Joe Edelman
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I am the Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at University College, Oxford . Before that I was a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick , New Jersey in the United States. I’ve held visiting positions at the University of California, Los Angeles philosophy department and at the University of Chicago Law School . Before my life as a philosopher, I worked as a law associate on a (pro bono) death penalty case and several (non pro bono)
My current academic interests concern the nature of normativity, the structure of values and reasons, practical reason, agency, rationality, population ethics, love, commitment, decision-making, and the self. Most recently I am exploring ways in which the AI alignment problem might be addressed by designing technology to recognize ‘hard choices’. My research on choice and decision-making has been profiled by print, television and radio media outlets in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Taiwan, Australia, Italy, I
Joe Edelman