Jeffrey Benjamin White

drjeff@gmx.com drwhite@kaist.ac.kr
+82) 010 4296 0210 Daejeon, South Korea
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2006
Dissertation: Conscience: toward the mechanism of morality
M.A./M.S. Philosophy (Bio-Medical Ethics)/ Chemistry, Cleveland State University, 2001
B.A./B.S. Philosophy/Chemistry (A.C.S.), Bowling Green State University, 1996
Academic Experience
Researcher, KAIST 2015-2016
Lecturer, KAIST 2010-2015
Research/Teaching assistant, University of Missouri - Columbia 2001-2006
Teaching/Graduate assistant, Cleveland State University 1996-2001
Lab technician/assistant, Bowling Green State University 1992-1994

Publications
From biological to synthetic neurorobotics approaches to understanding In press
the structure essential to consciousness (part 3) (article, with Jun Tani)
APA Newsletter of Philosophy and Computing
From biological to synthetic neurorobotics approaches to understanding 2017
the structure essential to consciousness (part 2) (article, with Jun Tani)
APA Newsletter of Philosophy and Computing
From biological to synthetic neurorobotics approaches to understanding 2016
the structure essential to consciousness (part 1) (article, with Jun Tani)
APA Newsletter of Philosophy and Computing
Simulation, statesmanship and philosophy in the service of human 2016
civilization (article), AI&Society, Springer
Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology, (edited volume, 2015
with Rick Searle) IGI Global
"Grounding Social Sciences in the Cognitive Sciences" (book review), 2015
Philosophical Psychology, Taylor and Francis
2014
"Models of Morality" (proceedings) SAPERE, Springer
"A general theory of moral agency grounding computational 2013
implementations: the ACTWith model" (book chapter) Computational
Intelligence, Alexandru Floares (editor) Nova Science Publishers
"Reflections on Understanding Violence" (book review) Biosemiotics, 2012
Springer
"An Information Processing Model of Psychopathy and Anti-Social 2012
Personality Disorders Integrating Neural and Psychological Accounts
Towards the Assay of Social Implications of Psychopathic Agents" (book
chapter) Psychology of Morality, Angelo Fruili and Luisa Veneto (editors)
Nova Science Publishers
"Autonomy Rebuilt: Rethinking Traditional Ethics towards a 2012
Comprehensive Account of Autonomous Moral Agency" (article) Natural
Intelligence, International Neural Network Society
"Infosphere to Ethosphere" (article) International Journal of Technoethics, IGI 2011
Global
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"Understanding and Augmenting Human Morality: the ACTWith model" 2010

(proceedings) Lorenzo Magnani, C. Pizzi, and W. Carnielli (editors)
Studies in Computational Intelligence #314: Model-Based Reasoning in Science
and Technology, Springer

Pro-tem
Dreyfus on the "Fringe": information processing, intelligent activity, and Expected 2018
the current status of thinking machines (article) for a special issue of AI
& Society on Dreyfus
The role of robotics and AI in technologically mediated human evolution Expected 2018
(article) for a special issue in Frontiers in Robotics and AI on evolutionary
robotics and AI
"Autonomous reboot: meeting the challenges of artificial moral agency" Expected 2018
(article) under revision for AI & Society

Presentations and conference participation

World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing (co-chair, session #58 August, 2018
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence)
Conference on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, Norway (speaker) December, 2017
OIST, Okinawa (guest speaker) November, 2017
COGSCI 2017 (referee) 2017
TV Chosun Global Leaders Forum, Seoul (invited speaker) November, 2016
COGSCI 2016 (referee) 2016
ICISTS KAIST 2015 (invited speaker) August, 2015
COGSCI 2015 (referee) 2015
ICISTS KAIST 2014 (invited speaker) August, 2014
COGSCI 2014 (referee) 2014
KAIST workshop on Abduction (MC) November, 2013
ICISTS KAIST 2013 (invited speaker) August, 2013
MBR 2012, Italy, "Modeling non-violent social transformation" June, 2012
(presentation)
MBR 2012, Italy, "Modeling Morality" (presentation) June, 2012
The Changing Face of War, Wiley-Blackwell Exchanges Online November, 2011
Conference Series (discussant)
Harmony and Order vs. Spontaneity and Revolt in Eastern and Western August, 2010
Philosophies, The University of Hong Kong, "Toward a Universal
Framework for Understanding Harmony and Revolt: the
spontaneous as natural in Wittgenstein and Heidegger"
(presentation)
MBR 2009, Brazil, "Understanding and Augmenting Human December, 2009
Morality: An Introduction to the ACTWith Model of Moral
Cognition (presentation)
Seoul National University, "Philosophical Implications of Gender September 9, 2008
Differences in Brain and Cognition: a review of recent research
(guest lecture) Moon Sook Byeon (course instructor)
World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, July-August, 2008
Conscience, Consciousness, Sciousness And Science: A Glimpse
At Neuroethics And The Future Of Moral Philosophy
(presentation)
World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, Good 2008
Will and the Conscience in Kant's Ethical Theory (presentation)
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World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, Why 2008

Believe in Collective Agents? Because You Did Something
Wrong! (presentation)
World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, 2008
Heidegger And The Space Of Life (presentation)
International Conference on Science, Technology, and Values in Asian July, 2008
Development, National University of Singapore, The Value of
Development in the Space of Narrative (presentation)
The Mid West Political Science Association, Chicago, Who Killed Spring, 2006
Socrates? On the Plausibility of a Blameworthy Collective
Agent (presentation)
Teaching Experience
Introduction to Philosophy (KAIST) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Ethics (KAIST) 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
Philosophy of Mind (KAIST) 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015
Robot Ethics (KAIST) 2013, 2014
Minds and Machines (Summer/Winter) (KAIST) 2013, 2014
Information Ethics (Summer) (KAIST) 2014
Philosophy of Information (KAIST) 2015
Analytic Philosophy (KAIST) 2011
(TA) Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, Ancient 2001-2006
Philosophy, Philosophy of War and Peace (MU- Columbia)
(TA) Introduction to Logic (CSU) 1997-1998
(Assistant) General Chemistry (BGSU) 1992-1993
Media Coverage and Appearances
TV Chosun Global Leaders Forum Abolishing Government? November 2016, with video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43P8usEbZGo&t=1002s
A one-hour presentation on disruptive effects of intelligent machine technologies at KAIST, Summer 2015, with
video here: https://www.inverse.com/article/5742-sunday-lectures-facial-recognition-illegal-drugs-and-the-
cambrian-explosion
This Morning, Seoul, "Plagiarism Prevalent in Korea?" April 25th, 2012 (guest)
Korea Times (newspaper) Korea still numb to plagiarism May 2nd 2012 (quoted)
This Morning, Seoul, "Recent Suicide Cases at KAIST" April 14th, 2011 (guest)
YTN News (TV) April 14th, 2011 (focus on my Ethics class, coordinated with KAIST public relations)
Money Today (newspaper) April 13th, 2011 (quoted)
Yeonhap News (newspaper) April 12, 2011 (interview)