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We are proud to announce the 2025 Wittgenstein Lectures, held by Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge) on "Automating the economic style of reasoning“.

The abstract of the Wittgenstein Lectures is the following: Economic reasoning has shaped modern societies for more than half a century, but late 20th century growth has given way to 21st century discontent with consequences such as environmental crisis, inequality, and economic stagnation. At the same time the advent of public data-driven decision-making using machine learning and AI is automating the economic style of reasoning. Some see the technological tools as holding out the promise of a return to expansive economic progress. This series of lectures will set out these tensions of the moment, and discuss the implications of automated public decisions for the understanding of social welfare.

The lecture series will take place from June 23rd to 27th 2025.
For upcoming information, timetable etc.: https://www.phil.uni-bayreuth.de/en/events/wittgenstein/index.html
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