Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies

Janina Loh Portrait

Prof. Dr Toni (Janina) Loh

Professor for ethics of technology and its social contexts

janina.loh@h-brs.de

Unit

Centre for Ethics and Responsibility (ZEV), Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies

Research fields

  • Critical posthumanist ethics and critical reflection on transhumanist and posthumanist currents in general
  • Feminist philosophy of technology
  • Robot ethics
  • Sustainability – esp. in the context of my concept of a critical posthumanist ethics as well as with regard to artificial intelligence, digitalization, and robotics
  • Responsibility – esp. in the context of technology and media (keyword individual digital sovereignty) as well as a central value of societal transformation
  • Ethical evaluation of technologies
  • Social transformation processes and changing values – esp. in the light of a society, politics, and economy oriented towards digitalization, automation, robotization, and individual self-optimization
  • Polyamory and values of an ethics of polyamory
  • Ethics in the sciences and theories of judgment
  • Hannah Arendt

Location

Sankt Augustin

Address

Grantham-Allee 20

53757 Sankt Augustin

Curriculum vitae

Since September 2021 Janina Loh (née Sombetzki) is an ethicist (Stabsstelle Ethik) at Stiftung Liebenau in Meckenbeuren on Lake Constance, which also includes the management of the Foundation’s ethics committee as well as the ethics cooperation group.

They studied at the Humboldt University Berlin and wrote their dissertation (2009-2013) on the issue of responsibility – Verantwortung als Begriff, Fähigkeit, Aufgabe. Eine Drei-Ebenen-Analyse (Springer 2014) – as a fellow at the graduate school Verfassung jenseits des Staates: Von der europäischen zur Globalen Rechtsgemeinschaft?, supervised by Prof. Volker Gerhardt and Prof. Rahel Jaeggi.

After a post-doc position at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (2013-2016), Janina Loh has been a university assistant (Post-Doc) in the field of philosophy of technology and media at the University of Vienna (2016-2021). They published the first German Introduction  to  Trans-  and  Posthumanism (Junius 2018) and an Introduction to Robot Ethics in German language (Suhrkamp 2019). Their fourth book formulates / They habilitate on a Critical Posthumanist Ethics (working title).

Further Information

To Janina Loh's webite