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Trystan Goetze

Trystan completed his Ph.D at the University of Sheffield in 2018. From 2019–21, they were a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at Dalhousie University, where they also taught computer ethics....

Interview with John Tasioulas: The Institute for Ethics in AI

...have the opportunity to speak with you, Charlie. The Institute has its origins in a £150m donation made by Stephen A. Schwarzman to Oxford University in 2019—the largest single donation...

Inmaculada de Melo-Martin

Inmaculada de Melo-Martín is Professor of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and a MS in Biology. She works on Philosophy of Science, Ethics,...

Wittgenstein, Feynman, and the Limits of Intuition and Objectivity in Quantum Theory

Richard Feynman, over the course of his long career, wanted to convince students and even the public that quantum theory does not make sense. In his 1965 textbook on Quantum...

Michelle Bastian

Michelle Bastian is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and an Associate Professor II at the University of Oslo with the Oslo School of Environmental...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Why Machines Will Never Rule the World

In this video interview, Charlie Taben, editor of the Blog’s Philosophy and Technology series, interviews the authors of Why Machines Will Never Rule the World Barry Smith, Professor of Philosophy...

Careers in Ontology: An Interview with Professor Barry Smith

In this interview, the Blog’s Philosophy and Technology Series Editor Charlie Taben interviews Barry Smith, who is a Distinguished Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and...

Jobst Landgrebe

Jobst Landgrebe is a scientist and entrepreneur with a background in philosophy, mathematics, neuroscience, and bioinformatics. Landgrebe is also the founder of Cognotekt, a German AI company which has since...

Barry Smith

Barry Smith contributes to both theoretical and applied research in ontology. He is Distinguished Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Neurology...

Deadly Drones, Killer Trollies

The following piece was originally published in The Philosophical Salon. The US military’s remote warfare has recklessly killed hundreds more civilians than previously disclosed, including many children, as we’ve learned from...