Speaker spotlight: Dr Tom McClelland
09 Mar 2026 What does it really mean for a machine to be conscious – and are we closer than we think? Dr Tom McClelland reflects on the ideas, influences, and...
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We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher
18 Dec 2025 This gulf in knowledge could be exploited by a tech industry intent on selling the “next level of AI cleverness”, argues Dr Tom McClelland.
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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Tom McClelland
20 Mar 2024 Tom McClelland is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He will be speaking about his and...
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Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argue
22 Dec 2022 By adding a gender dimension to the theory of “affordance perception” and applying it to the home, a new hypothesis may help answer questions of why...
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