{"id":730,"date":"2025-12-18T05:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/?page_id=730"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:17:34","slug":"ai-specialization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/de\/ai-specialization\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Specialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"h-artificial-intelligence-nbsp-theoretical-foundations-and-speculative-ramifications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Artificial Intelligence:&nbsp;Theoretical Foundations and Speculative Ramifications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is a specialization in artificial intelligence within the Philosophy MA degree programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The specialization introduces artificial intelligence\u2019s philosophical, scientific, cultural, and political challenges. Beginning with the logical and cybernetic foundations of the project of automated cognition, courses introduce AI problematics from a transdisciplinary perspective, from the philosophical foundations of scientific modeling of thinking to psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of algorithms. The courses within the program provide a broad coverage of the current state of the AI\/non-human cognition problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Instructors<\/em><\/strong>: Maksim Miroshnichenko PhD, Isabel Millar PhD, Catherine Malabou PhD (Guest Professor), Keti Chukhrov (Guest Professor), Tessina Grant Moloney (PhD Researcher), Maria Francesca Molloy (PhD Researcher), Ewa Lewandowska, (PhD Researcher).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To obtain the concentration in Artificial Intelligence you must:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Successfully complete 6 courses in the <a href=\"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/de\/master-of-arts-philosophy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/master-of-arts-philosophy\/\">philosophy program<\/a> (these may be any five courses)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Successfully complete 4  courses listed below<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You thus must successfully pass 10 courses in total. Upon completion of the concentration you will be certified in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy by GCAS and issued a certificate in \u201cAdvanced Research in Artificial Intelligence\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br>Length of Degree:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can complete the MA in one year (full-time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cost:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tuition investment is \u20ac6,000 (before tuition reduction scholarship)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Application Deadline:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apply at any time. We are currently accepting applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>90 ECTS credits with MA thesis research, writing, and defending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BA Degree or higher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Introduction to AI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Intelligence, Justice, and the Future: A Very Short Introduction to AI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This course will introduce the concept of artificial intelligence, its history, primary metaphors, and some ethical challenges of automation. The emergence of AI was preceded by specific technoscientific discourses, constructions, and inventions that developed an analogy between humans and computers. The seminars will address the similarities between the brain and computing machinery, the automation of governance and control, and the relevance of AI in designing a shared future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Instructor<\/em>: Maksim Miroshnichenko, PhD in Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universit\u00e4t Weimar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Advanced AI Seminar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>AI, From Automated Care to Queer Futures<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This advanced seminar will explore critical perspectives on artificial intelligence in culture and society. Focusing on cases from art, medicine, normativity, and utopia, it will show how the idea of automating intelligence penetrates deep levels of biopolitics and control. The seminar will focus on texts by philosophers, machine learning specialists, robot ethicists, artists, and art theorists reflecting on AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Instructor<\/em>: Maksim Miroshnichenko, PhD in Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universit\u00e4t Weimar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Applied AI &amp; Bioethics<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>AI, Cyborgs, and Cosmic Cognition: The Bioethics of Alterity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The seminar focuses on a wide range of metaphors, analogies, speculations, and conceptualizations of artificial intelligence as overcoming anthropocentrism. Drawing on concepts from biology, robotics, cybernetics, psychology, and philosophy, the course will discuss the problems of interaction and communication between humans and AI, especially in the context of cyborgization and the fusion of humans and machines. One of its main aims is to show the deep connections between ethics, cognition, and cosmology while thinking about speculative AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Instructor<\/em>: Maksim Miroshnichenko, PhD in Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universit\u00e4t Weimar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Sex, AI and Psychoanalysis&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seminar will provide an introduction to the \u2018Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence\u2019. Highlighting some of the key psychoanalytic concepts at stake and articulating their relationship to a more critical approach to intelligence, the body, thought and their simulation. We will interrogate the Lacanian notion of sexuation in relation to the idea of the \u2018Singularity\u2019 and the concept of enjoyment as a factor in the creation of AI. The seminar will approach the psychoanalytic challenges of AI in the shape of Kant\u2019s four questions; What can we know? What should we do? What may we hope for? and What is man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Instructor<\/em>: Isabel Millar, PhD in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Kingston University<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence:&nbsp;Theoretical Foundations and Speculative Ramifications This is a specialization in artificial intelligence within the Philosophy MA degree programme. The specialization introduces artificial intelligence\u2019s philosophical, scientific, cultural, and political challenges. 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