Fabian Geier
I am currently professor for philosophy and STS Program Coordinator at CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, as well as Privatdozent at Bamberg University. Previous stations of my academic life include YaleNUS Singapore, Bamberg, Princeton, Durham, Warwick, Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Würzburg. Beyond this I prefer my CV not to be a public good.
AI Declaration / Disclaimer
My words and my works are my own [1]. I am not using generative AI for correcting, improving, or sparring - not at any point is it part of my creative process and you can take my output as a mirror of my mind.
In any communication with me I urge(charge) you to do the same. Especially: do not send me anything where LLM output becomes indistinguishable from your voice. "I" needs to mean I. And I need to be able to read your words as directly from your heart and mind, no matter how inadequate, and no matter how superficial the occasion. At least it's you I'm talking to.
[1] of course they are not really my own, as they merely are the effect of the intersection of my idiosyncratic insufficiencies with the echoes of what and who I learned from. But that's not the point here.
some writing & a silhouette
Texts:
China Keynote
On Programming at CODE
link: some text from a different era
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This is the personal page of Fabian Geier, professor of philosophy at CODE University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, as well as head of the STS Department. I am also permanent member (Privatdozent) of the philosophy faculty at the University of Bamberg. Before that I have been working and/or studying at YaleNUS Singapore, Bamberg, Princeton, Durham, Warwick, FH Nordhessen/Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Würzburg.
Deeply sceptical of performing identity and reification - as a matter of fact the ethics of self-reflection is my main research topic - I don't think my CV should be a public good. I am also, for the most part, trying to keep a low online profile. However, here is what may be useful to know for potential collaborators:
I have worked in many topics over the years, mostly around moral phenomenology and ethics, philosophy of subjectivity, philosophy of psychology, and the philosophy of technology. I have also done work on J.R.R.Tolkien, and the conflict around Israel/Palestine. I tend to call myself a phenomenologist when no other phenomenologist is around, and a Hegelian or "dialectician" when no Hegelians are around. If both are around I try to hide behind the curtain. Authors I have worked with more intensely include Sartre, Adorno, Wittgenstein, Hegel, Kant, Thomas, Arendt, Aristotle, Plato, and some bits of classical Chinese and Indian philosophy. In Anglo-Scholastic terms this makes me work in the history of philosophy, but that would not do justice to those who do this properly. My focus are problems, not texts, but as such I am very aware of the provincial nature of the here and now and the need and curiosity of engaging with anything that is not that.
What brought me to CODE was that I am also in love with technology - that I can control. In this day and age this makes me very selective and austere about what I use and sign up for, and it makes me eager to support projects, thoughts, and technologies that enable a future of human autonomy. In fact my current research project is a monograph about freedom in the digital era.
Aside from that and my perennial interest in the ethics of self-reflection, my current themes are:
- Research: Themes in the philosophy of psychology, esp. the nature and categorisation of emotions, as well as the plight of homo psychologicus: what does it do to us to conceive of ourselves as psychological beings?
- Didactics: Education in the 21st century: Humanistic ideals and virtues in the posthuman age; and how to educate (and be educated by) the AI generation and AI culture.
- Activism: Saving democracy and digital autonomy and souvereignity; raising awareness for AI driven manipulation methods, election inferference and cultural manipulation (what does Steve Bannon call it?);
Do contact me if you want to collaborate in any of these!
Here is a longer self-description in German.
AI Manifesto (deutsch)