UMass Boston

Transitional Justice and Post War Reconstruction, Ethics of War, Ethics of Technology

LLB
PhD

• Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation (Brill-Nijhoff/RoL, 2009)
• A Theory of Truces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
• Co-Editor, Theorizing Transitional Justice (Ashgate/Routledge, 2015)
• Guest Editor, Theoria, a Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, Special Issue on “Peace in the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare” (2015)
• Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
• Guest Editor, Moral Philosophy and Politics, Special Issue on the Philosophy of the Metaverse
• "AI and Phronesis", with Dan Feldman, Moral Philosophy and Politics 9(2) 2022
• "AI and the Grounds for Human Rights", Etica and Politica 24(3) 2022
• "Workplace Automation and Political Replacement: A Valid Analogy?" with Jake Burley, AI and Ethics, forthcoming
• "The Post-Dystopian Technorealism of Ted Chiang" Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies 32(1)

Nir Eisikovits is a professor of philosophy and founding director of the Applied Ethics Center. Before coming to UMass Boston he taught legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University, where he co-founded and directed the Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy. Professor Eisikovits's research focuses on the ethics of war and the ethics of technology. He is author of A Theory of Truces (Palgrave MacMillan), Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation (Brill), the forthcoming Glory Humiliation and the Drive to War (Cambridge) and co-editor of Theorizing Transitional Justice (Routledge). He is also guest editor for a recent issue of Theoria on The Idea of Peace in the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare and a forthcoming issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics on The Future of Work, Play, and Education in the Metaverse. Eisikovits has written numerous articles on political reconciliation, transitional justice, the role of forgiveness in politics, truth commissions, the ethics of war, and the ethics of artificial intelligene. Eisikovits earned his PhD from Boston University in 2005. In addition to his scholarly work, he has advised several NGOs focused on conflict resolution, and comments frequently on the ethics of technology and the culture of war for newspapers and magazines. His essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, the National Interest, the Forward, Cognoscenti, Slate and the Conversation among others.