Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies
Prof. Dr Toni Loh
Professor (they/them) for Applied Ethics - Especially Ethics and Transformation
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
Room
G 045
Address
Grantham-Allee 20
53757 Sankt Augustin
Telephone
+49 2241 865 9939Profile
Lehre im SoSe 2026
- Fachbereich 1 / Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Seminar Social Media, ChatGPT und Dating Apps - Ethische Fragen der Digitalisierung: Sankt Augustin (G 014); 14tägig (7 Termine; vgl. LEA-Kurs) Donnerstags, 14:00-17:15 Uhr.
- Fachbereich 1 / Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Seminar Ethik: Rheinbach (HS 05); 14tägig (7 Termine; vgl. LEA-Kurs) Freitags, 13:00-16:15 Uhr.
- Fachbereich 3 / Ingenieurwissenschaften und Kommunikation: Seminar Technik- und Umweltethik: Sankt Augustin (B 134); Mittwoch, 13:30-15:00 Uhr (Gruppe B) sowie 15:15-16:45 (Gruppe A).
- Fachbereich 5 / Angewandte Naturwissenschaften: Seminar Ethics (Work) In Healthcare: Rheinbach; Freitags, 09:30-11:45 Uhr.
- Fachbereich 6 / Sozialpolitik und Soziale Sicherung: Seminar Vorurteilen und Diskriminierungen begegnen mit dem Anti Bias-Ansatz: Donnerstag, 15:30-20:00 Uhr (an vierTerminen; 23.4.; 7.5.; 11.6.; 25.6.); StA, B135.
- Fachbereich 6 / Sozialpolitik und Soziale Sicherung: Seminar Politische Ethik und Feminismus: Donnerstag, 11:45-13:15 Uhr; StA, G010.
- Fachbereich 6 / Sozialpolitik und Soziale Sicherung: Masterseminar Ethik (in) der Public Policy: Mittwoch, 10:00-12:15 Uhr; StA, C125.
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).
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