I am a philosopher of technology currently based at the Ethics/Philosophy Section, TU Delft.
Main areas of research: social epistemology, digital ethics, Internet epistemology, philosophy of action, engineering ethics education, social media ethics, philosophy of education, embodied cognition.
What you can find on this website:
+ some blog posts (mostly writing-related)
Research topics at a glance
Each row is a research theme. Colored dots show when publications in each theme appear over time. Each number identifies a publication (chronological); see below the key for the publications.
Each publication is placed in a single primary theme. Some works belong to multiple themes but only got placed in their major theme.
Publication key
012011Managementul cunoasterii si proprietatea intelectuala
022013The Appeal to Expert Opinion in Contexts of Political Deliberation and the Problem of Group Bias
032014Criticising Humanities Today:-Framing Debates on the Value of Humanities in EU Higher Education Policy with a Special Focus on the Bologna Process
042014Universitatea şi problema proprietăţii intelectuale
052016Something to Die for. The Individual as Interruption of the Political in Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political
062016Schiță pentru o posibilă filosofie a digitalului
072018Page, text and screen in the university: Revisiting the Illich hypothesis
082018Through a Telescreen Darkly
092018Two Modes of Non-Thinking. On the Dialectic Stupidity-Thinking and the Public Duty to Think
102018From the Textual to the Digital University. A philosophical investigation of the mediatic conditions for university thinking
112019How to Think Critically about the Common Past? On the Feeling of Communism Nostalgia in Post-Revolutionary Romania
122020Emotions and Digital Well-being. The rationalistic bias of social media design in online deliberations
132020Functionaries of the Internet: sharing and posting misinformation online
142020University lecturing as a technique of collective imagination: On seeing things as if they had taken a bodily form
152021Three contextual dimensions of information on social media: lessons learned from the COVID-19 infodemic
162021Experiences of Thinking While Studying at the University
172021Introduction: The Media Question and the University
182021Mediality and Gestures of Thinking at the University
192021On the Possibility of a Digital University. Thinking and Mediatic Displacement at the University
202021The digital university
212021Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others
222021A Digital Picture to Hold Us Captive?: A Flusserian Interpretation of Misinformation Sharing on Social Media
232021Notes on note-making: Introduction
242021How to teach engineering ethics?: A retrospective and prospective sketch of TU Delft’s approach to engineering ethics education
252021‘Why aren’t you taking any notes?’On note-taking as a collective gesture
262021Towards reflective AI: needs, challenges and directions for future research
272022Enactive principles for the ethics of user interactions on social media: How to overcome systematic misunderstandings through shared meaning-making
282022Pedir más a la Universidad en línea.¿ Podemos pensar juntos estando separados por una pantalla?
292022Twisted thinking: Technology, values and critical thinking
302022Technology as driver for morally motivated conceptual engineering
312022How to do things with information online. A conceptual framework for evaluating social networking platforms as epistemic environments
322022The double-edged sword of Twitter during crisis situations. A value-sensitive design approach to decreasing the impact of online misinformation
332022Building and Publishing Open Educational Resources in Ethics Education for Engineers: The Ethics Education for Engineers project of 4TU. Ethics
342022Learning to Reframe Problems Through Moral Sensitivity and Critical Thinking in Environmental Ethics for Engineers
352022Asking more from the online University. Can we think toghether while separated by a screen?
362023The moral source of collective irrationality during COVID-19 vaccination campaigns
372023Attention as practice: Buddhist ethics responses to persuasive technologies
382023How engineers can care from a distance: Promoting moral sensitivity in engineering ethics education
392024Fostering responsible anticipation in engineering ethics education: how a multi-disciplinary enrichment of the responsible innovation framework can help
402024Tinkering with technology: How experiential engineering ethics pedagogy can accommodate neurodivergent students and expose ableist assumptions
412024Digital slot machines: social media platforms as attentional scaffolds
422024“It takes a village to write a really good paper”: A normative framework for peer reviewing in philosophy
432024Toxic Online Environments are what Makes Rational Persuasion Become Wrongful
4420244E cognition, moral imagination, and engineering ethics education: shaping affordances for diverse embodied perspectives
452024Technosocial disruption, enactivism, & social media: On the overlooked risks of teenage cancel culture
462024Emotional labor and the problem of exploitation in roboticized care practices: Enriching the framework of care centred value sensitive design
472024Attending to the Online Other: A Phenomenology of Attention on Social Media Platforms: A Phenomenology of Attention for Social Media Platforms
482024From an attention economy to an ecology of attending. A manifesto
492024“A Place of very Arduous interfaces”. Social Media Platforms as Epistemic Environments with Faulty Interfaces
502024Reflective and dialogical approaches in engineering ethics education
512024Self-trust and critical thinking online: A relational account
522025Hic sunt leones. User orientation as a design principle for emerging institutions on social media platforms
532025The purposes of engineering ethics education
542025Becoming oneself online: Social media platforms as environments for self-transformation
552025Feeling and thinking on social media: emotions, affective scaffolding, and critical thinking
562025CTRL+ Ethics: Large Language Models and Moral Deskilling in Professional Ethics Education
572026Beyond the attention economy, towards an ecology of attending. A manifesto
582026Translating the value of well-being into design features of social media platforms: a value sensitive design approach
Interactive timeline made with Claude Sonnet 5.