Symposium 'Unheimliche Freunde'

Keynote Janina Loh

Janina Loh (DE), Thomas Matzner

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
All times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST / UTC +2).
Livestream | Hauptplatz 6, Glashörsaal C (H6.DG.01)
EN

A Critique of Transhumanism as an Excluding Ethics

Moderation: Thomas Matzner

Biography

Janina Loh (née Sombetzki) is a university assistant (post-doc) in the field of philosophy of technology and media at the University of Vienna. Janina Loh completed her doctorate at the Humboldt University Berlin on the issue of responsibility (published in Springer 2014) and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Christian-Albrechts-Uni- versity in Kiel. Loh’s research interests lie in the field of trans- and posthumanism (espe- cially critical posthumanism), robot ethics, feminist philosophy of technology, responsi- bility research, Hannah Arendt, theories of judgement, and ethics in the sciences.