I’m a philosopher of mind and cognitive science with interests in various related fields such as epistemology, philosophy of technology, and metaphysics. I have a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and was a postdoc researcher at the LOGOS research group of the University of Barcelona.
My research asks how humans, animals, and artificial agents understand themselves as someone – and why they represent themselves as a particular kind of someone. This question reaches from the earliest moments of infant development, when babies begin to distinguish themselves from the world around them, to the ways other people and technologies shape how we see ourselves and classical philosophical problems such as immunity to error through misidentification and essential indexicality.
Other topics that I’m interested in include copyright ethics, human-machine interaction, international relations, and moral psychology.
I have also been active in various digital rights organisations and working groups (FYEG, EDRi, Digitale Gesellschaft DE, Digitale Gesellschaft CH, digital [x]. You can find various contributions I have made to opensource software on my GitHub.
Contact
Email: julian@julianhauser.com