Research Fellows
Dr. Björn Lundgren | Senior Research Fellow
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, with a focus on aspects relating to information ethics and methods of doing AI ethics.
- Lundgren, Björn (forthcoming). No value alignment without control. AI and Ethics.
- Lundgren, Björn. & Nuñez Hernández, Nancy Abigail (forthcoming). Is automated therapy dignified Philosophy of AI.
- Anderson, J., Hopster, J., and Lundgren, B. 2026. Defining Socially Disruptive Technologies and Reframing the Ethical Challenges They Pose. Technology in Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2026.103216.
- Lundgren, Björn. 2025. The Risk of Surveillance Capitalism. Philosophy & Technology 38, 174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00983-5
- Lundgren, Björn. 2025. Review of Norbert Paulo and Lando Kirchmair, Moral Dilemmas Involving Self-Driving Cars: How to Regulate Them and Why Your Opinion Matters (New York: Routledge, 2025), x + 90pp, $37.49. Law and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-025-09549-0
- Lundgren, Björn. (2025). Teaching Trade-offs in a Digital Ethics Course. Teaching Ethics, 24(2), 257–265. https://doi.org/10.5840/tej202579163
- Lundgren, Björn & Stefánsson, H. Orri. (2025). Can the Normic de minimis Expected Utility Theory save the de minimis Principle?. Erkenntnis 90, 1255–1263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00751-x
- Lundgren, Björn. (2025). Can Deepfakes Violate an Individual’s Moral Right to Privacy?. Ethical Theory Moral Practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-025-10514-y
- Lundgren, Björn. (2025). How social should AI be? Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-025-01005-8
- Marchiori, Samuela; Hopster, Jeroen K.; Puzio, Anna.; van Riemsdijk, M. Birna; Kraaijeveld, Steven R.; Lundgren, Björn; Viehoff, Juri; and Lily E. Frank (2025). A Social Disruptiveness-Based Approach to AI Governance: Complementing the Risk-Based Approach of the AI Act. Science and Engineering Ethics 31 (25). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-025-00545-0
- Lundgren, Björn. On the Limits of the Data Economy: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles. Science and Engineering Ethics 31 (16). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-025-00540-5
- Lundgren, Björn (2025). God and the Possibility of a Moral Right to Privacy. SOPHIA 64, 339–344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-024-01057-3
- Lundgren, Björn (2025). Hobbes’ Ship of Theseus: On the Limits of Surviving a Gradual Replacement of Parts. Theoria, e70013. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.70013
Dr. Hadeel Naeem | Research Fellow
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 also investigates the complexities of pain.
- Naeem, Hadeel (2026). Integration, epistemic responsibility and seamlessness. In: Bernhard Koch & David Winkler (eds): Artificial Intelligence Ethics in Military Medicine and Humanitarian Healthcare. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11331-3_10
- Naeem, Hadeel (2025).Teaching skills and intellectual virtues with generative AI. Episteme, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2025.10089
- Naeem, Hadeel (2025). AI and the complexity of pain. Philosophy and Technology 38(4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00988-0
- Hauser, Julian and Hadeel Naeem (2024). Phenomenal transparency and the boundary of cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-024-10025-8
- Naeem, Hadeel and Julian Hauser (2024). Should We Discourage AI Extension? Epistemic Responsibility and AI. Philosophy and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00774-4
- Naeem, Hadeel (2023). Is a subpersonal virtue epistemology possible? Philosophical Explorations. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2023.2183240
Dr. Ian Robertson | Research Fellow
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.
- Robertson, Ian (under contract). AI and Expertise. Cambridge University Press.
- Robertson, Ian (2025). AI, Trust and Reliability. Philosophy & Technology 38 (3), 94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00924-2
- Kirchhoff, Michael David; Julian Kiverstein; and Ian Robertson (2025). The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 76 (3), 639-662.
- Robertson, Ian (2025). A Problem for Autonomous Know-How. Erkenntnis 90 (4), 1683-1691. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00849-w
- Hutto, Daniel D.; and Ian Robertson (2024). What Comes Naturally? Relaxed Naturalism’s New Philosophy of Nature. In Naturalism and Its Challenges, edited by Gary N. Kemp, Ali Hossein Khani, Hossein Sheykh Rezaee and Hassan Amiriara, 19-35. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003430568
- Robertson, Ian (2024). In defence of radically enactive imagination. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.5840/tht202421525
Miriam Gorr | Research Fellow
Miriam’s research explores the moral status of the intersection between AI systems, humans, and animals. For her Ph.D. project, she developed an interest-based framework for determining the moral status of intelligent machines. She is also contributing to the K3I-Cycling project by examining the ethical opportunities and challenges of AI-driven recycling systems.
- Gorr, Miriam (2024). Is moral status done with words? A reply to Coeckelbergh’s performative view of moral status. Ethics and Information Technology, 26(1), 10.
- Gorr, Miriam (2023). How We Respond to Robots and Whether It Matters Morally. In: Social Robots in Social Institutions. IOS Press, 2023. 498-507.
- Gorr, Miriam (2023). Book review: This Is Technology Ethics: An Introduction. Journal of Applied Philosophy 40.4.
- Gorr, Miriam (2023). AI & Human Interaction. Philosophy Now, 155, 12-15.