photo by Michelle Doherty

I am a philosopher interested in expertise, learning, and bias. I have written on the nature of perceptual learning and how it differs from other forms of learning, the role of attention in perceptual learning, how perceptual expertise can justify our beliefs, and ways in which our learning and expertise can be biased by culture, amongst other topics.

Much of my current research is on the value of human expertise in the face of AI ‘experts’ and how human expertise can contribute to both our own wellbeing and a flourishing society. I am also involved in an interdisciplinary project on trustworthy AI through my membership in the Digital Transparency Research Excellence Cluster at UBC.

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and a Faculty Associate at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics. I hold the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Wellbeing, and Ethics. 

Before coming to UBC, I held a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research position at the Percepts and Concepts Lab at Indiana University, Bloomington where I worked on bias in perceptual learning with Dr. Rob Goldstone.