{"id":12065,"date":"2025-09-08T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=12065"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:14:04","slug":"trevor-lapointe","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/people\/trevor-lapointe\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor J. Lapointe"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Research Topic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buddhist Ethics and AI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Supervisor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gordon Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Philosophy of Mind<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philosophy of Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philosophy of Religion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eastern Philosophy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trevor&#8217;s main areas of interest lie in phenomenology and its relationship to philosophy of mind, consciousness theory, and metacognition. He also has a keen interest in ethical questions surrounding how technology shapes conscious experience, identity formation, the art of thinking, human connection, well-being, and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His current research focuses on the ethical dilemmas associated with hyper-accelerated attention economies, including their effects on cognitive load, privacy, vulnerable populations, and moral responsibility. Drawing on Buddhist soteriology, his work explores how Eastern contemplative traditions might inform a more thoughtful and ethical adoption of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When not engaged in philosophical work, Trevor loves being a dad to his two boys and finds joy in writing songs, creating poetry and paintings, and taking extremely long walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13310,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Trevor J.","cu_people_last_name":"Lapointe","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[48],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-12065","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-student"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"MA Student","cu_people_degree":"BA and BSW (Carleton) ","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/12065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13311,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/12065\/revisions\/13311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}