University of Vienna

Department Member, Department of Philosophy

Other Affiliations: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), ITAS-FZK
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Institut Jean Nicod

About

I am currently based at different institutions. At the University of Vienna (Department of Philosophy), I am leading a project on "Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems" funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Since November 2011 I am also employed as a senior researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Furthermore, I am associate post-doctoral fellow at the Institut  Jean Nicod (Ecole Normale Supérieure) in Paris.

I am interested in various epistemological and ethical issues around information and communication technologies (ICT) and my approach is inspired by social epistemology, STS, Values in Design, computer ethics as well as feminist theory. At the moment I focus in particular on the topics of (epistemic) trust, reputation, epistemic responsibilities of different agents (e.g. user and designers of ICT).

For further information, please take a look at the following websites:
KIT: http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_simon_judith.php
Jean Nicod: http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Simon