Aliya R. Dewey

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence Research (PAIR) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) in Germany. I will join the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh as postdoctoral associate in Fall 2024 and then I will join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) as assistant professor in Fall 2025. I specialise in the philosophy of cognitive science (neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence) and the philosophy of biology from the perspective of general philosophy of science and metanormative theory. My research focuses on mechanistic explanation, functional analysis, and experimental design in neuroscience, psychology, and AI. A recurring theme in my work is that objective norms are indispensable to scientific inquiry because they direct us to explain success and failure in different ways.