David Storrs-Fox | Ethics in AI

David Storrs-Fox is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College. He is also a Lecturer in Philosophy at St Catherine's College and a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology.

David received his PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where he also worked as a Lecturer. He was previously at Oxford, where he received a BPhil in Philosophy and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Before coming to the Institute he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Research Interests:

David works in moral philosophy, metaphysics and the philosophy of action. The central idea of his recent work is that there is nothing whatsoever that agents in our world are infallibly able to do, no realm of actions insulated from the risk of failure. He argues that this idea has important ethical implications. His current research concerns the ethics of groups that are composed of both human and AI agents, with a focus on the abilities such groups have and the moral responsibility they might bear.

Selected publications:

'Graded Abilities and Action Fragility,' Erkenntnis (forthcoming).
'Explanation and the A-theory,' Philosophical Studies (2021). Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-021-01646-9
'Hume's Skeptical Definitions of Cause,' Hume Studies (2017). Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/762165/pdf

More details available at:

david.storrs-fox@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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