Meghan Sullivan
Department of Philosophy
Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy; Director of Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good
- Time and rational planning
- Love and ethical commitment
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophy as a way of life
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South Bend Tribune
Notre Dame hosts summit exploring role of faith, humanity in age of AI
September 26, 2025
In the summit's keynote speech on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, said DELTA is a faith-based framework for approaching AI. Sullivan said AI is revolutionizing how people view ethics — in a way similar to how the atomic bomb presented hard ethical questions during World War II. But unlike the atomic age, she said, Christians haven't been involved in conversations about digitalization and the advent of AI.
OSV News
Notre Dame summit aims to bring Christian values to AI revolution
September 24, 2025
The university’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and its Ethics Initiative teamed up to host the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing on the Notre Dame campus from Sept. 22 to 25. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., opened the summit with a Sept. 22 Mass at which he was the principal celebrant and homilist, with university president Father Robert Dowd, a Holy Cross priest, concelebrating.
During her Sept. 23 keynote address, Meghan Sullivan — professor of philosophy and director of both the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative — said that “discernment is required … more than ever” with the acceleration of AI in an era of “technological triumphalism.”
WSBT TV
Notre Dame's A.I. Summit focuses on ethical use of developing technology in the workforce
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September 24, 2025
Keynote Speaker Meghan Sullivan says introducing the DELTA framework makes a shift away from industry talks around A.I. compliancy, efficiency and privacy. "But when it comes to thinking about the ways that we're going to allow A.I. to transform our workplaces, Catholics and Christians think it's essential that we don't focus on optimization, we focus on human dignity," Sullivan said.
WVPE
Notre Dame hosts summit on AI, faith, and human flourishing, launches DELTA framework
September 22, 2025
“Much of the discussion around AI ethics right now hovers around what we call the ethical floor. You know, just the rock bottom basic principles about building AI that is safe, AI that's explainable, AI that's fair, and those are all really important, but with the technology this powerful, there are gonna be plenty of other ethical considerations that go way beyond just safety and fairness,” said Dr. Meghan Sullivan, director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.
Yahoo
Notre Dame hosting summit on AI, keynote speech livestreamed to public on Sept. 23
September 21, 2025
The University of Notre Dame is hosting a summit exploring the impact artificial intelligence could have on everything from education to human relationships. ... Although the summit sessions are by invitation only, the keynote speech by Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, will be livestreamed on the university's website for public viewing.
South Bend Tribune
Notre Dame hosting summit on AI, keynote speech livestreamed to public on Sept. 23
September 19, 2025
The University of Notre Dame is hosting a summit exploring the impact artificial intelligence could have on everything from education to human relationships, with a keynote speech livestream open to the public on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Although the summit sessions are by invitation only, the keynote speech by Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, will be livestreamed on the university's website for public viewing. The speech begins at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday and will provide an introduction to the DELTA framework.
The Conversation
Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today
February 10, 2025
By Meghan Sullivan, the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy and director of Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.
Crux
Notre Dame to explore faith-based ethical uses of AI
October 11, 2024
The development of the frameworks will be led by the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. Meghan Sullivan, the institute’s director, said that “this is a pivotal moment for technology ethics.”
Vogue
Learn Your Stripes: Studying Thom Browne at Notre Dame
April 12, 2023
“When you’re here, you feel that you’re in such a safe, enclosed environment,” says the designer and CFDA Chairman Thom Browne over a bowl of honey-blended yogurt and granola, his gray knit vest catching and softening the springtime light. He’s discussing his impression of The University of Notre Dame, both 30 years ago, when he was a student, and today, when he’s back in South Bend, Indiana to partake in a class dedicated to him called “Strong Suits: The Art, Philosophy and Business of Thom Browne.”
South Bend Tribune
Iris DeMent performs at Notre Dame
February 16, 2023
In addition to her hour-long concert, DeMent will sit down for a live discussion about her life and music with Meghan Sullivan, a professor of philosophy and director of the Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Study.
Commonweal
Good Samaritans?
September 09, 2022
Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and the director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Commonweal
The Right Questions
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January 13, 2022
Virtue ethics, as Notre Dame’s Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko contend, offers a method for reasoning about, and gaining new insights into, these age-old questions.
WVPE
All IN: The Good Life Method
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January 06, 2022
Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame; Co-Author, “The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith and Meaning”. Paul Blaschko, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy,University of Notre Dame; Co-Author, “The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith and Meaning”
The New Yorker
Annals of Inquiry: Being in Time
July 09, 2021
Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, contemplates these questions in her book “Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence.”
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'Pandemic time' can potentially impact emotional health
March 17, 2021
“Philosophers--for the last, I don't know, 2,400 years--have been more in the business of trying to give people advice about how they should think about time, realizing that some of the ways that we ordinarily experience time are bad,” said Meghan Sullivan, the Wilsey Family College professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and author of the book Time Biases.