Kate Vredenburgh

I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. I work in the philosophy of social science, political philosophy, and the philosophy of technology, on topics that intersect with ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Much of my research and teaching interact with other disciplines, such as economics and computer science.

Research

One aim of my research is to understand how background normative commitments influence modeling in the social sciences and computer science, and to reflect on how they should. I’m also interested in moral and political questions about technology, organizations, and the economy.

Publications

“A Unificationist Defense of Revealed Preferences”, Economics and Philosophy (2020)

“The Economic Concept of a Preference”, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics (2021)

“The Right to Explanation”, The Journal of Political Philosophy (2021)

”Freedom at Work: Understanding, Alienation, and the AI-Driven Workplace”, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Works in Progress

“Fairness”, Oxford Handbook on AI Governance

“Control, Solidarity, and Economic Democracy”

“Against Rationale Explanations”

“Causal Explanation and Revealed Preferences”

Experience

Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, the London School of Economics

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2020
Stanford University, Human-Centered AI and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, May 2019 Harvard University

BPhil, Philosophy, 2009 – 2011 Oxford University

B.A. Philosophy, English Literature, 2005 – 2009 (summa cum laude) Gettysburg College