2026 Midwest Philosophy and Computing Workshop

The Midwest Philosophy and Computing Workshop brings together philosophers working at the intersection of philosophy and computing from across the Midwest. The workshop will meet in the Executive Conference Room (Rm. 246), Nichols Hall, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

The workshop is a joint initiative of CHaT and the University of Kansas Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics.

Schedule

Thursday, September 17

9:30–9:50	Coffee and check-in
9:50–10:00	Welcome
10:00–10:45	Clair Baleshta Understanding AI Harm
10:45–11:00	Break
11:00–11:45	Susan Sterrett Impersonation v Imitation: Can AIs pass the most challenging of Turing’s Tests?
11:45–1:30	Lunch
1:30–2:15	Gualtiero Piccinini The Neurocognitive Architecture of Propositional Thought
2:15–2:30	Break
2:30–3:15	Oluwaseun Sanwoolu When Nothing Needs to Be Said: Silence, Presence, and Close Personal Relationships with AI
3:15–3:30	Break
3:30–4:15	Brett Karlan Value conservatism and rational AI resistance
4:15	Break
7:00 p.m.	Dinner at Meadowlark

Friday, September 18

9:30–10:00	Coffee
10:00–10:45	David Tamez Can AI Cultivate Judicial Wisdom? Judge Hercules, Artificial Judicial Phronesis, and the Epistemic Development of Judges
10:45–11:00	Break
11:00–11:45	André Curtis-Trudel Pursuit Risks in Agent-Laden Science
11:45–1:30	Lunch
1:30–2:15	Will Stafford Are Proofs Programs?; The Philosophical Implications of the Curry-Howard Correspondence
2:15–2:30	Break
2:30–3:15	Ramy Amin No Theory of Implementation: Computational Neuroscience and the Search for Physical Computation
3:15	Adjourn