Chris Register

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Select Publications

“Individuating artificial moral patients” 2025, Philosophical Studies.

“The Depth of the Body” 2025, Philosophers’ Imprint.

“How to Explain the Importance of Persons” 2023, in The Philosophical Quarterly. (alt)

“Hot-Cold Empathy Gaps and the Grounds of Authenticity” with Grace Helton, 2023, in Synthese. (alt)

“Does Cognitive Psychology Imply Pluralism about the Self?” 2023, in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. (alt)

Current projects

A co-authored report on individuating digital minds.

A paper on AI individuals.

A paper on self-consciousness in AI systems.

Other recent work

Recently I’ve been thinking about digital minds, personhood, personalized AI advisors, privacy, alignment, and bodily rights (human or otherwise).