Kyle van Oosterum

Hi! I'm a DPhil(PhD) in Philosophy candidate at the University of Oxford, a member of the Institute for Ethics in AI  and an affiliate with the MINT Lab at ANU. My thesis supervisors are Professor John Tasioulas and Dr Neil Levy.

The working title of my thesis is Echo Chambers and Political Philosophy.  My thesis aims to answer the following questions:

• What is an echo chamber? (see this article for some initial thoughts)

• What is wrong with echo chambers? 

• What ought we to do about echo chambers?  

Broadly, I'm interested in moral philosophy, political philosophy and social epistemology. The research areas I also like to work on are the following (# refers to publications):

• Paternalism: its theory, practice and application (#4, #5)

• Bioethics (#1, #2, #3) 

• Ethics of and Political Philosophy of AI 

• Business Ethics

• The Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories

• Liberalism and Perfectionism in political theory

Prior to Oxford, I did an MPhil in Philosophy at Cambridge and an MA in Philosophy at St Andrews (see Publications & CV).

Since 2022, I'm also the co-host (with Lewis Williams) of the Philosopher's Nest podcast. Together, we interview philosophy PhD students and ask them about their work and experiences in the (weird) world of academic philosophy.