Hi Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab, based at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. We use experimental philosophy and moral psychology methods to study morality, with the aim of contributing to normative and philosophical debates in ethics. Follow us to keep up with our work!

In November, I had a great time talking with Ben Byford about artificial moral agency for the Machine Ethics Podcast. The episode is now out: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/mora...

And now, I'm thrilled to be starting a postdoc at Cornell Tech as part of the Digital Life Initiative!

Officially Dr. Semler! Graduated from Oxford with a DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy for my dissertation "On Artificial Moral Agency"! Special thanks to my wonderful supervisors @carissaveliz.bsky.social and Alison Hills; examiners Roger Crisp and David Shoemaker; and mentors, friends, and family.

Can we teach ethics to machines? And if we can, should we? Join @jensemler.bsky.social online on Wednesday 23rd to find out more... uehiro.web.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth... #Bitesize #ethics #AI #onlineeducation #PhilosophyMatters

I'm also excited to share that another paper of mine, co-authored with Helena Ward and Rhys Southan, "A Timing Problem for Instrumental Convergence," is out in Philosophical Studies! doi.org/10.1007/s110...

I'm so excited to share that the first paper from my dissertation, "Moral Agency without Consciousness," is now out at the Canadian Journal of Philosophy! doi.org/10.1017/can....