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Xinyue Dai presented her research on counterfactual explanations in artificial intelligence at the conference on artificial intelligence, ethics and fairness in Oxford. The paper is available here:

Listen to Tom Molloy’s interview with Ruth Byrne about thinking, reasoning and imagination on the Trinity College Dublin talks podcast series here: https://soundcloud.com/tcdtalks/gold-medal-winning-prof-ruth-byrne-on-thinking-reasoning-and-the-ever-elusive-human-imagination?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation workshop at IJCAI-22 in Vienna on July 23rd included a keynote talk by Ruth Byrne on “Knowledge representation: evidence from the cognitive science of counterfactual reasoning”, slides available here, and a talk by Greta … Continue reading →

Ruth Byrne was awarded the Royal Irish Academy 2021 Gold Medal in Social Sciences, which was presented by the Taoiseach in the Provost’s house in Trinity in April 2022.

Ruth Byrne was invited by the National Gallery of Ireland’s Head Curator, Dr Brendan Rooney, and curator of Irish Art, Donal Maguire, to collaborate in the Jack B Yeats “Painting and Memory” exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. Her article ‘Imaginative Cognition … Continue reading →

How people reason with counterpossible conditionals – Ruth Byrne, 28th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Leipzig, Germany (online), 30th Aug-2nd Sept 2021. https://www.espp2021.com/ Panel speaker – Ruth Byrne, 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, Workshop on Algorithmic … Continue reading →

Ruth gave a talk on “how people reason with counterpossible and counterfactual conditionals” at the Workshop on Counterfactual Reasoning in Science at Birmingham University on 25th March https://framephys.org/counterfactual-reasoning-in-science-25-mar-2021/

Ruth Byrne and Mark Keane gave a talk at the Algorithmic Recourse in Machine Learning meeting on “Counterfactuals in XAI: Human and Computational Studies” – the schedule, recordings, and slides are available at: https://sites.google.com/view/algorithmic-recourse/home

Shane Timmons and I write on how to overcome cognitive biases that affect moral decisions to make sacrifices of relevance to staying home during the Covid-19 pandemic – moral hindsight, moral fatigue, counterfactual amplification and more in Psychology Today, link … Continue reading →