Recent Publications
Schönau, A., Dasgupta, I., Brown, T., Versalovic, E., Klein, E. and Goering, S. (2021).
Mapping the Dimensions of Agency. AJOB neuroscience, pp. 1-15.
Goering, S., Brown, T., & Klein, E. (2021). Neurotechnology ethics and relational
agency. Philosophy Compass, e12734.
Brown, T. (2020). Building Intricate Partnerships with Neurotechnology: Deep Brain
Stimulation and Relational Agency. IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches
to Bioethics, 13(1), 134-154.
Gilbert, F., Brown, T., Dasgupta, I., Martens, H., Klein, E., & Goering, S. (2019). An
instrument to capture the phenomenology of implantable brain device use Neuroethics.
Sullivan, L. S., Klein, E., Brown, T., Sample, M., Pham, M., Tubig, P., ... & Goering, S.
(2018). Keeping disability in mind: a case study in implantable brain–computer Interface
research. Science and Engineering Ethics, 24(2), 479-504.
Martens, H., & Brown, T. (2018). Relational Autonomy and the Quantified Relationship.
The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), 18(2), 39-40.
Brown, T. (2018). Black Panther. The Philosophers' Magazine, (81), 108-109.
Brown, T. (2018). Mandatory Neurointerventions and the Risk of Racial Disparity. AJOB
Neuroscience, 9(3), 156-157.
Boulicault, M., & Brown, T. (2018). How Relationships Matter: The Need for Closer
Attention to Relationality in Neuroethical Studies. AJOB Neuroscience, 9(4), 235-237.
Martens, H., & Brown, T. (2018). Trusting Oneself and Others: Relational Vulnerability
and DBS for Depression. AJOB Neuroscience, 9(4), 226-227.
Brown, F. Shen, O. Matshabane, J. Kwasa “Scientific Oppression,
Biological Reductionism, and the Future of Neurotechnology,” International
Neuroethics Society Neuroethics Webinar. 2021
T. Brown., N. Martinez-Martin, K. S. Ray, A. Wexler, “Neuroethics and
Race: Room for Inquiry?” American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
Annual Meeting. 2020
T. Brown, “Agency, Affect, and Aesthetics: Making Sense of Lived-
Experiences of Deep Brain Stimulation,” Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium
in Medical Ethics: Workshop on Empathy and Emotions, University of
Washington. 2020
T. Summers, E. Versalovic, T. Brown, “Is it Me or the Device: Reframing
DBS Patient Autonomy Concerns in Terms of Self-Trust,” Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics World Congress. 2020
T. Brown, “‘Anger is a Gift’: Moral Enhancement as a Potential Means of
Oppression,” International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting. Chicago,
Illinois. 2019
T. Brown, J. Metcalf, "Neuro-interventions and machine bias," Joint
University of Oregon–Oregon Health Sciences University Meeting:
Neuroscience, Ethics, & Law in an Era of Big Data. Eugene, Oregon. 2019
Community (MOSTEC) program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Humanities Bootcamps: Strategies for Programming and Support," Graduate
Career Consortium (GCC) Regional Meeting: Northwest and Western
Canada, University of Washington. 2019
K. Pratt, T. Brown, "Privacy and Policy of Neural Information,” Information
Ethics Roundtable, University of Copenhagen. 2018
T. Brown and M. C. Thompson. “When Neuroethicists Become Labmates:
Obstacles, Recommendations, and Metrics for Success,” International
Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. 2016
E. Klein, M. Pham, L. S. Sullivan, T. Brown, P. Tubig, R. Folland, and S.
Goering. “Neuroethics in Practice: Designing Principles for Neural
Engineering Research,” International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting.
San Diego, CA. 2016
T. Brown, “Who Am I When I’m in Control: The Identity Ethics of Closed-
Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor,” International
Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2015
T. Brown, and M. Tate, Comments on Lisa Shapiro's “What is a
Philosophical Work?” and Leroy Searle's "Philosophy, Vision, and Poetic
Construction: William Blake and J. M. Coetzee's Foe" at the Roles of Fiction
in Early Modern Philosophy Conference. University of Washington. 2015
Invited Talks
"Humanities Bootcamps: Strategies for Programming and Support," Graduate
Career Consortium (GCC) Regional Meeting: Northwest and Western
Canada, University of Washington 2019
“Neuroethics Workshop,” MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering
Community (MOSTEC) program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018
“Introducing Neuroethics,” Young Scholars Program-REACH,
Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington 2017, 2018
Introducing Neuroethics, Math & Science Upward Bound Program,
University of Washington 2016, 2017
Awards, Honors and Grants Received
NIH Diversity Supplemental Ethics Grant for BRAIN Initiative Projects. Supplement to RF1, “Human agency and Brain Computer Interfaces;
Understanding users’ experiences and developing a tool for improved consent.” Co-Author, trainee. 2019-current
MacArthur Foundation. “Exploratory Workshops on the Social Impacts of Brain-Machine
Interfaces (BMIs).” Author, Co-Investigator. 2020
NSF Engineering Research Center for Neurotechnology Subgrant. “Closed-loop DBS for Essential Tremor: Ethical Issues in Agency,
Alienation and Device Acceptance,” and “Agency for individuals using engineering neural device to induce plasticity.” Co-Author, trainee. 2014-2019
Commencement Gonfaloniere, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2020
Stroum Endowed Dissertation Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2019
Digital Humanities Summer Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2018
Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Without Walls 2017
Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop
Neuroethics Fellow, NSF Center for Neurotechnology (CNT),
University of Washington 2012-2019
Honors in Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2008
