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Trinity College, Dublin
School of Computer Science and Statistics

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Durham University
Department of Philosophy

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Trinity College, Dublin

Department of Philosophy

PhD, 2016

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Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Philosophy of Computing and Information

Philosophy of Technology

Computer Science

Philosophy of Linguistics

Philosophy of Language

General Philosophy of Science

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Areas of Interest

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Philosophy of Mind

PhilPapers Editorships

Explainability in Artificial Intelligence

Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence

Pre-Socratic Philosophy

Empedocles’ Account of Wine (fr.81) and Premodern Oenology
Leon Wash

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 64 (2). 2024.

In Empedocles’ “wine is water from bark, rotten in wood,” the reference is not to a wooden cask but to the grapevine itself, in which wine was thought to form naturally.