William D'Alessandro
Assistant Professor
Office:
James Blair 131
Email:
[[wbdalessandro]]
Dept. Office Phone:
757-221-2716
Webpage:
{{https://sites.google.com/view/william-dalessandro/home}}
Background
William D'Alessandro received a PhD in philosophy and MS in mathematics from the University of Illinois Chicago. His primary research interests are in philosophy of science and math, epistemology, aesthetics and philosophy of artificial intelligence. One major strand of his work focuses on explanation, understanding, models, proofs, and what we can learn about these things from studying scientific practice. Another strand focuses on the impacts of increasingly powerful AI systems on our lives and institutions. His papers have appeared in journals like Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Episteme and The British Journal of Aesthetics; they've received a BJPS Editor's Choice Award, the APA's Routledge, Taylor & Francis article prize and other honors.
D'Alessandro is an Associate Editor at Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. Before coming to William & Mary, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He grew up in Niagara County, New York. You can call him 'Bill'.
D'Alessandro is an Associate Editor at Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. Before coming to William & Mary, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He grew up in Niagara County, New York. You can call him 'Bill'.
