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CURRICULUM VITAE PROFESSOR EMMA BERNET RUTTKAMP-BLOEM

1. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1.1 CONTACT DETAILS

Surname Ruttkamp-Bloem

First names Emma Bernet

Citizenship South African European Union (Dutch)

Place and Date of birth Pretoria, South Africa, 11 July 1966

Department Philosophy

Direct Telephone +2712 420 2694

Email [email protected]

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Degree Field of study Higher education institution Year Distinctions

DLitt et Phil Philosophy University of South Africa 1999

MA Philosophy University of Pretoria 1994 cum laude BA (Honours) Philosophy University of Pretoria 1992 cum laude BA (Education)

Humanities (Majors – Mathematics; Philosophy; History; Education)

University of Pretoria 1988

WORK EXPERIENCE TO DATE

Name of employer Capacity Period

University of Pretoria Full professor October 2014 - University of Pretoria Full professor and

Head of the Department of Philosophy Sept 2011 – Sept 2014

University of Johannesburg

Full professor Jan 2005 – Aug 2011

University of South Africa

Started permanent employment as lecturer, period ended as associate professor and Head of Department

Jan 1997 – Dec 2004

University of South Africa

Temporary lecturer Jan 1994 – Dec 1996

Hoërskool Die Wilgers (a secondary school in Pretoria)

Teacher of Mathematics Gr 10-12 Jan 1989 – Dec 1993

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2. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 2.1 SUPERVISION OR CO-SUPERVISION (current and completed) Student Degree/Title of Dissertation/ Thesis Supervisor Co-supervisor(s)

DOCTORAL Theses Paige Benton 2019-

Interfaces between Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Political Philosophy: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Morality and Justice

X

Paul Warby 2019-

A Critical Inquiry into the Metaphysics for Mind Uploading

X

Bongani Mabaso 2018-

Robots are not Ethical like People: A Framework for Functional Ethics in Everyday robots in Ordinary Contexts

X Prof Deshen Moodly (UCT)

Clarton Fambisai Mangadza 2017-2019

A Novel Reply to the Knowledge Argument: Wiredu’s View of Quasi-physicalism as a Positive Reply to Jackson

X

Carla Turner 2017-

The Role of Consciousness in the Ethical Consideration of Animals

Prof Edwin Etieyibo (Wits)

X

Wehan Coombs 2017-

Theourgia: Divinization and Ritual Magic in the Platonic Tradition

Prof Johan Finnamore (University of Iowa)

X

Eugene Ezenwa Oguamanam 2016-2019

An Encounter between Aristotle and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: The Case of Reductive Physicalism as espoused by Jaegwon Kim

X

MASTERS Dissertations Cindy Friedman 2019-

The Ethics of AI Sexbots: An Investigation into the Moral Boundaries of the Utilisation of Sex Robots

X

Karabo Maiyane 2018-2019

Ethics of AI: Exploring a Virtue Ethics Framework for Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

X

Francois Oberholzer 2017-2019

Agent Interval Temporal Logic X Prof S Gruner (Computer Science, UP)

Sasha Smit 2017-2018

Structural Inequality in Healthcare: Addressing Epistemic Injustice in the Case of Life Esidimeni Graduated March 2019 cum laude

X

Jacqueline Mulder 2016-2018

The Concept of Personal Identity as a Complex System: Interfaces between Gender and Personal Identity Graduated March 2019

X

Paige Benton 2016-2018

Justice as Fairness: The Methodological Tension Between ‘The Right’ & ‘The Good’ Graduated March 2019 cum laude

X Prof HPP Lotter (UJ)

Wehan Coombs 2014-2016

Aristotle vs. Plato critiqued Graduated March 2016 Cum laude

X

Ashley Coates 2007-2010

Putnam on the idea of rational objective non-scientific knowledge Graduated April 2010 Cum laude

X

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Dr W Bronner 2001-2004

Insignificant Differences: The Paradox of the Heap Graduated September 2004

X

HONOURS Research Essays Keldt Schoeman 2019

Working Title: Ethics of Socio-Robotics: An Application from Existential Philosophy

X

André Evert Nel 2019

Working Title: A Critical Analysis of the Ethics of Smart Cities: The Cases of New York and Cape Town

X

Cindy Friedman 2018

Ethics of AI: Should Artificially Intelligent Social Robots be used as Slaves? Graduated April 2019

X

Mitch Black 2018

Artificial Intelligence Research: A Discipline in Need of Ubuntu Graduated April 2019

X

Keah Channelor 2017

The Moral Permissibility of Using Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Warfare Graduated April 2018

X

David Barnard 2017

Algorithmic Identity and Resistance: An Investigation of the Implications of Cybernetic Categorisation on Self-identity Graduated April 2018

X

Karabo Maiyane 2017

The Possibility of ascribing Artificial Moral Agency: The Case of Self-driving Cars Graduated April 2018

X

Sasha Smit 2016

An Evaluation of Approaches to Address Epistemic Justice in the Health Sector Graduated April 2017

X

Francois Oberholzer 2016

The Robot in the Room Graduated April 2017

X

Paige Benton 2015

John Rawls: Case Study The Law of Peoples Graduated April 2016

X

Nadia Elllis 2010

Emotions, Free Will, and Social Responsibility Graduated March 2011

X

Dilshaad Bux 2010

Soul Searching: An Analysis of Personal Identity and the John Perry Dialogue Graduated March 2011

X

2.2 RESEARCH FUNDING Centre of Artificial Intelligence Research I have been a research fellow at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) – http://www.cair.za.net – since 2014, and the research chair in ethics of AI since 2016. CAIR was situated at the Meraka Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) until 2019, while it is currently a Division of Science and Innovation Initiative. Due to this collaboration, in 2014, a Memorandum of Agreement has been entered into between the University of Pretoria and the CSIR, which involves funding for research. Summary of Funds 2014- 2019:


DST Scholarships 2016-2019 (none in 2014, 2015) 2016 Scholarships

Honours Masters Doctoral

Activity no value no value no value Amount Scholarships – new (Hons, MSc, PhD) 2 R50 000 Scholarships – renewals (Hons, MSc, PhD) Total 2 R100 000 R 100 000

2017 Scholarships


Activity no value no value no value Amount Scholarships – new (Hons, MSc, PhD) 3 R54 000 2 R84 000 1 R120 000 Scholarships – renewals (Hons, MSc, PhD) Total 3 R162 000 2 R168 000 1 R120 000 R 450 000

2018 Scholarships


Activity no value no value no value Amount Scholarships – new (Hons, MSc, PhD) 2 R60 000 1 R90 000 Scholarships – renewals (Hons, MSc, PhD) 2 R90 000 1 R120 000 Total 2 R120 000 3 R270 000 1 R120 000 R 510 000

2019 Scholarships


Activity no value no value no value Amount Scholarships – new (Hons, MSc, PhD) 2 R60 000 2 R90 000 1 R120 000 Scholarships – renewals (Hons, MSc, PhD) 1 R90 000 1 R120 000 Total 2 R120 000 3 R270 000 2 R240 000 R630 000 + 7%

Summary Honours MA PhD 2015 - - - 2016 2 - - 2017 3 2 1 2018 2 3 1 2019 2 3 2 Total 9 8 4

Research Funding and Scholarships 2014/5-2018 (none in 2015) and agreed on funding 2019-2020

PHIL@CAIR-UP

Year CAIR RESEARCH FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS TOTAL

2014/15 R100 000 Top-up of post-doc G Cassini R87 408 R187 408

2015/16 - Top-up of post-doc G Cassini R53 293 R53 293

2016/17 R120 000 R100 000 R220 000 Total R220 000 R240 701 R460701


Year CAIR FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS TOTAL 2017/18 R128 400 (received) R450 000 R578 400 2018/19 R137 388 (not yet received) R510 000 R647 388 2019/20 R147 005 (not yet received) R675 000 R822 005 R412 793 R1 635 000 R2 047 793

TOTAL 2014/5-2020

CAIR FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS TOTAL R 632 793 R1 875 701 R2 508 494

NRF – Knowledge, Interchange and Collaboration Grant I was awarded a Knowledge, Interchange and Collaboration (KIC) grant of R30 000 from the National Research Foundation (NRF) for the conference ‘New Thinking about Scientific Realism’ which I organised (5-9 August 2014). Other Grants

• Miles Warrington (Music, University of Pretoria) and I have been awarded R100 000 per annum for 4 years for our project entitled Rethinking the Human Condition: Philosophical, Artistic and Technological Engagements.

• I was awarded R30 000 from the Research Office at UP, R30 000 from the Faculty of Humanities at UJ, and R10 000 from the Faculty of Humanities at UP for the conference ‘New Thinking about Scientific Realism’ in 2014.

• I was awarded a postdoctoral fellow position to advertise in logic and philosophy of science as part of the Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme at the University of Pretoria for the period 2014-2015.

• My National Research Foundation-grant linked to my then C1-rating funded conferences in Poland (2008), France (2011), Greece (2011), and the Czech Republic (2014).

• I was funded by the University of South Africa’s Research and Bursary Fund and by the National Research Foundation to attend and contribute to conferences and departmental seminars (detail below) in Hungary (1996, 1999, 2003), Poland (1999), Austria (2000, 2002), and Spain (2003).

2.3 RESEARCH OUTPUTS 2.3.1 PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED OR REFEREED JOURNALS Articles: Psillos, S. & E.B. Ruttkamp-Bloem. 2017. “Scientific realism: Quo vadis? Introduction: New Thinking about Scientific Realism”. Synthese 194(1): 1-15. DOI 10.1007/s11229-017-1493-x. Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. 2015. “Re-positioning Realism”, Philosophia Scientiae, 19(1): 85-98. Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. 2013. “Re-enchanting Realism in Debate with Kyle Stanford”, Journal of General Philosophy of Science, Vol 44(1): 201-224. Ruttkamp, E.B. 2011. “Interactive Realism”, South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 30(1): 41-52. Ruttkamp, E.B. 2006b. “Philosophy of Science: Interfaces between Logic and Knowledge Representation”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 25(4), 275-289. Ruttkamp, E.B. 2006a. “Reduction Revisited”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 25(2), 102-112. Ruttkamp, E.B. & J. Heidema. 2005. “Reviewing Reduction in a Preferential Model-theoretic Context”, International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 19(2), 123-146.


Ruttkamp, E.B. 2003. “On Truth and Reference in ‘Post-modern Science’”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 22(3), 220-235. Ruttkamp, E.B. 1999b. “Reality in Science”, South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol.18 (2), Special Internationally Refereed Issue on Philosophy of Science, 149-191. Ruttkamp, E.B. 1999a. “Semantic Approaches in the Philosophy of Science”, South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol.18 (2), Special Internationally Refereed Issue on Philosophy of Science, 100-148. Ruttkamp, E. B. 1997. “A Model-theoretic Interpretation of Science”, South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol.16 (1), 31-36. Current Work / Work under Review: Ethics of AI Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. Responsible Belief as a Moral Obligation and the Quest for Fair and Transparent Machine Learning (final draft form) Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. Artificial Personhood: A Functional Identity for Social Robots (final draft form) Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. A Challenge to Floridi’s Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society (work in progress) Philosophy of Science Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. A Dynamic Naturalised Neo-Realism as an Active Epistemology of Science (final draft form) Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. An Adequate Analysis for Theory Structure on an Epistemic Realist Account of Science (final draft form) Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. & T. Meyer. Defeasible Semantics for Virtue Ethics in the Context of Artificial Morality (work

in progress)

2.3.2 BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS Book: Ruttkamp, E.B. 2002. A Model-theoretic Realist Interpretation of Science. Synthese Library Series, Volume 311, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Book Chapters: Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B., T. Meyer & G. Casini. 2015. “A Non-Classical Logical Foundation for Naturalised Realism”, In: Arazim, P. & M. Danćak (Eds.) Logica Yearbook 2014, 249-266. London: College Publications. Ruttkamp, E.B. 2005. “Over-determination of Theories by Empirical Models: A Realist Interpretation of Empirical Choices”, In: Festa, R., A. Aliseda & J. Peijnenburg (Eds.) Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry, 409-436. Amsterdam: Rodopi, Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities, Volume 84. Current Work / Work under Review: Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. Re-enchanting Realism. Book manuscript (work in progress) 2.3.3 PUBLISHED FULL-LENGTH CONFERENCE PAPERS Ruttkamp, E.B. 1997. “The Role of Models in Philosophy of Science: Mediating between the ‘General’ and the ‘Particular’”, In: Forrai, G. (Ed.) 1997. Images and Reality. Proceedings of the 1996 Miskolc Conference. Miskolc, Hungary: Miskolci Egyetem Tár, 127-138.


2.3.4 BOOK REVIEWS AND ENDORSEMENTS Book Reviews: Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. 2012. Book notice. Peter Machamer, Gereon Wolters (eds): Interpretation. Ways of thinking about the sciences and the arts. Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2010, 266pp, $80.00 HB. Metascience 21(3) DOI 10.1007/s11016-012-9644-7. Endorsements: Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. 2017. Endorsement for Mizrahi, M. (ed.) 2017. The Kuhnian Image of Science: Time for a Decisive Transformation? Rowman and Littlefield.

2.4 PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS 2.4.1 NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Name of Conference Date Place Contribution

Deep Learning Indaba X South Africa March 2020

University of Pretoria Invited Speaker

Inaugural Forum for AI Research (FAIR 2019)

2019 UCT Presenter The Ethics of Belief in the Context of Data Driven Knowledge

4IR: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal Dimensions Conference

2019 University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)

Presenter The Ethics of Belief and Fair and Transparent Machine Learning

Time, Thought, Materiality: Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Conference

2019 University of Johannesburg

Invited talk Virtual Persons: Rethinking Human Value

The 16th International Conference for Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST) 2019

2019 Prague, Czech Republic Presenter A Dynamic Neo-Realism as an Active Epistemology for Science

Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting 2019 Dubrovnik, Croatia Invited Speaker Dynamic Epistemic (Anti-)Realism

Digital Humanities Association of South Africa (DHASA) 2019

2019 University of Pretoria Co-presenter with Karabo Maiyane (University of Pretoria) The Importance of Fair and Transparent Machine Learning Practices for Digital Humanities

UNESCO The Principles of AI: Towards a Humanistic Approach

2019 Paris, France Invited Panellist Towards a Human-Centered Ethical AI

Data, Learning and Inference (DALI) 2019

2019 George, South Africa Invited Speaker Responsible Belief as a Moral Obligation and the Quest for Fair and Transparent Machine Learning

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Nobel Peace Laureate 2017 Conference on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

2018 Pretoria Invited Speaker Ethics and Autonomous Weapon Systems: An Ethical Basis for Human Control? The ICRC 2018 Report


International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACUP) 2018

2018 Warsaw, Poland Co-presenter with Tommie Meyer (University of Cape Town) A Formal, Non-classical, Clarification of Whewell’s Method of Inductive Reasoning in Science

ECAP: The 9th European Congress of Analytical Philosophy

2017 Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Presenter Rethinking Reference

The 42nd Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa

2017 Rhodes University, South Africa

Presenter The Role of Epistemic Objects in Science

SA Logic and Philosophy of Science Colloquium V


Organiser

Presenter Is there a Role for Epistemic Objects in defences of Scientific Realism?

Aristotle Colloquium 2016 2016 University of Pretoria, South Africa

Organiser

1st Undergraduate Humanities Conference: Persons and Cities

2016 University of Pretoria, South Africa

Keynote Urban Societies and Personal Identity

The Semantics of Theories 2016 Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Invited Speaker An Adequate Analysis for Theory Structure on an Epistemic Realist Account of Science

The 41st Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa

2016 University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa

Presenter Epistemic Realism: Then and Now

The 15th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST 2015)

2015 Helsinki, Finland Presenter An Interactive Criterion for Realism

SA Philosophy of Science Colloquium IV


Organiser

Presenter The Epistemic Aspects of Convention ‘T’

New Thinking about Scientific Realism 2014

2014 Cape Town, South Africa

Organiser

Presenter The Possibility of an Epistemic Realism

Logica 2014 2014 Hejnice, Czech Republic Co-Presenter with Tommie Meyer (University of Cape Town) and Giovanni Cassini (Luxembourg) A Non-classical Logic Foundation for Naturalised Realism

SA Philosophy of Science Colloquium III

2013 UKZN, South Africa Organiser

Presenter Retrospection and Selective Realisms


The 39th Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa

2013 UKZN, South Africa Presenter Reconsidering Pessimistic Meta-induction


2012 UCT, South Africa Presenter Do we believe in Entities or Theories?

The 3rd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association

2011

Athens,

Greece

Presenter A Novel Defence of the Retrospective Nature of Reference

The 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS 2011)

2011

Nancy, France Presenter Re-positioning Realism

Ian Hacking’s Styles of Scientific Reasoning

2011 University of Cape Town, South Africa

Presenter The Laboratory Style of Reasoning, ‘Historied Reference’, and Theory Building


2011 Salt Rock Beach Hotel, KZN, South Africa

Presenter What is ‘Real’ about Realism?

SA Philosophy of Science Colloquium II

2011 Salt Rock Beach Hotel, KZN, South Africa

Organiser

Presenter Interactive Realism


2010 Monash University, South Africa

Presenter Re-enchanting Realism in Debate with Kyle Stanford

SA Philosophy of Science Colloquium I 2010 Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, Johannesburg, South Africa

Organiser

Presenter Realism Redefined: Changed Roles for Truth and Reference


2009 University of Fort Hare, south Africa

Presenter Episodic Realism

Annual Spring Colloquium of PSSA 2008


Presenter Gradual Realism

ECAP: The 6th European Congress of Analytical Philosophy

2008

University of Cracow, Poland

Presenter ‘Real’ Interfaces of Phenomena, Models, and Theories in Science



Presenter Constructing Truth or Making Science Real?

The 33rd Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa

2007 University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Presenter The Languages of Science: Finding a Criterion for Reference

Annual Spring Colloquium of PSSA 2006

2006 University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

Presenter Reduction and Reference


The 32nd Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa

2006 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Presenter Revisiting Reduction

The 30th Annual Conference of the Philosophical society of Southern Africa

2004 University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Presenter ‘Fragmented Nature’ and ‘Dappled Science’

The 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS 2003)

2003 Oviedo, Spain Presenter Reviewing Reduction in a Preferential Model-theoretic Context

The 29th Annual Conference of the Philosophical society of Southern Africa

2003 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Presenter ‘Interrupting’ the Processes of Science — a Realist Analysis

Karl Popper 2002 Centenary Congress 2002

University of Vienna, Austria

Presenter Falsificationism Non-Classically Analysed



Presenter: Reference and Truth in ‘Postmodern Science’


2001 University of Natal, Durban, South Africa

Presenter Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination Re-interpreted: Tracing Realist Reference Relations in Science

Co-presenter with Johannes Heidema (University of South Africa) and Isabella Burger (University of Johannesburg) Rending the Web of Belief: Duhem-Quine and Rational Belief Change

HOPOS 2000: The 3rd International History of Philosophy of Science Conference

2000

Vienna, Austria Presenter The Role of Models in Semantic Accounts of Science


2000

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Presenter Fundamental Laws and Idealisation Re-interpreted

Co-presenter with Johannes Heidema (University of South Africa) Cognitive Semantics: A Realist Analysis

The 11th International congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS 1999)

1999 University of Cracow, Poland

Presenter Model-theoretic Realism: Exiting the Statement-Non Statement Debate on the Nature of Scientific Theories


1999 University of Free State, South Africa

Presenter Model-theoretic Realism


1998 University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Presenter Paradigms, Models and the Nature of Scientific Progress


Annual Spring Colloquium of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa 1997

1997 University of Natal, South Africa

Presenter Constructing Reality or Doing Real Science?

The 23rd Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa

1997 Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa

Presenter Constructed Reality in Science

Rapprochements between Arts and Science

1996 University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Presenter Theory Change in Science: What is Real?

Images and Reality 1996 Miskolc, Hungary Presenter The Role of Models in Philosophy of Science: Mediating between the Universal and the Particular

The 22nd Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa


Presenter On the Very Idea of ‘Postmodern Science’

2.4.2 RESEARCH SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, FORUMS AND SYMPOSIA Kind of Meeting Date Place Contribution

Departmental Seminar 2019 University of Pretoria Presenter A Challenge to Floridi’s Ethical Framework for Good AI

African Union Working Group on Artificial Intelligence

2019 South Africa Invited Speaker Ethics of AI: AI for Social Good in Africa

CAIR/UP AI and Society Symposium III

2019 University of Johannesburg

Co-organiser with Samuel Segun (University of Johannesburg)

Presenter AI and Its Ethical Risks: The Real Human Challenge

CAIR/UP AI and Society Symposium II

August 2018

University of Pretoria Organiser

FAIR (Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research) 2018

2018 Hermanus Presenter The Role of Philosophy in AI Research Rethinking What it Means to Be Human

Presenter Responsibility and Personhood in AI - What Could ‘Responsible Machine Learning’ Mean, If Anything?

CAIR/UP AI and Society Symposium I

May 2018 University of Pretoria Organiser

Presenter What is the Ethics of AI?

Departmental Colloquium 2017 University of Johannesburg

Presenter Reflections on Rethinking Realism


2016 University of Stellenbosch

Co-Organiser

Psyche Undergraduate Association Department of Psychology Seminar

2016 University of Pretoria Invited Talk AI and Psychology of the Mind in the 21st Century


Research Seminar Department of Informatics

2016 University of Pretoria Invited Talk The Structure of Scientific Theories


2015 University of Cape Town

Attendance



Attendance

Postgraduate Symposium, Department of Genetics

2013 University of Pretoria Keynote Speaker Realism and Entities - Do Experiments prove that Entities exist?

Departmental Colloquium 2011 University of Pretoria Presenter A Novel Defence of the Retrospective Nature of Reference


Presenter Re-positioning Realism

Departmental Seminar 2010 Northwest University Presenter Re-enchanting Realism


Presenter Episodic Realism

Departmental Seminar 2008 University of Johannesburg

Presenter Gradual Realism and the Semantic View of Theories


Presenter Philosophy of Science: Interfaces between Logic and Knowledge Representation


Presenter Logic and Science in Contemporary Philosophy

Interdepartmental Research Seminar 2000 University of South Africa

Presenter Semantic Accounts of Science

Interdepartmental Research Seminar (with Johannes Heidema from Dept. of Mathematics, Applied mathematics, and Astronomy)

1999 University of South Africa

Presenter Underdetermination and Non-monotonic Logics

Interdepartmental Research Seminar 1999 Dept. of Economics, University of Cape Town

Presenter Theories, Models, and Empirical Substructures


Presenter Reality in Science


Presenter Reality? Science? Real Science?

Interdepartmental Research Seminar


Presenter Science: What is Real, or What is Constructed?

Interdepartmental Reading Group: Margolis, J. 1995. Historied Thought, Constructed World - 12 sessions


Presenter Discussion: ‘In lieu of first principles’ – Joseph Margolis

Institute for Continuing Education Seminar: History of Philosophy


Presenter Aristotle’s Ethics



Presenter A Critical Discussion of Truth as Disquotation

Symposium in Memory of Karl Popper


Presenter Popper’s Philosophy of Science


Presenter Cartesianism versus Constructivism

2.4.3 RESEARCH WORKSHOPS

Workshop Date Place Contribution

Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa Panel Discussion on Targeted Killing and Autonomous Weapons

February 2020 Future Africa, Pretoria

Invited Panellist

UNICEF AI and Children Africa Workshop

February 2020 Cape Town Invited Member of workshop team

FINTECH Intergovernmental Workshop

2019 Johannesburg Invited Talk The Ethical and Legal Dimensions of AI: A Human Rights Approach

UNESCO-COMEST-IFAP Workshop

2019 Future Africa, Pretoria

Invited Talk Ethics of AI in 4IR: Managing Moral Concerns

IBM Think Summit Johannesburg 2019 Johannesburg Invited Panellist AI Ethics and Trust

Epistemic Justice Project 2015 University of Cape Town

Organiser

Presenter Defining the Notion of Epistemic Virtue in Health Science

Epistemic Justice Project 2014 University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

Organiser

Presenter Virtue Ethics, Virtue Epistemology, and Epistemic Justice in the Health Sector

Initial meeting for research group LOGFest (Logic, Formal Epistemology, and Scientific Thinking)

2014 University of Pretoria Convener and Chair of founding meeting

CAIR (Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research) Research Strategy Workshop


Presenter Current Interfaces between Philosophy of Science and Logic

2.5 ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES, RESEARCH GROUPS, PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER, ETC. IJCAI 2023 Cape Town South Africa Member of Bidding Committee Southern African Conference for AI Research (SACAIR 2020) Organising chair Inaugural South African Forum for AI Research December 2019 (FAIR 2019) Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem is a member of the programme committee and the chair of the Ethics and AI track


CAIR/UP Artificial Intelligence and Society Symposium Series 2018- Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem started a symposium series with the aim of establishing interdisciplinary networks among permanent academic staff and postgraduate students working on AI research at the Universities of Pretoria, Johannesburg, Witwatersrand, North West, St Augustine and Monash. Invitations go to all universities in South Africa however, and all are welcome. The first two symposia in the series took place at the University of Pretoria in 2018. The third in the series took place at the University of Johannesburg in March 2019 and was co-organised by Samuel Segun from the University of Johannesburg. The 4th symposium will take place in October 2019 and will be sponsored by Standard Bank. IXth Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Madrid, 2018 Member Scientific Committee The Semantics of Theories, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, 2016 Member of Programme Committee Forum for AI Research 2016 Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem was co-organiser of the 2016 Annual Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research under the hospices of the Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, which will take place at the University of Stellenbosch in November 2016. I organised the keynote speaker, Roland Pöllinger (Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy). Aristotle Colloquium 2016 To celebrate Aristotle’s 2400th birth year, prof Ruttkamp-Bloem organised a colloquium for 21 November with keynote speakers from Rhodes University. South African Philosophy of Science and Logic Colloquium 2010 - Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem has been organising an international annual/bi-annual Philosophy of Science Colloquium since 2010. (See a review of the 2011 colloquium in The Reasoner, Volume 5(2) February 2011at http://www.thereasoner.org/.) Intention: To promote philosophy of science (and logic) in South Africa. Format:

• From 2015, the colloquium is held over 2 days, with a day devoted to philosophy of science contributions and a day devoted to formal logic contributions.

o In agreement with the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) the additional day focused on formal logic remains from 2016 as part of the colloquium with the ASL’s participation, with the eye on future consolidation and active encouragement of research in logic in Africa.

New thinking about Scientific Realism Conference 5-9 August 2014 Cape Town, South Africa Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem organised a five day international conference in August 2014 focused on issues in scientific realism which included invited speakers with international standing. The aim of the conference was to reconsider and re-evaluate the status quo of debates about scientific realism and to investigate, articulate and open up the possibilities for realising promises of new directions of thought about scientific realism. Format of the conference: Our keynote speaker was Anjan Chakravartty from the University of Notre Dame. Contributed Sessions & Invited Speakers: Session 1: General Scientific Realism - Michael Devitt (City University of New York) Session 2: Truth, Progress, Success and Scientific Realism - Ilkka Niiniluoto (University of Helsinki) Session 3: Selective Realisms Session 4: The Semantic View and Scientific Realism – Steven French (University of Leeds) Session 5: Scientific Realism and the Social Sciences - Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki) Session 6: Anti-Realism A unique feature of our programme: Symposia between leading international scientists and conference participants.


Participating scientists were: Quarraisha Abdool Karim [Epidemiology, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Columbia University] Jannie Hofmeyr [Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch] Don Ross [Economics, University of Cape Town] Bruce Rubidge [Paleontology, University of the Witwatersrand] Mark Solms [Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town] Heribert Weigert [Physics, University of Cape Town] Conference Website: www.newscientificrealism.up.ac.za Publication of Conference Proceedings I have secured a deal with Synthese - which is one of the top 5 journals in the field of philosophy of science and logic in the world – to guest edit a special issue on the conference. Organising Committee: Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (University of Pretoria) - Chair David Spurrett (UKZN) Alex Broadbent (University of Johannesburg) HPP (Hennie) Lötter (University of Johannesburg) LOGFest Research Group Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem convened a new research group LOGFest (Logic, Formal Epistemology, and Scientific Thinking) during 2014 to broadly focus on research in knowledge representation in various disciplines. Collaborators include colleagues from the Departments of Computer Science, Informatics, Mathematics, Biochemistry, Economics, Philosophy, Geography and Geo-Informatics at the University of Pretoria, and also colleagues from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research. 2.6 RESEARCH PROJECTS Ethics of AI: AI for Society 2018 – Recent research activities:

• Current research: o Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. Responsible Belief as a Moral Obligation and the Quest for Fair and

Transparent Machine Learning (final draft form) o Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. Artificial Personhood: A Functional Identity for Social Robots (final draft

form) o Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. A Challenge to Floridi’s Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society (work in

progress) • She is a member of the bidding committee for IJCAI 2023 in Cape town, South Africa • She is a member of the ECAI (European Conference on AI) 2020 Programme Committee • She has been invited as member of COMEST (World Commission for Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and

Technology) for 2020-2024 • She has been invited in 2020 to be a member of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group on ethics of AI

– working on turning the UNESCO Guidelines for trustworty AI into legislation • She has been invited to give a presentation at the second UNESCO roundtable on Ethics of AI entitled

“Changing Relationships between AI and Humans” in December 2019 • She is co-guest editor of a special issue on ‘Computational and Philosophical Challenges to AI’ in the

Springer journal Ethics of Information Technology • She is the track chair of the Ethics and AI track for the SA Forum for AI Research 2019 inaugural conference

(FAIR 2019), to be held in Cape Town in December 2019, and also a member of the programme committee • She was invited to organize a panel on Ethics, Accountability, and Fairness and the Fourth Industrial

Revolution at a BRICS event in November 2019 • She was invited to participate in the Stakeholder and Industry Consultation Workshop of the South African

Presidential Commission on 4th Industrial Revolution – Human Capacity & Future of Work work-stream in September 2019, but could not accept due to prior research and teaching commitments

• She was invited to give a talk at the FINTECH Intergovernmental Group Workshop on 4IR in September 2019

o Invited talk: ‘The Ethical and Legal Dimensions of AI: A Human Rights Approach’


• She gave a talk at the 4IR: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal Dimensions Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand in September 2019

o Talk: ‘The Ethics of Belief and Fair and Transparent Machine Learning’ • She was invited to contribute to the Time, Thought, Materiality: Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

conference at the University of Johannesburg in September 2019 o Invited talk: ‘Virtual Persons: Rethinking Human Value’

• She was invited to contribute to the IJCAI workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations Sustainable Development organized by the UNESCO Chair in AI and the Knowledge 4 All Foundation, in Macau in August 2019, but could not accept as she was already at the Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic during the same month

• She was invited to give a talk at the Deep Learning Indaba 2019 held at Kenyatta University, Kenia, on a Gender and Technology in the AI and Fairness track, but could not accept the invitation due to teaching responsibilities

• She was invited to contribute to a COMEST UNESCO IFAP event in August 2019 Invited talk: ‘Ethics of AI in 4IR: Managing Moral Concerns’

• She was an invited panelist on the AI Ethics and Trust Panel at the IBM Think Summit in Johannesburg in June 2019

• She was invited to contribute to the Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa Workshop, organised by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Knowledge 4 All Foundation and the UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence in April 2019 at the Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. She could not accept the invitation due to teaching responsibilities

• She became a member of the African Union AUDA-NEPAD high level expert panel on Artificial Intelligence in March 2019

• She commenced a project entitled Rethinking the Human Condition: Philosophical, Artistic and Technological Engagements with Dr. Miles Warrington from th eDepartmen ot Music at the university of Pretoria in 2019

• She was an invited panelist at the UNESCO March 2019 Conference ‘Principles of AI: Toward a Humanistic Approach’

• She was invited to contribute to the DALI 2019 (Data, Learning and Inference) conference in George, South Africa, January 2019,

o Invited talk: ‘Responsible Belief as a Moral Obligation and the Quest for Fair and Transparent Machine Learning’

o She was a panelist on the Fair and Transparent Machine Learning Workshop Panel • She was invited by the UNESCO Regional Office South Africa to make a video on the activities of her

research group in 2018 https://www.machinelearning.ai/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-and-ethics/

• She was an invited speaker at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Nobel Peace Laureate 2017 Conference on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems in 2018 in Pretoria, and gave a talk entitled ‘Ethics and Autonomous Weapon Systems: An Ethical Basis for Human Control? The ICRC 2018 Report’

Dynamic Naturalised Neo-Realism 2016 - In order to define an epistemic neo-realism, Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem is working on an 'epistemic theory of reference' which is a time-indexed causal descriptivist theory activated by a specific application of epistemic logic. She is also exploring belief revision as a possible mechanism with which to represent scientific reasoning. Recent research activities:

• Current research: o Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. A Dynamic Naturalised Neo-Realism as an Active Epistemology of Science

(final draft form) o Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. An Adequate Analysis for Theory Structure on an Epistemic Realist Account of

Science (final draft form) o Ruttkamp-Bloem, E.B. & T. Meyer. Defeasible Semantics for Virtue Ethics in the Context of Artificial

Morality (work in progress) • Publications

o Psillos, S. & E.B. Ruttkamp-Bloem. 2017. “Scientific realism: Quo vadis? Introduction: New Thinking about Scientific Realism”. Synthese 194(1): 1-15. DOI 10.1007/s11229-017-1493-x.

• Prof Ruttkamp-Bloem was elected corresponding member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of


Science in August 2019 (http://www.lesacademies.net/en/) • She gave a talk at the CLMPST 2019 Conference in Prague entitled ‘A Dynamic Neo-Realism as an Active

Epistemology for Science • She was invited to the Dubrovnik Philosophy of Science 2019 Conference and gave a talk entitled ‘Dynamic

Epistemic (Anti-)Realism’ • She was a member of the scientific committee of the IXth Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic,

Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Madrid, 2018 • She was invited speaker at the Semantics of Theories conference, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich,

2016, as well as a member of the programme committee – invited talk entitled ‘An Adequate Analysis for Theory Structure on an Epistemic Realist Account of Science’

Epistemic Justice in Health 2014 – (lapsed at present) This is a project in collaboration with members of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research at the CSIR. Past collaborators include Samir Chopra (Philosophy, City University of New York), Deshen Moodley (Computer Science, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal), Giovanni Casini (Philosophy, University of Pretoria & Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, CSIR), Tommie Meyer (Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, CSIR & University of Cape Town, Steve Reid (Health Sciences, University of Cape Town), and Chris Seebregts from Jembi Health, a not-for-profit company in the health sector, based in Cape Town. Naturalised Realism 2009-2015 Naturalised realism is focused on reflecting on the processes of science to inform epistemic stances towards scientific theories instead of focusing on the products of science as typically happens in traditional realist contexts. Model-theoretic Realism 1996-2006 Model-theoretic realism endeavours to use the best of the syntactic and semantic accounts of the structure of scientific theories in order to make the most of what Tarski's account of truth-in-a-structure promises scientific realists. 2.7 RESEARCH PROFILES Google Scholar profile: http://tinyurl.com/kljstp8 PhilPapers profile: https://philpapers.org/profile/282634 Academia.edu profile: https://up-za.academia.edu/EmmaRuttkampBloem Research Gate profile: https://tinyurl.com/ycrvup8q OCHID ID: 0000-0003-0299-6406 2.8 MEMBERSHIP IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BODIES Member of COMEST (World Commission for the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology) 2020-2024 MemberofUNESCOAdHocExpertGrouponethicsofAI2020MemberofAfricanUnionAUDA-NEPAD High Level ExpertGrouponAI2019-2020 Elected corresponding member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of Science in August 2019 (http://www.lesacademies.net/en/) Member of the European Network for Philosophy of the Social sciences (ENPOSS) 2016- Alternate South African Representative at the IUHPS (International Union of History and Philosophy of Science) 2015 - Member of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) 2011- 2018 Member of the American Philosophy of Science Association, (PSA) 2010- 2018 Member of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) 1995 -

§ President of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) 2010 – 2012 § Member of the Executive Committee of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) 2002 - 2004 § Treasurer of the South African Journal of Philosophy (the official journal of the PSSA) 2002 – 2004


2.9 OTHER RESEARCH POSITIONS

• Research Coordinator / Group Leader: Ethics of AI – Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) 2016

– • Visiting fellow TINT Centre, University of Helsinki, Finland July 2015

2.10 EDITORIAL WORK Co-Guest Editor Ethics and Information Technology 2019 Guest Editor for Synthese special issue on conference ‘New Thinking about Scientific Realism’ 2014-17 Member of Advisory Editorial Committee: South African Journal of Philosophy, 2010 - Guest Editor for a Symposium in the South African Journal of Philosophy, Issue 1 of 2011 on the second South-African Philosophy of Science Colloquium organised and hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg. Temporary Consultant Editor for Theoria A Swedish Journal for Philosophy (published by Wiley-Blackwell, accredited), August 2009. 2.11 REVIEW DUTIES Review of Articles in Accredited Journals:

• Foundations of Sciences 2020 • British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2018, 2019 • Philosophy of Science 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 • Synthese 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 • Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 2018 • Phronimon 2016 • Organon F 2016 • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 2014 • Science and Education 2012, 2016 • South African Journal of Philosophy 2000 - • Philosophical Papers 2002

Programme Committees:

• Southern African Conference for AI Research (SACAIR 2002) • ECAI 2020 • Inaugural South African Forum for AI Research (FAIR 2019) • CAIR/UP AI for Society Symposium Series 2018, 2019 • IX conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (SLMFCE) 2018 • The Semantic Structure of Theories (Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig Maximilian

University) 2016 • New Thinking about Scientific Realism 2014 • SA Philosophy of Science Colloquia 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017

Review of Conference Papers:

• ECAI 2020 • FAIR 2019 • 3rd CAIR/UP AI and Society Symposium 2019 • 2nd CAIR/UP AI and Society Symposium 2018 • PSSA 2019 • The Semantic Structure of Theories (Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig Maximilian

University) 2016 • Aristotle 2016 Colloquium • New Thinking about Scientific Realism 2014 • SA Philosophy of Science Colloquium 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 • KP2002 Publication (The Conference Proceedings for the Karl Popper 2002 Centenary Congress held in

Vienna, July 2002)


• Papers submitted for the South African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (SAARMSTE) 2002 Conference

3. TEACHING ACTIVITIES 3.1 FORMAL ACADEMIC MODULES/COURSES PRESENTED IN FULL TIME PERMANENT

APPOINTMENTS At the University of Pretoria: 2011 –

Course Level Self-developed FIL 713 (2019): Contemporary Theme: Formal Logic – Introduction to Knowledge-based AI

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

FIL 220 (2019): Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 2nd Year Yes FIL 110 (2018): Introduction to Epistemology and Metaphysics 1st Year Yes FIL 110 (2017): Introduction to Epistemology and Metaphysics 1st Year Yes FIL 713 (2017) Contemporary Theme: Introduction to Mathematical Logic

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

FIL 110 (2016): Introduction to Epistemology and Metaphysics 1st Year Yes FIL 713 (2016): Contemporary Theme: Introduction to Formal Logic and Philosophy of Logic – The Notion of Logical Consequence

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

FIL 713 (2015): Contemporary Theme: Mind as a Metaphysical Problem

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

FIL 310 (2015): Philosophy of Mind 3rd Year Yes FIL 110 (2015): Introduction to Philosophy (Epistemology and Metaphysics)

1st Year Yes

FIL 110 (2014): Introduction to Philosophy (Epistemology and Metaphysics)

1st Year Yes

FIL 310 (2015): The Problem of Perception in Epistemology 3rd Year Yes FIL 713 (2014): Contemporary Theme: Scientific Realism Honours (4th

Year) Yes

FIL 110 (2013): Introduction to Philosophy (Epistemology and Metaphysics)

1st Year Yes

BPE 211 (2013): Introduction to Political and Moral Philosophy 2nd Year Yes BPE 251 (2013): Introduction to Political and Moral Philosophy 2nd Year Yes FIL 120 (2012): Introduction to Philosophy of Science 1st Year Yes FIL 713 (2012): Contemporary Theme: Scientific Method Honours (4th

Year) Yes

At the University of Johannesburg: 2005 – 2011 Course Level Self-developed PHIL 3A (2010): Epistemology: The Problem of Perception in 17th Century Epistemology

3rd Year Yes

Phil 1A (2007, 2008,2009, 2010): Introduction to Philosophy 1st Year Yes Phil 2D (2007): Philosophy of Religion: The Mental, the Physical and the Spiritual

2nd Year Yes

Phil 2B (2006, 2007): Epistemology during the Enlightenment 2nd Year Yes Phil 2D (2006): Philosophy of Religion: An Exploration of Being 2nd Year Yes Phil 1A (2005): Philosophy and Ethics 1st Year Yes Phil 2B (2005): The Enlightenment: Immanuel Kant 2nd Year Yes Honours Zoology (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010): Theoretical Biology: The History of Scientific Method

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

Honours Module (2008, 2009, 2010): Philosophy of Science During the Early Modern Period

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

Honours Module 4 (2006, 2007): Mind as a Metaphysical Problem Honours (4th Year)

Yes

Honours Module 4 (2005): An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind Honours (4th Year)

Yes

At the University of South Africa: 1994 – 2004 Course Level Self-developed


Formal Logic: [The modules in Formal Logic were taught both to students in Philosophy and students in Computer Science.]

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Year

Yes

Philosophy of Science 2nd Year Yes Mind and Reality 3rd Year Yes Philosophy of Mind 3rd Year Yes Metaphysics 3rd Year Yes Epistemology 1st and 3rd Year Yes Critical Reasoning 1st Year Yes Philosophical Problems: Scientific Realism (Philosophy of Science) Honours (4th

Year) Yes

Trends in Contemporary Philosophy: Bas Van Fraassen’s Constructive Realism

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

Philosophies, Historical Dimensions of Mathematics, Mathematics Education, and Logic (MEDMA1-Q): for M(Ed) in Mathematics Education

Master’s Yes

The Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Physical and Life Sciences (MEDNO1-M): for M(Ed) in Science Education

Master’s Yes

History and Philosophy of Science: for MSc (Science Education) Master’s Yes Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: MA (Sociolinguistics) Master’s Yes 3.2 FORMAL ACADEMIC MODULES/COURSES PRESENTED IN A CONTRACT

APPOINTMENT At the University of South Africa: 2005 – 2008

Course Level Self-developed Philosophies, Historical Dimensions of Mathematics, Mathematics Education, and Logic (MEDMA1-Q): Honours module in Mathematics Education (2005; 2006)

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

The Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Physical and Life Sciences (MEDNO1-M): Honours module in Science Education (2005; 2006)

Honours (4th Year)

Yes

History and Philosophy of Science: Module in (course work) MSc (Science Education) (2005; 2006; 2007; 2008)

Master’s Yes

At the University of Pretoria: 2002; 2008

Course Level Self-developed FIL 713: Honours module in Philosophy of Science, first term 2008 Honours (4th

Year) Yes

FIL153: Critical Thinking and Logic, third term 2002 1st Year Yes Philosophy of Science: Introduction to Philosophy of Science: First level BSc students – semester course (1994)

1st Year Yes

At Other Institutions: 1994 –

Course Level Self-developed Bennington College, Vermont, USA (2002) Introductory formal logic course (full credits) via e-mail/Internet – semester course (28 February - 15 June 2002)

Undergrad Yes

University of Cape Town (1999) Philosophy of Economics: Introduction to Methodology: Second level Economics students

2nd Year Yes

3.3 OTHER TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS: PARTICIPATION IN TEACHING COMMITTEES /

BODIES / REVIEW PANELS Reviewer: University of Stellenbosch Philosophy Curriculum with Marc Slors (Nijmegen) 2019 Reviewer: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Philosophy Curriculum 2019 Reviewer: University of Johannesburg PHIL 3A Module 2016 Reviewer: University of Johannesburg PHIL 1A Module 2016 Reviewer: Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA) Philosophy Curriculum 2016 Reviewer: University of Malawi Philosophy Curriculum 2014


Reviewer: University of Stellenbosch Philosophy Curriculum with Marcel Verweij (Utrecht University) 2012 Vice-Chair: University of Pretoria Humanities Teaching and Learning Committee 2011-2014 Member: University of Johannesburg Senate Teaching and Learning Committee 2009-2011 Founding Chair: University of Johannesburg Humanities Teaching and Learning Committee 2006-2009 Member: University of Johannesburg First Year Experience Committee 2007-2011 4. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION While at the University of Pretoria 2011 -

1. Head: Tutor Portfolio 2017 - 2. Head: Tutor Portfolio, Enrichment Modules Portfolio, and Temporary Staff Portfolio; Department of

Philosophy 2015 – 2017 3. Programme Coordinator and Founder: BSoc Sci Masters PPE 2019 - 4. Programme Coordinator and Founder: BSocSci Honours PPE 2018 - 5. Programme Coordinator and Founder: Degree BSocSci (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) 2013 - 6. Member: Review Committee for Mellon Institute Research Funding 2013 - 2016 7. Vice-chair: Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee 2011 – 2014 8. Head of Department 2011 – 2014 9. Member: Senate 2011 - 2014 10. Member: Steering Committee for Student Success 2011 – 2013 11. Member: Education Innovation Consultative Committee 2012 12. Member: Board of Faculty 2011 -

While at the University of Johannesburg 2005 – 2011

1. Founding Chair: Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee 2006 – 2009 2. Faculty representative on Higher Degrees Committee of Senate 2006 – 2007 3. Departmental representative of Faculty Higher Degrees Committee 2005 – 2007 4. Member of

o UJ First Year Experience Committee (a sub-committee of the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee) (2007-2011)

o Learning Spaces Committee (a sub-committee of the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee) (2008 - 2011)

o Senate (2005 - 2011 ) o Senior Advisory Committee of Faculty of Humanities (2005 - 2011) o Board of Faculty (2005 - 2011) o Faculty of Humanities Programme Review Management Committee (2006 - 2008) o Senate Teaching and Learning Committee (2009)

5. Other: o Head: Teaching Portfolio Department of Philosophy (2010 - 2011)

While at the University of South Africa 1994 – 2004

1. Chair of the Department of Philosophy (October 2004 - Dec 2004) 2. Acting Chair of the Department of Political Sciences and Philosophy (during various periods 2002 - 2004) 3. Acting Chair of the Department of Philosophy (during various periods 2000 - 2002) 4. Chair of Tuition Committee: Philosophy (2000 - 2004) 5. Member of

o Departmental Management Committee (2000 - 2004) o Departmental Post Graduate Committee(2000 - 2004) o Faculty Tuition Committee (2002 - 2003) o School Tuition Committee (2002 - 2004) o Tuition Committee: Philosophy (1997 - 2004) o Board of Faculty o Task Group investigating current position of tutors at University of South Africa (2003 - 2004) o Task Group investigating policy concerning prescribed material at University of South Africa (convener)

(2002)


o Departmental Committee for Library and Prescribed Material (2000 - 2004) 5. PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT 5.1 MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC PANELS / ACADEMIC CITIZENSHIP

• Member of COMEST 2020-2024 • Member of UNESCO Ad Hoc Working Group on Ethics of AI 2020 • Chair of Review Panel of Department of Philosophy at University of Stellenbosch 2019 • Member of UKZN Hiring and Promotions Committee for Philosophy 2019 • Member of the African Union AUDA-NEPAD High Level Working Group on AI 2019-2020 • External reviewer of Philosophy curriculum MEDUNSA 2016 • External curriculum reviewer at the Department of Philosophy for PHIL 1A and PHIL 3A at the University of

Johannesburg – 2016 • External Reviewer of Philosophy Curriculum at the Department of Philosophy, Chancellor’s College,

University of Malawi 2015 • Alternative representative of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa at the IUHPS (International Union

of History and Philosophy of Science) 2015 - • Researcher at CAIR and PHIL@CAIR node-leader (Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, DST) • External curriculum reviewer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Malawi – October 2014 -

2016 • President of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) 2010 – 2012 • Member of the external curriculum review panel for the curriculum at the Department of Philosophy at the

University of Stellenbosch – September 2012. (The other member of the panel was professor Marcel Verweij, University of Utrecht)

• External auditor for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare in 2010 • Member of the Political Sciences, Policy Studies and Philosophy Rating Panel at the National Research

Foundation during 2007 5.2 EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT FOR OTHER UNIVERSITIES While At the University of Pretoria: 2011 – Undergraduate Level:

• Formal Logic, third year course COS 3761 at Department of Computer Science, University of South Africa 2016

• Philosophy of Mind course PHIL 3A, University of Johannesburg 2016- • Full undergraduate curriculum in Philosophy, Chancellor’s College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi

2014 - 2016 • Philosophy of Science course, University of Fort Hare 2011- 2016 • Third year courses, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal 2011, 2012 • Third year courses, North West University 2012 • Third year courses, University of Fort Hare 2012 • Third year courses, University of Stellenbosch 2011-

Graduate Level

Honours (4th Year) • Honours, University of Johannesburg , 2016, 2017, 2018 • Honours, University of Fort Hare 2012 – 2019 • Honours/coursework masters modules, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal 2012-2013 Master’s • University of Stellenbosch 2019 • University of Malawi 2017 Doctoral • University of Stellenbosch 2019 • University of Kwa-Zulu Natal 2015


While At the University of Johannesburg: 2005 – 2011 Undergraduate Level:

• Third year courses, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal 2007 - 2010 Graduate Level

Honours (4th Year) • Honours course in philosophy of science, University of Pretoria, 2005 – 2010 • Honours/coursework masters modules, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal 2009 - 2010 Master’s • University of Pretoria 2007 • University of Kwa-Zulu Natal 2008, 2010 Doctoral • University of Stellenbosch 2006 • University of South Africa 2007 • University of Pretoria 2008

While At the University of South Africa: 1994 - 2004 Graduate Level

• Honours (4th Year) • Honours course in Philosophy of Science, University of Pretoria, 1999 - 2004

6. AWARDS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC / SCHOLARLY RECOGNITION 6.1 EVALUATION STATUS AS SCIENTIST / SCHOLAR Member of COMEST (World Commission for the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology) 2020-2014 Member of UNESCO Ad Hoc Working Group on Ethics of AI 2020 Member of African Union AUDA-NEPAD High Level Expert Working Group on AI 2019-2020 National Research Foundation Rating in 2008: level C1 National Research Foundation Rating in 2003: level C2 6.2 RESEARCH AWARDS AND PRIZES AND ELECTED MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATIONS

• Member of COMEST (World Commission for the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology) 2020-2014

• Member of UNESCO Ad Hoc Working Group on Ethics of AI 2020 • Member of African Union AUDA-NEPAD High Level Expert Working Group on AI 2019-2020 • Elected corresponding member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of Science in August 2019

(http://www.lesacademies.net/en/) • President of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) 2010 – 2012 • Winner of Principal’s Prize for Best Young Researcher, at the University of South Africa, Faculty of Arts,

Sub Faculty of Cultural Sciences, 2000.

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