Steven Brown
Associate Professor of Teaching in Philosophy · The Ohio State University
My research and teaching sit at the intersection of cross-cultural philosophy — especially Asian philosophy of religion and virtue ethics — and questions about pedagogy, technology, and human flourishing. The work on this site lands in three loosely overlapping threads: democracy, artificial intelligence, and non-human intelligence — minds and agencies beyond the human, in nature, religion, and the paranormal.
Threads
Cross-cutting questions about civic life, accountability, and how a free society works through hard problems.
Artificial IntelligenceWhat AI is, what it might be good for, and what it could cost us.
Non-Human IntelligenceMinds and agencies beyond the human — in nature, science, religion, and the paranormal.
Each thread is anchored by a short, curated sequence of videos from my YouTube channel, with notes on why each one is worth your time.