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Dr. William Ratoff

Assistant Professor (Philosophy)
      
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Dr. William Ratoff

Assistant Professor (Philosophy)

 ratoffw@tcd.ie

 


My research interests lie moral philosophy - especially the ethics of A.I. - and the philosophy of mind and of cognitive science. I joined Trinity in January 2022. Before that I worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Dartmouth College. I received a PhD in Philosophy from Yale University in 2019, an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London in 2011, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 2010. I am currently working on various papers concerning the ethics of A.I., normative ethics, normative jurisprudence, practical reason, and moral psychology.
  ETHICS OF AI   Metaethics   Normative Ethics   PHILOSOPHY OF AI
Experimental Ethics in, editor(s)David Copp , Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory, Oxford, 2024, [William Ratoff], Notes: [Forthcoming], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
William Ratoff, How Should Predictive Processors Conceive of Practical Reason?, Synthese, 2024, Notes: [10.1007/s11229-023-04354-5], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
William Ratoff, Practical Reason as Theoretical Reason, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 2024, p1-39 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Motivation and Moral Agency in, editor(s)Bertram Malle, Phillip Robbins , The Cambridge Companion to Moral Psychology, 2023, [William Ratoff], Notes: [Forthcoming], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
William Ratoff, Radical Cognitivism about Practical Reason, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2023, Notes: [Forthcoming], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
William Ratoff, The Right to Mental Autonomy: Its Nature and Scope, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2023, Notes: [Forthcoming], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
William Ratoff, Self-Driving Cars and the Right to Drive, Philosophy and Technology, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
William Ratoff, How Humeans Can Make Normative Beliefs Motivating, Philosophical Studies, 178, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
William Ratoff, Can the Predictive Processing Model of the Mind Ameliorate the AI Value-Alignment Problem?, Ethics and Information Technology, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL