Chad Lee-Stronach

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University, Boston.

My research is in ethics and decision theory, with related interests in political philosophy, philosophy of economics, formal epistemology, and the ethics of artificial intelligence. Much of my recent work examines how problems of ethics and justice depend on information: who possesses it, how it is accessed and controlled, and what it is about. I am currently writing a monograph, Systemic Justice.

In 2025, I was a Visiting Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. In 2023–24, I was a Joint Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University, held jointly with the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the Center for Research on Computation and Society. Before joining Northeastern, I was an Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University, with a placement at Apple University. I received my PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University in 2019.

Publications

1. “The Tragedy of the Conventions” (with Rory Smead), Synthese, forthcoming.
2. “Just Probabilities”, Noûs (2024) 58(4): 948–972. journal · preprint
3. “Liberalism and Automated Injustice”, in Research Handbook on Liberalism, ed. Duncan Ivison (Edward Elgar, 2024). chapter · preprint
4. “Proceed with Caution” (with Annette Zimmermann), Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2022) 52(1): 6–25. journal · preprint
5. “Morality, Uncertainty”, Philosophical Quarterly (2021) 71(2): 334–358. journal · preprint
6. “The Problem of Ignorance”, Ethics (2020) 130(2): 211–227. journal · preprint
7. “Axiological Absolutism and Risk” (with Seth Lazar), Noûs (2019) 53(1): 97–113. journal · preprint
8. “Moral Priorities Under Risk”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2018) 48(6): 793–811. journal · preprint

Work in Progress

Systemic Justice (monograph in progress; chapters available on request).

Papers under review on algorithmic fairness, privacy, and normative ethics. Drafts available on request.

Teaching

At Northeastern, I have taught Philosophy of Economics, Social and Political Philosophy, Human Rights, The Philosophy of Social Power, and Technology and Human Values. At the Australian National University, I lectured on Rationality and Social Cooperation and Introduction to Ethics. A full teaching history is in my CV.