dr. N. Gertz (Nolen)

Nolen Gertz is Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Coordinator of the Human Condition Research Line of ESDIT, and a Senior Researcher of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of political philosophy, existential phenomenology, and philosophy of technology. He is the author of  The Philosophy of War and Exile (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014),  Nihilism and Technology (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018), and Nihilism (MIT Press, 2019). His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and on the ABC Australia website, as well as in interviews for BBC World, Al Jazeera, Austrian Public Radio, Ireland's National Independent Radio, and France's Philosophie Magazine.

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

Current projects

HOLDEN - Ethical Design of Holography with Dense wireless Networks

Ubiquitous perception, by sensing of objects, subjects and gestures, is a pivotal challenge for future technology: it enables personalized services such as smart living, automated logistics or interaction through free-space gestures. However, it also challenges ethical and moral boundaries and threatens privacy. HOLDEN proposes a radically new approach to perception by concisely analysing ethical constraints and privacy risks while re-thinking RF-based sensing. We establish necessary conditions for privacy preserving and ethically compliant sensing and develop new paradigms respecting these constraints.

In the press

• New Zealand mosque attack: Can online hate speech be stopped?, Nolen Gertz, Tahir Nawaz, Raphael Bossong, and Adrian Finighan. Al Jazeera Inside Story, 16 March 2019.
• Is enough being done to stop misinformation online?, Nolen Gertz, Aria Thaker, Nisanth Sastry, and Elizabeth Puranam, Al Jazeera Inside Story, 9 March 2019.
• Netflix and Nil: Why being online makes us nihilists, James Poulos, The New Atlantis, Winter 2019.
• Do digital technologies make us more nihilistic?,Nolen Gertz and David van Overbeek, Voor de Ommekeer TV, Amsterdam, October 2018.

News on utwente.nl

• Drones: saviors or slaughterbots?, Rense Kuipers, U-Today, 14 September 2018.
• Meet the teacher: Nolen Gertz, Michaela Nesvarova, U-Today, 11 June 2018.
• 'Westworld' through the eyes of a scientist, Michaela Nesvarova, U-Today, 9 January 2018.

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