Philosophical Disquisitions

Lots of algorithmic tools are now used to support decision-making in the criminal justice system. Many of them are criticised for being...

  What happens if an autonomous machine does something wrong? Who, if anyone, should be held responsible for the machine's actions? That...

Morality can often seem pretty diverse. There are moral rules governing our physical and sexual interactions with other human beings; there ...

    Are robots like humans? Are they agents? Can we have relationships with them? These are just some of the questions I explore with today...

I’ve recently become fascinated by moral revolutions. As I have explained before, by “moral revolution” I mean a change in social beliefs a...

If an AI system makes a decision, should its reasons for making that decision be explainable to you? In this episode, I chat to Scott Robb...

[What follows is the text for a sample “introduction to law”/“critical thinking and law” class that I sometimes run. It is about the du...