Areas of Specialization: Mind, Epistemology, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Action, Ethics of AI and Robotics
Areas of Competence: Language, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Feminist Epistemology, Queer Theory
Overview
Lisa Miracchi Titus is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver.
Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Philosophy with tenure at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Lab affiliate and a MindCORE affiliate.
She works on issues regarding mind and intelligence. What makes intelligent systems different from other kinds of systems? What kinds of explanations of intelligent systems are possible, or most important? What are appropriate conceptions of real-world intelligent capacities like those for agency, knowledge, and rationality? How can conceptual clarity on these issues advance cognitive science and aid in the effective and ethical development and application of AI and robotic systems? My work draws together diverse literatures in the cognitive sciences, AI, robotics, epistemology, and ethics to systematically address these questions.
She is currently writing a monograph tentatively titled More Intelligent Agents: Towards the Next Wave Effective and Ethical Intelligence Research, which develops a systematic approach to intelligence and its explanation, and facilitates the integration of ethical, feminist, and social justice concerns. Additionally she has a number of active collaborative projects, including work on the ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems, the impact of the widespread feminization of AI on society, and how to best conceptualize complexity as related to cognition and behavior of biological and artificial systems.
She is also passionate about helping to make academia a more welcoming place for all humans, especially those of us from underrepresented groups.
lisa.titus@du.edu
Additionally she has a number of active collaborative projects, including work on the ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems, the impact of the widespread feminization of AI on society, and how to best conceptualize complexity as related to cognition and behavior of biological and artificial systems.
She is also passionate about helping to make academia a more welcoming place for all humans, especially those of us from underrepresented groups.
miracchi@sas.upenn.edu
(If you have difficulty accessing any of my published work, please feel free to email me for a copy.)
Publications
(please cite official versions)
Forthcoming, Read, Hannah, Gomez-Lavin, Javier, Beltrama, Andrea, and Titus, Lisa Miracchi. “A Plea for Integrated Empirical and Philosophical Research on the Impacts of Feminized AI Workers," Analysis.
Forthcoming, “Embodied Cognition and the Causal Roles of the Mental,” in Mental Action, Routledge, ed. Michael Brent.
2022. “Implications of the Substantive Nature of Empirical Reason: on Anil Gupta’s Conscious Experience, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, (2022), 104:243-249.
Forthcoming. "Competent Perspectives and the New Evil Demon Problem," The New Evil Demon: New Essays on Knowledge, Justification and Rationality, Oxford University Press, eds. Fabian Dorsch and Julien Dutant.
2020, “A Case for Integrative Epistemology," Synthese.
2020, “Updating the Frame Problem for AI Research,” Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness.
2020, “Examples of Gibsonian affordances in legged robotics research using an empirical, generative framework,” Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Co-authored with Sonia F. Roberts and Daniel E. Koditschek, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14(12): 1-10.
2019, "None of These Problems are that “Hard” ... or “Easy”: Making progress on the problems of consciousness," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26 (9-10): pp. 160-72.
2019. “When Evidence Isn’t Enough: Suspension, evidentialism, and knowledge-first virtue epistemology,” Episteme 16: 413-437.
2019. "A Competence Framework for Artificial Intelligence Research." Philosophical Psychology, 32 (5): 589–634.
2019. “Opportunities and Challenges for a Maturing Science of Consciousness" Human Nature Behavior, 3: 104–107. (a middle author, co-authored with Matthias Michel, and many others.)
2017. "Generative Explanation in Cognitive Science and the Hard Problem of Consciousness," Philosophical Perspectives, 31: 267-291.
2017. "Perception First", Journal of Philosophy, 114 (12):629-677.
2017. "Epistemic Agency and the Generality Problem", Philosophical Topics, 45 (1): 107-120.
2017. "Perspectival Externalism Is the Antidote to Radical Skepticism," Episteme 14 (3): 363-379.
2015. "Knowledge Is All You Need," Philosophical Issues, 25 (1): 353-378.
2015. "Competence to Know," Philosophical Studies, 172 (1): 29-56.
2014. Getting Things Done. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University.
Work in Progress
Miracchi, Lisa. “What the Tortoise Should Do: A Knowledge-First Virtue Approach to the Basing Relation”
Miracchi, Lisa and Carter, J. Adam. “Refitting the Mirrors: On Structural Analogies in Epistemology and Action Theory."
Read, Hannah, Gomez-Lavin, Javier, Beltrama, Andrea, and Miracchi, Lisa. “A Plea for Integrated Empirical and Philosophical Research on the Impacts of Feminized AI Workers."
Miracchi, Lisa. “Making Use of Perception."
Miracchi, Lisa. “Interventionism Won’t Save Computationalism."