Nick Schuster

Twitter: @NickShoeStir

Nick Schuster

Research Fellow

Nick Schuster received his PhD in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. As a graduate student, he won the Young Ethicist Prize at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. He's currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University, where he manages MINT Lab. Nick is currently pursuing a three-pronged research program on moral agency. One series of papers examines how inner conflict can make moral agents good, bad, better, and worse. Another develops a deontological model of moral skill in order to account for how good moral agents (learn to) operate within systems of moral constraints and permissions. And a third, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, considers how digital technologies interact with moral agency, understood in terms of moral skill. Nick is also working on an ARC Linkage project on socially responsible insurance and artificial intelligence. His work has been published in Philosophical Studies, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and The Journal of Ethics. His CV and contact info are available on his website.