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A Bit About Me

My main areas of research are experimental ethics, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Plus, I have never found a methodological question I do not find fascinating. Currently I am finishing up a paper exploring the extent interpersonal categories – such as trust and empathy – apply to AI. I am  finishing up another paper exploring ways to empirically measure the distinct epistemic pathways of showing vs telling in moral advice, pathways that have been conflated in armchair philosophy, experimental philosophy, and psychology.

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Previously I was a postdoc at the University of Kent's Department of Psychology, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, as part of the Multidimensional Trust in Moral Machines team. There I researched the social epistemology of AI and how AI fits into our existing concept of trust.

Before that, I was an SNF postdoc at the University of Zürich on the project "Dual-Character Concepts: Bridging the Descriptive and the Normative", and my PhD was on the philosophy of philosophy at the University of St Andrews.

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