PHILOSOPHER · EDUCATOR · WRITER
I’m Matthew Brophy. I explore how we should live, teach, and think in a world being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
High Point University
01 / WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
Essays and commentary on education, technology, and the assumptions we may need to leave behind.
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What the “influencer major” reveals about the changing purpose of career preparation.
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Why educators should distinguish support that makes learning accessible from shortcuts that bypass it.
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A framework for collaboration among teachers, students, and AI in the classroom.
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Deter AI cheating through support, not detection: build better conditions for learning and integrity.
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A defense of breadth, electives, and general education in an economy transformed by AI.
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The ethical case for treating access to AI support as an educational responsibility.
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A guest essay on rethinking take-home writing assignments and the institutional support faculty need. Published in “The Edge: Stop assigning traditional essays.”
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An AI-authored commencement speech for graduates entering a world reshaped by artificial intelligence.
Read the article02 / THE LEARNING SIM COLLECTION
Make a choice. Follow its implications. Reconsider what you believe.
These interactive experiences bring philosophical questions into the hands of learners. Explore them on your own or use them to start a classroom conversation.
Begin with Peter Singer’s famous thought experiment. Explore what your objections reveal about the limits of moral obligation.
Explore the simulation Peter Singer
Navigate college, AI, work, and friendships. Consider what it means to learn—and how educational policies shape those choices.
Explore the simulation 7–10 minutes
Choose a town for yourself and your family. Weigh prosperity, suffering, and uncertainty through questions of justice and fairness.
Explore the simulation Le Guin & Rawls
Explore three possible futures for humanity—and ask what they might imply about the reality you inhabit.
Explore the simulation Simulation hypothesis
Work through seven everyday AI dilemmas. Practice checking information, weighing ethical choices, and using AI to support your learning.
Explore the simulation Students & educatorsEach simulation opens at its own website.
03 / RESEARCH & TEACHING
My work connects moral philosophy to the choices facing educators, institutions, and the people designing AI.
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH
Open access · 2026Ethics and Information Technology
How a coherentist approach to moral reasoning can help explain and improve the alignment of large language models.
Matthew Brophy · Volume 28, Article 21 · Published April 2, 2026
Read the open-access articleDOI: 10.1007/s10676-026-09897-yHow should we assess the moral performance of AI systems? My research explores alignment, moral agency, and wide reflective equilibrium.
How can AI remove barriers and scaffold learning? I examine the responsibilities educators have to support students while keeping learning central.
How can students encounter an idea rather than only read about it? I develop learning simulations and approaches to assignment-specific AI use.
04 / ABOUT MATTHEW
Philosophy belongs wherever consequential decisions are being made.
I’m an Associate Professor of Philosophy at High Point University in North Carolina, where I teach ethics and explore the relationship between technology, education, and human judgment.
My work moves between philosophical research, public writing, and classroom experimentation. I’m interested in what AI makes possible—and what we owe one another as those possibilities become part of everyday life.
I also chair the HBS Artificial Intelligence Committee at HPU.
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For talks, faculty workshops, interviews, and conversations about philosophy, AI, and education.
Contact Matthewmbrophy@highpoint.edu