Elizabeth Edenberg
Department of Philosophy, Baruch College, CUNY
elizabeth.edenberg@baruch.cuny.edu
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Current Position
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, The City University of New York (Aug. 2020 – )
Previous Employment
Senior Ethicist, Ethics Lab, Georgetown University (Feb. 2018 – Aug. 2020)
Assistant Research Professor, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University (Feb. 2019 – Aug. 2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University (Jan. 2017 – Jan. 2018)
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Fordham University (Aug. 2015 – Dec. 2016)
Research
Areas of Specialization: Political Philosophy, Ethics of Emerging Technologies, Political Epistemology
Areas of Competence: Feminist Philosophy, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, August 2015, Vanderbilt University (2009-2015)
Dissertation: Political Liberalism and Its Feminist Potential
Committee: Marilyn Friedman (chair), Robert B. Talisse, Larry May, and Leif Wenar (external)
B.A. Philosophy, summa cum laude, American University (2003-2006)
Publications
Edited Books
Political Epistemology, co-edited with Michael Hannon, Oxford University Press (2021)
Contributors: Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Elizabeth Anderson, Jason Brennan, Quassim Cassam, Thomas Christiano, David Estlund, Alexander Guerrero, Jennifer Lackey, Michael P. Lynch, Fabienne Peter, Jeroen de Ridder, Regina Rini, Jennifer Steele, Robert B. Talisse, and Briana Toole
Jus Post Bellum and Transitional Justice, co-edited with Larry May, Cambridge University Press (2013)
Articles & Chapters
“The Problem with Disagreement on Social Media: Moral not Epistemic” in Political Epistmeology, edited by E. Edenberg & M. Hannon (Oxford University Press, 2021)
“Political Disagreement: Epistemic or Civic Peers?” Routledge Handbook on Political Epistemology, edited by M. Hannon & J. de Ridder (Routledge, 2021)
Entry on “Essays regarding the Philanthropinum,” Cambridge Kant Lexicon, edited by Julian Wuerth (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
“A Guide to Political Epistemology,” co-authored with Michael Hannon, Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by A. McGlynn and J. Lackey (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
“Gender Justice” in John Rawls and the Common Good, edited by R. Luppi (Routledge, forthcoming)
“Troubleshooting AI and Consent,” co-authored with Meg Leta Jones, Oxford Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, edited by M. Dubber, S. Das, F. Pasquale, (Oxford University Press, 2020)
“Ethics Lab: Harnessing design methodologies for translational ethics,” co-authored with Maggie Little, A Guide to Field Philosophy: How to Use Philosophy to Change the World, edited by E. Brister and R. Frodeman (Routledge, 2020)
“Analyzing the Legal Roots and Moral Core of Digital Consent,” co-authored with Meg Leta Jones, New Media and Society Vol. 21, No.8 (2019): 1804-1823
“Growing Up Sexist: Challenges to Rawlsian Stability,” Law and Philosophy, Vol. 37, No.6 (2018): 577-612
“AI and the Ethics of Automating Consent,” co-authored with Meg Leta Jones and Ellen Kaufman, IEEE: Security & Privacy, Vol. 16, No.3 (2018): 64-72
“Cultivating Reasonableness in Future Citizens,”On Education. Journal for Research and DebateVol. 1, No.1 (2018) (doi: 10/17899/on_ed.2018.1.8)
“Feminist Social and Political Philosophy,” co-authored with Emily McGill-Rutherford, in Philosophy: Feminism, edited by Carol Hay (MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2017)
“Civic Education: Political or Comprehensive?” in Justice, Education, and the Politics of Childhood: Challenges and Perspectives, edited by J. Drerup, et al. (Springer, 2016)
“Unequal Consenters and Political Illegitimacy,” co-authored with Marilyn Friedman, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2013): 347-360
“Patient Understanding of Benefits, Risks, and Alternatives to Screening Colonoscopy,” co-authored with P. Schwartz, et. al., Family Medicine, Vol. 45, No. 2 (2013): 83-89
Other Publications
“Political Epistemology,” with Michael Hannon. In Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, edited by D. Pritchard (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Lead Author, White Paper on “Ethics of Administrative Data Sharing: Agenda-Setting Framework”
Grants
Senior Researcher, “Data Cooperatives,” Georgetown University Institute of Civic Innovation, PIs: Kobbi Nissim & Katrina Legitt, 2020-2023
PI, “Privacy: Bridging the Divide between Computer Science and Philosophy,” PSC-CUNY 52, 2021-2022
Lead Ethicist, “Ethics, Bit by Bit: Infusing Ethics into the CS Curriculum,” Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, PIs: Nitin Vaidya & Maggie Little, 2019-2020
Co-Lead Ethicist with Maggie Little, “Embedding Ethics for Career Training in the Governance of AI,” Public Interest Technology University Network, PIs: Maggie Little & Jason Matheny, 2019-2020
Co-Lead Ethicist with Maggie Little, “Enhancement of Federal Economic Statistics by Combining Multiple Data Sources,” Sloan Foundation, PI: Robert Groves, 2019-2020
Co-PI with Meg Jones, “Digital Consent: A Global Problem for Data Ethics,” Georgetown University: Complex Moral Problems Grant, 2017-2018
PI, “Political Epistemology in the Digital Age,” Georgetown University: Reflective Engagement in the Public Interest, 2018
Co-PI with Michael Hannon, “Epistemology, Democracy, and Disagreement,” Society for Applied Philosophy: Conference Grant, 2018
Collaborative Impact Projects
Collaborations with research and public impact projects. Recent project partners include:
NSF Convergence Grant “The Future of Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences” (lead contact: Lisa Singh), 2021
FBI’s Scientific Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
Harvard’s Privacy Tools Project (lead contact: Kobbi Nissim), 2018
Inter-American Development Bank’s Fair Artificial Intelligence program (lead contact: Cesar Buenadicha Sanchez), 2018
The Smithsonian Institutes, 2018-2019
o National Museum of American History (lead contact: Clare Brown)
o The Women’s Initiative, The Smithsonian (lead contact: Effie Kapsalis)
GLIAnet [developing an alternative digital ecosystem that shifts the balance of power back to individual users rather than major online platforms] (lead contact: Richard Whitt), 2019
Honors & Awards
Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics, Baruch College (prize awarded to the best article in ethics), 2021
100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, 2021
Weissman College of Arts and Science, Faculty Research Support Award, Baruch College, 2020-2021
College of Arts and Science, Humanities and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2014 – 2015
One of four students selected from CAS for a service-free dissertation completion fellowship
Kendall Berry Ethics Dissertation Prospectus Prize, Vanderbilt University, 2013
Berry Student Publication Award, 2013
Berry Graduate Student Departmental Service Prize, Vanderbilt University, 2010
University Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2009 – 2014
Vanderbilt Graduate School’s most prestigious university-wide, service-free fellowship
Phi Beta Kappa, 2006
Visiting Fellowships
Collaborative Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of London (Summer 2018)
Research Project: The Role of Truth in Politics
Visiting Scholar, City University of New York, Graduate Center (Summer 2015)
Sponsor: Virginia Held
Presentations
Peer Reviewed Presentations:
“Algorithmic Personalization and Political Understanding,” Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, October 2021
“Political Disagreement on Social Media”
Political Epistemology Network: Second Annual Conference, December 2019
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Conference, March 2020
Society for Applied Philosophy, July 2020 [cancelled due to covid-19]
North American Society for Social Philosophy, July 2020 [cancelled due to covid-19]
“Ethics in Action,” APA: Eastern Division, APA-AAPT Teaching Hub, January 2020
“The Normative Core of Digital Consent”
APA: Eastern Division, Main Program, January 2019
Business Ethics in the Digital Age, Harvard University, April 2019
International Conference on Ethics, University of Porto, June 2019
“Integrating Ethics into STEM Classrooms”
APA: Eastern Division, APA-AAPT Teaching Hub, January 2019 (with August Gorman)
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, March 2019 (with August Gorman)
“Should Truth Play a Role in Public Reason?”
European Epistemology Network, June 2018
Manchester Center for Political Theory 2018 Workshops, September 2018
“Analyzing the Legal Roots and Moral Core of Digital Consent,” TPRC: Communications, Information, and Internet Policy, September 2018 (with Meg Jones)
“Digital Consent and the Re-Globalization of the Internet,” Privacy Law Scholars Conference-Europe, January 2018
“AI and the Ethics of Automating Consent,” AI Ethics: The Privacy Challenge, Brussels Privacy Symposium, November 2017 (with Ellen Kaufman)
“Can a Neutral State Combat Oppression?” Manchester Center for Political Theory 2017 Workshops, Sept. 2017
“Where should we ground the feminist potential of Political Liberalism?”
International Social Philosophy Conference, July 2017
New York Society for Women in Philosophy: SWIPshop, November 2016
Society for Analytical Feminism Conference, September 2016
“The Viability of Inclusive Political Liberalism,” Manchester Center for Political Theory 2016 Workshops, September 2016
“From Potentially Inappropriate to Actually Inappropriate Treatment: An Interest-Based Account” (with Trevor Bibler and Alison Suen) American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 2016
“Feminism and Diversity in Political Liberalism”
APA: Eastern Division, Society for Analytical Feminism Session, January 2016
Hypatia 2015 Conference: Exploring Collaborative Contestations, May 2015
“Domination, Domestic Violence, and Pettit’s Republican Freedom,” Central States Philosophical Association, October 2014
“Civic Education and the Children of Unreasonable Citizens,” Manchester Center for Political Theory 2014 Workshops, September 2014
“Justice, Gender, and the Children of the Unreasonable,” APA: Pacific Division, Main Program, April 2014
“Can Truth Play a Role in Public Reason?” Tennessee Philosophical Association, October 2013
“Towards a New Political Conception of Truth,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 2013
“Unequal Consenters and Political Illegitimacy,” Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy, November 2012
“Becoming Moral: Kant on the Moral Development of Children,” PhiloSOPHIA, May 2011
Invited Presentations:
“Algorithmic Personalization and Political Understanding,” University College London Legal & Political Theory Conference, November 2021
Author Meets Critics: Blain Neufeld’s Public Reason and Political Autonomy: Realizing the Ideal of a Civic People, Canadian Philosophical Association, June 2021
“The Epistemology of Rawlsian Disagreement” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Philosophy Colloquium, November 2020
“Translational Ethics in Action” The Oxford Character Project, October 2020
“Why Consent is Still Morally Relevant in the Digital Age” Bled Ethics Conference, June 2020 [cancelled due to covid-19]
“Rawlsian Reasonableness: A Moral Threshold of Respect” Georgetown Political Theory Seminar Series, November 2019
“What Do We Mean by Digital Privacy?” (with Kobbi Nissim), National Institutes of Health: Joint Bioethics Colloquium, October 2019
“The Normative Core of Digital Consent,” Data Sharing & Governance Workshop, Institute for Technology Law & Policy, Georgetown University, June 2019
“The Burdens of Public Reason,” The Future of Public Reason, University of Arizona, May 2019
“Rawlsian Disagreement & Epistemic Peers”
Political Epistemology Network Seminar Series (British Academy), Institute of Philosophy, University of London, April 2019
APA: Pacific Division, April 2019
Political Epistemology Workshop, October 2018
“Activating Ethics: Georgetown’s Ethics Lab,” Oxford University, April 2019
“Reasonableness: A Moral Threshold of Respect”
Bled Ethics Conference, June 2018
Institute of Philosophy, University of London, September 2018
“Say it to my Facebook: [Un]reasonable disagreement in the age of social media”
Philosophy of Education Society of North America, October 2018
Birkbeck Philosophy Summer Workshop, June 2018
“Feminist Approaches to Bioethics,” National Institutes of Health, December 2017 & February 2019
“Digital Consent: A Return to Political Philosophy,” Center for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology, September 2017
“Ethics Lab Methodology,” Teaching Colloquium, Delft University of Technology, September 2017
“Growing Up Sexist: Challenges to Rawlsian Stability,” Social and Political Philosophy Workshop, Fordham University, April 2016
“Political Liberalism and Its Feminist Potential,” Social and Political Thought Workshop, Vanderbilt University, March 2015
“Just Peace or Lasting Peace?” Author Meets Critics Roundtable on Larry May’s After War Ends: A Philosophical Perspective, Vanderbilt University, March 2014
“Pluralism, Future Citizens, and the Duties of the Liberal State,” Social and Political Thought Workshop, Vanderbilt University, December 2011
Public Philosophy:
The Global Leadership Challenge, Talk and Workshop on “Designing for Purpose,” December 2020
Responsible Data Summit, Speaker, “Data Rights and Justice,” First Annual Responsible Data Summit, July 2020 (public virtual conference for technologists and policy makers in industry, government, and academia; more information here at https://responsibledata.ai)
CNA National Security Seminar, Expert Panelist “AI and Ethics,” June 2020 (closed seminar for the US government and national security experts)
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Expert Panelist “Ethics of the Future: AI, Transhumanism and the Age of Super-Intelligence,” Tech Summit 2.0, December 2019
Mozfest: Healthy AI, organized by the Mozilla Foundation October 2019: “Hidden Values: Embedded Values in Algorithm Design” (1.5-hour interactive workshop for a diverse public audience, with Maggie Little, Jonathan Healey, and Sydney Luken) & Teaching Demo (with Maggie Little) on Teaching Ethics to Computer Scientists for the Responsible CS Challenge
POLITICO: AI SUMMIT, September 2018: Expert Panelist on AI & Ethics (Video here in AI Summit 8: https://www.politico.com/live-events/aisummit-videos)
SXSW EDU, March 2018: “Design Tools for Creative Ethics Education” (2-hour workshop with Jonathan Healey, Nico Staple, and Sydney Luken)
Commentaries:
“Political Epistemology under Epistemic Constraints: Why Public Reasons Matter” by Fabienne Peter, Political Epistemology Conference, May 2018
“Mill on Ideological Conversion and Social Reform: An Interpretation of Mill’s Argumentative Strategy in The Subjection of Women” by Van Tu, APA: Eastern Division, Jan. 2018
“Does Rawlsian Justice Realize Racial Justice?” by Brian Thomas, APA: Pacific Division, April 2017
“The Meaning of ‘Gender’” by James Giles, APA: Pacific Division, March 2016
“Democracy and Disingenuousness: The Case for Public Sincerity” by Erik Anderson, APA: Eastern Division, January 2016
“Gender Frameworks and Gender Conversion behind the Veil of Ignorance” by Stephanie Kapusta, APA: Pacific Division, April 2015
“In Search of Nudge” by Philippe Mongin, Rational Choice and Philosophy Conference, Vanderbilt University, May 2014
“Moral Rationalism, Instrumental Rationality, and Psychopathy” by Allen Coates, Tennessee Philosophical Association, October 2013
“Pufendorf on Gender and the Family” by Susanne Sreedhar, APA: Central Division, Society for Analytical Feminism Session, February 2013
“The Boundary Problem and the Epistemic Functions of Democracy” by John Min, Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 2013
“Liberalism’s Feminist Critics” by Ruth Abbey, Social and Political Thought Workshop, Vanderbilt University, October 2012
“Criticizing Cohen’s Criticism of Rawls” by Steven Ross, Social and Political Thought Workshop, Vanderbilt University, October 2010
Teaching
Professor, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY
Major Issues in Philosophy
Environmental Ethics
Truth and Politics
Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Data Ethics
Climate Change and Global Justice
Social Media and Democracy
Ethics in the Digital Age (graduate level)
Embedding Ethics into the Computer Science Curriculum, Georgetown University (2019-2020)
Teaching ethics within the following undergraduate CS courses:
Advanced Programming (F19 & S20)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (F19)
Data Analytics (F19)
Introduction to Algorithms (S20)
Teaching ethics within the following graduate CS courses:
Data Analytics (F19)
Embedding Ethics Across the Curriculum, Georgetown University (2017-current)
Embedded Ethics Initiative (2017-2019):
Lead ethicist in charge of developing Ethics Lab’s methodology for infusing ethics into courses across the curriculum. I taught modules (1-3x/course within 3-4 courses per semester) within courses ranging from Chemistry and Computer Science to Foreign Service and Policy
Faculty Affiliate Program (2018-2019):
Leading the integration of ethics throughout the semester’s curriculum & final projects: Comparative International Privacy and Surveillance (MS in Communications Culture and Technology, F18); Democracy in the World (MS in the School of Foreign Service, S19)
Instructor, Fordham University, New York, NY
Philosophy of Human Nature, Fall 2015 (x3), Spring 2016 (x2) and Fall 2016 (x3)
Philosophical Ethics, Spring 2016 (3000 level course, required for all Fordham students)
Instructor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Introduction to Ethics, Fall 2012
Introduction to Medical Ethics: Writing Intensive, Summer 2011 & Summer 2013
Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 2014 & Writing Intensive, Spring 2011
General Logic, Fall 2013
Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Modern Philosophy (upper level course), Spring 2013
Environmental Ethics, Summer 2012
Introduction to Medical Ethics, Fall 2011
Introduction to Ethics, Spring 2010 & Fall 2010
Teaching Assistant, American University, Washington, DC
Ethical and Social Issues in Genetics, Spring 2006
Professional Service
Public Philosophy
Member, The AI Policy Network, Washington DC (bringing together academics, industry, political staff, and nonprofits for monthly off the record meetings to discuss emerging issues in AI), Jan 2019 – Aug 2020
Participant, Scientific Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, advising the FBI on ethical issues in emerging (and potential) uses of AI, 2019
Collaborations with Research Teams & Public Impact Projects
Ethics Workshop Lead, Sharing Data Across Public and Private Sectors, Georgetown University, September 2019, supported by a Grant from the Sloan Foundation
Digital Ethics & Fair AI Workshop Organizer & Lead Ethicist, Inter-American Development Bank: Fair AI in Latin America and the Caribbean Project, May 2019
Workshop Co-organizer & Ethics Lead, Civic Agency & Representation: Girlhood, The Smithsonian Women’s Initiative, Museum of American History, and the Hirshhorn’s ArtLab, The Hirshhorn, April 2019
Ethics of Data Privacy Workshop Lead, Harvard’s Privacy Tools Project Retreat, Harvard University, October 2018
Philosophy Conference/Workshop Organization
Organizer, Political Epistemology Network’s Group Sessions at the Eastern & Pacific APAs, October 2018 – current
Organizer, Political Epistemology Workshop, Georgetown University, October 2018
Co-organizer, Society for Analytical Feminism 2012 Conference, Vanderbilt University, October 2012
Co-organizer, Jus Post Bellum and Transitional Justice Workshop, Vanderbilt University, August 2011
Service to the Profession
Steering Committee, Political Epistemology Network, 2018 – current
Co-Chair, New York Society for Women in Philosophy, 2016 – 2017
Service to the Department and University
Philosophy Faculty Representative, Weissman College of Arts and Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Alliance, Baruch College, Jan. 2021 – current
Executive Committee, Department of Philosophy, Baruch College, Jan 2021 – current
Lead Ethicist, Embedded Ethics Initiative, Ethics Lab, Georgetown, Jan 2017 – Aug 2020
Founding Faculty Cohort, Core Pathways Initiative, Georgetown University, Jan 2017 – May 2018
Member, Strategic Planning Team, Georgetown University Technology & Society Initiative, Jan 2017 – Dec 2018
Planning Committee, Digital Ethics Speaker Series, Georgetown University, 2017 – 2018
Designer, Why Study Philosophy Brochure, Fordham University, 2016
Certified Member, LGBT and Ally Network of Support, Fordham University, 2016
Graduate Representative, Committee on Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 2014 – 2015
Founder and Coordinator, Peer Teaching Mentorship Program, Vanderbilt, 2010 – 2015
Pedagogy Leader, Vanderbilt Center for Teaching: Teaching Assistant Orientation, 2014
President, Philosophy Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University, 2010 – 2012
Graduate Faculty Representative, Vanderbilt University, 2009 – 2010