Nir
Eisikovits

Nir Eisikovits is Professor of Philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

He writes about the ethics of war — with a focus on transitional justice and the moral psychology of war — and the ethics of technology, specifically the impact of artificial intelligence on our character and ability to form relationships.

He is the author of Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation (Brill), A Theory of Truces (Palgrave Macmillan), Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War (Cambridge University Press), and the forthcoming How to Argue About the Future: An Optimist and a Skeptic Debate Emerging Technologies (Hackett). He is also co-editor of Theorizing Transitional Justice (Routledge).

In addition to his scholarly work, Eisikovits advises NGOs and software companies and writes regularly for general audiences. His essays and op-eds have appeared in Scientific American, Slate, the Boston Globe, Haaretz, the Christian Science Monitor, The Conversation, and other publications. He is also co-host of Prosthetic Gods, a podcast on the ethics of emerging technology.