ERA Chair holder

coeckelbergh@flu.cas.cz

Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Philosophy of Department of the University of Vienna, and until recently Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education. He is also ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala. Previously he was the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). 

His expertise focuses on ethics and technology, in particular robotics and artificial intelligence. He is 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 numerous articles and seventeen philosophy books (most recently: AI Ethics (2020),  Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty (2021), The Political Philosophy of AI (2022), Self-Improvement (2022), Robot Ethics (2022), and Digital Technologies, Temporality, and the Politics of Co-Existence (2023). He is involved in several national and European research projects on AI and robotics.

A longer bio can be found here.

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Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Philosophy of Department of the University of Vienna, and until recently Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education. He is also ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala. Previously he was the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). 

His expertise focuses on ethics and technology, in particular robotics and artificial intelligence. He is 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 numerous articles and seventeen philosophy books (most recently: AI Ethics (2020),  Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty (2021), The Political Philosophy of AI (2022), Self-Improvement (2022), Robot Ethics (2022), and Digital Technologies, Temporality, and the Politics of Co-Existence (2023). He is involved in several national and European research projects on AI and robotics.

A longer bio can be found here.