Niko Kolodny

Niko Kolodny received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, where he is currently Professor of Philosophy. Specializing in moral and political philosophy, he has written papers on a wide range of topics, including rationality, promising, love, democracy, justifying the state, modus ponens, future generations, and Rousseau. His teaching is largely on the ethics of emerging technologies. For the 2023–24 academic year, he is a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute of Advanced Study at Berlin), working on a project on privacy in a digital age.