Academic Background
David Storrs-Fox is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College. He is also a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology.
David received his PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where he also worked as a Lecturer. He was previously at Oxford, where he received a BPhil in Philosophy and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Before coming to Jesus, he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Lecturer in Philosophy at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Logic
- General Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
Research Interest
David works in moral philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of action. The central idea of his recent work is that there is nothing whatsoever that agents in our world are infallibly able to do, no realm of actions insulated from the risk of failure. He argues that this idea has important ethical implications. His current research concerns the ethics of groups that are composed of both human and AI agents, with a focus on the abilities such groups have and the moral responsibility they might bear.
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
- Mathematics and Philosophy
- Philosophy and Theology
- Philosophy and Modern Languages
- Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE)
- Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics
See also David’s personal profile and the Institute for Ethics in AI website.