Prof Steve Torrance

Post:	Associate Tutor (Informatics)
Other posts:	Visiting Faculty (Informatics)
	Visiting Fellow (Informatics)
	Visiting Associate (School of Life Sciences)
Location:	CHICHESTER 1 CI160
Email:	S.Torrance@sussex.ac.uk

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Biography

I studied philosophy at Sussex university (BA) and Oxford (BPhil and DPhil).  From the 1970s on I have taught and researched in the philosophy, computing, social science and psychology departments at Middlesex University, Goldsmiths U of London, and at Sussex. From 2003 to 2019 I was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS), School of Informatics, University of Sussex. I am Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Science, Middlesex University.

Since 2010 I have worked part-time as an ethics appraisal expert for the European Union. 

Current research interests are philosophy of AI, consciousness and cognitive science, ethics of technology, ethics of AI, enactivism, and the cognitive science of music improvisation. 

Role

I am currently a visiting academic at Sussex, attached to the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science.  I am organizing a symposium on AI, Consciousness and Ethics at the AISB Annual Convention, held at Sussex, July 2026.