Dr. Wulf Loh
Society, Culture and Technological Change
Wulf Loh is Assistant Professor (Akad. Rat) at the Ethics Center and PI of the research focus „AI & Robotics“ (R-Fair) with the following projects: Egar, Interactive Gaze, KI-T-Ü, Prevent, and Viking. In addition, he is a member of the coordination committee of the Plattform Lernende Systeme (“Platform Learning Systems“), as well as part of various initiatives for the operationalization and certification of AI ethics (DIN Joint working committee Artificial intelligence, AI Ethics Impact Group, BW AI Alliance, VDE Spec "AI Trustworthiness").
Areas of expertise
- Applied Ethics: AI Ethics, Media and Information Ethics, Privacy, Robot Ethics, Human Machine Interaction
- Social Philosophy: Critical Theory, Practice Theory, Social Ontology
- Political Philosophy: The Digital Public Sphere, Digital Civil Disobedience, International Political Theory
- Philosophy of Law: Constitutional Theory, Legitimacy and Legality, Philosophy of International Law
Career
Wulf Loh studied philosophy, political science and international and European law in Heidelberg, Bologna and at the FU Berlin. In 2009, he began his doctorate at the Research Training Group "Constitution Beyond the State" at HU Berlin, and was awarded his PhD in 2018 with a dissertation on "Legitimacy and Self-Determination - A Normative Reconstruction of International Law". From 2012 to 2018, he held a full staff position at the Chair of Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2018, Wulf Loh is a Postdoc researcher at the IZEW and since 2021 tenured assistant professor. In the summer term 2023, he served as an interim full professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart.
Publications
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Talks (selection)
2024
- Lecture Series “Computer Science and Society”, Ulm: Talk with the title “Fairness and Algorithmic Discrimination”
2023
- Research Colloquium Institute for Philosophy, Stuttgart: Talk with the title “The Sustainability of Artificial Intelligences”
- X. Tagung für praktische Philosophie, Salzburg: Talk with the title “Is Geralt of Rivia a victim of discrimination?”
- Conference “AI, Trustworthiness & Explainability", Tübingen: Talk with the title “Can you feel my pain tonight? – Automated Pain Detection and Epistemic Injustice”
- Executive Board Meeting Alphabet (BMW Group), Munich: Talk with the title “Ethical Considerations for the Application of AI Systems”
- Lecture Series “Ethik in Serie“, Tübingen: Talk with the title “Is Geralt of Rivia a victim of discrimination?”
- Lecture Series “Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz“, Stuttgart: Talk with the title “Operationalization, Risk Matrix, and Criticality Classes”
2022
- IX. Tagung für praktische Philosophie, Salzburg: Talk with the title “Can you feel my pain tonight? – Automated Pain Detection and Epistemic Injustice”
- Workshop “Ethics Against the Odds – Statistical Discrimination”, Mainz: Talk with the title “Can you feel my pain tonight? – Automated Pain Detection and Epistemic Injustice”
- Workshop “Where Should AI Ethics Go?”, Tübingen: Talk with the title “Operationalizing AI Ethics”
2021
- Opening Talk for the Lecture Series “Privat?” of the Wuerttembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart: Talk with the title “Privacy – A Human Right?”
- SPT Conference, Lyon, France: Talk with the title “Technological mediations, body awareness, and pain” (with Alberto Romele, Online)
- CEPE Conference, Hamburg: Talk with the title “Informed consent and algorithmic discrimination” (with Hauke Behrendt, Online)
- Conference “Violence and Power”, Hamburg: Talk with the title “Nonviolence and Digital Civil Disobedience” (Online)
- Jahrestagung des FSP digitale_kultur, Hagen: Talk with the title “Learning with and from Augmented Reality”
2020
- Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture, EIH, Lübeck: Talk with the title “From Principle to Practice – A framework to operationalize AI ethics”
- ReasonIng, Stuttgart: Talk with the title “Digital Civil Disobedience”
2019
- Klausurtagung „Ethik der datenreichen Medizin“, München: Talk with the title „Informed Consent and Robotics in Elder Care“
- VII. Tagung für praktische Philosophie, Salzburg: Talk with the title „Is Informed Consent Really Dead?“
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Workshop Ways forward for Democracy, München: Talk with the title „Digital Civil Disobedience and the transnational sphere“
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Int. Conference on Ethics, Porto: Talk with the title „Digital Civil Disobedience“
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SPT Conference, College Station, Texas: Talk with the title „Digital Civil Disobedience“
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CEPE Conference, Norfolk, Virginia: Talk with the title „Practice-Theoretical Account of Privacy“
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Verantwortung in digitalen Kulturen, Passau: Talk with the title „Pathologien der Privatheit“
2018
- Amsterdam Privacy Conference: Talk with the title "A practice-theoretical account of privacy"
- DVPW Konferenz, Frankfurt: Talk with the title "Transnationale digitale Öffentlichkeiten"
- GAP10 Tagung, Köln: Talk with the title "Autonomous Driving and Perverse Incentives"
- ECPR Conference, Hamburg: Talk with the title „Civil Disobedience and the Digital Public Sphere“
- JFR-Tagung Sicherheit um jeden Preis, Göttingen: Talk with the title „Informationelle Privatheit als Bedingung für Demokratie“
- Robophilosophy Conference, Wien: Talk with the title „Autonomous Driving and Perverse Incentives“
2017
- V. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie, Salzburg: Talks with the title „A Practice-Theoretical Model of Privacy“, and „Autonomous Cars and Perverse Incentives“
- JFR-Tagung Recht und Moral als soziale Praktiken?, Regensburg: Talk with the title „Immanente Legitimation des Völkerrechts“
- Critical Theory Summer School “Progress, Regression, and Social Change, Berlin: Talk with the title „Social Progress with Regard to Collective Actors”
- 20th Conference of the Society of Philosophy of Technology, Darmstadt: Talk with the title „A Practice Theoretical Model of Privacy“
- Hegelhaus, Stuttgart: Talk with the title „Digitalisierung und die Zukunft der Privatsphäre“
- Hannah-Arendt-Institut für politische Gegenwartsfragen, Stuttgart: Talks with the title „Was ist Gerechtigkeit?“, sowie „Was ist Revolution?“
Teaching
2023 (Tübingen)
- „Staatliche Autorität und Ziviler Ungehorsam“
- „Gewalt, Schmerz, Verletzlichkeit“
- „Data Literacy“
2023 (Stuttgart)
- „Rawls‘ Theorie der Gerechtigkeit
- „Einführung in die Kritische Theorie“
- „Privatsphäre und Öffentlichkeit“
- „Benachteiligung, Ungleichheit und Diskriminierung“
2022 (Tübingen)
- „Privatsphäre und Öffentlichkeit“
- „Zertifikat Data Literacy: Data Ethics“
2021 (Tübingen)
- „Ungerechtigkeit, Ungleichheit und Diskriminierung“
- „Einführung in die Kritische Theorie“
- „Zertifikat Data Literacy: Data Ethics“
2018 (Stuttgart)
- „Was ist eine soziale Praxis?“
2017 (Stuttgart)
- „Privatsphäre und Öffentlichkeit“
- „Digitalisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit“
2016 (Stuttgart)
- „Hegels‘ Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts“
- „On Global Justice“
- „Theorien der Anerkennung“
- „Klassische Positionen der Rechtsphilosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts“
2015 (Stuttgart)
- „Theorien globaler Gerechtigkeit“
- „Hegels‘ Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts“
- „Kritik von Lebensformen“
- „Habermas‘ Diskurstheorie“
2014 (Stuttgart)
- „Einführung in die Rechtsphilosophie“
- „Demokratietheorien“
- „Einführung in die Kritische Theorie“
- „Selbstbestimmung, Sezession, Territorialität“
2013 (Stuttgart)
- „Genese und Bedeutung kollektiver Identitäten“
- „Politische Philosophie der internationalen Beziehungen“
- „Klassiker der Gesellschaftstheorie“
- „Gerechtigkeit als Gesellschaftsanalyse“
2012 (Stuttgart)
- „Transformation der Souveränität“
- „Diskursethik“
- „Menschenrechte: Soziale Praxis und universalistische Letztbegründung“
- „John Rawls‘ Theory of Justice“
2011 (HU Berlin)
- „Was ist globale Verantwortung?“
2010 (HU Berlin)
- „Politische Theorie und Internationale Beziehungen“