Research

My current work is exploring the epistemological and ethical aspects of AI, particularly as it is applied to help us manage uncertainty, filter information, and support decision making. I am especially interested in the epistemology and ethics of recommendation, information retrieval and decision support systems.  I am also interested in the epistemology of de se beliefs, or beliefs about oneself, and how they feature in uncertain reasoning.

Ethics and Philosophy of Technology

Large language models challenge the future of higher education (with J. McGrane and S. Leonelli), Nature Machine Intelligence (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00644-2 

Algorithmic profiling as a source of hermeneutical injustice (with C. Prunkl) Philos Stud (2024). https://doi-org.uoelibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02095-2

AI Reflections in 2021 (with Buckner, C., Miikkulainen, R., Forrest, S. et al), Nat Mach Intell 4, 5–10 (2022). Available OA: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00435-7 

Epistemic fragmentation poses a threat to the governance of online targeting (with B. Mittelstadt, S. Wachter and C. Russell), Nature Machine Intelligence 3, 466-472 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00358-3

Recommender Systems and their Ethical Challenges (with M. Taddeo and L. Floridi), AI & Society (2020). [Available Open Access. Preprints on PhilPapers and SSRN]

Ethical Aspects of Multi-stakeholder Recommendation Systems (with M. Taddeo and L. Floridi), The Information Society (2021). [Preprint available on PhilPapers and SSRN]

The 2019 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab (edited by Christopher Burr and Silvia Milano) [Springer]

D. Boonin. The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People (OUP, 2014). Economics and Philosophy, Vol. 32, Issue 2, July 2016. [journal] [penultimate draft]

Epistemology

Rational updating at the crossroads (with A. Perea), Economics and Philosophy (2023). [Open Access - PhilPapers]

Bayesian Beauty, Erkenntnis (2022) * [Winner of the 2018 biannual LSE Philosophy Popper Prize] [published Open  Access - PhilPapers]

De se beliefs and centred uncertainty (PhD thesis) [Link to LSE Theses Online]