Dr. Edward Ferrier, Ph.D.

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).