Associate Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University
I am an Associate Professor in School of Philosophy at The Australian National University. My research interests center on philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, particularly where they intersect in philosophy of psychology. My current research projects include examining the methodology of functional brain imaging, defending the imperative theory of pain, and thinking about the evolution and neural underpinnings of conscious experience. More recent work focuses on artificial intelligence and its consequences.
The 'painless woman' helps us see how anxiety and fear fit in the big picture of pain
Apr 08, 2019 05:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Imagine a life without pain. No toothache. No period pain. No arthritis. A woman who feels no pain has been in the news recently, linked to a case study published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. Jo Cameron...
Why we need more than just data to create ethical driverless cars
Oct 26, 2018 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
What do we want driverless cars to do in unavoidable fatal crashes? Today researchers published a ground-breaking paper The Moral Machine experiment to address this question. To create data for the study, almost 40...
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