School of Humanities and Sciences
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Diana Acosta Navas
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioDiana Acosta-Navas is an Embedded EthiCS fellow at Stanford University, based in the Center for Ethics in Society (EiS) and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University, where she worked as adjunct lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was a recipient of the Edmond J. Safra Center Graduate Fellowship during the academic year 2017-2018, and worked as part of the Embedded EthiCS program in the years 2019 and 2020. Diana studied Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, after which she did a Master's program at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
She works at the intersection of applied ethics, political philosophy, and public policy, addressing issues related to the protection of human rights in scenarios where violence, prejudice and inequality prevent their effective exercise. She has worked on analyzing the moral and political significance of transitional justice institutions and how these can be morally justified to the victims of human rights violations. Her current work analyzes how the moral principles that inspire the right to free speech may be best upheld in the current public forum and the role of digital platforms in creating conditions for a healthy public debate. -
Linda Eggert
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNormative ethics, practical ethics; theories of justice; ethics of war, defensive harming; human rights; AI ethics
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Daniel Hutton Ferris
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioDaniel Hutton Ferris is a democratic theorist working on political representation, transnational governance, and democratic innovations. His PhD research analyzed the way increasing fragmentation in electoral, administrative, and societal representation threatens the legibility and democratic legitimacy of the representative system. As a postdoctoral fellow at the McCoy Family Centre for Ethics in Society, Danny is thinking about whether or how it may be possible to realize democratic simplicity at the transnational level by reforming border-crossing processes of political representation in the EU and elsewhere.
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Ting-An Lin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioTing-An Lin is an Interdisciplinary Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, with a partnership affiliation with the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
Before joining Stanford, she earned her PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University, where she also received a Graduate Certificate in women's and gender studies.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy, with a particular focus on how new forms of technology (such as AI) shape social structures and impose constraints on different groups of people. -
Ann Thresher
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioAnn C Thresher is an applied ethicist working as part of the new school for sustainability at Stanford University. She received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, working in the philosophy of science and environmental-ethics, and has two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Sydney, one in Philosophy and one in Physics. She was a graduate fellow at the Institute for Applied Ethics at UC San Diego, and a 2022 Heinrich Hertz fellow at the University of Bonn.
Her work focuses on emerging environmental technologies and, in particular, what risks we’re warranted in taking to solve environmental crises. As part of this, she works extensively with scientists and policy-makers to help identify and solve the ethics questions that arise out of their work. Current projects include papers on gene-drives, modelling, moratoriums, geo-engineering, and our obligations to future generations. She is also interested in the philosophy of space science and expansion and is currently working on the ethical problems of telescope siting as part of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope's HPC working group. -
Benjamin Xie
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioEmbedded EthiCS Fellow based at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI).
I design tools to contextualize data for equitable computing education, community advocacy, and AI design.
I engage in the fields of computing education, human-computer interaction, and AI Ethics.
