Gordon Hull

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Associate Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program

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Research Interests: Political Theory; Law and Policy; Intellectual Property; Privacy; Data analytics

Dr. Hull received his PhD (2000) from Vanderbilt University. In addition to his appointment in Philosophy and Public Policy, he serves as director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. He works primarily at the intersection of political theory, law, policy and technology. In addition to work on contemporary and historical political thought, he has published extensively on issues in intellectual property and privacy. He is currently completing a book manuscript on intellectual property theory and law, tentatively titled The Biopolitics of Intellectual Property, forthcoming on Cambridge University Press.

Recent Publications:

• Hull, G. (2022). Infrastructure, modulation, portal: Thinking with foucault about how internet architecture shapes subjects. Techné, 26(1), 84-114.
• Hull, G. (2023). Dirty data labeled dirt cheap: Epistemic injustice in machine learning systems. Ethics and Information Technology, 25(3), 38.
• Hull, G. (2023). Unlearning Descartes: sentient ai is a political problem. Journal of Social Computing, 4(3), 193-204.
• Ardabili, B. R., Pazho, A. D., Noghre, G. A., Katariya, V., Hull, G., Reid, S., & Tabkhi, H. (2024). Exploring Public’s perception of safety and video surveillance technology: A survey approach. Technology in Society, 78, 102641.
• Hull, G. (2024). The death of the data subject. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 20(3), 527-547.