Department of philosophy

Joshua May, Ph.D., seated at head of a conference table in a UAB classroom talking to students in a philosophy course

Research & Innovation • Published 14 days ago

Is AI competent to make moral judgments? A UAB philosopher helped devise tests to find out.

Recent studies have some researchers touting AI’s ethical reasoning prowess. In a Nature paper, UAB’s Joshua May, Ph.D., joined scientists from Google DeepMind to explain how to get proof.

An Honors College student practices tae kwon do with Mark Banaszak Holl, professor in the School of Engineering

People of UAB • Published 10 months ago

Breaking boards, brainy nature walks and more: Honors Faculty Fellows get to share their passions with students

Find out how UAB faculty help Honors College students connect through engaging extracurricular activities — and meet the 2025-2026 Honors Faculty Fellows cohort.

Josh May, Ph.D., stands at a large electronic screen teaching a class in philosophy while UAB undergraduates take notes

Research & Innovation • Published more than a year ago

5 things a philosopher learned from diving deep into neuroscience

Free will still exists, and no brains are “typical”: Philosopher Josh May, Ph.D., shares some of the lessons he picked up by going back to school and joining a research lab to write “Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science,” which was selected as one of the top academic titles of 2024.

People of UAB • Published more than a year ago

With an NEH grant, a philosopher expands her investigation of AI and creativity

Have AI models made human creativity obsolete? Lindsay Brainard, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue an inquiry into the future of creativity — and present her work at the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome this August.

A student leans against a table in the newly redesigned Sterne Library ground floor, talking to a fellow student with her back to the camera

In the Know • Published more than a year ago

A $2.2 million investment transforms UAB Libraries into 21st-century learning spaces

The multimillion-dollar commitment has been invested in collections, resources, personnel, physical renovations and other improvements during the past several years.