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25To Envy an AlgorithmIn Sara Protasi (ed.), The Moral Psychology of Envy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 199-216. 2022.
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43The End of Vagueness: Technological Epistemicism, Surveillance Capitalism, and Explainable Artificial IntelligenceMinds and Machines 32 (3): 585-611. 2022.Artificial Intelligence (AI) pervades humanity in 2022, and it is notoriously difficult to understand how certain aspects of it work. There is a movement—_Explainable_ Artificial Intelligence (XAI)—to develop new methods for explaining the behaviours of AI systems. We aim to highlight one important philosophical significance of XAI—it has a role to play in the elimination of vagueness. To show this, consider that the use of AI in what has been labeled _surveillance capitalism_ has resulted in hu…Read more
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50On the rationality of emotion regulationPhilosophical Psychology 34 (4): 453-473. 2021.Much of the recent work in psychology (and affective science) has shown that humans regulate their emotions nearly constantly, sometimes well and sometimes poorly. I argue that properly regulating one’s emotions displays emotional rationality, and failing to do so displays emotional irrationality. If an agent feels an emotion that is obviously problematic for the agent to feel and she is aware that it is problematic, then the agent ought to regulate her emotions in future similar situations. To …Read more
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2Fear of the Gruffalo: A Case of Emotions as TestimonyIn Ware L. (ed.), The Moral Psychology of Fear. The Moral Psychology of the Emotions, Rowman & Littlefield. forthcoming.
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3Anticipatory GuiltIn Corey Maley & Bradford Cokelet (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Guilt, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2019.
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126A plea for KRSynthese 198 (4): 3047-3071. 2019.There is a strong case to be made for thinking that an obscure logic, KR, is better than classical logic and better than any relevant logic. The argument for KR over relevant logics is that KR counts disjunctive syllogism valid, and this is the biggest complaint about relevant logics. The argument for KR over classical logic depends on the normativity of logic and the paradoxes of implication. The paradoxes of implication are taken by relevant logicians to justify relevant logic, but considerati…Read more
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Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
Feminist Philosophy |
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence |