Paula Sweeney
@paulasweeney.bsky.social
Philosopher of AI, University of Aberdeen #academicsky Author of Social Robots: A Fictional Dualism Model.
A wonderful opportunity to work with Kamil on this exciting and important project.
🚨 I am hiring! Join the @erc.europa.eu-funded ROBOCRIM project at Jagiellonian University (Kraków) as a full-time PhD researcher in criminal law & AI. Start: Oct 2025. Apply by Aug 4. Info: tinyurl.com/ERC-PhD | Email: kamil.mamak@uj.edu.pl #AcademicJobs #AI #Law #ERC #robocrim
July 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A wonderful opportunity to work with Kamil on this exciting and important project.
Yes to this article! I can’t believe what a fuss was made about a person showing emotion when under pressure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Crying in the Commons: why are women’s workplace tears a source of shame?
Rachel Reeves’s distress may help destigmatise an emotional response to pressure or professional frustration
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July 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Yes to this article! I can’t believe what a fuss was made about a person showing emotion when under pressure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Personal avatars and Dementia: New paper in Philosophy and Technology that seeks to build on the research of those working on the ethics of ghostbots/ deathbots/ continuing bond bots and apply it to dementia care.
🗞️ Much has been written on the ethics of ‘ghostbots’, but some grief contexts do not involve death. In her latest paper, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social explores the use of personal avatar technology when a loved one's illness brings substantial cognitive change.
Creating Durable Biographies in Palliative Care: The Role of Continuing Bond Avatars - Philosophy & Technology
In this paper I explore the potential benefits and harms of avatar or chatbot representations of persons who are in palliative care. Much has been written recently about the benefits and harms of…
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May 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Personal avatars and Dementia: New paper in Philosophy and Technology that seeks to build on the research of those working on the ethics of ghostbots/ deathbots/ continuing bond bots and apply it to dementia care.
Why did it take me so long to discover Marilynne Robinson? I have now developed a small obsession.
March 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why did it take me so long to discover Marilynne Robinson? I have now developed a small obsession.
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📰 Check out our @paulasweeney.bsky.social's latest paper, 'Persons, Unique Value and Avatars', in which she explores whether personal avatars / digital duplicates might undermine the value humans hold by virtue of their uniqueness. Now out in Minds and Machines!
Persons, Unique Value and Avatars - Minds and Machines
An individual human has value partly in virtue of their uniqueness. Personal avatar technology—technology which creates a digital replication of a real person—appears to have the potential to…
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March 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📰 Check out our @paulasweeney.bsky.social's latest paper, 'Persons, Unique Value and Avatars', in which she explores whether personal avatars / digital duplicates might undermine the value humans hold by virtue of their uniqueness. Now out in Minds and Machines!
Perfect excuse to watch the Royal Tenenbaums for the twentieth time. ❤️
February 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Perfect excuse to watch the Royal Tenenbaums for the twentieth time. ❤️
“Where no proxy has gone before…”. I will continue my painfully difficult exploration of how avatars will undermine the value of human uniqueness despite being proxies. The inaugural event of Mihaela Constantinescu’s ERC project ❤️ avataresponsibility.ccea.ro/current-edit...
avataResponsibility 2024: Where no proxy has gone before: avatars & responsibility frameworks – avataResponsibility
avataresponsibility.ccea.ro
October 9, 2024 at 11:00 AM
“Where no proxy has gone before…”. I will continue my painfully difficult exploration of how avatars will undermine the value of human uniqueness despite being proxies. The inaugural event of Mihaela Constantinescu’s ERC project ❤️ avataresponsibility.ccea.ro/current-edit...
Universities need a regulator. President of British Academy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/just-li...
Just like football, UK universities need a regulator
Professor Julia Black, President of the British Academy, reflects on the situation facing humanities departments at many UK Universities, and what can be done to secure their health and humanities pro...
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April 25, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Universities need a regulator. President of British Academy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/just-li...
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“Professors like me… should be part of the embodied change we seek: turning off our computers and phones, taking all our annual leave, refusing to answer emails out of hours and only scheduling meetings within work hours everyone—including colleagues with caring responsibilities—can make.” #academia
It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder by Glen O’Hara
Universities are in trouble, and it’s not just money we’re talking about. They are living through something of a crisis of confidence, even of trust and faith. More and more, I find myself, and my col...
voicesofacademia.com
April 6, 2024 at 12:05 PM
“Professors like me… should be part of the embodied change we seek: turning off our computers and phones, taking all our annual leave, refusing to answer emails out of hours and only scheduling meetings within work hours everyone—including colleagues with caring responsibilities—can make.” #academia
This is so sad. And what exactly is the evidence for the claim that students don’t want to study philosophy?
List of courses being cut at the University of Kent
Uni says: "This is linked to data on what students are looking to study nationally..."
www.kent.ac.uk/student/kent...
#UKUnis #EduSky #HigherEd #ArtHistory #Anthropology #HealthCare #Journalism #Music #PhilSky #Religion
Uni says: "This is linked to data on what students are looking to study nationally..."
www.kent.ac.uk/student/kent...
#UKUnis #EduSky #HigherEd #ArtHistory #Anthropology #HealthCare #Journalism #Music #PhilSky #Religion
March 22, 2024 at 8:00 AM
This is so sad. And what exactly is the evidence for the claim that students don’t want to study philosophy?
Early career scholar discusses their research with a relevant senior colleague. Nice format!
A new podcast aims to give early career philosophers a platform for discussing their work with relatively senior philosophers.
New Podcast: Doing Philosophy (plus: Confidence in Philosophy)
“You shouldn’t be super confident in philosophy.” That’s Crispin Wright (NYU/Stirling) in the fourth episode of a new podcast, Doing Philosophy, created by Tom Kaspers, who recently obtained his PhD i...
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March 8, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Early career scholar discusses their research with a relevant senior colleague. Nice format!
Just in time for my lecture on Nyholm’s Chapter 6: responsibility and technology: mind the gap(s).
February 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Just in time for my lecture on Nyholm’s Chapter 6: responsibility and technology: mind the gap(s).
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Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - Cluster of Excellence:
philjobs.org/job/show/25742
Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - PACE Project:
philjobs.org/job/show/25738
The deadline for applications is March 6, 2024.
philjobs.org/job/show/25742
Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - PACE Project:
philjobs.org/job/show/25738
The deadline for applications is March 6, 2024.
3 Fully-funded 4 years PhD Positions in Philosophy (all areas), University of Vienna
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An international database of jobs for philosophers
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January 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - Cluster of Excellence:
philjobs.org/job/show/25742
Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - PACE Project:
philjobs.org/job/show/25738
The deadline for applications is March 6, 2024.
philjobs.org/job/show/25742
Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - PACE Project:
philjobs.org/job/show/25738
The deadline for applications is March 6, 2024.
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Why does writing self-promotional social media posts feel so awkward? Buy my book and find out!
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January 12, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Why does writing self-promotional social media posts feel so awkward? Buy my book and find out!
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Friggin awesome youtu.be/cZXnJ4UYh40?...
November 30, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Friggin awesome youtu.be/cZXnJ4UYh40?...
Erm..not sure that this is the message that we want to put across to our students, University of Aberdeen.
November 20, 2023 at 12:21 PM
Erm..not sure that this is the message that we want to put across to our students, University of Aberdeen.
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University admins claim to be "data-driven" and "run universities like a business," but when study after study finds liberal arts majors get good outcomes, are cheap to run, and are in fact profit centers, admins cut them anyway for ideological reasons.
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November 19, 2023 at 12:56 AM
University admins claim to be "data-driven" and "run universities like a business," but when study after study finds liberal arts majors get good outcomes, are cheap to run, and are in fact profit centers, admins cut them anyway for ideological reasons.
ncnewsline.com/2023/11/16/n...
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New in AI and Society. I argue that a robot being a loved ‘significant other’ is not itself a reason for granting robot rights. But I also propose that, under certain conditions, the destruction of a beloved robot could be a hate crime. @kamilmamak.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 15, 2023 at 8:32 AM
New in AI and Society. I argue that a robot being a loved ‘significant other’ is not itself a reason for granting robot rights. But I also propose that, under certain conditions, the destruction of a beloved robot could be a hate crime. @kamilmamak.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I am once again reminding all you BlueSky peeps that there's no algorithm here.
Don't just like posts - repost them well - or no one will see the post you like so much!
Don't just like posts - repost them well - or no one will see the post you like so much!
October 24, 2023 at 9:04 PM
I am once again reminding all you BlueSky peeps that there's no algorithm here.
Don't just like posts - repost them well - or no one will see the post you like so much!
Don't just like posts - repost them well - or no one will see the post you like so much!
Reposted by Paula Sweeney
“[T]hat is just what it means to be Jewish – to empathize with the innocent victims of mass killing, no matter their identity.” - Jason Stanley
My life has been defined by genocide of Jewish people. I look on Gaza with concern | Jason Stanley
The history of mass killings, for me, is never ending. And so are the lessons for today
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2023 at 12:38 PM
“[T]hat is just what it means to be Jewish – to empathize with the innocent victims of mass killing, no matter their identity.” - Jason Stanley
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We're looking for a new interdisciplinary PhD researcher to join the Centre for Technomoral Futures (w/ 4 yrs funding!), appointed to U of Edinburgh's Law School, working with Dr Emily Postan on the ethics of AI-constructed health categories. Details to apply here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/resear...
Scholarships and funding | Edinburgh Law School
There are a range of scholarships and funding opportunities available to students applying to study for a research degree at Edinburgh Law School.
www.law.ed.ac.uk
November 11, 2023 at 6:10 PM
We're looking for a new interdisciplinary PhD researcher to join the Centre for Technomoral Futures (w/ 4 yrs funding!), appointed to U of Edinburgh's Law School, working with Dr Emily Postan on the ethics of AI-constructed health categories. Details to apply here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/resear...
Cover proofs are in! Coming soon (mid December)—my new book on social robots. Many thanks to Sven Nyholm and @coeckelbergh.bsky.social for their kind comments for the cover.
November 11, 2023 at 11:36 AM
Cover proofs are in! Coming soon (mid December)—my new book on social robots. Many thanks to Sven Nyholm and @coeckelbergh.bsky.social for their kind comments for the cover.
AI specialism included in this fixed term lecturer position at university of Bristol.
Job alert! 30 months lecturer position in the department of philosophy at the University of Bristol. Teaching aoc in phil mind (AI included) and phil medicine. #philsky #philsci
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDW575/l...
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Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Bristol
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November 7, 2023 at 4:23 PM
AI specialism included in this fixed term lecturer position at university of Bristol.
Interesting article. Includes Margaret Mitchell making excellent use of the difference between focussing on risks or focussing on harms.
November 5, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Interesting article. Includes Margaret Mitchell making excellent use of the difference between focussing on risks or focussing on harms.
The required reading for my Ethics of AI course next semester. It’s perfectly pitched for an intro book: engaging topics, with depth for added interest and very readable. Highly recommended for anyone looking for an introduction to the subject! www.amazon.co.uk/This-Technol...
November 1, 2023 at 8:36 AM
The required reading for my Ethics of AI course next semester. It’s perfectly pitched for an intro book: engaging topics, with depth for added interest and very readable. Highly recommended for anyone looking for an introduction to the subject! www.amazon.co.uk/This-Technol...