Christian Tarsney

I’m a philosopher working mainly in ethics and decision theory. My research spans formal and applied ethics, with an emphasis on teasing out the implications of abstract normative principles for important real-world problems. I'm interested in questions like how much weight we should give to tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes, how to deal with uncertainty about basic moral principles, and how to make choices that affect (or might affect) the size of the future population. I've also recently started thinking about philosophical questions related to artificial intelligence.
 

I'm currently an assistant professor in at the University of Toronto.  I previously held research positions with the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin, the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford, and the Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Groningen, after doing my PhD at the University of Maryland.

You can reach me at christian.tarsney (at) utoronto.ca.