Join us in The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab for the first Digital Humanities at Guelph, DH@Guelph, talk of the 2024/2025 academic year. We welcome Dr. Mariam Thalos, visiting as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, to the University of Guelph. All are welcome! Refreshments will be provided.

Abstract: The concept of intelligence is difficult to get one’s arms around. Does it consist in the capacity for strategy? Thought? Planning? Reasoning? Surprisingly, there is no standout philosophical account even of the notion of reasoning. This talk aims at shedding some light on certain aspects of human reasoning – reasoning for practical life. This will put us in a better position to make some comparisons between (some aspects of) human reasoning and what Large Language Models (LLMs) are doing – they look to be doing quite different things.

Bio: Dr. Mariam Thalos is the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph. A Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee since 2018, she is a philosopher of science with a broad spectrum of interests in the physical, decisional, and human sciences. Her forthcoming book with Routledge is entitled “Reasoning in the Wild”.

Image Description: Digital Humanities at Guelph presents…Mariam Thalos. Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Mariam Thalos smiling. Thursday, October 11 at 12 noon. The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab, 2nd Floor, McLaughlin Library.

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