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Events for 13 March 2024
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Reading/Working Group on Low-Income, Immigrant and First Generation students
The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) group is organising a working group that aims to tackle the question of how we can better support students from low-income, immigrant, and first-generation backgrounds here at LSE. We take it that the labels "low-income," "immigrant," and first-generation" encapsulate a diverse array of experiences that need individual recognition. Our plan is to facilitate a working […]
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MAP Peer Review Session
Need help with your essay? Join our MAP group! MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) will be hosting three peer-review sessions this term! These sessions are for students to get together, to exchange ideas, feedback, and resources with the purpose of making students’ work the best it can be. Open and collaborative, these sessions will be especially useful for students from underrepresented backgrounds in philosophy, including […]
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Choice Group Seminar by Silvia Milano (LMU Munich/University of Exeter): ‘Recommender systems and epistemic polarisation’
Abstract: Recommender systems increasingly serve as essential tools to navigate vast expenses of information. Yet, their proliferation in our everyday lives has raised concern over their potential magnification of social polarisation through the creation of echo chambers and filter bubbles, the exact nature and influence of which has been controversial. If, when, and how recommender systems affect polarization remains an open […]
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