Biography

David Peter Wallis Freeborn is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University, London. He works on the philosophy of AI, social and formal epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of physics. He began his research career as a particle physicist at the University of Oxford, conducting research at CERN, and receiving a PhD from University College London in 2016. He also holds an MSc in the Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics and attained a second PhD in the Philosophy of Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2023.

He is interested in both scientifically-informed-philosophy and philosophically-informed-science. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, Bayesian formal and social epistemology, the philosophy of physics, computational modelling, and network theory. His Erdős number is 4, via Paul Erdős, Persi Diaconis, Brian Skyrms and Cailin O’Connor.

For further details, see: davidpeterwallisfreeborn.com

Qualifications

MPhys in Physics (University of Oxford)
MSc in the Philosophy of Science (London School of Economics)
PhD in High Energy Physics (University College London)
PhD in the Philosophy of Science (University of California, Irvine)

Teaching

At Northeastern University of London, he has taught AI and Data Ethics, Advanced Topics in Responsible to AI and Programming for Data Science Applications.

He is happy to supervise or co-supervise dissertations for undergraduate, MA and MSc levels.

Contact

David Freeborn
david.freeborn@nulondon.ac.uk