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Kathleen Creel
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Computer Science
@Northeastern. Machine learning & scientific knowledge; ethics of automated decision-making.

https://kathleenacreel.com/
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Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org
AIDE Summer
AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, metascience, epistemology, or other areas with potenti...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city.

Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

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November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
I loved this episode because I'm basically an unreconstructed Smithian on these points, and I also just do bite the cultural relativism bullet they discuss for pretty much the reasons they outline!
leftofphilosophy.bsky.social What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · Nov 3
new episode out now! we talk about Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, which is a sophisticated and nuanced account of approbation, justice, and why you get the ick when someone doesn't appreciate a movie you really like. it's great actually. www.patreon.com/posts/123-ad...
123 | Adam Smith and the Lessons of Sympathy | What's Left of Philosophy
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November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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My paper w/ Bosco Garcia (UCSD) & Harman Brah (UCLA) on the 'problem of atypicality' for LLM-powered psychiatry is now published at the Journal of Medical Ethics! Just as GPT5 is touting capability as "active thought partner"...

JME link: bit.ly/jme-atypical...
Preprint: bit.ly/atypicality-...
The problem of atypicality in LLM-powered psychiatry
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed as scalable solutions to the global mental health crisis. But their deployment in psychiatric contexts raises a distinctive ethical concern: the ...
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August 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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What a (realist) status quo friendly political theory looks like: the case of Simon Stevin.
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What a (realist) status quo friendly political theory looks like: the case of Simon Stevin.
There are very few works of political theory that defend status quo bias as such — as distinct from a particular, preferred status quo bias — and that do so with realist presuppositions.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This looks super. Ward argues that identifiable differences between brains do not warrant inference to distinct 'brain types'. Her point on role of machine learning in identification of clusters is also interesting:"we should not conflate supervised classification with scientific classification."
thebjps.bsky.social British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Jul 18
Just accepted:

'Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains'
– Zina Ward

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky
ABSTRACT. Neuroscientists are at loggerheads about whether to draw a distinction between the male and female brain. The controversy is primarily rooted not in disagreement about first-order empirical results, but in conflicting assumptions about what will establish a difference between two brain types. Understanding these commitments through the lens of philosophical work on natural kinds, I show that both sides of the debate adopt implausible assumptions about kindhood. Relying on a framework provided by cluster theories of natural kinds, I provide a philosophically and empirically motivated argument against the view that male and female brains are natural kinds. Because machine learning methods play an increasingly important role in this debate, my argument has implications for machine learning in science: we should not conflate supervised classification with scientific classification, though some unsupervised methods might help us identify natural kinds if applied with caution.
August 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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👯 Allocation Multiplicity: Evaluating the Promises of the Rashomon Set by Jain et al. (incl. @kathleencreel.bsky.social) argues that allocation (vs. model) multiplicity should be seen as a pathway for reducing discrimination, homogenization, and arbitrariness in decision-making problems.
Screenshot of paper title and author list: Allocation Multiplicity: Evaluating the Promises of the Rashomon Set Shomik Jain, Margaret Wang, Kathleen Creel, Ashia Wilson
July 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Columbia University's Philosophy Department, where Mohsen Mahdawi is a student, has issued a statement. philosophy.columbia.edu
OUR STUDENT, MOHSEN MAHDAWI It has come to the attention of members of the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University that one of our students, Mohsen Mahdawi, was detained in Vermont by agents of the Department of Homeland Security. We express our horror and dismay at the fact that a legal resident of the United States — someone who has been accused of no crime — should be detained in this manner. We would like to convey our sympathy and our support to Mohsen, to his family, and to his friends. We call upon the Provost and Acting President of Columbia University to assist by all means, including through the provision of material and legal resources, any Columbia student targeted or detained—and seemingly only for having exercised their right to the free and peaceful expression of political opinion.
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Do read @kathleencreel.bsky.social's thread. Yes, she is very generous to me, but this is really an excuse to make rather important set of meta-philosophical claims in (ahh) the philosophy of technology. Lurking in her approach is a more ambitious social theory rooted in (ahh) synthetic philosophy.
kathleencreel.bsky.social Kathleen Creel @kathleencreel.bsky.social · Feb 25
Eric has a lovely blog post on the complexity of inventory management by way of Dennett's "Real Patterns" (a favorite of ours). He contrasts the successful use of AI/ML to optimize returns across a multi-location retailer with the still-imprecise hallucinations of generative AI. (1/n)
Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · Feb 21
@kathleencreel.bsky.social maybe amusing, although not new to you
February 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
kathleencreel.bsky.social
Eric has a lovely blog post on the complexity of inventory management by way of Dennett's "Real Patterns" (a favorite of ours). He contrasts the successful use of AI/ML to optimize returns across a multi-location retailer with the still-imprecise hallucinations of generative AI. (1/n)
 Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · Feb 21
@kathleencreel.bsky.social maybe amusing, although not new to you
February 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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alanrichardson.bsky.social
Extremely terrible!!! A big blow to philosophy and HPS, especially.
February 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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ufeest.bsky.social
Despite the disastrous fires in the LA region, the Integrated HPS conference is going ahead as planned (Caltech, March 27-29). You can find the (preliminary) program and registration link below:
sites.google.com/view/integra...
#HPS, #philsci
Integrated HPS - Conferences
International Conferences on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
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February 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
kathleencreel.bsky.social
Hi philosophy friends! Are you aware of any journals that allow the submission of paired articles (e.g. paper and response paper, or two articles on the same topic that are in active dialogue/disagreement)?
January 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM