Relevant papers

– How to Use Virtue Ethics for Thinking About the Moral Standing of Social Robots: A Relational Interpretation in Terms of Practices, Habits, and Performance

– AI for Climate: Freedom, Justice, and other ethical and political challenges

– Should We Treat Teddy Bear 2.0 as a Kantian Dog? Four Arguments for the Indirect Moral Standing of Personal Social Robots, with Implications for Thinking about Animals and Humans

– When Machines Talk: A Brief of Analysis of Some Relations between Technology and Language

– The Political Choreography of the Sophia Robot: Beyond Robot Rights and Citizenship to Political Performances for the Social Robotics Market

– The Postdigital in Pandemic Times: A Comment on the Covid-19 Crisis and its Political Epistemologies

– Technology and the good society: A polemical essay on social ontology, political principles, and responsibility for technology

Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Philosophy of Department of the University of Vienna and former President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). His expertise focuses on ethics and technology, in particular robotics and artificial intelligence. He is currently a member of various entities that support policy building in the area of robotics and artificial intelligence, such as the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, the Austrian Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and the Austrian Advisory Council on Automated Mobility. He is the author of 14 philosophy books and numerous articles, and is involved in several European research projects on robotics (e.g. PERSEO).

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