Doctor Will Mcneill

Dr Will Mcneill

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Philosophy of mind
  • Epistemology of perception
  • Epistemology of other minds

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

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Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • Philosophy of mind
  • Epistemology of perception
  • Epistemology of other minds
  • Nature of explanation
  • Philosophy of artificial intelligence - in particular the epistemological significance of complex machine learning systems

Current research

Recent research concerns the epistemological structure of artificial perception systems - in particular deep neural networks. Will argues that these are importantly 'opaque' and that this relates to their manifesting epistemically non-inferential processes.

This work interacts with a collaborative project on the ethics of artificial intelligence with Prof. Fiona Woollard.