Dr. MATTHIAS, Andreas (馬逸文)
Senior Teaching Fellow
Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy
Email: matthias at ln.edu.hk
Office: AR 123
Office hours for 1st term 2008/2009:
Monday 1.00pm - 2.00pm and 4.30pm - 6.30pm (3 hours)
Thursday 10.00am - 12.00pm (2 hours)
Friday 3.00pm - 4.00pm (1 hour)
The presetation files are all in Lingnan University's WebCT.
PhD (Philosophy), Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2008)
M.A. (Philosophy and Biology), University of Goettingen, Germany (1994)
Philosophical issues raised by new technologies, especially in the fields of computing and biotechnology. These include problems in ethics (responsibility ascription to machines, moral status of bionic creatures) as well as questions in theoretical philosophy (definition and limits of personhood, historic change in personhood perception, concepts of rights and their application to nonhumans). Artificial Intelligence methods and implementation. History of science. Critical thinking. Uncritical thinking.
Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University (Fall 2008 - present)
Lecturer (Philosophy) at the University of Kassel, Germany (2007 - 2008)
Head of Information Systems Group in Computing Centre, software developer, webmaster, lecturer (programming languages) at the University of Kassel, Germany (1995 - 2008)
...and various other jobs you don't want to know about.
Andreas Matthias (2008): Automaten als Träger von Rechten (Automata as Holders of Rights). Logos Verlag, Berlin.
Andreas Matthias (2008): From Coder to Creator.
Responsibility Issues in Intelligent Artifact Design.
In: Rocci Luppicini, Rebecca Adell (eds.):
Handbook of Research on Technoethics. Information
Science Reference, Hershey/New York, 2008. (Invited
submission)
Andreas Matthias (2004): The responsibility gap. Ascribing responsibility for the actions of learning
automata. Ethics and Information Technology, Volume 6, Issue 3.
Andreas Matthias (2004): Responsibility Ascription to Nonhumans. Climbing the Steps of the Personhood
Ladder. In: Heikki Ikäheimo, Jussi Kotkavirta, Arto Laitinen & Pessi Lyyra (eds.): Personhood.
Workshop papers of the Conference “Dimensions of Personhood” (August 1315, 2004). University of
Jyväskylä, Publications in Philosophy 68.
Andreas Matthias (2001): Gekonnt verheimlichen. Grundlagen der Kryptographie (Successful secrecy.
Fundamentals of Cryptography) In: Legam@il, Computer and Digital World, August 2001.
Along the lines of the above.