dr. N. Gertz (Nolen)

Associate Professor
BMS-TPS-WIJSB
Ravelijn 4276
n.gertz@utwente.nl
+31534894239
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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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  • Social Sciences

    • Technology
    • Philosophy

  • Arts and Humanities

    • Facebook
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    • Virtual

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2024
Beauvoir versus Behavior Change: Introducing Existential Ethics to the Politics of DesignDesign issues, 40(2), 56-67. Gertz, N. & Ozkaramanli - Leerkes, D.https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00755
2023
Posthumanism’s Revolt Against Responsibility: Refuting philosophies that welcome human extinctionCommonweal. Gertz, N.https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/kirsch-revolt-gertz-post-human-transhumanism-haraway-climateMore than Machines?: Jacques Ellul on AI’s real threat to humanityCommonweal, 150(8), 24-28. Gertz, N.https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/jacques-ellul-gertz-artificial-intelligence-AI-WGA-technologyChatGPT: the route to loneliness?: No comfort from AI. Gertz, N.https://iai.tv/articles/chatgpt-the-route-to-loneliness-nolen-gertz-auid-2423?_auid=2020Crime without punishment? On the legitimacy of illegal actions from the climate movementFilosofie en praktijk, 44(3/4), 307-323. Reyes Benavides, P. D. & Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.5117/FEP2023.3/4.004.REYE
2022
Nihilism and Violence from Plato to ArendtIn Violence and Nihilism (pp. 7-23). Walter de Gruyter. Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699210-003Abortion bans in the age of surveillance: The state doesn't want to protect your privacy. Gertz, N.https://iai.tv/articles/abortion-bans-in-the-age-of-surveillance-auid-2172Accommodating Ourselves to Death: COVID and the Threat of Technological Solutions to Human CrisesTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 26(1), 172-180. Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.5840/techne202248154Zooming Through a CrisisInternational journal of technoethics, 13(1). Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.309097
2020
Democratic Potentialities and Toxic Actualities: Feenberg, Ihde, Arendt, and the InternetTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 24(1-2), 178-194. Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.5840/techne2020214119

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