about me
I'm Blake. I'm proudly nonbinary (pronouns they/them), bisexual, and disabled. I work in neuroethics, bioethics, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2019.
Effective June 1, 2024, I will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Until recently, I was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wexler Lab at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, where I worked as part of a team investigating the ethics of consumer neurotechnology.
I'm also a member of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession, which I chaired from 2022-2024. I published a co-authored piece in the local Lowell Sun responding to an anti-trans activist who spoke at UMass Lowell.
I'm Blake. I'm proudly nonbinary (pronouns they/them), bisexual, and disabled. I work in neuroethics, bioethics, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2019.
Effective June 1, 2024, I will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Until recently, I was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wexler Lab at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, where I worked as part of a team investigating the ethics of consumer neurotechnology.
I'm also a member of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession, which I chaired from 2022-2024. I published a co-authored piece in the local Lowell Sun responding to an anti-trans activist who spoke at UMass Lowell.
upcoming & recent talks
If you're a nice person who likes philosophy, then we're already friends. (And if you're queer, then we're already family!) Here are my upcoming talks:
If you're a nice person who likes philosophy, then we're already friends. (And if you're queer, then we're already family!) Here are my upcoming talks:
- Tuesday, September 10th (3:30-4:30pm EDT): Ethically Speaking, University of Central Florida (UCF) Center for Ethics (Zoom registration here)
"Resurrecting Dangerous Minds: The Ethics of Using AI to Preserve Military Strategists" - Saturday, September 21st (11:30am-12:30pm CDT): American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) (St. Louis, MO)
"Mapping Approaches to Ethicist Engagement: The VIPER Framework"
- Monday, May 6th (10:30-11:30am EST): 10th Annual Mid-Atlantic Bioethics Fellows Conference (NIH: Bethesda, MD)
"Mapping Approaches to Ethicist Engagement: The VIPER Framework" - Wednesday, April 17th (4-5pm EST): International Neuroethics Society (Baltimore, MD)
"Adapting Embedded Neuroethics for Private Neurotechnology Industry: Conceptual Foundations" (poster presentation and voted Top Poster) - April 11-13th (all day): Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Autonomous Weapons in War & National Security Conference (Center for Ethics & the Rule of Law, UPenn: Philadelphia, PA)
"Resurrecting Dangerous Minds: The Ethics of Using AI to Preserve Military Strategists"
