Phillip Hintikka Kieval

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge where I am generously funded by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

In addition to my PhD, I also serve as a Student Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

In Fall 2025, I will be a Postdoctoral Associate in the Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florida supervised by Professor Cameron Buckner.

I mainly work on the history and philosophy of artificial intelligence. I am interested in the epistemic, moral, and political significance of machine learning in science and public life. My dissertation develops a pragmatist epistemology of AI in science. I also have projects in the philosophy of cognitive neuroscience, general philosophy of science, epistemology, and social-political philosophy, especially where these areas intersect with aspects of machine learning.

Before Cambridge I was a student at the University of Houston where I earned my BA and MA in Philosophy.

I share my life with my brilliant wife and our two cats Winston and Lumi.