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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from the law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Møller shows that they are central to Kant's account of reason. Through an analysis of the legal metaphors in their entirety, she demonstrates that Kant conceives of reason ...

The materiality of pre-digital documentary sources means that their preservation and organization in archives involved at least two simultaneous and separate architectonic contexts. Archivists sought to place physical documents within ordered spaces in a legible way; at the same time, as conveyers of information, documents were equally part of larger conceptual architectures, which were often ...

The architecture of the space around us has a considerable influence on our everyday lives. However, the resulting layout is rarely accidental and unintentional. Architects who design government and administrative buildings, urban spaces, libraries or other built structures have always been guided by the aesthetic as well as functional requirements and needs that are placed on the buildings and ...

Join Tom Vanderbilt as he discusses his new book, BEGINNERS with Virginia Heffernan on P&P Live!Why do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to fail? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of being a beginner? Or is it simply a fact that you can't teach an old dog new tricks?Inspired by his young daughter's insatiable need to know how to do almost everything, and ...

A. L. Kennedy is a Scottish author of numerous novels, essays, and newspaper columns, with occasional appearances as a stand-up comedian; most of her novels have been translated into German, most recently: "Das Blaue Buch" [2014]", "Gleißendes Glück" [2016], "Leises Schlängeln" [2016], "Süßer Ernst" [2018], in 2020 her short story collection "We are Attempting to Survive Our Time" was ...

Deep learning gilt derzeit als das mächtigste generische Werkzeug zur Entwicklung intelligenter Systeme. Tiefe neuronale Netze haben eine noch nie dagewesene Vorhersagegenauigkeit erreicht, so dass sie die besten bioinformatischen Techniken in der Proteinfaltungsvorhersage und die besten Sprachverständnismethoden in der Textanalyse ohne jegliche Domänenkenntnisse übertroffen haben. Neuronale ...

Local newspapers are in peril. Although they continue to serve millions of Americans with vital information about their communities, newspapers face an extremely difficult environment. Private capital has stepped in to manage the business risk and take advantage of the remaining asset strength of newspapers. But the ownership, governance, and values of private capital do not foster the business or ...

The conference will discuss basic principles and problems of algorithmic knowledge production in contemporary science and society. Witnessed by most recent breakthrough research, quantum algorithms introduce new ways of processing information entirely at variance with traditional classical computation. Also, algorithms are now utilized in proving mathematical theorems. This forces us to scrutinize ...

The investigation of plant intelligence and sentience is here to stay. And yet, despite the growing body of literature on the subject, we appear not to be making headway. Controversies over plant intelligent behavior and consciousness are part of a long botanical tradition. But things are only getting worse in today’s academic culture of “fast science”. The result is a lack of a common ...

In the ongoing national conversations about policing, protest, racism, and violence, the role of guns plays an important part. And with gun purchasing, carrying, and brandishing increasingly in the news during the Covid-19 pandemic, the intersection of these issues takes on heightened importance. Join us for an online panel discussion about these issues. Panelists include Duke's own Darrell ...

The Internet connects more than half of the world's population. This revolutionary form of transmitting all kinds of data between places on the planet has made the network of networks the indispensable backbone of societies. The number of users has exploded to four billion people. The speed of change is dramatic and for some breathtaking. Many well-known and even more unknown personalities have ...

Join a coalition of student groups for a discussion and Q&A on the merits, issues, and trade-offs of defunding-to-reallocate budget initiatives. Sponsored by Black Law Students Association, Latin American Law Students Association, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Womxn of Color Collective, American Civil Liberties Union, National Lawyers Guild, Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project, ...

This is an online course for everyone who wants to use Strategic Design Thinking for everyday challenges. You learn to use the whole potential of the approach, going beyond the method and the tools. Equip yourself with the most impactful Design Thinking principles to unlock your innovation capacity in complex, highly constrained situations. ...

The Center for the Governance of Change (CGC) is launching Conversations with the Future, a new videoseries on a range of issues related to technology, disruption and change that will bring together academics, experts and practitioners. In this first episode, “The Nature and Future of Information Confrontation“, Peter Pomerantsev, Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and ...

The Shorenstein Center hosted an online book launch for Terms of Disservice, authored by senior fellow and co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project, Dipayan Ghosh. The event featured Shorenstein Center director Nancy Gibbs, former Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign manager and HKS Defending Digital Democracy program director Robby Mook, ...

Data, data (science), get us out of here! Recommendations for resilient and fair policy-making in a crisis Prof Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet, OII and Director, Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute in discussion with Ben MacArthur, Professor within Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton. Covid-19 poses an extraordinary challenge for ...

Why Fairness Cannot Be Automated: Bridging the Gap Between EU Non-Discrimination Law and AI Fairness and discrimination in algorithmic systems is globally recognised as a topic of critical importance. To date, a majority of work has started from an American regulatory perspective defined by the notions of ‘disparate treatment’ and ‘disparate impact’. European legal notions of ...

There was a moment in the 1990’s, in the era of high postmodernism, when it seemed that social reality has had no stable foundations and as such it can be freely and totally transformed by interventions in the registers of symbols and images. Various social, political and economic developments of the last two decades – from 9/11 terrorist attacks to the 2008 financial crisis to the recent ...

In a world characterized by increased complexity and facilitated by digital technologies that can spread false information in milliseconds, we need to assure that policy making is based on scientific evidence but that it also responds to citizens’ needs.The European Commission has created Missions as part of its Horizon Europe R&I Framework. The goal of the Missions is to leverage scientific ...

Professor Philip Howard presents his new book ‘Lie Machines’, which offers new insights into the world’s most damaging disinformation campaigns. Philip N. Howard is the Director of the OII, and Professor of Internet Studies. He is a professor of sociology, information and international affairs. ...