On into 2023!
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
Wolfgang Hofkirchner archives (page 7)
IDIMT 2023
Petr Doucek and Antonin Pavlicek from the Prague University of Economics and Business (VSE, Czech Republic) and Michael Sonntag from the J. Kepler University Linz (JKU, Austria) write: in this pre-Christmas time, we bring you good news – we would…
Logic and society lectures
We organise an online event for the World Logic Day 2023, called for by UNESCO. You are invited to take part as indicated below. Presentations will be uploaded after the event. –––––––––– Updates: Here is the link to the ZOOM…
Chinese papers voicing ethical problems with Artificial Intelligence and robots
Our Member, Liang Wang, Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R. China, deals with ethics concerning robots and Artificial Intelligence. Recently he published a paper in a Chinese journal in which he argues in favour of virtue ethics over…
“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish.”
This truth was spoken out by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his opening day remarks at COP 27 in Egypt. The photo above, taken at the closing plenary sessionon 20 November 2022, gives an impression of where the outcome of…
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Climate-friendly living, II
On 28 November 2022, the APCC Special Report on Structures for climate-friendly living was presented in a press conference by Karl Steininger (Uni Graz) and Andreas Novy (WU Wien), featuring Leonore Gewessler, Federal Minister for Climate Action, and Martin Kocher, Federal…
AI and Nature
The Advanced Imaging International Festival held a conference from 3 to 6 November 2022 at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on “AI – Variation of an Art”. They invited researchers to diagnose the present and the blueprint of…
On the sociogenesis of norms
Franz Ofner, retired professor at University of Klagenfurt, Austria (also known as Alpen-Adria-Universität), sociologist, Member of our Institute, did research on the emergence of norms following George Herbert Mead (see here) and Jürgen Habermas. His latest article has been published…
The Logic of the Third: A Paradigm Shift to a Shared Future for Humanity
The book is out. Find it here. Let me announce it: I finished the manuscript of my book before the new cold war turned hot, pushing humanity to the brink of a World War III. The heating of the planet,…
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Digital ethics
This fifth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society series presents an approach to critical digital ethics. It develops foundations and applications of digital ethics based on critical theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of…