<div dir="ltr">A seminar that will be of interest for any students pursuing or interested in the Designated Emphasis in SF Studies! Winter 2025.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Eric Schwitzgebel via Sfts-faculty</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sfts-faculty@lists.ucr.edu">sfts-faculty@lists.ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:34 PM<br>Subject: [Sfts-faculty] SF DE grad seminar next winter<br>To: Faculty SFTS <<a href="mailto:sfts-faculty@lists.ucr.edu">sfts-faculty@lists.ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear SF faculty:<div><br></div><div>I'll be teaching a graduate seminar next winter which welcomes SF grad students (and interested grad students in any relevant discipline), and which I hope will be included in the SF Designated Emphasis.  If you know of students who might be interested, please spread the word.</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Robot and Alien
Consciousness</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We will attempt to
assess under what conditions we would be warranted in thinking that a robot, AI
system, or naturally-evolved space alien would, or would not, be
conscious.  Readings will mostly be philosophy but will also include
selections in science fiction, Artificial Intelligence research, and
astrobiology.</span></p><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,<br></div><div><br>Eric</div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">********************************************************<div>Eric Schwitzgebel (he/him)</div><div>Professor of Philosophy</div><div>University of California at Riverside</div><div>Riverside, CA  92521</div><div>USA</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">********************************************************</span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>andré m. carrington <br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science</a><br></div><div>--</div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>