Mark Coeckelbergh

University Of Vienna

Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Philosophy of Department of the University of Vienna. 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.

Vincent Blok

Wageningen University

Vincent Blok is a Dutch philosopher working as professor at the Wageningen University. He reflects on the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch).

Ivo Wallimann-Helmer

University Of Fribourg

The core areas of Ivo Helmer´s work involve investigating conceptual and normative issues of justice in climate action and environmental protection, technological innovation for sustainability, and the fair differentiation of responsibilities in environmental practice, with a recent focus on food systems. His key interest centers around the conceptual conflicts between the global and intergenerational dimensions of these challenges and the local and temporal differentiations of responsibilities between relevant agents. For further information about his current projects, please refer to the provided details.

Leonie N. Bossert

Tübingen University

Leonie Bossert is an Environmental, Animal, AI, and Conservation Ethicist with a research focus on theories of interspecies and intergenerational justice, as well as the normativity of Sustainable Development, including research on sustainable AI. Currently holding the position of Assistant Professor at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at Tübingen University, she is also a member of the Young Academy of the Heidelberger Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, the German Committee Future Earth, and the Young Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld.

Martin Nitsche

Department Of Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Czech Academy Of Sciences

Martin Nitsche, is interested in phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty), topology and philosophy of art. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, majoring in philosophy-history. Since 2000 he has been working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Ústí nad Labem and since 2010 he has been a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the CAS in Prague (Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy). He has published the monograph Die Ortschaft des Seins. Martin Heideggers phänomenologische Topologie (Würzburg, Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Königshausen u. Neumann 2013), The Spaces of Being. Studies on Heidegger’s Topology (Prague, Togga 2011) and From the Convenient. A Phenomenological Interpretation of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (Prague, Filosofia 2010). He is the editor of the collective monograph Image in Space. Contributions to a Topology of Images (Bautz, 2015).

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