Hello! I'm Bill D'Alessandro (he/him). My research is on philosophy of science and math, and also increasingly on applied ethics, especially philosophy of AI. Explanation, understanding and modeling in scientific practice are recurring themes in my science-oriented work. On the ethics side, I'm particularly interested in the transformative effects and potential risks of future AI systems.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William & Mary.
I was previously a a Marie Skłodowska-Curie/UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Before that I was a postdoc at the Munich Center…
Hello! I'm Bill D'Alessandro (he/him). My research is on philosophy of science and math, and also increasingly on applied ethics, especially philosophy of AI. Explanation, understanding and modeling in scientific practice are recurring themes in my science-oriented work. On the ethics side, I'm particularly interested in the transformative effects and potential risks of future AI systems.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William & Mary.
I was previously a a Marie Skłodowska-Curie/UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Before that I was a postdoc at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University) and a resident Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety in San Francisco. I did my PhD in philosophy, and an MS in math, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
I'm an Associate Editor at Inquiry and the editor for the Number Theory and Nondeductive Methods in Mathematics categories on PhilPapers.
