Visiting Assistant Professor
edwardferrier@boisestate.edu
Office: Education 614
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Social Impacts of Computing, Human and Machine Intelligence, Metaphysics
Courses Taught
Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 101), Philosophy in a Datafied World (PHIL 123), Human and Machine Intelligence (PHIL 497/CS 497/COID 497), Symbolic Logic (PHIL 304), Metaphysics (PHIL 333), God and the Good Life (UF100)
Biography
Edward Ferrier received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. Since then, he has taught at Tufts University (2018-19), Boise State (2019-20) and the University of Richmond (2020-22) before returning to Boise State last year. Ed is involved in a number of projects related to AI and the social impacts of computing. Since spring 2023, he has served as director of the Boise State Social Impacts of Computing Group (SioC).