I am an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Pennsylvania with appointments in

• Philosophy (School of Arts and Sciences)
• Legal Studies and Business Ethics (Wharton School of Business, secondary)

I joined Penn in 2013, received tenure in 2019, and before coming to Penn received a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Michigan.

From 2022 to 2024, I was a Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, where I worked primarily on corporate strategy, organizational efficiency, and DEI, with clients mostly in higher education, the public sector, and industrial goods. I also served as an Ambassador at the BCG Henderson Institute.

Research

My research focuses on the philosophy of work and the philosophy of AI — asking normative and conceptual questions about what good employment looks like, what role AI should play in society, what it would take for AI systems to genuinely innovate and explain their reasoning, and how to do research with AI well. This work grows out of a long-standing research program in epistemology and social philosophy, where I’ve investigated what we should believe, social phenomena like diversity and polarization, and how information flows through groups and institutions.

My first book, Right Belief and True Belief (Oxford, Oct. 2023), defends a consequentialist theory of epistemic norms. Much of my work in social philosophy is conducted through the Computational Social Philosophy Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that uses agent-based models to investigate questions in social epistemology, political philosophy, and philosophy of science.

Teaching

I teach both undergrad and graduate classes, including regularly teaching Penn’s Introduction to Epistemology and Metaphysics, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, and Wharton’s Ethics and Social Responsibility. In 2018, I won the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor from the School of Arts and Sciences and was lauded for the “sheer number of students who say that Singer is the best professor they’ve ever had.”

When I’m not working, I like to run and take pictures of birds .

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