Emily Slome
EMILY.SLOME@OSWEGO.EDU
sites.google.com/view/emilyslome
516-680-9172
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (August 2024- Present) SUNY Oswego
Graduate Part Time Instructor (August 2020- June 2024) University of Colorado Boulder
Ph.D., Philosophy (Fall 2018- August 2024) University of Colorado Boulder
Dissertation: “Moral Testimony Pessimism and the Epistemology of Evolutionary Debunking,” Committee Members: Matthias Steup, Iskra Fileva, Michael Huemer, Alastair Norcross, Terence Cuneo
M.A., Bioethics (Spring 2015- May 2016) New York University
B.A., Philosophy (Fall 2010- May 2014) New York University
Applied Ethics, Metaethics, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
Slome, E. (forthcoming). Decision ownership and deference to healthcare AI. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.
Kitts, M. and Slome, E. (2025). Moral testimony pessimism and clinical ethics consultation. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
Slome, E. (2022). Undermining versus rebutting: Options for responding to evolutionary debunking arguments. Synthese, 200(3), 253.
Slome, E. (2022). Moral testimony and re-conceived understanding: A reply to Callahan. The Philosophical Quarterly, 72(3), 763-770.
Slome, E. (2019). Addressing the ethics of removing the financial disincentive of living kidney donation. Rutgers Journal of Bioethics, 10, 5-15.
“AI in Clinical Ethics Consultation” article, draft available upon request.
“Moral Deference and Ownership Avoidance” (under review) article, draft available upon request.
“The Moral Skeptic and the Metaethical Moorean” article, draft available upon request.
“The Moral Skeptic and the Metaethical Moorean”- Marc Saunders Foundation Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women in Philosophy, June 2025
“Moral Testimony Pessimism and Moral Answerability”- American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, March 2024
“Moral Testimony Pessimism and Clinical Ethics Consultation”- with Megan Kitts, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, October 2023
“Moral Testimony Pessimism and Applied Ethics”- Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference, September 2023
“Moral Testimony Pessimism and Epistemic Responsibility”- CU Boulder Center for Values and Social Policy, October 2022
“Moral Testimony Pessimism and Epistemic Responsibility”- Australasian Center for Values and Social Policy, October 2022
“Adaptive Preferences and the Question of Marginalized Women in Medicine: A Case for Localizing Agency”- Commentator, Marc Saunders Foundation Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women in Philosophy, June 2025
“Beyond Self-Respect: Towards a Kantian Duty of Moral Self-Love”- Commentator, Marc Saunders Foundation Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women in Philosophy, June 2025
“Does Black Box AI in Medicine Compromise Informed Consent?”- Commentator, NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, April 2025
“The Normativity of Fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle”- Commentator, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, February 2024
“Beyond Harm Indifference: New Strategies for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources to Mitigate Inequities”- Commentator, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, February 2023
“Emily Slome on Moral Testimony Pessimism and Evolutionary Debunking”- The Philosopher’s Nest, Podcast Guest, September 2024
CU Boulder Center for Teaching & Learning's “Best Should Teach” Silver Award- 2023-2024
CU Boulder Center for Teaching and Learning Lead Graduate Instructor Fellowship- 2023-2024
CU Boulder University-Wide Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Recognition Award- Spring 2023
CU Boulder Philosophy Departmental Dissertation Fellowship- Spring 2022
“Biomedical Ethics, Professionalism, and Technology”- SUNY Oswego, Spring 2025
“Philosophy and Taylor Swift”- SUNY Oswego, Fall 2025
“Ethics and Policy in the Digital Age”- SUNY Oswego, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
“Introduction to Classical Ethics” - SUNY Oswego, Fall 2025, Fall 2024
“Philosophy and Gender” Graduate Student Instructor- CU Boulder, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
“Contemporary Social Problems” Graduate Student Instructor- CU Boulder, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2020
“Environmental Ethics” Graduate Student Instructor- CU Boulder, Summer 2022
“Introduction to Medical Ethics” Graduate Student Instructor- CU Boulder, Fall 2021
“Bioethics” Graduate Student Instructor- CU Boulder, Summer 2021
“Ethics” Graduate Student Instructor- CU Boulder, Spring 2021
Certificate in College Teaching (2024)
Requirements include two full semesters of classroom teaching, 40 hours of teaching workshops, two video teaching consultations, a faculty teaching observation, and completion of a teaching portfolio.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certificate (2014)
Requirements include 120 hours of course study, 20 hours of classroom teaching, faculty teaching observations, and completion of a TEFL portfolio.
Committee on Learning and Teaching- SUNY Oswego (2025-2026)
Arts Programming Committee Member- SUNY Oswego (2025-2026)
Department Hiring Search Committee Member- SUNY Oswego (2024-2025)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Member- SUNY Oswego (2024-2026) Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member- CU Boulder (2023-2024)
Department Lead Graduate Student Instructor- CU Boulder (2023-2024)
Department Peer Mentor- CU Boulder (2019-2024)
Department Graduate Student Co-President- CU Boulder (2022-2023)
Department Social Activities Coordinator- CU Boulder (2022-2023)
Department Climate Committee Member- CU Boulder (2020-2022)
Minorities and Philosophy Undergraduate Mentor- CU Boulder (2019-2022)
Minorities and Philosophy Committee Member- CU Boulder (2019-2021)
High School Ethics Bowl Judge- CU Boulder (2019, 2020, 2024)
Graduate and Professional Student Government Representative- CU Boulder (2018-2019)
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Referee (2022-2025)
Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference Referee (2020-2023)
Iskra Fileva, University of Colorado Boulder
iskra.fileva@colorado.edu
303-492-7390
Alastair Norcross, University of Colorado Boulder
alastair.norcross@colorado.edu
303-735-3034
Julia Staffel, University of Colorado Boulder
julia.staffel@colorado.edu
303-492-6132
Matthias Steup, University of Colorado Boulder
matthias.steup@colorado.edu
303-492-8449