I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Florida, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. I received my PhD in 2019 from the University of Toronto.
My research is primarily in normative and applied ethics. I am broadly interested in questions surrounding the ethics of killing and harming, the special relationships among individuals and institutions that claim a monopoly on the use of force and other significant interventions (military, police, physicians), and ethical issues raised by novel technologies. I’m especially interested when these issues intersect.
In addition to my academic work, I am also an organizational ethics consultant with Compass Ethics, and I regularly lead ethics training for the U.S. Navy SEALs/Naval Special Warfare.
I put out an occasional newsletter called Jerm Theory. You can also find me on Twitter.
My email address is: jeremydavis@uga.edu.