I am a philosopher working mostly in ethics and metaethics, with a strong interest in the ethics of technology.
I'm working as a researcher on the ESDiT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) project. My postdoctoral project centres on mutual justification approaches for socially disruptive technologies. Mutual justification approaches in ethics (e.g. contractualism, constructivism, discourse ethics) hold that an action is morally permissible, or a principle is authoritative, if it could be justified to the people it would affect.
This way of thinking about ethics could help inform more applied ethics of technology, particularly the ethics of socially disruptive technologies--technologies that result in destabilising change to the social status-quo. How and when, for instance, can these disruptions be justified?
Another interesting question is whether our concepts, including our moral concepts, are themselves disrupted by the spread of certain technologies. If so, the impacts of socially disruptive technologies could present new challenges to ethical and metaethical theories, which tend to assume that central moral concepts are largely fixed.
Before starting at Utrecht, I completed my PhD at Edinburgh in which I defended a constructivist account of the foundations of moral normativity. Since completing my PhD, I have also worked on the nature of artificial agency and taught courses on Ethics, Philosophy of AI, and Moral Responsibility.