Jordan Joseph Wales
- Delp 323
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“O grace abounding and allowing me to dare— Dante, Commedia, Paradiso 33.82-87
to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light,
so deep my vision was consumed in It!
I saw how it contains within its depths
all things bound in a single book by love
of which creation is the scattered leaves.”
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Jordan Joseph Wales
Education
Ph.D. in Theology, University of Notre Dame, 2015
Master of Studies in Theology, University of Notre Dame, 2007
Postgraduate Diploma in Theology, Linacre College, Oxford University, 2003
M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and Natural Language, University of Edinburgh, 2002
Certified Engineer in Training, NCEES, 2001
B.S. in Engineering, Swarthmore College, 2001
Fellowships and Awards
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, 2012-2014
Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, Kaneb Center, University of Notre Dame, 2013
Lilly Presidential Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 2007-2012
Newman Research Scholarship, National Institute for Newman Studies, 2004
M.Sc. Degree Awarded “with Distinction,” University of Edinburgh, 2002
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2001
British Marshall Scholar, 2001
B.S. Degree Awarded “with Highest Honors,” Swarthmore College, 2001
Publications
“Narcissus, the Serpent, and the Saint: Living Humanely in a World of Artificial Intelligence.” In All Creation Gives Praise: Essays at the Frontier of Science and Religion. Ed. Jay Martin. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (In Press).
Irenaeus of Lyons. Against Heresies. Ed. Jordan Joseph Wales. Intro. John C. Cavadini. Trans. Alexander Roberts et al. (revised). Christian Classics. Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press of Notre Dame. (In Press).
Green, Brian Patrick, Matthew J. Gaudet, Levi Checketts, Brian Cutter, Noreen Herzfeld, Cory Andrew Labrecque, Anselm Ramelow, . . . Jordan Joseph Wales, et al. “Artificial Intelligence and Moral Theology: A Conversation.” Artificial Intelligence. Ed. Matthew J. Gaudet and Brian Patrick Green. Journal of Moral Theology 11: Special Issue 1 (Apr. 2022): 13–40.
“Metaphysics, Meaning, and Morality: A Theological Reflection on A.I.” Artificial Intelligence. Ed. Matthew J. Gaudet and Brian Patrick Green. Journal of Moral Theology 11: Special Issue 1 (Apr. 2022): 157–181.
David J. Gunkel and Jordan Joseph Wales. “Debate: What is Personhood in the Age of A.I.?” AI and Law—Ethical, Legal, and Socio-political Implications. Ed. John-Stewart Gordon. Special Issue of AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication 36:2 (2021): 473–486.
“Empathy and Instrumentalization: Late Ancient Cultural Critique and the Challenge of Apparently Personal Robots.” In Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2020, pp. 114–124. Ed. Marco Nørskov, Johanna Seibt, and Oliver Santiago Quick. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2020.
“The Satanic and the Theomimetic: Distinguishing and Reconciling ‘Sacrifice’ in René Girard and Gregory the Great.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 27 (2020).
“Contemplative Compassion: Gregory the Great’s Development of Augustine on Love of Neighbor and Likeness to God.” Augustinian Studies 49:2 (Sep. 2018): 199–219.
“The Narrated Theology of Stabilitas in Gregory the Great’s Life of Benedict.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 49:2 (Apr. 2014): 163–198.
Touretzky, David; Halelamien, Neil; Wales, Jordan. “Dual Coding Representations for Robot Vision.” Autonomous Robots 22:4 (2007): 425–435.
Tira-Thompson, Ethan; Halelamien, Neil; Wales, Jordan; Touretzky, David. “Tekkotsu: Cognitive Robotics on the Sony AIBO.” Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (2004).
Selected Public Scholarship
“The Image and the Idol: A Theological Reflection on AI Bias.”Church Life Journal. McGrath Institute for Church Life. University of Notre Dame. Oct. 11, 2021.
“What Will a Future with Androids Among Us Look Like?” Church Life Journal. McGrath Institute for Church Life. University of Notre Dame. Mar. 15, 2019.
“The Love that Made Her: How Catholics Should Respond to Church Corruption.” The Hillsdale Collegian. Sep. 18, 2018.
“Who Are You? Alt-Right ‘Identitarianism,’ Violence, and the Intellectual Roots of Western Civilization.” The Public Discourse: The Online Journal of the Witherspoon Institute. Dec. 2017.