SCIoI Distinguished Speaker Series: Marta Halina (Cambridge)
Comparative psychologists have spent the last few decades examining whether nonhuman animals understand the physical world in a way that is similar to humans. Broadly, human intuitive physics is thought to include a collection of abilities, such as knowing that solid objects continue to exist even when no longer perceived and that objects tend to fall unless prevented from doing so. In this talk, Marta introduces the empirical research program dedicated to investigating intuitive physics in nonhuman animals. She then shows how current research in this area encounters problems of underdetermination. Finally, she proposes a route forward: computational modelling combined with signature testing.
Marta Halina, University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
I am a University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I received my PhD in Philosophy and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 2013 and was a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis before coming to Cambridge in 2014. My research focuses on nonhuman animal cognition, mechanistic explanation, and artificial intelligence.
I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and a Fellow of Selwyn College.
Venue: Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence, TU Berlin, Room MAR 2.057, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin
