Biography Prof. Castro’s research interests are in information/data ethics, fair machine learning, and epistemology. He is interested in ethical questions raised by the attention economy and algorithmic bias. He is also interested in working with practitioners. For instance, he is working with a group of data scientists and addiction researchers on a project, funded by …
Biography Professor Kreitmair’s scholarly work includes topics in clinical, research, and consumer ethics. Within clinical ethics, she works on questions around the determination of death in a clinical setting. In research ethics, she is interested in the moral status of novel “human brain surrogates”, such as human brain organoids. Within consumer bioethics, Professor Kreitmair focuses …
Biography Keisha Lindsay is a professor in the departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recipient of the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Inclusive Excellence. Professor Lindsay’s research and teaching interests include feminist political theory, black feminisms, and gender-based politics in the African diaspora. She is …
Biography Gary Lupyan’s research interests span the role of language in cognition , the evolution of language, and the cognitive penetrability of perception. More recently, he has been working on individual differences in subjective experience (with a focus on inner speech), and understanding the ability of generative AI systems such as large language models to …
Biography Prof. O’Brien specializes in the philosophy of education, with a focus on understanding how the values of liberty, equality, and community bear on educational justice. His other areas of expertise are normative ethics and political philosophy, with a focus on understanding the moral significance of distributive inequality. In both areas of research, he is …
Biography Alan Rubel is professor and current director of the UW Information School and former director of the Center for Law, Society & Justice. He is a member of the department of Medical History and Bioethics and a faculty affiliate of the UW law school. Professor Rubel’s research interests include information ethics, law, and policy; …
Biography Professor Varsava works in the philosophy of law, focusing on topics of legal reasoning and interpretation, adjudication, judicial decision making, and legal ethics. She is especially interested in precedent, procedural norms and practices, and the relationship between legal and moral reasoning and between law and morality more broadly. Recent publications include “Reconstructing Precedent” (forthcoming …