12 de outubro 2026 | 15h00 | Sala 106 Temos o prazer de convidar todos os interessados para a sessão de apresentação do livro Ensaios sobre o conhecimento científico, de Mary B. Hesse, com organização e introdução de Pietro Gori, que decorrerá no dia 12 de outubro de 2026, às 15h00, na Sala 106, na...

Evidential discordance, or the situation where scientific evidence supports contrary hypotheses, claims or theories about a given phenomenon, is common in scientific inquiry (Franklin, 2002; Boyd, 201...

A coreógrafa e investigadora Né Barros estreia no Rivoli, nos dias 1 e 2 de outubro, Zonas de Sombra, uma […]

Autonomous bots hit the public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter.

A geração que está agora a nascer na Europa vai estar a entrar na reforma antes de viver num continente onde homens e mulheres tenham as mesmas oportunidades. É a conclusão do novo relatório do Forum ...

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

There is a debate among epistemologists about whether knowledge-how can be Gettiered (e.g. Stanley and Williamson (2001), Poston (2009), Stanley (2011a, 2011b), Cath (2011, 2015), Carter and Pritch...

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Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials The film-makers behind NAZA, the award-winning documentary on Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, defended their findings at the film’s North American premiere in New York on Saturday, amid protests in Israel and escalating threats from Israeli officials to strip them of their citizenship. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, features the testimony of 24 anonymized Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers involved in the surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who describe the AI-powered systems used to select their targets. The project takes its name from an acronym used euphemistically by Israeli intelligence to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike, which are often conducted at night in private homes, killing many family members, including children, at once. Continue reading...

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. The critically acclaimed film, produced with ...

Navigating AI-Accelerated Science: An Intellectual Virtue Approach to Responsible Inquiry

Abstract. There’s an attractive view in social ontology on which a group is identical to its members. It has its defenders, but seems felled by a simple ob

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Ministro foi questionado pelos jornalistas sobre o facto de a estrutura sindical ter solicitado a intervenção da Provedora de Justiça num diferendo com a tutela sobre valores pagos aos professores cla...

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

A polémica entre professores catedráticos não vende tanto como uma cabeçada numa tasca no Cerco ou um aperto na Musgueira após um Porto-Benfica. Não é politicam

A gate is an object used to limit and control passage. Previous uses of the term “gate-keeping” as a metaphor align closely with the concrete functioning of a gate. The metaphor refers either to the e...

Does artificial intelligence (AI) threaten deliberative democracy? This paper argues that it does, not because it isolates citizens in simplistic “filter bubbles” understood as ideologically homogeneo...

Making scientific information widely available to the public can play an important role in efforts to address local and global crises - for example, by influencing public deliberation and democrati...

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Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.

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The notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ...

Abstract. Generative AI threatens knowledge online not merely by producing falsehoods, but by changing the epistemic environment in which online beliefs ar

Analytic philosophy is the dominant form of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and beyond, today. What explains its continuing success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can on...

A Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto acolhe, no dia 18 de setembro, o workshop intercalar do projeto NORTE IA+, do qual participarão os membros da Equipa, bem como stakeholders dos setores da educação, da indústria e da saúde. O Programa do encontro encontra-se disponível aqui.

When we talk to large language models, who or what is our interlocutor? First, I address some issues about how best to characterize the interlocutor in terms of mental states. Second, I discuss que...

Playable versions of canonical experiments in philosophy: the Socratic-questionnaire thought experiments — the trolley problem, Gettier cases, the side-effect effect, Mary the colour scientist.