Why is science beautiful?
Many aspects of science are considered beautiful: theories; models; experiments; images; explanations. But what is the role and function of beauty in science? What does it say about the world and about us?
How do we choose between theories of the world?
How do we choose between rival scientific theories when the data fits both? What is the role of the scientist making such choices, and what non-empirical factors can and do they use?
​In what ways are experiments similar to artworks?
​In what ways are experiments similar to artworks? Can the experiment be appreciated aesthetically, and if so, how? Find out in my new book, The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments co-edited with Alice Murphy.

WHAT'S NEW?

My recent article AI, Art and Morality received a nomination for the AI 2050 Prize, in recognition of “making a significant contribution to resolving one of the top 10 hard questions in AI”. The article asks whether AI generated art really is art, whether it undermines or existentially threatens art, and whether such art can ever be valuable. I explore how our moral stance towards artistic exploitation, data bias and environmental cost can prevent us from wanting to engage and find value in AI generated art. By drawing on the moralism literature in philosophy of art, and the argument from the imaginative resistance, I argue that there are circumstances under which we could overcome our imaginative resistance and find value in pieces generated with AI.
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I received the 2024 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for my article “What Is a Beautiful Experiment?”. from the American Philosophical Association

I was recently awarded a Visiting Professorship from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris where I will be delivering a series of lectures in 2026. 
New Paper on Critical Epistemologies of AI Healthcare Apps with Aisha Sobey critically reflects on the narratives surrounding AI powered healthcare Apps and draws lessons from Feminist framework to explore whether and under what conditions such Apps can be beneficial to their users.  

UPCOMING TALKS.

I will be delivering The Rosemary Murray Library Conversations on AI at Murray Edwards College on the 26th of January.

I will be speaking about the Aesthetics of Chemistry on the 26th of October in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge

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