Publications

Hauser, Julian and Hadeel Naeem (2024). Phenomenal transparency and the boundary of cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-024-10025-8

Naeem, Hadeel and Julian Hauser (2024). Should We Discourage AI Extension? Epistemic Responsibility and AI. Philosophy and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00774-4

Naeem, Hadeel (2023). Is a subpersonal virtue epistemology possible? Philosophical Explorations. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2023.2183240

Naeem, Hadeel (forthcoming). “Epistemic responsibility and using AI systems seamlessly” in the edited book Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Ethics in Military and Humanitarian Healthcare.

Work-in-progress

Can generative AI help us cultivate intellectual virtues?

Epistemic responsibility gaps: Should we worry about them?

Do we need transparent AI systems? Isn’t reliability enough?

Epistemic norms and social roles

Pain assessment AI tools: boon or a bane?

PhD Thesis

Is a subpersonal epistemology possible? Re-evaluating cognitive integration for extended cognition

I have a PhD in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. My thesis expands on the extended cognition and extended epistemology debate. I argue against subpersonal virtue epistemology and instead motivate ‘cognitive integration’ to make sense of the epistemology of extended cognition. Specifically, I demonstrate how Andy Clark’s subpersonal virtue epistemology falls short in explaining extended knowledge. My research also provides general reasons to steer away from subpersonal epistemologies. You may download my PhD thesis here.

My PhD was advised by Duncan Pritchard, Orestis Palermos, and Mog Stapleton, and it was examined by Richard Menary and Dave Ward.

Talks

Virtue Ethics and Technology conference (KU Leuven) | (forthcoming) Sep 2024
Title: Learning with conversational AI systems

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Ethics in Military and Humanitarian Healthcare | Jun 2024
Title: Epistemic responsibility in seamless reliance on technology

Digital Words Workshop (Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) | Apr 2024
Title: Epistemic responsibility in seamless reliance on technology

AI in Education: Ethical and Epistemic Perspectives (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Mar 2024
Title: Plagiarism or extended belief

Frontiers of AI: Philosophical explorations (Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences - online) | Dec 2023
Title: Transparency and AI extension – with Julian Hauser

1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind ISPSM2023 (online) | Nov 2023
Title: Belief attribution and AI extension

Machine Discovery and Creation Workshop (Leibniz University Hannover - online) | Aug 2023
Title: Belief attribution in generative AI extension

International Association of Computing and Philosophy IACAP 2023 (Prague) | Jul 2023
Title: Belief attribution in human-AI interaction (declined because couldn’t get a visa in time)

The 97th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association conference (Birkbeck University, London) | Jul 2023
Title: Belief attribution in AI extension

Invited talk (Bogaziçi University) | May 2023
Title: My beliefs or Alexa’s? Belief attribution in human-AI interaction

Artificial intelligence and simulation of behaviour AISB (Swansea University - online) | Apr 2023
Title: Belief attribution in human-AI interaction

Invited talk on Feminist Philosophy (Hong Kong Baptist University - online) | Jan 2023
Title: Oppression and epistemic injustice

Responsible Beliefs (The University of Helsinki) | Jun 2022
Title: Epistemic responsibility in subpersonal virtue epistemology

28th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (online) | Sep 2021
Title: Is a subpersonal epistemology possible?

Demarcation of Epistemic & Extended Agency (Vrije Universiteit Brussels - online) | Aug 2019
Title: Defeaters and extended cognition

Reliabilist Rationale with Sandy Goldberg (The University of Edinburgh) | Oct 2019
Title: Integration and the reliabilist rationale

Social Dimensions of Cognition (The University of Edinburgh) | Oct 2017
Title: Integration in social and extended cognition

36th Annual Pakistan Philosophical Congress (University of the Punjab) | May 2014
Title: On basic beliefs