Biography
Vincent Blok (1970) is a Dutch philosopher working as professor in Philosophy of Technology and Responsible Innovation at the Wageningen University and professor in Philosophy of Data Science and AI at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He is also scientific director of the 4TU Centre for Ethics of Technology, a collaboration of the four Technical Universities in the Netherlands, and chairman of the ISVW (International School for Philosophy). In 2005 he received his PhD degree in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialization in philosophy of technology. Blok is interested in the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment and studies these phenomena from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch), and A new meaning of life. The novel as a signpost in a world at the turning point (Noordboek, 2024 (in Dutch). Blok published over hundred articles in disciplinary philosophy journals like Research in Phenomenology, Synthese and Philosophy & Technology, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Environmental Values, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Responsible Innovation.
Research interests:
Philosophy of Technology
Environmental Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
Philosophy of Data Science and AI
Responsible Innovation
Philosophy of Management
Martin Heidegger
Ernst Junger
