About

I am an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Philosophy Department at the University at Albany, State University of New York and the Principle Investigator for Trustworthy AI from a User Perspective, a project funded by a grant from the SUNY-IBM AI Research Alliance (2021-2023).  I’m also the Faculty Advisor for UAlbany’s vibrant Minorities and Philosophy Chapter and a member of VAMP, the interdisciplinary Mind Studies Association, and the Center for Technology and Government.

I work primarily in ethics and moral psychology on the topics of trust, promising, rationalization, and self-deception. My recent work appears in Philosophical Studies, Ethics, Philosophical Psychology, Ratio, the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. See my Research page for links to published and forthcoming papers. Here’s a snippet for public radio’s Academic Minute and talks at Oxford’s Wellcome Center for Ethics and Humanities and Penn State’s Rock Center for Ethics. I recently participated in a Chronicle of Higher Ed roundtable of AI and research.

During Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 I was a visiting scholar at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRE) at Université de Montréal. From 2008-2009 I taught at the Harvard Writing Program, and from 2000-2001 I taught at the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology.  In 2002 I worked as a research assistant at the University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics.  I completed a BA from Yale in 2000 and a PhD from Brown in 2009.