research

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

Dissertation

• My dissertation concerns the nature and significance of privacy. In my dissertation, I defend the view that information, and in particular knowledge, are less central to privacy than has previously been appreciated. Secondarily, my dissertation explores the role of privacy in social life and interpersonal relationships. Within my dissertation, I am currently working on the following papers:

• A paper about privacy and speculation

  • This paper argues that public speculation about intimate topics can constitute a violation of privacy even when no novel sensitive information is revealed about a subject.

• We Should All Know Less About Each Other

  • This paper is about the relationship between oversharing and privacy, and why sometimes, we ought to keep things private for the sake of other people.

• Inferential Privacy and Artificial Intelligence

  • This paper explores how predictive algorithms can violate one’s privacy despite lacking access to anyone’s privileged information.

Other Projects

• A paper about mechanistic interpretability

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

• A paper about algorithmic fairness

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

• Adaptive Preferences and Animal Oppression

  • 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.