Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminar: 'Access to knowledge: doing philosophy in the Age of Google and ChatGPT’
Convened by Amélie Berger Soraruff (MFO)

To register, please email amelie.berger-soraruff@mfo.ac.uk.

This seminar brings together scholars from France and the UK to ask the following questions: in an environment where access to information is both regulated by private interests and subject to opaque algorithmic logics, can we truly speak of free access to knowledge? To what extent is thought conditioned by these technological supports? And how may we best “do philosophy” given the constraints of the digital system it is increasingly reliant on?
To explore these issues, the presentations will examine the challenges posed by digital tools in accessing and transmitting knowledge, and how the organization and regulation of resources condition or influence thought. These talks may also focus on tools, strategies, methods, or perspectives aimed at rethinking the digital space in a more egalitarian and transparent way.

Amélie Berger-Soraruff – MFO – introductory talk
Alexandre Portron – Université de Poitiers – From Net Neutrality to Technological Neutrality:What Axiological Neutrality for the 21stCentury Connected Scholar?
Benoit Dillet – Bath University – Caring to Know: Politicising Generative AI
Andrea Bardin – University of Padua – Simondon after cybernetics: from homeostasis to metastability
Joel White – Dundee & Durham University – Intropy and Sintropy: Resolving Information Overload
Ashley Woodward – Dundee University – Transforming Education in the Age of Information Access

The ‘Channels of Digital Scholarship’ Seminar is convened by Andrew Cusworth (Digital Scholarship, Oxford), Goran Gaber (IHRIM – UMR 5317 / ENS de Lyon), and the Maison Française d’Oxford
Date: 6 February 2025, 10:00
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford
Part of: Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: amelie.berger-soraruff@mfo.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Anne-Sophie Gabillas