Dissertation supervision

I am open to supervising dissertation projects and independent research papers on (a) topics in contemporary analytic political, moral, and legal philosophy, (b) philosophical questions in machine learning (including, but not limited to: algorithmic fairness, explainability & justification, uncertainty & risk, agency & liability). Interested students are welcome to contact me via e-mail.

 

Supervision of undergraduate dissertations and research projects

2021-22: Supervisor of Lauren Tew (Philosophy, University of York), dissertation on practicality and consequentialist morality.

2021: Supervisor of a YorRobots summer research internship project on trustworthy socially assistive robots (student: Nikhita Jandu). YorRobots is a research initiative by the University of York, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Lloyd's Register Foundation.

2020-21: Supervisor of Isobel Standen (Philosophy, University of York), dissertation on algorithmic discrimination.

2020-21: Supervisor of Nikhita Jandu (Philosophy, University of York), dissertation on algorithmic discrimination.

2019: Supervisor of Jake Caddeau (Philosophy, Princeton University), independent junior research project on discrimination and the concept of algorithmic fairness.

2018-19: Values and Public Life: Senior Thesis workshop programme at Princeton University. Instructor for undergraduate students from various disciplines who aim to integrate a normative component into their Senior thesis, Princeton University.

Supervision of postgraduate dissertations and research projects

2022: Supervisor of Nicholas Barrow (MA Philosophy of AI, University of York), MA dissertation on the rights of artificial agents.

2022: Supervisor of Colum Noone (MA Philosophy of AI, University of York), MA dissertation on universalism and AI ethics.

2021: Supervisor of Padraig Lee (MA Philosophy, University of York), MA dissertation on algorithmic injustice.

PhD & other graduate students

 

Ethics of AI

Princeton University, 2018-19 & 2019-20.

Interdisciplinary seminar for PhD students in STEM subjects, humanities, and social sciences. Professional Development Learning Cohort programme.

More information.

Media coverage.

Faculty profile & interview on Princeton University's GradFutures website.

Foundations: Master of Public Policy

University of Oxford, 2015.

Seminar Leader, Foundations module (political philosophy) for the Master of Public Policy degree at the Blavatnik School of Government.

Moral Contractualism

University of Bayreuth. 2016.

Lecturer, graduate and undergraduate students, seminar designed and taught with Matthias Brinkmann.

Syllabus.

Undergraduate students

Science, Ethics, and Society

University of Oxford, 2016 & 2017.

Lecturer, Duke University exchange programme at the University of Oxford. Syllabus.


Gandhi, King, and the Politics of Nonviolence

Yale University, 2016.

Teaching Fellow (Professor Karuna Mantena).


Political Sociology

University of Oxford, 2014.

Tutor, St Anne’s College.


Modern Political Theory

Freie Universität Berlin, 2012.

Tutor (Professor Bernd Ladwig).

Theory of Politics (Prelims)

University of Oxford, 2017.

Tutor, Christ Church College.



Theory of Politics

University of Oxford, 2016.

Tutor, Oriel College.

Theory of Politics (Prelims)

University of Oxford, 2013.

Tutor, Blackfriars College.

Degree examinations

 

PhD Thesis Examiner at the University of York

2021. Doctoral thesis by Zoe Porter.

External Examiner at Swarthmore College

2019 & 2020. Final Honors examinations in Modern Political Theory.

Experiential & community-based learning

 

Punishment: Theory and Practice

Princeton University, 2019.

I delivered a guest lecture for this course aimed at undergraduate students at Princeton University and inmates at East Jersey State Prison, organised by the Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative and the University Center for Human Values. Instructor: Professor Benjamin Berger. My article “Criminal Disenfranchisement and Political Wrongdoing,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 47, no. 4 (2019): 378-411 was featured on the course syllabus.