Themes and topics
Philosophy of social media platforms (epistemology and ethics)
- Marin, L. Becoming oneself online: Social media platforms as environments for self-transformation. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 219 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04495-7 [.pdf]
- Marin, L. “A Place of very Arduous interfaces”. Social Media Platforms as Epistemic Environments with Faulty Interfaces. Topoi (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10139-3 [accepted manuscript version] [read only version on publisher’s website with page numbers]
Marin, L. (2021). Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others. Ethics and Information Technology, 1-10. [link to the open-access article] - Marin, L. How to Do Things with Information Online. A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Social Networking Platforms as Epistemic Environments. Philos. Technol. 35, 77 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00569-5 [.pdf]
- Marin, L.(2024),“A Place of very Arduous interfaces”. Social Media Platforms as Epistemic Environments with Faulty Interfaces. Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10139-3 [accepted manuscript version] [read only version on publisher’s website]
- Marin, Lavinia, and Constantin Vică. “Hic sunt leones. User orientation as a design principle for emerging institutions on social media platforms.” AI & SOCIETY (2024): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01932-0 [Pdf. dowload]
- Marin, Lavinia (2024). Attending to the Online Other: A Phenomenology of Attention on Social Media Platforms. In Bas de Boer & Jochem Zwier (eds.), PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY. openbook publishers. pp. 215–240. [.pdf download]
- Marin, L. Three contextual dimensions of information on social media: lessons learned from the COVID-19 infodemic. Ethics Inf Technol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09550-2 [Download from the publisher] [.PDF file]
- Lavinia Marin & Samantha Marie Copeland (2022) Self-Trust and Critical Thinking Online: A Relational Account, Social Epistemology, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2022.2151330 [Link to the article on the journal’s page] [.pdf]
- Marin, L. Enactive Principles for the Ethics of User Interactions on Social Media: How to Overcome Systematic Misunderstandings Through Shared Meaning-Making. Topoi (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09792-9. [link to open-access version of article]
- Voinea, C., Marin, L., & Vică, C. (2024). Digital slot machines: social media platforms as attentional scaffolds. Topoi, 1-11. [.pdf download]
- Cristina Voinea, Lavinia Marin & Constantin Vică (2023)The moral source of collective irrationality during COVID-19 vaccination campaigns,Philosophical Psychology,DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2164264 [e-prints free download here]
Engineering Ethics Education
- Marin, L., & Steinert, S. (2025). CTRL+ Ethics: Large Language Models and Moral Deskilling in Professional Ethics Education. In Hacker Philipp, Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. Oxford Academic (2025)
- Marin, L., Jalali, Y., Morrison, A., & Voinea, C. (2024). Reflective and dialogical approaches in engineering ethics education. In S. Chance, T. Børsen, D. A. Martin, R. Tormey, T. T. Lennerfors, & G. Bombaerts, The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education (1st ed., pp. 441–458). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003464259-30 [.pdf version]
- Zhu, Q., Marin, L., Ramos, A. M., & Sethy, S. S. The purposes of engineering ethics education. In The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education (pp. 27-43). Routledge. [.pdf version]
- Marin, L. (2024). Narrative ethics and narrative pedagogy in Engineering ethics education: a road not (yet) taken. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of SEFI, Lausanne, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14254778 [.pdf]
- van Grunsven, J., Marin, L., Gammon, A., & Franssen, T. (2024), 4E cognition, moral imagination, and engineering ethics education: shaping affordances for diverse embodied perspectives. Phenom Cogn Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-024-09987-6 [Pdf. file for download]
- Van Grunsven, Janna B. ; Franssen, Trijsje ; Gammon, Andrea & Marin, Lavinia (2024). Tinkering with Technology: How Experiential Engineering Ethics Pedagogy Can Accommodate Neurodivergent Students and Expose Ableist Assumptions. In E. Hildt, K. Laas, C. Miller & E. Brey (eds.), Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM. Springer Verlag. pp. 289-311.
- Van Grunsven, J., Stone, T., & Marin, L. (2023). Fostering responsible anticipation in engineering ethics education: How a multi-disciplinary enrichment of the responsible innovation framework can help. European Journal of Engineering Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2023.2218275
- Van Grunsven, Janna B. ; Marin, Lavinia ; Stone, Taylor ; Doorn, Neelke & Roeser, Sabine (2023). How Engineers Can Care from a Distance: Promoting Moral Sensitivity in Engineering Ethics Education. In Glenn Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo & Qin Zhu (eds.), Thinking through Science and Technology. Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World. Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 141-163.
- Gammon, Andrea R. & Marin, Lavinia (2022). Learning to Reframe Problems Through Moral Sensitivity and Critical Thinking in Environmental Ethics for Engineers in advance. Teaching Ethics. https://doi.org/10.5840/tej20221013120 [.pdf]
- van Grunsven, J. B., Marin, L., Stone, T. W., Roeser, S., & Doorn, N. (2021). How to Teach Engineering Ethics?: A Retrospective and Prospective Sketch of TU Delft’s Approach to Engineering Ethics Education. Advances in Engineering Education. [download link]
Philosophy of education
- Marin, L. (2021). On the Possibility of a Digital University: Thinking and mediatic displacement at the university. SpringerBriefs in Education. [S.l.]: Springer.
- Marin, L., Masschelein, J., & Simons, M. (2018). Page, Text, and Screen in the University: Revisiting the Illich hypothesis. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(1), 49–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1323624. Free e-prints available [.pdf file preprint]
- Copeland, Samantha, and Lavinia Marin. ““It takes a village to write a really good paper”: A normative framework for peer reviewing in philosophy.” Metaphilosophy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12670 [Pdf. dowload]
- Marin, L. (2022). Asking more from the online university. Can we think together while separated by a screen? Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 34(2), 87-108. https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.27848 [link to open-source version in English][.pdf]
- Marin, L. . (2022). Pedir más a la Universidad en línea. ¿Podemos pensar juntos estando separados por una pantalla?. Teoría De La Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 34(2), 87–108. https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.27848 [link to open source version in Spanish]
- Marin, L., & Sturm, S. (2020). ‘Why aren’t you taking any notes?’ On note-taking as a collective gesture. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1744131.
Free e-prints available [.pdf file preprint manuscript] - Marin L. (2020) University Lecturing as a Technique of Collective Imagination: On Seeing Things as If They Had Taken a Bodily Form. In: Hodgson N., Vlieghe J., Zamojski P. (eds) Post-critical Perspectives on Higher Education. Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45019-9_6. [.pdf of preprint]
- Marin L. (2018), “At Arm’s Length” and “Tunnel Vision”. In: Laboratory for Society and Education (Eds.), Sketching a Place for Education in Times of Learning, Contemporary philosophies and theories in education. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-76919-6
Critical thinking, emotions, attention, embodiment
- Marin, Lavinia (2024). Attending to the Online Other: A Phenomenology of Attention on Social Media Platforms. In Bas de Boer & Jochem Zwier (eds.), PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY. openbook publishers. pp. 215–240.
- van Grunsven, J., Marin, L., Gammon, A., & Franssen, T. (2024). 4E cognition, moral imagination, and engineering ethics education: shaping affordances for diverse embodied perspectives. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-024-09987-6 [Pdf. file for download]
- Van Grunsven, J., & Marin, L. (2024). Technosocial disruption, enactivism, & social media: On the overlooked risks of teenage cancel culture. Technology in Society, 78, 102602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102602
- Voinea, C., Marin, L., & Vică, C. (2024). Digital slot machines: social media platforms as attentional scaffolds. Topoi, 1-11.
- Steffen Steinert, Lavinia Marin, Sabine Roeser (2022), ‘Feeling and thinking on social media: Emotions, affective scaffolding and critical thinking’, Inquiry (online). DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2126148 [Link to the article on the journal’s page] [.pdf]
- Lavinia Marin and Steffen Steinert (2022), Twisted thinking: Technology, values and critical thinking. Prometheus. Vol. 38(1).
DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0124 [Download from the publisher] [.pdf] - Marin L., Roeser S. (2020) Emotions and Digital Well-Being: The Rationalistic Bias of Social Media Design in Online Deliberations. In: Burr C., Floridi L. (eds) Ethics of Digital Well-Being. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50585-1_7. [link to preprint file]
- Marin, L. (2018). Two Modes of Non-Thinking. On the Dialectic Stupidity-Thinking and the Public Duty to Think. Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 62(1), 65-80. [Download .pdf file]
Philosophy of technology
- Veluwenkamp, H., Capasso, M., Maas, J., & Marin, L. (2022). Technology as Driver for Morally Motivated Conceptual Engineering. Philosophy & Technology, 35(3), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00565-9 [.pdf]
- Marin, L. (2021). A Digital Picture to Hold Us Captive? A Flusserian Interpretation of Misinformation Sharing on Social Media. Philosophy Today, 65(3), 485-504. [3]. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2021514404 [link to the article] [pre-print]
- Marin L. (2018), “Through a Telescreen Darkly“, In: Di Nucci and Storrie (Eds.), 1984 and Philosophy. Is resistance futile? (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Chapt. 17, (pp. 187-198), Open Court Press. ISBN 9780812699791 [.pdf accepted manuscript]
- Marin, L. (2016). SCHIȚĂ PENTRU O POSIBILĂ FILOSOFIE A DIGITALULUI. Revista de filosofie, 63(2), 571-582. [Download .pdf file]
Full list of publications
Journal articles
- 2025
- Marin, L. Becoming oneself online: Social media platforms as environments for self-transformation. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 219 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04495-7. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04495-7
- Marin, L., & Steinert, S. (2025). CTRL+ Ethics: Large Language Models and Moral Deskilling in Professional Ethics Education. In Hacker Philipp, Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. Oxford Academic (2025)
- 2024
- Marin, L. “A Place of very Arduous interfaces”. Social Media Platforms as Epistemic Environments with Faulty Interfaces. Topoi (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10139-3 [accepted manuscript version] [read only version on publisher’s website with page numbers]
- van Grunsven, J., Marin, L., Gammon, A. et al. 4E cognition, moral imagination, and engineering ethics education: shaping affordances for diverse embodied perspectives. Phenom Cogn Sci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-024-09987-6 [Pdf. file for download]
- Marin, Lavinia, and Constantin Vică. “Hic sunt leones. User orientation as a design principle for emerging institutions on social media platforms.” AI & SOCIETY (2024): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01932-0 [Pdf. dowload]
- Copeland, Samantha, and Lavinia Marin. ““It takes a village to write a really good paper”: A normative framework for peer reviewing in philosophy.” Metaphilosophy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12670 [Pdf. dowload]
- Van Grunsven, J., & Marin, L. (2024). Technosocial disruption, enactivism, & social media: On the overlooked risks of teenage cancel culture. Technology in Society, 78, 102602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102602
- Voinea, C., Marin, L., & Vică, C. (2024). Digital slot machines: social media platforms as attentional scaffolds. Topoi, 1-11.
- 2023
- Cristina Voinea, Lavinia Marin & Constantin Vică (2023)The moral source of collective irrationality during COVID-19 vaccination campaigns,Philosophical Psychology,DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2164264 [e-prints free download here]
- 2022
- Lavinia Marin & Samantha Marie Copeland (2022) Self-Trust and Critical Thinking Online: A Relational Account, Social Epistemology, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2022.2151330 [Link to the article on the journal’s page] [.pdf]
- Steffen Steinert, Lavinia Marin, Sabine Roeser (2022), ‘Feeling and thinking on social media: Emotions, affective scaffolding and critical thinking’, Inquiry (online). DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2126148 [Link to the article on the journal’s page] [.pdf]
- Gammon, Andrea R. & Marin, Lavinia (2022). Learning to Reframe Problems Through Moral Sensitivity and Critical Thinking in Environmental Ethics for Engineers in advance. Teaching Ethics. https://doi.org/10.5840/tej20221013120 [.pdf]
- Marin, L. How to Do Things with Information Online. A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Social Networking Platforms as Epistemic Environments. Philos. Technol. 35, 77 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00569-5 [.pdf]
- Veluwenkamp, H., Capasso, M., Maas, J., & Marin, L. (2022). Technology as Driver for Morally Motivated Conceptual Engineering. Philosophy & Technology, 35(3), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00565-9 [.pdf]
- Lavinia Marin and Steffen Steinert. Twisted thinking: Technology, values and critical thinking. Prometheus. Vol. 38(1).
DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0124 [Download from the publisher] [.pdf] - Marin, L. (2022). Asking more from the online university. Can we think together while separated by a screen? Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 34(2), 87-108. https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.27848 [link to open-source version in English][.pdf]
- Marin, L. . (2022). Pedir más a la Universidad en línea. ¿Podemos pensar juntos estando separados por una pantalla?. Teoría De La Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 34(2), 87–108. https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.27848 [link to open source version in Spanish]
- Marin, L. Enactive Principles for the Ethics of User Interactions on Social Media: How to Overcome Systematic Misunderstandings Through Shared Meaning-Making. Topoi (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09792-9. [link to open-access version of article]
- 2021
- Marin, L. (2021). Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others. Ethics and Information Technology, 1-10. [link to the open-access article]
- Marin, L. (2021). A Digital Picture to Hold Us Captive? A Flusserian Interpretation of Misinformation Sharing on Social Media. Philosophy Today, 65(3), 485-504. [3]. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2021514404 [link to the article] [pre-print]
- Marin, L., Sturm, S., & Vlieghe, J. (2021). Notes on note-making: Introduction. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-5. [download link]
- van Grunsven, J. B., Marin, L., Stone, T. W., Roeser, S., & Doorn, N. (2021). How to Teach Engineering Ethics?: A Retrospective and Prospective Sketch of TU Delft’s Approach to Engineering Ethics Education. Advances in Engineering Education. [download link]
- 2020
- Marin, L. Three contextual dimensions of information on social media: lessons learned from the COVID-19 infodemic. Ethics Inf Technol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09550-2 [Download from the publisher] [.PDF file]
- Marin, L., & Sturm, S. (2020). ‘Why aren’t you taking any notes?’ On note-taking as a collective gesture. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1744131.Free e-prints available [.pdf file preprint manuscript]
- Marin, L (2019). How to Think Critically about the Common Past? On the Feeling of Communism Nostalgia in Post-Revolutionary Romania. Annals Of The University Of Bucharest – Philosophy Series, 68(2), 57-71. Retrieved from http://annals.filosofie.unibuc.ro/index.php/annals/article/view/300. [Download .pdf file]
- Marin, L., Masschelein, J., & Simons, M. (2018). Page, Text, and Screen in the University: Revisiting the Illich hypothesis. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(1), 49–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1323624. Free e-prints available [.pdf file preprint]
- Marin, L. (2018). Two Modes of Non-Thinking. On the Dialectic Stupidity-Thinking and the Public Duty to Think. Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 62(1), 65-80. [Download .pdf file]
- Marin, L. (2016). SCHIȚĂ PENTRU O POSIBILĂ FILOSOFIE A DIGITALULUI. Revista de filosofie, 63(2), 571-582. [Download .pdf file]
- Marin, L. (2016). SOMETHING TO DIE FOR. THE INDIVIDUAL AS INTERRUPTION OF THE POLITICAL IN CARL SCHMITT’S THE CONCEPT OF THE POLITICAL. Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 60(2), 311-325. [Download .pdf file]
- Marin, L. (2015), The Appeal to Expert Opinion in Contexts of Political Deliberation and the Problem of Group Bias. Annals of the University of Bucharest-Philosophy Series, 62(2), 91-106.
Chapters in edited books
- Zhu, Q., Marin, L., Ramos, A. M., & Sethy, S. S. The purposes of engineering ethics education. In The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education (pp. 27-43). Routledge.
- Marin, L., Jalali, Y., Morrison, A., & Voinea, C. (2024). Reflective and dialogical approaches in engineering ethics education. In S. Chance, T. Børsen, D. A. Martin, R. Tormey, T. T. Lennerfors, & G. Bombaerts, The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education (1st ed., pp. 441–458). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003464259-30
- Marin L., Roeser S. (2020) Emotions and Digital Well-Being: The Rationalistic Bias of Social Media Design in Online Deliberations. In: Burr C., Floridi L. (eds) Ethics of Digital Well-Being. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50585-1_7. [link to preprint file]
- Marin L. (2020) University Lecturing as a Technique of Collective Imagination: On Seeing Things as If They Had Taken a Bodily Form. In: Hodgson N., Vlieghe J., Zamojski P. (eds) Post-critical Perspectives on Higher Education. Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45019-9_6. [.pdf of preprint]
- Marin L. (2018), “Through a Telescreen Darkly“, In: Di Nucci and Storrie (Eds.), 1984 and Philosophy. Is resistance futile? (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Chapt. 17, (pp. 187-198), Open Court Press. ISBN 9780812699791 [.pdf accepted manuscript]
- Marin L. (2015), Universitatea şi problema proprietăţii intelectuale. In: Stoenescu C. (Ed.), Etica cercetării şi proprietatea intelectuală, Chapt. 4, (pp. 125-152). Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, Bucharest ISBN: 978-606-16-0593-4
- Marin L. (2018), “At Arm’s Length” and “Tunnel Vision”. In: Laboratory for Society and Education (Eds.), Sketching a Place for Education in Times of Learning, Contemporary philosophies and theories in education. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-76919-6
Books
Marin, L. (2021). On the Possibility of a Digital University: Thinking and mediatic displacement at the university. SpringerBriefs in Education. [S.l.]: Springer.
Conference proceedings
- Marin, Lavinia (2024). Narrative ethics and narrative pedagogy in Engineering ethics education: a road not (yet) taken. Proceedings of the 52Nd Annual Conference of Sefi.
- Roel, Veraart ; Lavinia, Marin & Tijn, Borghuis, Building and Publishing Open Educational Resources in Ethics Education for Engineers.