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Deborah Goldgaber is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University (LSU), with a joint appointment in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She serves as Director of the LSU Ethics Institute since 2019, spearheading initiatives in Data Ethics, Ethical AI, memorialization ethics, and Critical Carceral Studies. Her work bridges philosophy with STEM fields through projects like the NSF-funded Embedding Ethics in STEM @ LSU, enhancing moral literacy across disciplines.
Goldgaber holds a PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University (2014), with expertise in European philosophy, feminist philosophy, ethics, and epistemology. Her research explores the limits of scientific knowledge, inclusive values in science, and the societal impacts of technological prosthesis. Her monograph Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and the New Materialism (2021) extends Derrida’s grammatology to analyze writing and code in biology and information sciences.
Her awards include a $1.5M NSF grant (POSE II, 2024) and leadership in interdisciplinary collaborations like the AI & Religion Collaborative. She teaches courses such as Philosophy of STEM, Existentialism, and Graduate Seminar in Continental Philosophy. Her recent publications address speculative realism, dark phenomenology, and the ontology of code in scientific contexts.
- Education:
- B.A. Economics/Political Science, Vanderbilt University (2000)
- M.A. Philosophy, The New School for Social Research (2004)
- Ph.D. Philosophy, Northwestern University (2014)
Goldgaber’s grants and fellowships underscore her impact in ethics and interdisciplinary scholarship. She actively promotes ethical frameworks in AI, digital agriculture, and STEM education through partnerships with the humanities.
