Positions held

Biography

Maryna is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at McGill University, supervised by Dr. Jocelyn Maclure, Dr. Ian Gold, and Dr. Michael Blome-Tillmann. Her academic interests encompass the philosophy of artificial intelligence with a focus on epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and ethical issues relating to those topics. This fall, she is teaching PHIL 415: Philosophy of Language.

In her dissertation, she is currently working on 1) developing a new causal theory of knowledge and 2) using this theory to create a framework that sets out the conditions AI must meet in order to be considered an epistemic agent.

Maryna holds the Richard H. Tomlinson Fellowship (McGill’s most prestigious internal doctoral scholarship), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, the Philosophy, Technology, and Policy Lab Graduate Fellowship, and the Interuniversity Research Group on Normativity Graduate Fellowship.​ ​

Before joining McGill, Maryna completed a B.Hum. degree in Philosophy and Humanities at Carleton University, where she graduated with the Chancellor’s Medal.

For more information, you can visit her personal website here.

maryna.nekrasova@mail.mcgill.ca