Aaron X. Wang

Hi! I am a third-year PhD in philosophy at Columbia University.

Broadly, I am interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of mind, agency, normativity, and responsibility, in both biological and AI systems.

Currently, I am working on a project on the nature of learning, drawing on resources from neuroscience, machine learning, and philosophy of cognitive science. I'm also working on a paper on LLM goals and a paper on low-level vs. high-level propositional attitudes (esp. belief).

Previously, I worked on metaethical non-cognitivism, emotional fittingness, reactive attitudes, norms of belief, weakness of will, self-knowledge, etc., which I am still passionate about.