Petar Bodović on Herman Cappelen & Josh Dever (2021)

The Argumentation Lab (ArgLab) organizes a reading group on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE). This reading group is part of the activities organized by the research group ANTIDOTE. The purpose of this reading group is to explore topics related, but not limited to, explanation in science and in language, methods of inquiry, and its application to artificial intelligence (explainability, interpretability, debugging, etc.). We will start reading classics in the literature on inference to the best explanation and move from there to more contemporary topics in AI and philosophy of science/language.

The next session of the reading group on XAI and IBE will take place exclusively online on Thursday, March 9, from 4 to 5:30 PM (Lisbon time).

The group will be discussing the paper by Cappelen, H., and Dever, J. 2021. Making AI Intelligible. Philosophical Foundations (Chapters 4 & 5, pp. 59-103). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Petar Bodlović will give a short presentation and lead the discussion.

To join the session on Zoom, use this link.

Each session will be led by a rapporteur, who will introduce the reading and spark discussion. Please write to Petar Bodlović at pbodlovic@fcsh.unl.pt if you are interested in taking part.