Vlad-Stefan Harbuz
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: vlad@vlad.website
- Web: Personal website
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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40 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Background
I'm Vlad. I work on moral philosophy and social epistemology, more specifically on the ethics and epistemology of Open Source software. I am also interested in ideology, and I co-organise the Ideology Research Group together with Miranda Heath.
I arrived at this topic because I ran a software company for 10 years in which I was the one doing the oppressing. Uh oh!
I also work in software (more at vlad.website), where I try to improve how the Open Source ecosystem is organised in order to reduce exploitation and safeguard our vulnerable global software infrastructure. Among other projects, I co-organise the Open Source Pledge, which has raised $6,879,498 for Open Source maintainers.
In my free time, I am a prolific cat petter. I am always available for catsitting.
Qualifications
MScR Philosophy (Distinction), University of Edinburgh
MA Philosophy (Merit), UCL
BSc Computer Science (First Class), The University of Manchester