Amber Ross, Ph.D.

Website

https://philpeople.org/profiles/amber-ross-2

Currently Teaching

• PHI 3681 Ethics, Data, and Technology
• PHI 4930 Animal Minds

Office Hours (Spring)

• Tuesdays, 12:00–1:00pm
• Thursdays, 12:45–1:45

Areas of Specialization

• Ethics of AI
• Philosophy of Mind
• Metaphysics

Curriculum Vitae

• CV 2022

Publications

"AI and the expert; a blueprint for the ethical use of opaque AI." AI and Society. (Forthcoming).
"Mental Fictionalism: the costly combinatiion of magic and the mind." In Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations. Eds. Tomas Demeter, T. Parent, & Adam Toon. Routledge. 
(with Mohan Matthen)"Multisensory Perception in Philosophy," Multisensory Research 34.3 (2021): 219-231.
"Destabilizing the Knowledge Argument and Modal Argument". Inquiry 61 (5/6) 2018: 499-519.
"Illusionism and the Epistemological Problems Facing Phenomenal Realism". Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (11/12) 2016: 215-23.
Inconceivable Minds. PhD Dissertation. UNC Chapel Hill, 2013.

Selected Presentations

"A Case for Ethical AI without Complete Transparency." American Political Science Association Meeting. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. September 2022. (Abstract)
"From Spot to HAL: How the study of consciousness in animal minds can inform the philosophy of AI." Mind and Matter 2022: Foundations of Information, Intelligence, and Consciousness. University of Helsinki, Finland. June 2022.
“Why opaque AI will not go away; a case for ethical AI without complete transparency.”  Presented at the University of Georgia Philosophies of Nature, Technology and Artificial Intelligence. June 2022.
"Expanding the Narrative Theory of Self." Logos Research Group, University of Barcelona (talk postponed due to Covid 19). April 2021.
"The nature of conscious thought and its relation to AI systems." Guest lecture, UF graduate course in machine Learning, Department of Engineering (CAP6610). March 2021.
"What is Thinking?" Invited presentation for the UF AI Institute Faculty Seminar. January 2021.
“Is Fictionalism Fit to Account for the Mental?” Budapest- Mental Fictionalism Workshop Series (III)- Organized by the MTA BTK Lendulet Morals and Science Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. October 2019.
"How Mary Closed the Explanatory Gap". Moore Humanities Symposium on Consciousness, Texas Christian University, Mar 2014
"The Phenomenal concept strategy: Can our zombie-twins be our epistemic equals?". Works in Progress Series, UNC Chapel Hill, Nov 2009
"The identity of the categorical and the dispositional". Graduate Research Symposium, Reading University, UK, Jan 2008
"The Publicity of Introspection; a response to Alvin Goldman's Science, Publicity, and Consciousness". Graduate Research Symposium, Reading University, UK, Nov 2007

Fellowships & Awards

Research Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, 2010-2012
Horace Williams Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill, 2004-2010
Visiting Scholar Fellowship, University of Reading, UK, 2007-2008
Graduate Student Opportunity Fund Grant, UNC Chapel Hill, 2007-2008
Scholars of Tomorrow Fellowship:, UNC Chapel Hill 2004-2005