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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, March 19, 2025 12:30 pm to 2:0
 0 pm \n 1065 \n Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto \n 95 
 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6 \n\nSpeakers \nJoshua August (Gus
 ) Skorburg \n\nDescription: \nYou are cordially invited to attend the Wint
 er 2025 Research Seminar Series of the Institute for the History and Philo
 sophy of Science and Technology, organized by Assistant Professor Karina 
 Vold “Decisions, decisions, decisions: A value-based account of the atte
 ntion economy”Hybrid eventAbstract:This paper develops an empirically resp
 onsible account of the attention economy. Almost all existing philosophica
 l accounts of the moral and psychological harms of the attention economy r
 ely on vague metaphors and folk psychological theorizing about the nature 
 of attention and control. Drawing on recent work from across the cognitive
  sciences, we argue that a valuationist approach provides a more empirica
 lly robust and conceptually rich account than prevailing models of the att
 ention economy, which emphasize addiction, compulsion, and loss of cont
 rol. The valuationist framework posits that decision-making, including at
 tention allocation and self-control, is fundamentally driven by represent
 ations of value. We contend that the attention economy's impact is best un
 derstood as shaping these value representations that influence decision-ma
 king. Contrary to folk psychological notions of irresistible urges or hija
 cked autonomy, we argue that users maintain the capacity for choice and c
 ontrol. Moreover, our account can still capture the common phenomenology 
 of feeling “pulled” towards digital distractions. The first half of the pa
 per unpacks the valuationist framework, with a special emphasis on valuat
 ionist accounts of attention and control. The second half of the paper app
 lies this framework to better understand the moral and psychological harms
  associated with the attention economy. Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg is an
  associate professor of philosophy, academic co-director of the Centre fo
 r Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI), an
 d a faculty affiliate at the One Health Institute at the University of Gue
 lph in Ontario, Canada. From 2018 to 2022, Skorburg was an adjunct profe
 ssor in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He received his P
 hD in Philosophy in 2017 from the University of Oregon. His research spans
  topics in applied ethics and moral psychology. Wednesday, February 12, 
 2025, 12:30- 2:00 p.m. Rotman School of Management, 95 St, George Stree
 t, Room 1065Seminar will be broadcast live via Zoom (register for link) T
 his seminar is co-hosted by the University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman I
 nstitute for Technology and Society, and will be presented in-person with
  an online option at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Manageme
 nt. \n\nSponsors \nIHPST, SRI \n95 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3
 E6 \n\nCategories \n Research Seminar \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsC
 ommunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsGraduating StudentsPros
 pective Graduate StudentsProspective UndergraduatesUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:95 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6
SUMMARY:IHPST Research Seminar Second Session - Winter 2025
URL;TYPE=URI:https://ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst-research-seminar-second
 -session-winter-2025
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