Megan Fritts
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Visiting Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: University of Wisconsin–Madison (2019–2020); College of St. Scholastica (2021)
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Megan Fritts' research investigates philosophical questions surrounding artificial intelligence, misinformation, and the nature of human action and well-being. Her work examines the implications of AI recruitment algorithms, exploring the potential for dehumanization in automated hiring processes. Fritts also studies the phenomenon of "fake news" and online misinformation, analyzing how these contribute to epistemic vices and exploitation within the context of big data. Her philosophical inquiries extend to the structural explanations of actions and the causal theories underlying models of human behavior. Additionally, Fritts has explored subjective accounts of well-being and the moral constraints that shape them. Her scholarship includes 14 publications with an h-index of 3 and 121 citations, and she has collaborated with Frank Cabrera on four shared publications.
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- h-index: 3
- Publications: 14
- Citations: 126
Selected Publications
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Creation as divine absence: A metaphysical reframing of the problem of evil (2024)
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Modeling action: Recasting the causal theory (2024)
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Well-Being and Moral Constraints: A Modified Subjectivist Account (2022)
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- Modeling action: Recasting the causal theory
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