ABOUT ME
I am a professional philosopher, writer, educator, and game designer. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS™ in the Philosophy Department of Harvard University. Embedded EthiCS is Harvard’s computer ethics programme. We work with philosophers and computer scientists to integrate ethics lessons into the computer science curriculum. My role as the “Bridge Fellow” is to build connections and collaborations with other organizations who are developing computer ethics training. Please reach out if you're interested!
As of July 2023, I will be a Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, where I will be the Director of the Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Program in the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering.
In summer 2021, I worked as an Ethics Research and Educational Design Consultant for Ethically Aligned AI, an Edmonton-based social enterprise startup. Working with the CEO, Katrina Ingram, I co-designed an AI ethics microcredential programme for PowerED™, Athabasca University's professional development and continuing education unit. To sign up, and for more information, click the button below:
From June 2019 to May 2021, I was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department of Dalhousie University, where I also taught a course on social, ethical, and professional issues in computer science, which is a required course for computer science majors, and is also cross-listed in philosophy and in the Law, Justice, and Society programme.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield in 2018. My dissertation, supervised by Miranda Fricker, argues that we can sometimes be to blame for the ways in which we conceptualize and categorize people and experiences. I also taught tutorials and courses moral and political philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology, the history of Western philosophy, and epistemic injustice.
My areas of research specialization are social epistemology, especially epistemic injustice; meta-ethics, especially moral responsibility; and computer ethics, especially ethical issues in the tech industry and the ethics of artificial intelligence.
In my spare time, I run, play, and design tabletop roleplaying games. I have a (rarely updated) blog connecting my interests in philosophy and games at RollWisdom.com.
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I am genderqueer and don't have strong feelings about which pronouns you should use for me:
he/him/his, they/them/theirs, and she/her/hers are all fine.
My surname is pronounced /gets/.
Portrait by Jani Autio.