Ali Hasan
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Biography
Professor Hasan has broad interests in philosophy, including epistemology (his primary area of research), ethics, philosophy of mind, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Recently, he’s also been working on ethical and epistemological issues in AI.
Office Hours
Tuesday and Wednesday 10:30-12:00
Book
A Critical Introduction to the Epistemology of Perception. Bloomsbury Academic 2017.
Book in progress
Rationality and the Subject’s Perspective. [Working Title]
Articles
Epistemology
- “The Structure of Knowledge and Justification.” Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd Edition. 2025
- “The Evidence in Perception.” Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence. 2024.
- “Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification” (co-authored with Richard Fumerton). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2022
- “The Reliability of Memory: An Argument from the Armchair.” Episteme. 2021
- “The Grounds of Knowledge Must Be Accessible.” In Cowan (ed.) Problems in Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic. 2020.
- “Is Theism Rational?” In Koterski and Oppy (eds.) Theism and Atheism: Opposing Viewpoints in Philosophy. Macmillan Reference. 2019.
- “Knowledge by Acquaintance vs. Description” (co-authored with Richard Fumerton). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2019
- “Skepticism and Spatial Objects,” The International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 2018
- Review of Ralph Wedgwood, The Value of Rationality (Oxford University Press 2017). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2018
- “In Defense of Rationalism about Abductive Inference.” In Inference to the Best Explanation, Poston and McCain (eds.), Oxford University Press. 2017
- “Certainty.” Oxford Bibliographies. 2017
- Review of Albert Casullo, Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification (Oxford University Press 2012). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2014
- “Internalist Foundationalism and the Sellarsian Dilemma.” Res Philosophica 2013.
- “Phenomenal Conservatism, Classical Foundationalism, and Internalist Justification.” Philosophical Studies 2013.
- “Classical Foundationalism and Bergmann's Dilemma for Internalism.” Journal of Philosophical Research 2011.
Ethics and Technology / Ethics of AI
- “Are you Anthropomorphizing AI?” Blog of the American Philosophical Association. 2024.
- “A Framework for Assurance Audits of Algorithmic Systems” (co-authored with Lam, Lange, Brohane-Hamelin, Davidovic, and Brown) FAccT. 2024.
- “Algorithmic Bias and Risk Assessments: Lessons from Practice” (co-authored with Brown, Davidovic, Lange, and Regan). Digital Society. 2022.
- “The Algorithm Audit: Scoring the Algorithms that Score Us.” (Co-authored with Shea Brown and Jovana Davidovic). Big Data and Society. 2021
Philosophy of Religion
- “Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Divine Creation, Will, and Justice.” In J. Diller and A. Kasher (eds.) Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities. Springer 2013.
- “Is Theism Rational?” In Koterski and Oppy (eds.) Theism and Atheism: Opposing Viewpoints in Philosophy. Macmillan Reference. 2019.
Decision Theory
- How to Save Pascal (and Ourselves) From the Mugger. (co-authored with Avram Hiller). Dialogue 2023.
Collective action/philosophy of dance
- “Unplanned Coordination: Ensemble Improvisation as Collective Action.” (Co-authored with Jennifer Kayle) Journal of Social Ontology. 2021.
Research areas
- Epistemology
- Ethics and social/political
- Early modern history of philosophy
- Philosophy of mind