Étienne Brown

Étienne Brown is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and a faculty member at the Center for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and conducts research on the ethics and political philosophy of the digital public sphere, with a focus on the regulation of online discourse, the normative foundations of recommendation algorithms, and freedom of expression in the era of large language models. He is the founder of PhilMod.org, a community of academics and professionals of the technology industry interested in the philosophical implications of social media policy. He is also a senior research associate at the Digital Speech Lab at University College London and at the African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg. He is currently co-editing Philosophy of Free Speech: An Introduction (Routledge, forthcoming) and is the author of Moral Judgmen