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Randall Harp

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Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Vermont
Fulbright Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow / Joint Chair in Contemporary Public Policy 2020.

Randall Harp's (B.A. (Columbia), PH.D. (Stanford)) main research areas are in the philosophy of action (particularly collective action and decision theory) and in the philosophy of social sciences at University of Vermont.
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Randall Harp does research in the philosophy of action, the philosophy of behavioral and social science, in ethics, and in social metaphysics.  He is interested in what it means to be an agent, and in how our agency changes in collective and social contexts.  He is also interested in how the behavioral and social sciences model actions and agents.  He has particular research interests in the ethical implications of how information about us and our networks can be used to predict and influence our behavior.

Randall believes strongly in the power of collaborative and interdisciplinary intellectual work, and in the value of public engagement and communication.