Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Brandon Ashby (SENSOR Project)
Brandon Ashby works in the philosophy of perception, consciousness, and cognitive science. He is interested in the structure of perceptual consciousness, broadly construed. He argues that one sort of structure that consciousness has is a grammatical or syntactic structure. His work is informed by research in cognitive neuroscience and machine learning. He also maintains interests in core cognition, primatology, the epistemology of value, and the philosophy of disability. He is currently part of the SENSOR project on sensory extension.
Email address: brandon.j.ashby@fau.de
Dr. Björn Lundgren
Björn Lundgren received his PhD 2018 from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) and has since worked at various institutions such as the Institute for Futures Studies, Umeå University, and Utrecht University, on projects ranging from information ethics and risks, to ethics of artificial intelligence and methodological questions of doing philosophy and ethics (of technology) in particular. At PAIR, Lundgren is continuing his work on AI ethics, broadly speaking, but with a focus on aspects relating to information ethics and methods of doing AI ethics.
Email address: bjorn.lundgren@fau.de
Dr. Hadeel Naeem (partially COMPAIN project)
Hadeel Naeem works in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Hadeel is exploring how we can responsibly use AI systems to further our epistemic goals. As part of the COMPAIN project, Hadeel will also investigate the complexities of pain.
Email address: hadeel.naeem@fau.de
Dr. Ian Robertson
Ian Robertson’s primary research interests intersect epistemology and the philosophy of cognitive science. He is presently focussed on characterising how the way we learn from AI structurally parallels with the way we learn from human experts. In this way, Robertson interrogates AI integration from the vantage point of social epistemology.
Email address: ian.george.robertson@fau.de