research

My research is primarily in normative ethics and the ethics of technology.

Dissertation

My dissertation concerns the nature and significance of privacy. I argue that the preeminent theories of privacy, control-based theories, are insufficient to capture the nature of the private sphere. Secondarily, I explore the role of privacy in social life and interpersonal relationships.

Other Projects

A paper about algorithmic fairness - under review

This paper argues that, contrary to popular trends in the AI fairness debate, we should be pluralists about algorithmic fairness metrics.

A paper about animal oppression - under review

This paper argues that adaptive preferences (as theorized by feminist philosophers) can be used to demonstrate why the preferences of domestic animals are sometimes less instructive than they appear.

Public Explanations and the Shortcomings of Mechanistic Interpretability

This paper is a critique of the growing trend in AI research to mechanistically explain the behavior of LLMs.