I am a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Florida. 

I work on the epistemic norms that govern a number of our social practices. My focus has been centrally on the epistemology of trust and trustworthiness. This includes what epistemic states are compatible with trust and what features make someone worthy of trust. My other primary interest is in the ethics of AI and emerging technologies. This includes questions about if AI can be trustworthy as well as philosophical issues surrounding classification models and autonomous weapons systems.

Before coming to UF, I completed an MA at KU Leuven and a BA at DePaul University. Under the research tab you will find links to my published papers. Under the teaching tab you will find courses I have taught and sample syllabi.
Here is the link to my CV.
Portrait of Jack Madock, philosophy legend himself [email protected]

Publications

These are links to my published papers. Links to both web publication and download available.

  • Madock, Jack. Trusting Without Knowing. Episteme. (Forthcoming)
    [Penultimate]
  • Madock, Jack. Sturdy beliefs. Synthese 206, 296 (2025).
    [Web, Download]
  • Madock, Jack. 2025. “From There to Here: A Liberal-Multicultural Framework of the Rights of Climate Refugees.” In Multicultural Citizenship: Legacy and Critique. Eds. Francois Boucher and Jean-Francois Caron. Routledge, NY.
    [Web, Download]
  • Madock, Jack. 2024. “Robot Warfare: The (Im)Permissibility of Autonomous Weapons Systems.” AI and Ethics, September.
    [Web, Download]
  • Madock, Jack. 2021. “The Irreplaceability of Place: What We Lose When We Lose Our Homeland.” Biblioteca Della Libertà 56 (232): 83–98.
    [Web, Download]

Syllabi

This is a list of courses I have previously taught as well as sample syllabi from those courses.