Michael Hahn

Brief description of the doctoral project

Human-machine interaction. A theological-ethical and alterity-theoretical investigation of technology-related hybridisations

In the field of digitalization, technological progress has often been conceptualized from the perspective of the tool, which is used by humans and thereby supports them. But how far does this paradigm carry given the current technological developments?

In my dissertation project, I aim to explore how the interaction between humans and machines is shaped and how they mutually influence each other when the strict dualistic separation of subject (human) and object (machine) is broken down. In addition to the descriptive examination of what constitutes a human being and how humans and machines interact with each other, the work will also focus on how responsible cooperation of the diverse actants in our interconnected world can be shaped from the perspective of concrete ethics.