Rachel Etta Rudolph
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Auburn University. I work primarily in philosophy of language, including its intersection with value theory, social philosophy, and philosophy of artificial intelligence.
I am especially interested in experiential language (sentences like "this food is tasty" or "this dress looks blue"), which we use to communicate at once about the objective world and about our subjective experience.
In other work, I explore how speakers communicate and negotiate about their linguistic and conceptual commitments -- and how artificial intelligence might help shape these commitments.
I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Before that, I lived in Montreal, Canada. I was drawn to philosophy through the Liberal Arts Program at Dawson College, and completed my BA in philosophy and German at McGill University.
News
I will be lecturing at the Philosophy of AI Summer School in July 2024
My paper, "Contested Metalinguistic Negotiation" has been published in Synthese
I presented "Engineering Conceptual Prototypes", as part of the Conceptual Engineering Network in November 2023. Video is available here
Contact
My department page is here.
You can also find me on philpeople here and on Google Scholar here.
