Daniel Story
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 47, Rm. 34H
- Phone: TBA
- Email: dstory@calpoly.edu
- Website: danielstory.net
Fields
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Mind (Action and Agency)
- Feminist Philosophy
Education
- Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara (2020)
- M.A. in Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara (2017)
- B.A. in Philosophy, University of Kentucky (2013)
- A.A., Bluegrass Community and Technical College (2011)
Courses Taught
- Intro Ethics
- Critical Thinking
- Theory of Knowledge
- Philosophy of Mind
- Metaphysics
- Feminist Ethics
- Philosophy of Death
- Ethics, Science, and Technology
Academic Publications
- “Theater of the Departed: A Conceptual Framework for Chatbots of the Dead” (with Amy Kurzweil), Ergo, forthcoming.
- “Review of The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, forthcoming.
- “Cryonics: Traps and Transformations.” Bioethics, 2024.
- “Deepfake Pornography and the Ethics of Non-Veridical Representations.” (with Ryan Jenkins), Philosophy & Technology, 2023.
- “The Badness of Death for Sociable Cattle.” Journal of Value Inquiry, 2023.
- “Life and Death Without the Present.” Journal of Ethics, 26, pp. 193-207, 2022.
- “Review of Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 6.” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 18(6), pp. 678-681, 2021.
- “Moral luck in team-based health care” (with Catelynn Kenner), Nursing Philosophy, 22(1), 2021.
- “Joint action without robust theory of mind,” Synthese 198, pp. 5009-5026, 2021.
- “Interpersonal Moral Luck and Normative Entanglement,” Ergo 6(21), pp. 601-616, 2019.
- Essays Concerning the Social Dimensions of Human Agency. University of California, Santa Barbara (Dissertation), 2020.
Public Philosophy Publications
- “Chatbots of the dead.” (with Amy Kurzweil), Aeon, 2025.
- “Lighting lanterns in the morning.” Reed Magazine, 2023.
- “The Garden of Simulated Delights.” Prindle Post, 2023.
- “Driving with the Machine: Self-Driving Cars, Responsibility, and Moral Luck.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “Creepy-Crawlies and the Long Dreamless Sleep.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “Trophy Hunting is Immoral Only If Hunting for Meat Is Immoral.” Prindle Post, 2022
- “Were Parts of Your Mind Made in a Factory?” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “Interrogating the Sunk Cost Fallacy.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “The Curious Case of LaMDA, the AI that Claimed to be Sentient.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “Corporate Activism and Non-Ideal Democracy.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “Cryonics: The Trap Objection.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “No Fun and Games.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “Reflections on Communal Annihilation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Prindle Post, 2022.
- “The Ethics of Deepfake Pornography.” Public Ethics Blog, 2022.
- “A proposal for dealing with COVID-related externalities.” PEA Soup Blog, 2020.
- “Lucky Till Now.” Santa Barbara Independent, 2020.