating the complex interaction of human and machine translation to the attention of students and practitioners, including those with…

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…

Associate Professor Elizabeth Brient presented the keynote lecture, “The Infinite Sphere as Think Tank: Suspension (of the finite in the infinite/ of the infinite in the finite) as Meditative Praxis” at the interdisciplinary international conference, Thinking the Float Tank: AUM Fiftieth Anniversary Conference; Cybernetics, Float Tanks, and Phenomenology in conjunction with the group exhibition Gödel, Escher, Bach at the…

Richard Winfield’s latest book, Rethinking the Arts After Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan this November.   Early this year, assistant professor Jeremy Davis presented "When Might Using Algorithmic Systems be Morally Required?" at the Philosophy, AI, and Society Workshop at Stanford University, served as a a panelist on the ChatGPT Panel here at UGA, and presented "…

The Department of Philosophy is excited to welcome new assistant professor, Youjin Kong. Kong's specializations in Social/Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence bring great expertise in areas of scholarship with tremendous relevance in contemporary society and culture. Her current research analyzes how AI reproduces gender and racial injustice and explores the nature of social identity and power…