Shaun Respess
Bio
I am a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies working in the NeuroComputational Ethics Research Group. I completed my Ph.D. in Ethical and Social Thought at Virginia Tech in 2021, with several publications on issues in psychiatric ethics and telehealth. His current research addresses ethics of care in subjects such as social robotics, neurostimulation, psychological attachment, and treatment-adherence.
Education
Ph.D. ASPECT Virginia Tech 2021
M.A. Humanities (Philosophy) Old Dominion University 2017
B.A. Philosophy Old Dominion University 2015
Area(s) of Expertise
Normative Ethics, AI Ethics, Bioethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Moral Psychology
Publications
- The Emergent Normativity of Carebots: Evaluating the Proficiencies of Embodied Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy & Technology (2026)
- Biomedical, Neurodiverse, and Mad Affinities: The Constraints of Collective Epistemic Resources , AJOB Neuroscience (2025)
- Extended Will, Epistemic Care, and Motivational Barriers to Care , AJOB Neuroscience (2025)
- Ordering Care Principles for Cost-Related Nonadherence , The American Journal of Bioethics (2025)
- Madness in Relation , Joker and Philosophy (2024)
- Madness in Relation: The Autonomy of a Joke , Joker and Philosophy (2024)
- Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury: Clarifications Using the ADC Model of Moral Judgment , The American Journal of Bioethics (2024)
- Natural Disorder: Psychiatric Waste and Ecological Matters of Care , Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities Conference (2024)
- Resentment as Responsiveness: Psychiatric Care and the Problem of Ethical Loneliness , Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age (2024)
- Responsiveness to Resentment: Psychiatric Care and the Problem of Ethical Loneliness , Azimuth : philosophical coordinates in modern and contemporary age : 24, 2, 2024 (2024)