Internal Members
David Černý
David Černý studied philosophy at universities in Bologna and Rome, and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Charles University in Prague. He is now a Research Fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Adam Doležal
Adam Doležal is an expert in the field of medical law. As a member of the Research Unit of Medical Law and Bioethics at The Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, he organized several workshops on the current issues in medical law and bioethics themes.
Jaroslav Flegr
Jaroslav Flegr is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, where he lso heads the Institutional Review Board. In addition to topics in evolutionary biology, he also conducts research in evolutionary psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Jaroslav Hlinka
Jaroslav Hlinka is the Head of the Department of Complex Systems at the Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences and also the Chair of the Institute's Council.
His research interests lie in developing and application of methods for data-driven analysis of real-world complex systems, with main focus on human brain.
Tomáš Hříbek
Tomáš Hříbek is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. His interests range from topics in philosophy of mind to philosophy of biology, ethics and aesthetics (he teaches the latter subject at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague).
Juraj Hvorecký
Juraj Hvorecký is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His interests cover the areas of the philosophy of mind, cognitive sciences and applied ethics in the domain of technology and institutions. He is also interested in ways to popularise findings in humanities and social sciences.
Linda Kolaříková
Linda Kolaříková is a graduate of Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague. She also studied law at the Aarhus University in Denmark. She practices as attorney at law. In her publications Linda often focuses on artificial intelligence and data.
Robin Kopecký
Robin Kopecký is a PhD candidate in evolutionary biology at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the School of Liberal Arts of Charles University. He works on topics in applied ethics and experimental philosophy, including the ethics of autonomous vehicles and moral intuitions in adults and children.
Michaela Košová
Michaela Košová is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. Prior to that she earned her MA in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where she focused mainly on philosophy of consciousness. She is currently working on topics in philosophy of mind and experimental philosophy.
Monika Mareková
Monika Mareková is a law graduate of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and the University of Oxford, Lincoln College from which she obtained Supperstone Law Scholarship. She also studied law at the University of Fribourg and Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada and human rights at the UN Graduate Study Programme in Geneva.
Daniel Novotný
Daniel D. Novotny received his PhD from State University of New York at Buffalo and is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Bohemia. He works primarily in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and applied philosophy.
Emil Pelikán
Prof. Emil Pelikan is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 2017 he has been the director of this Institute. He also lectures at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
David Anthony Procházka
David Anthony Prochazka is an educator and evidence-based practice popularizer. He takes care of the Center for Evidence-Based Management and Research Club at FPH VŠE.
Michal Trčka
Michal Trčka is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Technical University of Liberec. In his current work, he focuses on selected moral dilemmas associated with the development of modern biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and their interconnection with information technologies.
Zdeněk Valenta
Zdeněk Valenta works as a research scientist at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (ICS CAS). He is currently serving as ICS’ Deputy Director for Strategic Development and the Head of the Dept. of Statistical Modelling.
Jiří Wiedermann
Jiří Wiedermann is a renowned computer scientist based at the Institute of Computer Science, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Between 2000 and 2012 he served as the director of the Institute, since 2017 he has been the deputy director.
External Members
Colin Allen
Colin Allen is Distinguished Professor of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. From 2017-2020, he also holds the title of "Changjiang (Yangtze River) Chair Professor" at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Maria Bielikova
She is a full professor of software and information systems at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU), member of High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence established by European Commission in 2018, former member of Board of Governors of Joint Research Center
J. Mark Bishop
J. Mark Bishop (PhD) is Director of The Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics, Professor of Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London and a consultant on AI, Analytics and Data Ethics who has been invited to contribute to policy at UN (Geneva/Turin/Birmingham), the EC (Brussels) and the UK (Westminster/Whitehall).
Mark Coeckelbergh
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).
Giuseppe Contissa
Giuseppe Contissa is adjunct professor in Legal Informatics at the University of Bologna, and professor in Legal Informatics and in Legal Theory at LUISS University – Rome. He obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in Philosophy of Law (12/H3). He received his PhD in legal informatics and computer law from the University of Bologna, where he is currently a researcher at CIRSFID.
Luisa Damiano
Luisa Damiano is an Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Messina (Italy), where she co-established the Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial Research Group (ESARG).
Rebecca Davnall
Rebecca Davnall received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Liverpool and now lectures there in the Department of Philosophy as part of the 'Philosophy of the Future' initiative.
Kate Devitt
Dr S. Kate Devitt is a philosopher and cognitive scientist working as a social and ethical robotics researcher for the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group and the Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre.
Gordana Dodig-Crnković
Gordana Dodig-Crnković is Professor in Computer Science at Mälardalen University and Professor in Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She holds PhD degrees in Physics and Computer Science.
Tomáš Doležal
Tomáš Doležal is a legal scholar in medical law and civil law. He is Head of the Department of Civil Law and Head of the Research Unit for Medical Law and Bioethics at the Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Paul Dumouchel
Paul Dumouchel is Canadian and presently Professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
Kathryn Francis
Kathryn Francis is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Bradford, UK. Prior to this she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in psychology and philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. Kathryn completed her PhD in experimental psychology in “CogNovo”, a Marie-Curie funded PhD initiative at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Deke Gould
For the past five years, he has taught interdisciplinary courses on ethics and information technology at Augustana College, and for the Jinling Institute of Technology in Nanjing, China. Recently, he has given talks (to both academic and popular audiences) about philosophical ethics, privacy, and information technology, and has given invited guest lectures on ethical issues in data sciences at Augustana College.
Soraj Hongladarom
Soraj Hongladarom is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published books and articles on such diverse issues as bioethics, computer ethics, and the roles that science and technology play in the culture of developing countries.
Ryan Jenkins
Ryan Jenkins is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at the California Polytechnic (San Luis Obispo). His research interests include applied ethics (especially military ethics and emerging technologies), normative ethics (especially consequentialism), as well as environmental ethics and philosophy of technology.
Ivan Koniar
Ivan Koniar works at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Catholic University in Ruzomberok. His main area of interest is normative thinking about war, especially just war theory and the moral problems of new military technologies and modern war conflicts. He is currently working on issues of moral responsibility for lethal autonomous weapons and the autonomy of artificial agents.
Michael Laakasuo
Michael Laakasuo is an Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at University of Helsinki. He is currently the team leader of his own research project called Moralities of Intelligent Machines (www.moim.fi), which focuses on experimental philosophy and the study of moral cognition. During his previous research career he has also studied friendship, decision making in poker, intergroup relations and evolutionary psychology of disgust.
Jan van Leeuwen
Jan van Leeuwen is a distinguished Professor of Computer Science and former head of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). He is the editor, with Barry Cooper, of "Alan Turing: His Work and Impact", a special edition of A. M. Turing's collected works (Elsevier, 2013).
Patrick Lin
Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is also a philosophy professor.
Derek Leben
Derek Leben is the chair of the philosophy department and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown.
Christoph Lütge
Christoph Lütge holds the Chair of Business Ethics and Global Governance at Technical University of Munich (TUM). He has a background in business informatics and philosophy and has held visiting professorships in Taipei, Kyoto and Venice. He was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship in 2007. In 2019, Lütge was appointed director of the new TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.
Dita Malečková
Ugo Pagallo
Ugo Pagallo is a former lawyer and current professor of Jurisprudence at the Department of Law, University of Turin (Italy), member of the Expert Group set up by the EU Commission on liability and new technology/new technologies formation, he is also working with the European Institute for Science, Media, and Democracy (Atomium), in order to set up AI4People, the first global forum in Europe on the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence.
Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider is the NASA-Baruch Blumberg Chair at the Library of Congress and NASA, the director of the Center for the Future at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, and a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is also a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award.
Saul Smilansky
Saul Smilansky received his D.Phil. from Oxford University and is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel. He works primarily on normative and applied ethics and on the metaphysics of free will and its ethical implications.
Lucia Machová Urdzíková
Lucia Machová Urdzíková studied medicine in Medical faculty UPJŠ in Košice where she also received Ph.D. fom biology. She is now a Research Fellow at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is focused on CNS regeneration using bio and nanotechnologies. She has also experience with the use of embryonic and adult stem cells in neuroregeneration.
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