Jason Branford

Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (Habil.) at the University of Hamburg Centre for Ethics in IT. My Ph.D. (2017-2021, LMU Munich) was entitled "Enhancing Human Lives: Toward an Embedded Approach to the Human Enhancement Project". My academic interests fit broadly into applied ethics and moral, social, and political philosophy (of technology). My primary research interest at present is on the theme of moral and social progress. Within this, I am currently exploring the moral dimensions and implications of various technologies and their potential impact of our 5moral capacities. Here I place particular emphasis on how these intersect with existing social and political structures that influence both he development of technologies and their potential outcomes. I am also interested in topics on the ethics of immigration, human rights, solidarity, and cosmopolitanism. My philosophy is greatly inspired by John Dewey's pragmatism and social psychology, Iris Marion Young's feminism, and relational egalitarianism.