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55 curated readings— AI Ethics PhD Comprehensive Exam

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C-001Metaethics

Non-Naturalism, Ch 4 of British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

Hurka (2014)

C-002Metaethics

Ethics and Observation, Ch 1 of The Nature of Morality

Harman (1977)

C-003Metaethics

An Outline of An Argument for Robust Metanormative Realism

Enoch (2007)

C-004Metaethics

Relax? Don't Do It! Why Moral Realism Won't Come Cheap

McGrath (2014)

C-005Metaethics

Wise Choices Apt Feelings (Selection)

Gibbard (1990)

C-006Metaethics

Ruling Passions (Ch 3, Sec 4 & 5, pp. 68-83)

Blackburn (1998)

C-007Metaethics

Thinking How to Live (Ch 13 and 14)

Gibbard (2003)

C-008Metaethics

Constructivism About Reasons

Street (2008)

C-009Metaethics

Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External (SEP)

Finlay and Schroeder (2017)

C-010Metaethics

Constructivism in Metaethics (SEP)

Bagnoli (2025)

C-011Metaethics

Conceptual Ethics I.

Burgess, Alexis, and David Plunkett (2013)

C-012Metaethics

Conceptual Ethics II.

Burgess, Alexis, and David Plunkett (2013)

C-013Metaethics

Conceptual Engineering, Truth, and Efficacy.

Nado, Jennifer (2020)

C-014Metaethics

Disagreement and the Semantics of Normative and Evaluative Terms.

Plunkett, David, and Timothy Sundell (2013)

C-015Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

What Makes Right Acts Right? Ch II of The Right and the Good

Ross (1930)

C-016Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Friends and Other Relations, Ch 3 of Rationality and Moral Theory

Jeske (2008)

C-017Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Does Consequentialism Demand too Much?

Kagan (1984)

C-018Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

The Limits of Morality, Ch 1-2

Kagan (1989)

C-019Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Killing and Letting Die

Foot (1984)

C-020Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Actions, Intentions and Consequences: the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing

Quinn (1989)

C-021Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Turning the Trolley

Thomson (2008)

C-022Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Actions, Intentions and Consequences: the Doctrine of Double Effect

Quinn (1989)

C-023Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Between Some Rocks and Some Hard Places, Ch 4 of Living High and Letting Die

Unger (1996)

C-024Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality

Railton (1984)

C-025Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

When Will Your Consequentialist Friend Abandon You for the Greater Good

Woodcock (2010)

C-026Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

When Will a Consequentialist Push You in Front of a Trolley

Woodcock (2017)

C-027Rossian Pluralism vs. Consequentialism

Ch 5 and Sec 6.4 of Morality by Degrees: Reasons without Demands

Norcross (2020)

C-028Well-Being and Its Measurement

What Makes Someone's Life Go Best? Appendix I of Reasons and Persons

Parfit (1984)

C-029Well-Being and Its Measurement

Well-Being Its Meaning, Measurement, and Moral Importance (Part II: Measurement)

Griffin (1986)

C-030Well-Being and Its Measurement

Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics (Selection)

Sumner (1996)

C-031Well-Being and Its Measurement

John. Weighing Goods (Selection)

Broome (1991)

C-032Well-Being and Its Measurement

Matthew. Well-Being and Fair Distribution (Selection)

Adler (2012)

C-033Well-Being and Its Measurement

Amartya. Commodities and Capabilities (Selection)

Sen (1999)

C-034Well-Being and Its Measurement

Elizabeth. Value in Ethics and Economics (Selection)

Anderson (1995)

C-035Well-Being and Its Measurement

Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. (Selection)

Kahneman (2011)

C-036Well-Being and Its Measurement

et al. Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Selection)

Lee (2021)

C-037Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment

Gabriel, Iason (2020)

C-038Value Alignment and AI Ethics

A Benchmark for Scalable Oversight Mechanisms

Sudhir (2025)

C-039Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Fairness and Machine Learning

Barocas, Solon, Hardt, Moritz, and Narayanan, Arvind (2023)

C-040Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Filippo, and van den Hoven, Meaningful Human Control over Autonomous Systems: A Philosophical Account

Santoni de Sio (2018)

C-041Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Aligning artificial intelligence with moral intuitions: an intuitionist approach to the alignment problem

Cecchini et al

C-042Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Aligning with Ideal Values: A Proposal for Anchoring AI in Moral Expertise

Riesen and Boespflug (2025)

C-043Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Moral Disagreement and the Limits of AI Value Alignment: a dual challenge of epistemic justification and political legitimacy

Nick Schuster & Daniel Kilov (2025)

C-044Value Alignment and AI Ethics

The Hard Problem of AI Alignment: Value Forks in Moral Judgment

Markus Kneer & Juri Viehoff (2025)

C-045Value Alignment and AI Ethics

A matter of principle? AI alignment as the fair treatment of claims

Iason Gabriel & Geoff Keeling (2025)

C-046Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Micah Carroll, Matija Franklin & Hal Ashton, Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment

Tan Zhi-Xuan (2025)

C-047Value Alignment and AI Ethics

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Christian, B (2020)

C-048Value Alignment and AI Ethics

The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanities in an Age of Machine Thinking

Vallor, S (2024)

C-049Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Responsible Artificial Intelligence: How to Develop and Use AI in a Responsible Way

Dignum, V (2019)

C-050Value Alignment and AI Ethics

Saving artificial minds: Understanding and preventing AI suffering

Dung, L (2025)

C-051Value Alignment and AI Ethics

The edge of sentience: Risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI

Birch, J (2024)

C-052Value Alignment and AI Ethics

M

Wandrey, M (2025)

C-053Value Alignment and AI Ethics

, Crosby, M

Voudouris, K (2022)

C-054Value Alignment and AI Ethics

, et al

Metcalf, J (2019)

C-055Value Alignment and AI Ethics

, & Dung, L

Hellrigel-Holderbaum, M (2025)