Program (tentative)
Preliminary Program
Hangzhou, China | October 27–31, 2025Schedule Overview Each session: 30-minute presentation + 15-minute discussion. Coffee breaks (30 mins) after every two talks. Lunch: 12:30–14:00 daily.
October 26 18:00 – 21:00 Reception
Day 1: October 27, 2025 (Monday)
Venue: Zhejiang University09:00–09:30 Opening Ceremony
Chair: Liao Beishui
Speakers: Prof. MA Yanming, President of Zhejiang University
Dean of Zhejiang University
Prof. Jure Zovko, President of AIPS
09:30–10:15 Renzhong Qiu
10:15–11:00 Atocha Aliseda: Automated Diagnostic Reasoning: How far can we go?
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:15 Vincenzo Fano: Understanding Neural Networks: A Moral Issue 12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–14:45 Chen Bo: “Exceptionalism and Antiexceptionalism about Logic
14:45–15:30 Lei Ruipeng
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 Dennis Dieks: Quantum Information Theory: From Fundamental Science to World-Changing Technology
16:45–17:30 Jesus Zamora: Towards a theory of epistemic public goods
17.30-18.15 Itala Loffredo: Pragmatic Nonsense and Science
Day 2: October 28, 2025 (Tuesday)
Venue: Zhejiang University09:00–09:45 Alan Hajek: A Chancy Theory of Counterfactuals
9:45–10:30 Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: Analysis of Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence as a Science of Design
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Liu Fenrong: Towards a Unified Logic for Causality and Knowledge
11:45-12:30 Luo Dong (SCU, Guangzhou): Harmony and Technological Understanding
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–14:45 Lorenzo Magnani: Epistemic Irresponsibility
14:45–15:30 Mario Alai: Is science epistemically responsible? The prospects of the debate
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 Xu Xiangdong: Can AI Agents be Taken as Moral (morally responsible) Agents?
16:45–17:30 Liao Beishui: Methodologies for Explainable and Ethical AI
Day 3: October 29, 2025 (Wednesday)
Venue: China-Europe Talent Exchange and Innovation Cooperation Center09:00–09:45: Jörn Witt & Jure Zovko (Joint Session): Responsibility as Value of Scientific Research
09:45–10:30 Valentin Bazhanov: The Responsibility in Science Problem through the Lens of Political Philosophy
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Shuifa Han (Peking University): University Education in the AI Era
11:45–12:30 Hans Peter Grosshans: Freedom of Science and Responsibility in Science. A Dialectical Relation
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–14:45 Reinhard Kahle
14:45–15:30 Jing He (East China Normal University): How can AI be Embodied?
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 Yu Zhenhua: To inquire into the thing-in-itself
17:30-18.15 Mei Jianhua: Symbiotic Responsibility: Reconfiguring Accountability in Human-Machine Co-Evolution
Day 4: October 30, 2025 (Thursday)
Venue: Zhejiang University09:00–09:45 Michel Ghins: Philosophy of Science and Responsibility
10:45–10:30 Yang Liu: AI, Responsibility, and Academic Publishing
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 James McAlister - Responsibility, Agency, and Scientific Objectivity
11:45-12:30 Javier Echeverria: For a Leibnizian Planetary Council: Responsibility in contemporary data sciences and technologies
12:30-12:45 Closing
12:45–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30–17:30 General Assembly
18:00 – 21:00 Gala dinner