Alex Katha Dornenzweig is a PhD researcher, writing a transdisciplinary analysis on how we can assess sentience in non-human minds as scientifically, ethically and practically as possible. Their focus is on progress made in recognising suffering and agency in non-human animals, the approaches this opens up and warnings this throws up for synthetic agents, and implications of the function of conscious experience in organically evolved agents for enabling rational responses to novel challenges.
- Their university forbids prepublishing of PhD chapters, but you can email them if you want to read finished chapters. :)
They are experienced and gen…
Alex Katha Dornenzweig is a PhD researcher, writing a transdisciplinary analysis on how we can assess sentience in non-human minds as scientifically, ethically and practically as possible. Their focus is on progress made in recognising suffering and agency in non-human animals, the approaches this opens up and warnings this throws up for synthetic agents, and implications of the function of conscious experience in organically evolved agents for enabling rational responses to novel challenges.
- Their university forbids prepublishing of PhD chapters, but you can email them if you want to read finished chapters. :)
They are experienced and genuinely passionate about teaching, mentoring and supervising. They enjoy showing the concrete use and relevance of philosophical concepts to students from different fields, and teaching courses focussed on critical reasoning. They have practical experience and interest in handling LLMs in educational settings. And they are a native English and German speaker, and learning Dutch (currently A2-B1).
Cares about the climate catastrophe and biodiversity loss, minority rights (in particular LGBT+, feminism and neurodiversity), and about non-human animal rights and AI ethics, in particular the threat of both under- and overattribution of sentience based on anthropocentric bias rather than science.
