Beyond Academic Philosophy on Let's Phi

AI & Data Ethics

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The most common path in our community: working out what counts as fair or harmful in AI systems.

Ethics Consulting

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Advising organisations on ethics questions, as a job. The field closest to the seminar room.

Management Consulting

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Business problem-solving in small teams. The most structured route in, and a common first chapter.

Risk & Catastrophic Risk

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Risk teams in tech companies, and research institutes working on large-scale threats.

Blockchain & Fintech

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Young companies building financial and governance systems from scratch, where arguments still beat credentials.

Venture Capital

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Evaluating early startups for an investment fund. The core output is written argument.

Entrepreneurship & Startups

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Starting a company, or joining one early. Several people in this community have done it.

Media & Writing

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Content marketing, journalism and other jobs where the writing is the work.

Cybersecurity & Recruitment

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Finding and judging technical experts without being one. One of our own team took this path.

Business, Mentoring & Beyond

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The ordinary roles most organisations run on, plus mission-driven mentoring work.

Content Marketing Resources

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Thank you for attending our events and supporting us

Augmented Reality: Benefits And Challenges

Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A Philosophical Perspective from Leonardo Werner

Useful Resources For A Career In Risk And Tech

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Philosophers in Tech

What Would Heidegger Say About Digital Technologies and Innovation?

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Reflections on Innovation, Technology, and Business Ethics

Philosophy graduates working in AI and Data Ethics (Part 2)

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An Interview with Katie Evans

Philosophy graduates working in AI and Data Ethics (Part 1)

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An Interview with Alessandra Fassio

Let's Phi Year in Review 📊

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

What We Did in 2022 and What to Expect in 2023

Mutual Stress Tests

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

How Technology and Philosophy are Shaping and Changing One Another

Web3 Needs Philosophers - Resources to Get You Started

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A round-up of useful resources to learn about Web3 and get you started on your journey

ForHumanity: Embodying Everything We’ve Learned

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Philosophers at work in AI Ethics and how to get involved with ForHumanity

Philosophy Means Business

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The skills and value philosophers can bring to the table in non-academic jobs

A round-up of useful resources (mentorship and AI Ethics)

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We would like to share a couple of resources that we think you might benefit from.

Cybersecurity/AI Resources, Opportunities and advice for jobseekers

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A round-up of useful cybersecurity/recruitment resources shared by our recent speaker - Joshua Bucheli - and some opportunities. Bookmark and save them for later.

About Let's Phi

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Let’s Phi helps philosophers build careers outside academia. Since summer 2020 we have run three conferences and dozens of workshops, collected the stories of philosophers who made the leap, and grown a newsletter community of 1,800+.

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Let’s Phi was built by a volunteer team of philosophers who care about what comes after the degree. Today it is maintained by Konrad — and it keeps growing, story by story.

Events

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Between 2020 and 2023 we ran three conferences and dozens of talks and workshops, all free and online, on what philosophers can do beyond the university.

This page is the archive of that era. We’re not currently running events — these days new Stories are how Let’s Phi grows — but many of the speakers below also appear there, and if an event ever makes sense again, the newsletter will be the first to know.

I Don't Know What I Want to Do

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Most philosophy graduates don’t know what they want to do next. Nothing has gone wrong. Degrees teach the subject, not the job market. This page explains how that world is organised, offers some questions worth sitting with, and suggests things you can actually try. There is no quiz, because no quiz can answer this.

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Some things everyone assumes you know, and nobody actually tells you:

Opportunities

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Roles where philosophers are a genuinely good fit — and the places where they keep appearing.

This board is refreshed with each newsletter issue. If your organisation is hiring and you think philosophers would thrive in the role, get in touch and we’ll list it.

Stories

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People from the Let’s Phi community: most spoke at our events about the careers they built outside academia, and two ran our St Andrews chapter. Below is what we know about each journey, with links to go deeper.

McKenna Fitzgerald

Deputy Director, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI)

BA in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (2018)

Geoff Keeling

Bioethicist at Google

PhD in Philosophy, University of Bristol (2020)

Christine Jakobson

Associate Principal, Principia Advisory

PhD in Philosophy, University of Cambridge (2021)

Jim Baxter

Professional Ethics Consultancy Team Leader, IDEA Centre, University of Leeds

PhD in Philosophy, University of Leeds (2017)

Kathryn Mecrow-Flynn

CEO and President, Magnify Mentoring

Bachelor of Law, SOAS University of London

Mariana Razina

Freelance Marketer

Co-founded the Let’s Phi St Andrews chapter

Yangtian Xu

Summer Analyst, Bank of America

Co-founded the Let’s Phi St Andrews chapter

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McKenna studied philosophy at UC Berkeley and is now Deputy Director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, a research institute studying risks that could be catastrophic at a global scale. She got there on a 2018 BA, not a PhD. In April 2022 she gave our workshop on ethics for preventing global catastrophe. Her field has its own guide: Risk & Catastrophic Risk.

Beyond Academic Philosophy on Let's Phi

AI & Data Ethics

Ethics Consulting

Management Consulting

Risk & Catastrophic Risk

Blockchain & Fintech

Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship & Startups

Media & Writing

Cybersecurity & Recruitment

Business, Mentoring & Beyond

Content Marketing Resources

Augmented Reality: Benefits And Challenges

Useful Resources For A Career In Risk And Tech

What Would Heidegger Say About Digital Technologies and Innovation?

Philosophy graduates working in AI and Data Ethics (Part 2)

Philosophy graduates working in AI and Data Ethics (Part 1)

Let's Phi Year in Review 📊

Mutual Stress Tests

Web3 Needs Philosophers - Resources to Get You Started

ForHumanity: Embodying Everything We’ve Learned

Philosophy Means Business

A round-up of useful resources (mentorship and AI Ethics)

Cybersecurity/AI Resources, Opportunities and advice for jobseekers

About Let's Phi

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Events

I Don't Know What I Want to Do

How the job world is organised #

Opportunities

Stories

McKenna Fitzgerald #

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How the job world is organised
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McKenna Fitzgerald
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