Professor Jamie Morgan has reproduced his Retail Review article ‘‘Pandemic Aware Economies, Public Health Business Models and (Im)possible futures: What happens to a Cortisol community?’ as a series of blog posts on the Real-World Economics Review Blog. This work is also summarized on the website of Leeds Beckett University. The full text of the article can be found on Professor Morgan’s ResearchGate profile here.
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How will new technology shape the world? – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan recently published the following article on the website of Leeds Beckett University: ‘How will new technology shape the world?‘
The Ninth CSO Workshop: AI’s significance for human society
The ninth annual Centre for Social Ontology workshop took place on January 10th, 2020, at the Grenoble Ecole de Management. Participating members included Prof. Pierpaolo Donati, Prof. Andrea Maccarini, Prof. Margaret S. Archer, Dr. Mark Carrigan, Prof. Philip Gorski, Prof. Gazi Islam, Prof. Jamie Morgan, Prof. Emmanuel Lazega, Prof. Doug Porpora.
SCHEDULE
9h – 12h: Open research round table with CSO members on the theme of “AI’s significance for human society”
14h – 17h: Presentations by GEM early career and doctoral researchers to CSO members
The fourth industrial revolution could lead to a dark future – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan recently published an article in The Conversation entitled ‘The fourth industrial revolution could lead to a dark future.’ The full text can be found here.
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Global Climate Emergency: Preventing fatal “future facts” from becoming reality – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan and co-author Professor Barry Gills have recently published an article on the Common Alternatives website: ‘Global Climate Emergency: Preventing fatal “future facts” from becoming reality.’ This article is based on their paper in the journal Globalizations, entitled “Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity“.
Who Will Win the AI Battle? – Ismael Al-Amoudi
Director of the Centre for Social Ontology, Professor Ismael Al-Amoudi, recently appeared on Xerfi Canal to discuss the ethical challenges presented by artificial intelligence. The video can be viewed here (in French):
Boris Johnson: Brave or Reckless? – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan recently published an article in Politics Means Politics magazine: ‘Boris Johnson — Brave or reckless?‘ The article was also reproduced on the website of Leeds Beckett University.
22nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR), July 31 – August 2, 2019
The International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) are now accepting abstract submissions for their annual conference, which this year focuses on the topic of ‘post-truth’. The organisers explain that the conference will “explore, from a Critical Realist perspective, the challenges ‘post-truth’ politics pose for society, the need for value-based research, and the role, representation and dissemination of academic knowledge in the public sphere.”
Proposals for paper sessions on the following themes are especially invited:
- The role and representation of scientific knowledge, evidence and expertise in the public domain
- The value base and emancipatory potential of academic knowledge and its scope to inform policy and practice
- The application of Critical Realism to real-world problems and issues
- Climate change/ denial of climate change and environmental protection
- The complementarities and tensions between postmodernism and neoliberal political discourse and politics
- International politics in a ‘post-truth’ environment
- The relationship between Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies and Critical Realism
- Education, including higher education, in the context of post-truth politics
- Health and well-being in the context of neoliberal politics
The conference will take place at the University of Southampton, between the 31st of July and the 2nd of August, 2019. It will include a roundtable on the work of Andrew Collier. Further information about the conference can be accessed at https://iacrsoton.wordpress.com, and enquiries can be sent to Erin Forward: E.M.Forward@soton.ac.uk
The Eighth CSO Workshop: Towards Post-human Society?
The eighth annual Centre for Social Ontology workshop will take place at the Grenoble Ecole de Management from January 7th to January 10th, 2019. It will be followed by an Open Research Workshop on Friday the 11th of January, in room C241. The seminar is convened by Prof. Ismael Al-Amoudi (GEM, social and organisational studies) and will feature professors Margaret Archer (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, social theory), Pierpaolo Donati (Bologna, sociology), Jamie Morgan (Leeds-Beckett, philosophy and economics), Doug Porpora (Drexel, media studies) and Colin Wight (Sydney, international relations). This open seminar will feature a morning roundtable session regarding the CSO’s current project on post-human society, followed by an afternoon general discussion around the question ‘Towards post-human society?’ to generate informed dialogue with attendees.
Finally, between 3pm and 5pm on Friday, an Early Career and Doctoral Research Workshop will be held, during which time the five guest speakers will be available for individual 30 minutes discussions. Do not hesitate to discuss with them either a research project of yours for which you would like their input, or questions you may have about their own research, about realist approaches to social science, etc.
Those interested in attending can register here. Given that places are limited to a maximum of 35 participants, please register early. Please use the first sheet of the Google Doc to register for the open seminar, and the second page to register for the individual sessions should you wish to do so.
Friday Programme:
09.00 WELCOME + presentation of the CSO and its two projects to date (Prof. Al-Amoudi)
09.30 Discussion
10.00 COFFEE BREAK
10.15 Roundtable: Towards post-human society? (Profs Archer, Donati, Morgan, Porpora and Wight)
12.15 LUNCH
13.30 General discussion: Towards post-human society?
15.00 END OF PLENARY, START OF INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS
15.00-15.30 Afternoon individual meetings #1 (Boxes 102; 103; 104; 110; 111; 112)
15.45-16.15 Afternoon individual meetings #2 (Boxes 102; 103; 104; 110; 111; 112)
16.30-17.00 Afternoon individual meetings #3 (Boxes 102; 103; 104; 110; 111; 112)
17.00 END OF AFTERNOON INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS
The Seventh CSO Workshop
The seventh annual Centre for Social Ontology workshop took place at the University of Tromsø from January 9th to January 11th. It was followed by a workshop with colleagues from UiT Tromsø which can be viewed online here.
Doug Porpora, ‘What the Media are Saying’
Pierpaolo Donati, ‘ Human Enhancement and the Technological Matrices: the Hybridization of Identities, Social Relations and Organizations.
Mark Carrigan, The Human Ghost in the Machine that Learns
Margaret Archer, Considering AI Personhood
Andrea Maccarini, Transhuman social forms, cognitive advantages, post-human Sociability and feedback mechanisms.
Emmanuel Lazega, Fire and Forget Swarms; A.I. and the new wave of militarily driven Bureaucratization of Society.
Ismael Al-Amoudi, Public Policy, Artificial Intelligence and Ethical Problems
