CV
Specialization
Responsibility, Free Will, Ethics of AI, Applied Ethics (esp. Environmental Ethics)
Competencies
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Classical Islamic Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Employment
2024 - Present
Harvard University, Department of PhilosophyPostdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy
2023-2024
Chapman University, Smith Institute for Political Economy and PhilosophyPostdoctoral Researcher
Education
2016 - 2023
Syracuse UniversityPhD Candidate & Teaching Associate
Dissertation: Responsibility Internalism and Responsibility for AI
Committee: Sara Bernstein, Ben Bradley (primary), Mark Heller, Hille Paakkunainen
2015-2016
SUNY FredoniaPostbaccalaureate in Philosophy
2004-2009
Firat UniversityBS in Computer Science Teaching
Publications
2022
'Moral Responsibility is Not Proportionate to Causal Responsibility'
2022
'Against Resultant Moral Luck'
2022
'Causation Comes in Degrees'
Public Philosophy
2020
‘Epistemic Injustice’
Talks
Speaker (*=refereed)
July 2024
‘AI Responsibility Gap: Not New, Inevitable, Unproblematic’
AI and Data Ethics Workshop
Northeastern University
Apr 2024
‘Responsibility Doesn’t Require Alternative Possibilities’
Responsibility Workshop
Chapman University
Apr 2024
*‘AI Responsibility Gap: Not New, Inevitable, Unproblematic’
Midwest Ethics Symposium: Ethics and AI
The Prindle Institute for Ethics
Mar 2024
*‘AI Responsibility Gap: Not New, Inevitable, Unproblematic’
Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop
University of Pennsylvania
Mar 2024
‘AI Responsibility Gap: Not New, Inevitable, Unproblematic’
Smith Institute Brown Bag Workshop
Chapman University
Sep 2023
‘Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference’
SOPhiA 2023: Collective Harm and Responsibility in the Climate Crisis
University of Salzburg
Apr 2023
*‘Drawing A Line, Rejecting Resultant Moral Luck Alone’
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting
Feb 2023
*‘Drawing A Line, Rejecting Resultant Moral Luck Alone’
Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency
Florida State University
Jan 2023
*‘Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference’
2022-23 Young Philosophers Read-Ahead Conference
DePauw University
Jan 2023
*‘Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference’
International Society for Environmental Ethics
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting
Oct 2022
‘Drawing A Line, Rejecting Resultant Moral Luck Alone’
ABD Workshop Series
Syracuse University
Sep 2022
*‘Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference’
You Philosophers Lecture Series
DePauw University
June 2022
*‘Wrong but Praiseworthy, Right but Blameworthy’
Rightness, Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Praise Workshop
University of Southern California
April 2022
*‘Wrong but Praiseworthy, Right but Blameworthy’
72nd Annual Meeting of the New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society
Baylor University
Feb 2022
'Wrong but Praiseworthy, Right but Blameworthy'
ABD Workshop Series 2022
Syracuse University
Jan 2022
*’Causation Comes in Degrees’
APA Eastern Division Meeting 2022
Sep 2021
*’Causation Comes in Degrees’
Society for the Metaphysics of Science, 6th Annual Conference
July 2021
*’Against Resultant Moral Luck’
Summer School on Causation and Responsibility
University of Bern
April 2021
*’Against Resultant Moral Luck’
Great Lakes Philosophy Conference—Ethics in Action
Siena Heights University
Jan 2021
*‘Moral Responsibility Is Not Proportionate to Causal Responsibility’
APA Eastern Division Meeting
Nov 2020
’Against Resultant Moral Luck’
Philosophical Society of Fredonia
SUNY Fredonia
July 2020
*’Against Resultant Moral Luck’
94th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association
University of Kent
Mar 2020
*‘Causal Contributions and Moral Responsibility’
Midsouth Philosophy Conference [Canceled]
Rhodes College
Feb 2020
‘Moral Responsibility Is Not Proportionate to Causal Responsibility’
ABD Workshop Series 2020
Syracuse University
Nov 2019
*‘Causal Contributions and Moral Responsibility’
AGENT, Ethics and Normativity Talks
University of Texas at Austin
Jun 2019
*‘Against Proportionality Luck’
International Conference on Ethics
University of Porto
Mar 2019
*‘Against Proportionality Luck’
20th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University
Apr 2018
*‘Stocker’s Schizophrenia, Alienation, and a Solution’
Fundamentality in Philosophy, The 7th International
Philosophy Graduate Conference
Central European University, Budapest
May 2017
*‘Against Reliabilism: In the Face of Skepticism’
Northwest Student Philosophy Conference
Western Washington University
Commentator
July 2024
On Kendra Chilson’s ‘Keeping Our Hands Clean? Autonomous Systems and Diversion of Responsibility’
AI and Data Ethics Workshop
Northeastern University
Mar 2023
On Itamar Weinshtock Saadon’s ‘Responsibility, Causation, and Reversing the Order of Explanation’
Syracuse Graduate Philosophy Conference
Feb 2023
On Joshua Tignor’s ‘Theorizing About Moral Responsibility As Such’
ABD Workshop Series 2021
Syracuse University
July 2022
On Jules Salomone-Sehr’s ‘Complicity: A Minimalist Account for Our Maximally Messy Social World’
Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference
April 2022
On Peter Zuk’s ‘Reconciling Experiential Theories of Pleasure’
72nd Annual Meeting of the New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society
Baylor University
April 2022
On Hannah Winckler-Olick’s ‘Simone de Beauvoir on Value-Creation as a Mode of Complicity’
Centennial Conference of the Creighton Club
Jan 2022
On David Sackris and Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen’s ‘Are There Moral Judgements?’
APA Eastern Division Meeting 2022
Oct 2021
On Joshua Tignor’s ‘Moral Growth and Moral Responsibility’
ABD Workshop Series 2021
Syracuse University
July 2021
On Alex Kaiserman’s ‘Responsibility and the ‘Pie Fallacy’’
Summer School on Causation and Responsibility
University of Bern
Apr 2021
On Perry Hendricks’s ‘The Impairment Argument Reconsidered’
Syracuse Graduate Philosophy Conference
Mar 2019
On Caner Turan’s ‘On Greene’s Evolutionary Challenge to Deontological Ethics’
Syracuse Graduate Philosophy Conference
Works in Progress
A paper about AI responsibility gap
Under Review
A paper on moral rightness and wrongness versus moral praise and blame
Under Review
A paper the degree-scope response to moral luck
Under Review
A paper about rejecting resultant moral luck while accepting other sorts of moral luck
Under Review
A paper about the causal inefficacy problem in collective action cases
Under Review
A paper about the flicker defense against Frankfurt-style cases
Under Review
Teaching
Chapman University (Lead Instructor)
Spring 2024
PHIL303: Environmental Ethics
Syracuse University (Lead Instructor)
Spring 2022/23
PHI394: Environmental Ethics
Spring 2020, Summer 2021/22/23
PHI251: Logic
Spring 2021
PHI383: Free Will
Winter 2021
PHI200: Happiness and Meaning in Life
Fall 2020
PHI197: Human Nature
Summer 2020
PHI107: Theories of Knowledge and Reality
Fall 2019
PHI192: Introduction to Moral Theory
Syracuse University (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2021
Human Nature (Christopher Noble)
Spring 2019
Theories of Knowledge and Reality (Janice Dowell)
Fall 2018
Logic (Mark Heller)
Fall 2017
Introduction to Moral Theory (David Sobel)
Fall 2017
Introduction to Moral Theory (Hille Paakkunainen)
Spring 2017
Human Nature (Neelam Sethi)
Fall 2016
Theories of Knowledge and Reality (Robert Van Gulick)
Honors & Awards
2022
Summer Research Fellowship
Syracuse University
2021
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Syracuse University
2016
The Philosophical Society, Student Achievement Award
SUNY Fredonia
Service
Referee for:
American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ergo, Erkenntnis, Ethics and Information Technology, European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Synthese
2024
Judge
Southern California High School Ethics Bowl Competition
2020-2021
Senator
Syracuse Graduate Student Organization
July 2020
Co-Organizer
Syracuse Graduate Philosophy Conference
Graduate Coursework
Ethics (*=audit)
Moral and Political Philosophy (Hille Paakkunainen)
Constructivism in Metaethics (Hille Paakkunainen)
Anti-Realism and Pragmatism in Ethics (Nate Sharadin)
Anti-Theory in Ethics (Independent study with Hille Paakkunainen)
Ethics of Nudging (Independent study with Ben Bradley)
*Motivation (Hille Paakkunainen)
*Animal Ethics (Ben Bradley)
*Free Will (Mark Heller)
*Prudence (Ben Bradley)
Epistemology (*=audit)
Topics in Contemporary Epistemology (Nate Sharadin)
Language, Epistemology, Mind, Metaphysics (K. McDaniel, K. Edwards)
*Epistemology (Hille Paakkunainen)
Metaphysics
Beyond the Modal: Essence and Potentiality (Kris McDaniel)
Metaphysics of Ethics (Ben Bradley, Kris McDaniel)
Political Philosophy
Justice and Equality (Ken Baynes)
Philosophy of Social Sciences (Ken Baynes)
History of Philosophy
History of Philosophy (Frederick C. Beiser)
Classical Arabic Philosophy (Kara Richardson)
Logic and Language
Logic and Language (Michael Rieppel)
Concepts (Kevan Edwards)