Chicago Super Debate 2
Sydney Harvey
Sawyier Predoctoral Fellow
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Illinois Tech
Illinois Tech predoctoral fellow studying how embodied emotion, perception and ethical engagement relate in human and machine minds.
Biography
Sydney
- Human and machine minds
- Embodied emotion and perception
- Ethics of technology
- Artificial intelligence and aesthetics
Sydney Harvey is a Sawyier Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Tech. She studies how environment, embodied emotion, perception and ethical engagement relate in human and machine minds.
At Illinois Tech she teaches Ethics of Technology: Mind and Media, a course she designed on minds and machines, AI’s effects on human flourishing and algorithms in online media. She is completing her dissertation on artificial intelligence, mind and aesthetics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
In this debate
Why this question
Harvey joins Benjamin Callard, Seyed N. Mousavian, Anthony Laden, Sanford Goldberg and David Gunkel to debate philosophy in the age of AI. The exact resolutions will be announced on the event page.
Upcoming appearance
Chicago Super Debate 2: Philosophy in the Age of AI
WhenNovember 19, 2026
WhereChicago-Kent College of Law, 565 W. Adams Street, Chicago, IL
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