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Professor Yuri Balashov was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to support his interdisciplinary project exploring cognitive, linguistic, and philosophical aspects of human and machine translation. Balashov's research is a bottom-up case study of the history and current state of translation technologies conducted from the complementary perspectives of multiple disciplines and informed by first-hand knowledge of human…

UGA Philosophy professor Yuri Balashov has received an NSF grant in the amount of $136,969 to support his interdisciplinary project exploring cognitive, linguistic, and philosophical aspects of human and machine translation. Building on prior work, this project brings educational and research tools illustrating the complex interaction of human and machine translation to the attention of students and practitioners, including those with…

The inaugural Southern Workshop on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies (SWEET) was held at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens on April 19-20, 2024. Led by Philosophy Assistant Professors Jeremy Davis and Youjin Kong, the event brought together a group of regional scholars--five from Georgia and three from Florida, as well as a handful of attendees--for two days of discussion and evaluation of cutting-edge research on the ethics of…

Associate Professor Elizabeth Brient presented the keynote lecture, “The Infinite Sphere as Think Tank: Suspension (of the finite in the infinite/ of the infinite in the finite) as Meditative Praxis” at the interdisciplinary international conference, Thinking the Float Tank: AUM Fiftieth Anniversary Conference; Cybernetics, Float Tanks, and Phenomenology in conjunction with the group exhibition Gödel, Escher, Bach at the…

Richard Winfield’s latest book, Rethinking the Arts After Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan this November.   Early this year, assistant professor Jeremy Davis presented "When Might Using Algorithmic Systems be Morally Required?" at the Philosophy, AI, and Society Workshop at Stanford University, served as a a panelist on the ChatGPT Panel here at UGA, and presented "…

The Department of Philosophy is excited to welcome new assistant professor, Youjin Kong. Kong's specializations in Social/Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence bring great expertise in areas of scholarship with tremendous relevance in contemporary society and culture. Her current research analyzes how AI reproduces gender and racial injustice and explores the nature of social identity and power…

The Department of Philosophy is excited to welcome Youjin Kong to our faculty. Dr. Kong will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in August 2023. She achieved her PhD at Michigan State University and she specializes in social/political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the ethics of artificial intelligence with a focus on social identity and gender and racial justice.  "I am really excited that Dr. Kong…

Professor Yuri Balashov gave a talk on "Harnessing the Power of Domain Adaptation" at the Annual Conference of the American Translators Association in Los Angeles, CA in October. Associate professor Melissa Fahmy’s paper, “Never Merely as a Means: Rethinking the Role and Relevance of Consent” was published in the March 2023 issue of Kantian Review. Dr. Fahmy presented her recent work on obligatory ends in the Biennial Meeting…

Department of Philosophy Professor Emeritus John Granrose passed away peacefully on November 24, 2023 at his home in Yorkshire, England at the age of 83. Dr. Granrose taught Philosophy at UGA for 27 years until his retirement in 1993. He was a visiting professor at Keele University in England and the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, as well as an avid musician and accomplished magician. After retirement, Granrose graduated from…

Professor Yuri Balashov continues his work on his project on human and machine translation. His new paper, “The boundaries of meaning: a case study in neural machine translation” was published in Inquiry and he gave several talks on the symbiosis of human and machine translation and attended an annual conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. His work was supported by a Michael Award from the Franklin College of Arts…