Colin Klein
Twitter: @cvklein
Colin Klein
Affiliate Investigator
Colin Klein publishes on philosophy and cognitive science (among other areas) in leading philosophy and science journals. His collaborative, cross-disciplinary research has commanded substantial public interest, including featuring in global media such as NY Times and Wired, and registering altimetric scores in the top 5%. His monograph on pain, with MIT Press, won the David Harold Tribe award. He is an ARC Future Fellow and ANU Futures Awardee, as well as lead CI on an ARC Discovery project to begin 2019. He is a founder of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
“My work has always focused on places where methodological issues in the sciences are driven by philosophical questions. Designing and understanding ethical machine intelligence is a chance to work on an issue that touches nearly every area of philosophy while having wide practical importance.”