Department Publications
- John Biro, “Two notes on Composition.” Metaphysica. October 17, 2022
John Biro argues that we should include composite objects in our ontology on the basis of their necessity in certain causal explanations. He goes on to argue that composition is not identity.
- Amber Ross, “AI and the expert; a blueprint for the ethical use of opaque AI.” AI and Society. September 19, 2022
Amber Ross argues that the epistemic relation between layperson and expert can serve as a blueprint for evaluating under what conditions it would be ethical to accept opacity in AI decision making.
- Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. Rowman & Littlefield. April 26, 2022
Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard's edited volume explores the moral dimensions of love through the lenses of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
- Duncan Purves, “Fairness in Algorithmic Policing.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association. March 23, 2022
Duncan Purves argues that there are two overlooked normative factors that are essential to a full assessment of the moral permissibility of predictive policing: fairness in the social distribution of the benefits and burdens of policing as well as the distinctive role of consent in determining fair distribution.
- Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, and Schuyler Sturm, “Five ethical challenges for data-driven policing.” AI and Ethics. March 23, 2022
Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, and Schuyler Sturm's recent paper synthesizes scholarship from several academic disciplines to identify and analyze five major ethical challenges facing data-driven policing.
- Stewart Duncan, Materialism from Hobbes to Locke. Oxford University Press. January 6, 2022
Stewart Duncan's new book explores how a series of seventeenth-century philosophers tried to address the question of whether or not humans are purely material beings.
- John Biro, “What Galileo Said.” Argumenta. December 18, 2021
Dr. John Biro argues against Davidson's paratactic account of indirect speech, as in the example, "Galileo said that the Earth moves."