Geoffrey explores the intersections of philosophy, digital humanities, and artificial intelligence, focusing on AI ethics, philosophical dialogue, and innovative textual analysis through digital tools and sustainable practices.

Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta. He holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and has published on subjects such as artificial intelligence and ethics, philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, digital humanities, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia.

His books include Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet (Humanity Books, 2003) and Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities, co-authored with Stéfan Sinclair (MIT Press, 2016). Hermeneutica is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org), an award-winning suite of analytical tools and leads the Text Analysis Portal for Research project. He recently co-edited a book on Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers, 2021) and On Making in the Digital Humanities (UCL Press, 2023).