Hajo Greif
Assistant Professor
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University of Klagenfurt
Sterneckstr. 15, 9020 Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria
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Research Areas
Short Biography
Selected Publications
Research Projects
Current Teaching
Research Areas:
Hajo Greif’s research interests cover both the philosophy and the social studies of science. His current work focuses on- models of the environment in Artificial Intelligence research and related fields,
- naturalistic theories in the philosophy of mind and language, from Teleosemantics to the Extended Mind,
- ethical and policy issues in the information society.
Upcoming: ALWS Symposium 2012, "Ethics – Society – Politics", with Martin Weiß.
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Short Biography:
Born and raised in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Hajo Greif received his doctorate in philosophy in 2004 from Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD). He completed his undergraduate studies ("magister" degree) in philosophy, cultural anthropology and sociology at J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, and his doctoral studies at the Darmstadt-based post-graduate school "Technisierung und Gesellschaft" (Technology and Society).Hajo Greif was a visiting fellow at the Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK in 2001. For the 2003/2004 academic year, he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz, Austria, where he worked on a project on the history of the Darwinan theory of evolution.
After part-time lectureships at his former universities, he returned to Graz in 2005 to form the ICT research unit at the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ), together with Matthias Werner, Oana Mitrea and Gerd Schienstock.
In early 2009, Hajo Greif moved to the University of Klagenfurt to assume an assistant professorship at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, where he continues to work with his team.
In addition to his research and teaching, he translated Ruth Millikan's 2004 book "Varieties of Meaning", plus some of her essays, into German (for Suhrkamp).
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Selected Publications:
Monographs and editions:
Wer spricht im Parlament der Dinge? Über die Idee einer nicht-menschlichen Handlungsfähigkeit. Paderborn: mentis 2005 (book publication of doctoral thesis, in German, English Abstract | sample: chapters 2-4 | purchase e-book from PaperC | link to publisher's page).with Matthias Werner (eds): Vernetzung als soziales und technisches Paradigma. Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2012 (in German, sample: Introduction | link to publisher's page). In this volume by the same authors: "Einleitung: Zur Analyse sozialer und technischer Vernetzung", pp. 11-26; by Hajo Greif: "Wie denkt eine intelligente Umwelt? Modelle adaptiven Verhaltens in der Ambient Intelligence", pp. 207-232.
with Larissa Hjorth, Amparo Lasén and Claire Lobet-Maris (eds): Cultures of Participation: Media Practices, Politics and Literacy. Frankfurt/Berlin: Peter Lang, 2011 (link to publisher's page). In this volume by Hajo Greif and Matthias Werner: "From Information to Broadband Society, Whence and Whither?", pp. 35-48.
with Oana Mitrea and Matthias Werner (eds): Information und Gesellschaft. Technologien einer sozialen Beziehung. Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2008 (in German, preview at books.google | link to publisher's page). In this volume by the same authors: "Einleitung", pp. 11-19; "Information und technologische Handlungsfähigkeit", pp. 49-71.
Journal articles (peer-reviewed):
with Arno Bammé, Wilhelm Berger and Matthias Werner: "Die Natürlichkeit künstlicher Intelligenzen und Umwelten." Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis, 20 (1), 2011: 26-32 (in German, full text, Open Access).with Matthias Werner: "Calculating the Unknown. Rationalities of Operational Risk in Financial Institutions." tripleC, 8 (2), 2010: 237-250 (Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture; publication of results of "Risk and Precaution..." research project; full text, Open Access).
with Oana Mitrea and Matthias Werner: "Sustainability ICT Visions and their Embedding in Technology Construction." Information, Communication & Society, 13 (1), 2010: 38-67.
with Kai-Uwe Bux: "Ja, Der Da hat es gesagt. Über den dekonstruktiven Umgang mit Texten." Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 50 (1), 2002: 17-34 (in German, manuscript version here).
Book chapters:
"Erweiterte Phänotypen und Erweiterungen des Geistes. Die Rollen der Umwelt in der KI-Forschung." In: Arno Bammé (ed.): Life Sciences. Die Neukonstruktion des Menschen. Munich/Vienna: Profil, 2011, pp. 145-165 (in German).with Oana Mitrea and Matthias Werner: "Usability vs. Functionality? Mobile Broadband Technologies and User Agency." In: Leopoldina Fortunati, Jane Vincent, Julian Gebhardt, Andraž Petrovčič, Olga Vershinskaya (eds): Interacting with Broadband Society. Frankfurt/Berlin,: Peter Lang, 2010, pp. 73-92 (publication of results of "Mobile Broadband..." research project).
"Vom Nachahmungsspieler zum Handlungsträger: Formen maschineller Intelligenz." In: Günter Getzinger and Wilhelm Berger (eds): Das Tätigsein der Dinge. Beiträge zur Handlungsträgerschaft von Technik. Munich/Vienna: Profil, 2009, pp. 187-207 (in German, preview).
"Vom Verschwinden der Theorie in der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie." In: Martin Voss, Birgit Peuker (eds): Verschwindet die Natur? Die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie in der umweltsoziologischen Diskussion. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006, pp. 53-69 (in German).
"Dawkins and Latour. A Tale of Two Unlikely Fellows." In: Arno Bammé, Günter Getzinger, Bernhard Wieser (eds): Yearbook 2005 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society. Munich/Vienna: Profil, 2005, pp. 99-124 (full text).
"Versuche, die Welt zurückzugewinnen. Die Kontroverse über die 'Handlungsfähigkeit der Dinge' in den Science and Technology Studies." In: Claus Zittel (ed.): Wissen und soziale Konstruktion in Geschichte, Kultur und Wissenschaft. Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Sozialkonstruktivismus. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2002, pp. 27-45 (in German, manuscript version here, English summary here).
Conference proceedings (peer-reviewed):
"Thinking with the Environment. Language, Pictures and Other Guides for the Extended Mind." In: Richard Heinrich, Elisabeth Nemeth, Wolfram Pichler (eds): Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts. Papers of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 2010, pp. 110-112."Universal Machines and Partial Isomorphisms. Models of Intelligence in Turing's Imitation Game." Extended abstract in: Klaus Mainzer (ed.): ECAP10. VIII European Conference on Computing and Philosophy. Munich: Dr. Hut, 2010, pp. 134-138.
"On the Role of Self-Organisation as a Model for Networked Systems." In: Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos and Karin Anja Hummel (eds): IWSOS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5918. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 256-261 (preprint).
"On the Very Idea of an Information Society." In: Herbert Hrachovec, Alois Pichler, Joseph Wang (eds): Philosophy of the Information Society. Papers of the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 2007, pp. 75-77.
"Doing Well in the Imitation Game. Cases Pro and Contra Artificial Intelligence Reconsidered." In: Colin Schmidt (ed.): Proceedings from Computers and Philosophy, an International Conference, 3-5 May 2006, Laval, France. London: European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), 2006, pp. 308-321 (full text of proceedings, 5.8 MB).
"Bedeutung ohne Absicht." In: Johann C. Marek and Maria E. Reicher (eds): Experience and Analysis. Papers of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 2004, pp. 125-127 (in German, expanded and revised English version here).
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Research Projects:
SOMA I.T. (on self-organising multimedia platforms). 2009–2010, with Martina Ukowitz (project leader), Matthias Wieser, Harald Dvorak and Harald Goldmann.Funding: KWF (Carinthian Business Council)
Risk and Precaution in Banking Information Systems. 2007–2009, with Matthias Werner, and with contributions from Reinhard Neck and Gottfried Haber, Dept. of Economics, University of Klagenfurt.
Funding: OeNB Jubiläumsfonds Project No. 12370
Mobile Broadband: Design, Applications and User Experience. 2007–2008, with Oana Mitrea and Matthias Werner, in co-operation with evolaris research lab, Graz, Austria.
Funding: Government of Styria, Dept. of Science and Research, Project No. ZF 4080
Project Report, 2.5 MB
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Current Teaching (2011/2012 Academic Year):
Winter 2011:
Information – Technik – Ethik, LV No. 816.010Summer 2012:
Philosophie und Biologie, LV No. 816.012Technikfolgenabschätzung, LV No. 607.910
External:
- Ethics and Technology Assessment, FH Joanneum, Kapfenberg, Styria, within the Advanced Security Engineering curriculum (in English)