Darby Vickers, PhD

Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Darby Vickers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Element Chair of Technology and Humanities at the Humanities Center at University of San Diego. Her research focuses on expertise and skill acquisition and transmission— between generations and between humans and machines— and sits at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of education. In her research, she draws significantly on cognitive science and ancient Greek philosophy to shed light on contemporary problems in ethics of technology and education. She has authored articles on ethics of artificial intelligence and doctoral education.