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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay
DESCRIPTION:The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay is awarded for excellence in philosophy. Students enrolled in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies undergraduate courses are eligible to enter an essay for the annual award. \nStudents are invited to submit an academic essay written as an assignment in one of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies’ undergraduate courses this academic year (AY2025/2026). Essays of any length are acceptable. The organisers reserve the right not to award the prize if essays are not of sufficiently high standard. \nPlease submit essays by e-mail with the subject line ‘Submission for the Mario Echano Prize’ to Maggie Wong at MaggieWong@um.edu.mo. Attach your essay to the message as a Microsoft Word document (other formats will not be accepted). Please give your name\, student number\, and the name of the course for which you wrote the essay\, on the first page of the essay. The deadline for submission is Friday\, 5th May 2026. \nWe look forward to your submissions.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-the-mario-echano-prize-for-the-best-undergraduate-philosophy-essay-5/
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – "Dementia\, Digital Doppelgängers\, and Transformative Experiences" by Prof. Rand Hirmiz\, Singapore Management University\, Singapore
DESCRIPTION:Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/7mnk1eav \n  \nAbstract \nThere has been a longstanding debate in the bioethics literature (often referred to as the then-self/now-self debate) over how to respond in cases where dementia patients’ current wishes conflict with their prior advance directives. Recently\, there has been a rise in discussions over what are called “digital doppelgangers” and personalized patient preference predictors (LLMs that use patients’ emails\, text messages\, blog posts\, social media posts\, voice notes\, and similar information to create an LLM that can simulate their way of thinking\, speaking\, and in the context of medical decision-making\, accurately represent their values and preferences). The concept of digital doppelgangers and personalized preference predictors adds a whole new dimension to the then-self/now-self debate. In this paper\, I argue that if digital doppelgangers are capable of adapting in ways similar to how the patient would have adapted to new circumstances\, this would allow them to account for transformative experiences in ways that the then-self couldn’t have anticipated\, while being able to communicate the underlying reasons behind the change in preferences in ways that the now-self cannot. \n  \nBio \nDr. Rand Hirmiz is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Singapore Management University. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from York University (Toronto\, Canada) in 2024\, and an MA in Philosophy from McMaster University (Hamilton\, Canada) in 2018. Her research focuses on the intersection of AI ethics and healthcare\, with a particular interest in how artificial intelligence can be integrated into medicine without compromising the core values of medical practice.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-lecture-series-rdementia-digital-doppelgangers-and-transformative-experiences-by-prof-rand-hirmiz-singapore-management-university-singapore/
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