Reading Group
2026-2027: Our working group engages texts and draft papers relevant to the theme of our workshop. To get more information about our group, including the texts we will be discussing, please ask to join our email list by emailing lmanuali@umich.edu or filling out the Google Form on the homepage of this site. As we move through the semester, readings will be posted below:
Apr 22, 2026 | Archon Fung, "Infotopia"
Apr 8, 2026 | Brett Karlan and Henrik Kugelberg, "No Right to Explanation"
Mar 25, 2026 | Seth Lazar, "Legitimacy, Authority, and Democratic Duties of Explanation"
Mar 11, 2026 | Kate Vredenburgh, "The Right to Explanation"
Feb 18, 2026 | Isaac Taylor, "Representative Robots: Can AI Systems Act in Our Name?"
Jan 28, 2026 | Raphaël Millière and Cameron Buckner (2024), "A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates"
Mar 18, 2025 | Work-in-progress talk by Prof. Gabbrielle Johnson (Claremont McKenna College), "Precarious Accurate Predictions in Automated Decision-Making"
Feb 28, 2025 | Daniel Susser, "Information Privacy and Social Self-Authorship"
Nov 15, 2024 | Pre-read work-in-progress workshop with Prof. C. Thi Nguyen
Oct 31, 2024 | Archon Fung, "Infotopia: Unleashing the Democratic Power of Transparency"
Oct 17, 2024 | Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"
Oct 3, 2024 | Salome Viljoen (2023), "Informationalism Beyond Managerialism"
Sep 19, 2024 | C. Thi Nguyen, "Transparency is Surveillance"
Apr 15, 2024 | Seth Lazar (2023), "Governing the Algorithmic City," Tanner Lecture, and Cory Doctorow (2023), "The 'Enshittification of TikTok,'" WIRED
Mar 18, 2024 | Nick Schuster and Seth Lazar (2024), "Attention, moral skill, and algorithmic recommendation" in Philosophical Studies
Mar 3, 2024 | William Agnew, A. Stevie Bergman, Jennifer Chien, Mark Díaz, Seliem El-Sayed, Jaylen Pittman, Shakir Mohamed, and Kevin R. McKee (2024), "The illusion of artificial inclusion"
Feb 19, 2024 | Ari Ezra Waldman (2020), "Algorithmic Legitimacy," The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithms, 107-120, and Waldman (2022), "Privacy's Rights Trap," Nw. U. L. Rev. Online, 117, 88
Feb 4, 2024 | Seth Lazar (2022), "Legitimacy, Authority, and Democratic Duties of Explanation"
Jan 22, 2024 | Kaisa Kärki, "Digital Distraction, Attention Regulation, and Inequality" in Philosophy and Technology
Jan 26, 2023 | Prince & Schwarcz (2020), "Proxy Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data"
Dec 8, 2022 | Dalton et al. (2016), "Critical Data Studies: A dialog on data and space"
Nov 10, 2022 | Thakkar et al. (2022), "When is Machine Learning Data Good?: Valuing in Public Health Datafication"
Oct 27, 2022 | Espinoza & Aronczyk (2021), "Big data for climate action or climate action for big data?"
Mar 10, 2022 | Pre-read for the 2022 Spring Colloquium
Feb 7, 2022 | Meeting with Gabe Mendlow (U-M Law), "Thoughts, Crimes, and Thoughtcrimes"
Jan 25, 2022 | David Pozen (2018), "Transparency's Ideological Shift"
Dec 7, 2021 | Salome Viljoen (forthcoming), "A Relational Theory of Data Governance"
Nov 18, 2021 | Jeffrey Reiman (1976), "Privacy, Intimacy, and Personhood," and Andrei Marmor (2015), "What is the Right to Privacy?"
Nov 4, 2021 | T.M. Scanlon (1975), "Thomson on Privacy," and James Rachels (1975), "Why Privacy is Important"
Oct 20, 2021 | Judith Jarvis Thomson (1975), "The Right to Privacy"
Oct 6, 2021 | Scott Skinner-Thomson (2020), "Privacy at the Margins"
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