Dr. Alessandra Buccella is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University at Albany. She graduated with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020. Before that, she earned Master’s degrees from the University of Barcelona, Spain and the University of Milan, Italy. For two years before joining UAlbany, Dr. Buccella was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University, where she participated in research projects exploring the nature of volitional action and perception, as well as the ability of machine learning models to issue intelligible explanations of their outputs to users.

Her current research focuses on articulating the ethical implications of AI-powered decision support systems and on understanding the broader social and political effects of humans interacting regularly with various kinds of AI technologies, including large language models.

She has published papers in several academic and non-academic venues (including a piece in Scientific American) on various topics in philosophy of mind/cognitive science, philosophy of science, AI ethics, and the philosophy of sport.

Dr. Buccella is part of several interdisciplinary research teams pursuing funding for data science education, trustworthy AI applications in mental health, and human-AI collaboration. She has a certificate in Engaged and Public Humanities from Georgetown University, completed the NSF-funded Inclusive STEM Teaching course, and regularly participates in public engagement initiatives across the Capital Region.

Buccella, A. (forthcoming). “Some Reflections on Language Games…and ChatGPT”. In C. Sachs (ed.), Interpreting Sellars: Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press.

Buccella, A., Maoz, U. & Mudrik, L. (2024). “Towards and interdisciplinary ‘science of the mind’: a call for enhanced collaboration between philosophy and neuroscience”. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60(5), 4771 – 4784. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16451 Buccella, A. (2022). ‘AI for all’ is a matter of social justice. AI and Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00222-z

Buccella, A. & Springle, A. A. (2022). Phenomenology: What’s AI got to do with it? Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09833-7

Buccella, A. (2022). Perceptual Science and the Nature of Perception. Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 37(2), 149–162. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.22650

Buccella, A., & Chemero, A. (2022). Reconsidering perceptual constancy. Philosophical Psychology, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2038122

Buccella, A. (2021). The problem of perceptual invariance. Synthese, 199,13883–13905. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03402-2