Philosopher, University of Oxford
Elad Uzan is a philosopher based at the University of Oxford, where he teaches philosophy to both undergraduate and graduate students. He works at the intersection of moral, political, and legal philosophy. He held positions as a Marie Curie Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy and as a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College. He has also been a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris IAS), where he worked on issues at the intersection of mathematics and ethics.
He is the recipient of the American Philosophical Association’s Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship. His first monograph, The Morality and Law of Ending War, develops the first systematic theory of the normative limits that govern when and how wars should be brought to an end, and will be published by Oxford University Press in 2026.
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The incompleteness of ethics
Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden
Elad Uzan
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Moral mathematics
Subjecting the problems of ethics to the cool quantifications of logic and probability can help us to be better people
Elad Uzan