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Lucas Kayssi

Master's Student

Department of Philosophy
McMaster University

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I graduated from Western University with a double major in economics and philosophy. I’m now in the second year of my MA, studying at McMaster University in Hamilton. My main interests are in the philosophy of mind, 4E cognition, phenomenology, and AI. For my master’s thesis, I’m applying a 4E lens onto the phenomenology of social interaction to better understand, generally speaking, the problem of empathy as posed by Edith Stein. From here, I think we can start considering whether genuine social interactions with AI chatbots and robots are philosophically plausible. For fun, I like listening to and playing some music, enjoying the company of friends, going on long walks, and I’m a novice leather crafter