Sean Donahue

Sean Donahue is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Philosophy, Australian National University, working with the MINT Lab and Humanising Machine Intelligence (HMI) project. His research spans political philosophy, epistemology, and AI ethics, focusing on platform legitimacy, public justification, and collective memory.

• Education: PhD in Philosophy (University of Southern California, 2022), MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science (LMU Munich), BA in Liberal Arts (St. John's College, Annapolis)

Research interests include:

• Legitimacy criteria for online platforms like Facebook and Amazon
• Externalist conditions for public justification
• Collective procedural memory in climate change and hazard response
• Epistocratic governance by AI systems
• Testimonial networks in democratic discourse
• Dark knowledge in moral philosophy