Jessica Hall

Jessie Hall is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. Her research is concentrated in what is most aptly described as philosophy of computing, situated at the intersection of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. Her research focuses on what it means to call a system “computational”—tracing the influences of mathematical (Turing and other) computability, functionalism, and various stripes of reductionism, on conceptions of physical computational systems, brains as computing systems, and “abstract” computing. As part of her postdoctoral research, Jessie is working with prof. Karina Vold on projects that investigate the intersections of technology and society, continuing work started as a Schwartz Reisman graduate fellow in 2021-2022.