CURRICULUM VITÆ

This page summarizes my research career.

EDUCATION

2018 Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Sheffield. Thesis: "Conceptual Responsibility." Supervisor: Miranda Fricker.

2014 M.A. in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education, University of Toronto.

2013 M.A. in Philosophy, York University.

2012 Honours Bachelor of Knowledge Integration with Joint Honours Philosophy, University of Waterloo.

2021–2023 Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.

2021 Ethics Research & Educational Development Consultant, Ethically Aligned AI.

2020 Assistant Professor (Limited-Term), Department of Philosophy & Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

2019–2021 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

'Epistemic Justice for Extremists?', in Confronting Fanaticism: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, eds. Leo Townsend, Michael Staudigl, Hans Berhard Schmidt, and Ruth Tietjen, Routledge (forthcoming). Co-author: Charlie Crerar.
'Moral Entanglement: Taking Responsibility and Vicarious Responsibility', The Monist 104.2 (2021): 210–223. DOI: 10.1093/monist/onaa033
'Conceptual Responsibility', Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 64.1–2 (2021): 20–45. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2019.1658629
'The Concept of a University: Theory, Practice, and Society', Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 52 (2019), Special Issue: Revisiting the Idea of the University. DOI: 10.1163/24689300-05201001
‘Hermeneutical Dissent and the Species of Hermeneutical Injustice’, Hypatia 33.1 (2018): 73–90. DOI: 10.1111/hypa.12384

Peer-Reviewed Computer Science Conference Proceedings

‘Mind the Gap: Autonomous Systems, the Responsibility Gap, and Moral Entanglement’, ACM FAccT ’22: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, (2022). DOI: 10.1145/3531146.3533106. Video recording: https://youtu.be/BMZnDfgeQMs
‘Bigger Isn’t Better: The Ethical and Scientific Vices of Extra-Large Datasets in Language Models’, WebSci ’21 Companion: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web Science Conference (2021), DOI: 10.1145/3462741.3466809. Co-author: Darren Abramson.

Edited Collection

Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 84, Cambridge University Press (2018), ISBN 9781108712637, URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/royal-institute-of-philosophy-supplements/volume/harms-and-wrongs-in-epistemic-practice/E414E8DB2DC83AC16C62123993D04B87 Co-editors: Simon Barker and Charlie Crerar.

Invited Research Articles

'OK, Google, Can I Trust You? An Anti-Trust Argument for Antitrust’, in The Moral Psychology of Trust, eds. Mark Alfano, David Collins, and Iris Vidmar Jovanovi, Lexington Books (forthcoming).
'Anticipation, Smothering, and Education: A Reply to Lee and Bayruns García on Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10.9 (2021): 36-43, URL: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-69w.
‘Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice’, in Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice, 1–21 (2018), DOI: 10.1017/S1358246118000528. Co-authors: Simon Barker and Charlie Crerar.

Book Reviews

Games: Agency as Art, by C. Thi Nguyen (New York: Oxford University Press), in The Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming). DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqab021
The Limits of Knowledge: Generating Pragmatist Feminist Cases for Situated Knowing, by Nancy Arden McHugh (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2015), in Journal of Applied Philosophy, 33.3 (2016): 344–46. DOI: 10.1111/japp.12156

Professional Blog Posts

'Should Robots Have Rights? Lt. Commander Data v. The United Federation of Planets', Blog of the American Philosophical Association, URL: https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/03/01/should-robots-have-rights-lt-commander-data-v-the-united-federation-of-planets/
'Syllabus Showcase: Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computer Science', Blog of the American Philosophical Association, URL: https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/08/18/syllabus-showcase-social-ethical-and-professional-issues-in-computer-science-trystan-goetze/

Harvard University

Ethics of Computing Technologies (upper-division undergraduate).
Embedded EthiCS Module: TBD, CS 290A Seminar on Effective Research Practices & Academic Culture.
Embedded EthiCS Module: 'Value-Sensitive Design', CS 290 PhD Grad Cohort Research Seminar.
Embedded EthiCS Module: 'Do the freedoms of free software come with responsibilities?', CS 153 Compilers.

Dalhousie University (Assistant Professor, Limited Term)

Directed Studies in Computer Ethics: The Ethics of Privacy Policies (Senior undergraduate).
Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computer Science (Lower Division Philosophy, Upper Division Computer Science), online, asynchronous.
Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computer Science (Lower Division Philosophy, Upper Division Computer Science).

University of Sheffield (Instructor)

University of Sheffield (Co-Lecturer)

University of Sheffield (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

Consulting

Ethics and Educational Consultant, Ethically Aligned AI (EAAI).

Read a report I wrote for EAAI on practical AI ethics tools
Co-designed a set of four micro-courses on AI ethics for PowerED™, a division of Athabasca University.
A worksheet I made for professionals working with AI: The AI Ethics Canvas.

Engagement and Outreach

A page I wrote on how to read and adapt entries from the Embedded EthiCS module repository: https://embeddedethics.seas.harvard.edu/module-writeup/
An interview I gave for Dialexicon, a philosophy podcast produced by and for youth: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wGJe0Fv8ZhcdG9Zit0m2X
Roll Wisdom, a blog on the philosophy of tabletop roleplaying games. Online at: https://www.rollwisdom.com/
Philosophy by Postcard. A project celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the birth of philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch. 100 postcards mailed by members of the public to Murdoch's birthplace will each receive a response from one of 100 philosophers. More information at: https://www.philosophybypostcard.com/
Refugees Matter. A video series using philosophical argument to dispel myths about the refugee crisis. Showcased at the 2018 Migration Matters Festival in Sheffield, UK. View the playlist here: https://digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/79048071/1_q94wfs1l/1_m2ze2jg1/

Honourable Mention for ‘Philosophy from Alpha Centauri: Anaxamanda’s Thesis’, Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories Book Launch Flash Fiction Contest. (2021)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence. (2019)
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. (2019–21)
American Philosophical Association Central Division Graduate Travel Stipend. (2019)
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Graduate Travel Stipend. (2019)
University Prize Scholarship. (2014–17)