Tom Stoneham
Professor of Philosophy, University of York
Tom Stoneham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He has been Head of Department (2006-14, 2020-24) and inaugural Dean of the York Graduate Research School (2015-20). He is currently Co-Director of Training and Ethics Lead for the SAINTS Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe AI Systems, and Convenor of the MA in Applied Ethics and Governance of Data Privacy.
His research has spanned many areas, including early modern philosophy (he is currently President of the International Berkeley Society), self-knowledge, perception, dreaming, trauma-related experiences, time and nothing. He is currently working on AI ethics and a non-perfectionist approach to normative theory.
Contact:
- Email: tom.stoneham@york.ac.uk
- Messaging: Signal / Matrix / XMPP / DeltaChat
- Zoom phone: +441904323258
- Socials: Mastodon / Bluesky
- Blog: 24601
Find out more:
- Academic CV
- Research Profile at University of York
- UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe AI Systems: SAINTS
- Teaching: MA in Applied Ethics and Governance of Data Privacy
Research Networks:
- AI and Society Lab (AIS)
- Science and Technology Studies at York (SATSU)
- Responsible and Ethical AI for Future Actions
- NET-humAIN
- Complex Trauma Institute
Current doctoral supervision:
- Daryl Tyrer, A defense of a reformulated version of the evolutionary argument against naturalism
- Harmony Ezeuko, Toward a New Model of Consciousness
- Alynn Zhang, On Boredom
- Guangwei Teng, The Integration of Practical Medicine and Philosophical Theology in Berkeley's Siris
- Nina Seron-Abouelfadil, Political Ecology of AI
- Tom Forman, Just Cyberwarfare?
- Xiao Wang, Presentism
- Shenhao Li, Berkeley's Uses of Chinese Philosophy
