Karim Nader

I am a postdoc at MIT. I will be an Assistant Professor at Oakland University in the Fall of 2025. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

I study games and technology. I think about video games and virtual reality, the gamification of technological and social systems, and how we might hack (or "game") those systems. I am interested in what it means to approach the world with a playful attitude.

My work is in aesthetics, social and moral philosophy, and the ethics of technology.

knader [at] mit [dot] edu

"Do we have a right to be swiped?" at the Arizona Feminist Philosophy Graduate Conference (February 2020)

"Virtual fictional actions: What we can learn from policies on video game violence" at the University of Glasgow's Center for the Study of Perceptual Experience (June 2023)