Ismail Kurun

Graduate Student

I am a PhD candidate in philosophy, specializing in social and political philosophy, Islamic and medieval philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of AI. I am also an AI Scholar at Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary AI lab (VALIANT), where I focus on the political epistemology and ethics of AI.

My dissertation, chaired by Robert Talisse, is on the epistemology of liberalism and liberalization. It develops an account of the epistemic presuppositions of liberalism and uses this account to propose a novel form of liberalization which I call "philosophical liberalization."

My broader interests span epistemology, ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy, the philosophy of science, the history of analytic philosophy, and pragmatism.

For more, please visit www.ismailkurun.com