Gabbrielle Johnson

Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

Gabrielle Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. Before joining CMC, she was a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU, affiliated with the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. She works primarily in philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology. Her projects explore the nature and structure of social bias as it occurs in computational systems, including the visual perceptual system, socio-cognitive systems, scientific inference, and predictive models in machine learning programs.

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Ethics & AI

Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 2:30pm

Past Event

Justice is blind, the saying goes, which means that a person’s particulars – their social status, race, gender, etc. – should have no bearing on fair judgement in any legal dispute. By this standard, we are all considered equal before the law. In A Theory of Justice, the philosopher John Rawls proposed the following thought experiment:… read more »