I study how philosophical inquiry makes progress and build AI systems to accelerate it. My current project, Pensatura, aims to develop arguments stronger than those in the existing literature and make deep philosophical understanding available on demand. It preserves arguments, objections and source interpretations so later inquiries can challenge, revise and extend the work.
Alongside Pensatura, I am developing a benchmark of complete philosophical inquiries, intended to be an extreme challenge for the best human philosophers in the world. It will assess engagement with the literature, original argument, formal and probabilistic reasoning, …
I study how philosophical inquiry makes progress and build AI systems to accelerate it. My current project, Pensatura, aims to develop arguments stronger than those in the existing literature and make deep philosophical understanding available on demand. It preserves arguments, objections and source interpretations so later inquiries can challenge, revise and extend the work.
Alongside Pensatura, I am developing a benchmark of complete philosophical inquiries, intended to be an extreme challenge for the best human philosophers in the world. It will assess engagement with the literature, original argument, formal and probabilistic reasoning, responses to criticism and new evidence, and application to concrete cases. The initial focus is the ethics and epistemology of AI research autonomy.
My research on Hume concerns knowledge, argumentation, and how philosophical reasoning generates and stabilizes belief. I received my PhD from Notre Dame in 2019, won a €100,000 Irish Research Council fellowship for a two-year project I designed and led at University College Dublin, and taught at Notre Dame, Fort Lewis College, and UNC–Chapel Hill.
I welcome conversations about philosophical AI, evaluation and research collaboration: [email protected]
