Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue of Philosophical Studies entitled: SI Superintelligent Robots. This special issue aims to explore the profound philosophical questions and ethical challenges posed by the advent of superintelligent robots.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" Síntese – Philosophy Journal (FAJE)

The aim of this 2-day international conference is to examine ethical and social perspectives on the impact of technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous systems on the military, warfare, and the Just War tradition. There will be a strong focus on applied military ethics, but researchers from any relevant fields are encouraged to apply.

Co-hosted by two Springer journals: SN Social Sciences and SN Business & Economics, it is part of their joint Permanent Collection “Sustainable Digital Development: Business, Values, and Governance”.

The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems has shown great potential to generate enormous social good while also raising serious ethical and safety concerns. It is therefore important to apply interdisciplinary research methods and tools to comprehensively analyze the social and ethical implications of AI embodied in autonomous vehicles (AVs).
Importantly, AVs will take actions that directly affect human life and societal well-being. Thus, it is imperative to analyze ethical concerns related to AVs to identify at-risk populations, inform policy, and generate hypotheses for future empirical ethics research on AI. Identifying norms and accounting for multiple ethical issues related to AVs will increase public confidence that the diverse values of a pluralistic society can be successfully implemented.

First Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC) 
December 4-6, 2025, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium  

Like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives. It is a major factor in media and communication, technological interaction, economic production, and simulation. Recently, David Chalmers

Contemporary warfare is aided, disrupted, and mediated by ever-developing digital technologies, semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons and equipment, deepfake AI propaganda, mediation through social media, and much more. These shifts suggest that contemporary warfare is in some sense a ‘new’ modality of conflict, or at least that it has new and distinctive characteristics that are in urgent need of analysis and critique. Before we can understand contemporary war, we contend, two interpretive gestures are necessary: firstly, to more fully sense war and apprehend the multiple ways that war becomes embodied; secondly, we must account for war’s multivocality and expand the ‘we’ of who gets to speak about their embodied experience of war. This book investigates the multiform ways in which war is sensed and felt from multiple underrepresented perspectives that diverge from the hegemonic norm, and by doing so, strives to arrive at an expanded vision of the sensorial complexity of contemporary armed conflict. If we are willing to critically reflect on the regimes of sensing and emotions we each differently inhabit, we contend, these insights can enrich and deepen our understandings of war, state power, and—crucially—the ways that they may be resisted. In particular, we ask: 

Background

On 24 November 2025, the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe will be awarded the Spinozalens, a biennial international philosophy award. Previous winners include Martha Nussbaum, Bruno Latour, and Susan Neiman.