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Biography
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.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- William Ratoff, How Humeans Can Make Normative Beliefs Motivating, Philosophical Studies, 178, 2021Journal Article, 2021
- William Ratoff, Can the Predictive Processing Model of the Mind Ameliorate the AI Value-Alignment Problem?, Ethics and Information Technology, 2021Journal Article, 2021, URL
- William Ratoff, Self-Driving Cars and the Right to Drive, Philosophy and Technology, 2022Journal Article, 2022
- William Ratoff, Radical Cognitivism about Practical Reason, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2023Journal Article, 2023
- Motivation and Moral Agency in, editor(s)Bertram Malle, Phillip Robbins , The Cambridge Companion to Moral Psychology, 2023, [William Ratoff]Book Chapter, 2023
- William Ratoff, How Should Predictive Processors Conceive of Practical Reason?, Synthese, 2024Journal Article, 2024
- William Ratoff, The Right to Mental Autonomy: Its Nature and Scope, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2023Journal Article, 2023
- William Ratoff, Practical Reason as Theoretical Reason, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 2024, p1-39Journal Article, 2024
- Experimental Ethics in, editor(s)David Copp , Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory, Oxford, 2024, [William Ratoff]Book Chapter, 2024