Bennett, SJ., Catanzariti, B., and Tollon, F. (forthcoming). ‘“Everybody knows what a pothole is”: Representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance’, AI & Society.

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Oimann, A.-K. and Tollon, F. (2024a) ‘Responsibility Gaps and Technology: Old Wine in New Bottles?’, Journal of Applied Philosophy. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12763

 

Tollon, F. (2024b) ‘Technology and the Situationist Challenge to Virtue Ethics’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 30(10). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00474-4.

 

Tollon, F. (2023a) ‘Free Will as an Epistemically Innocent False Belief’, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 19(2), pp. 1–23. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.19.2.2 Tollon, F. (2023b) ‘Reactive agency and technology’, AI and Ethics. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00366-6.

 

Tollon, F. (2022) ‘Responsibility gaps and the reactive attitudes’, AI and Ethics. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681- 022-00172-6.

 

Tollon, F. (2021a) ‘Artifacts and affordances: from designed properties to possibilities for action’, AI & Society. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01155-7.

 

Tollon, F. (2021b) ‘Designed to Seduce: Epistemically Retrograde Ideation and YouTube’s Recommender System’, International Journal of Technoethics, 12(2), pp. 60–71. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2021070105.

 

Tollon, F. (2021c) ‘Do others mind? Moral agents without mental states’, South African Journal of Philosophy, 40(2), pp. 182– 194. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2021.1925841.

 

Tollon, F. (2021d) ‘The artificial view: toward a non-anthropocentric account of moral patiency’, Ethics and Information Technology, 23(2), pp. 147–155. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09540-4. 2

 

Tollon, F. and Naidoo, K. (2021e) ‘On and beyond artifacts in moral relations: accounting for power and violence in Coeckelbergh’s social relationism’, AI & Society. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01303-z.

 

Tollon, F. (2019). Moral Agents or Mindless Machines? A critical appraisal of agency in artificial systems. Hungarian Philosophical Review 63(4), pp. 9-23. Available at: https://philpapers.org/archive/TOLMAO.pdf

Tollon, F. (2023) ‘Social Robots and Relational Capacities’. In: Hakli, R., Mäkelä, P., Seibt, J. (eds.) Social Robots in Social Institutions. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 366. IOS Press.

 

Tollon, F. (2022a) ‘Answerability, Accountability, and the Demands of Responsibility’. In: Pillay, A., Jembere, E., Gerber, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Research. SACAIR 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1734. Springer, Cham.

 

Tollon, F. (2022b) ‘Is AI a Problem for Forward Looking Moral Responsibility? The Problem Followed by a Solution’. In: Jembere, E.; Gerber, A.J.; Viriri, S. & Pillay A. (eds), Artificial Intelligence Research. SACAIR 2021 Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1551. Springer: Cham. 307–318

Since 2022: Research fellow at the Unit for the Ethics of Technology at Stellenbosch University.

Since 2021: Research associate at the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR).

February-April 2022:

Visiting researcher at the Working Group on the Philosophy of Technology at KU Leuven (fully funded).

November 2022:

Visiting researcher at the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice (CEPP) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, funded by a short-term fellowship.

2020:    

Transhumanism as a New Social Movement: The Techno-Centred Imagination, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 24 (39).

2021:    

The Oxford Handbook of the Ethics of AI, Prometheus, Vol. 37 (2).

Action and Interaction, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 25 (16). 

Cyber Republic, Prometheus, Vol. 37, (3).

2022:

Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty, Prometheus, accepted, in press.

‘Responsibility Gaps: Old Wine in New Bottles’, Southern African Philosophical Society Conference (PSSA), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 17-19 January 2024

‘Artificial Systems: Entities or Agents?’, CAIR AI4Good, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 16 January 2024.

‘Does Blaming Robots Make Them Responsible?’, South African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, Muldersdrift, South Africa, 4-8 December 2023.

‘Artificial Systems: Entities or Agents?’, Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA), Salzburg, 6-8 September 2023.

‘Free Will as an Epistemically Innocent Delusion’, 4th Munich Graduate Conference in Ethics, Munich, 6-7 July 2023.

‘Responsibility Gaps: Old Wine in New Bottles’, IACAP 2023, Prague, 3-5 July 2023. 

‘Does AI Undermine Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility’, Tech Ethics eXchange Northeast, Harvard, 18-19 May 2023.

‘Answerability, Accountability, and the Demands of Responsibility’, South African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, Stellenbosch, 5-9 December 2022.

‘Artificial Systems: Entities or Agents?’, Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, Leiden, 6-7 October 2022.

‘The Soft Impacts of Emerging Technology’, Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, Leiden, 6-7 October 2022.

‘Digital Nudging and Climate Change’, Technology and Politics, KU Leuven, 19-21 September 2022.

‘Social Robots and Relational Capacities’, Social Robots in Social Institutions, University of Helsinki, 16-19 August 2022.

‘Digital Nudging and Virtue Ethics in the Face of Climate Change’, Philosophy of Human Technology-Relations, Aalborg University Copenhagen, 5-7 July 2022

‘Thinking Social Relationism from Africa’, Intercultural Ethics and Technology Conference 2022, University of Twente, 27-28 January 2022.

‘How, and Why, we are Responsible for the Future of AI’, South African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, Durban, 6-10 December 2021.

‘From Responsibility Gaps to Responsibility Maps’, Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference, Australasian Association of Philosophy (online), 20-21 November 2021.

‘Artifacts and Affordances: From Designed Properties to Possibilities for Action’, Changing Values, Changing Technologies, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 12-13 October 2021.

‘Unpredictable Futures: Why, and How, we are Responsible for AI’, Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 27-28 September 2021.

‘Designed to Seduce’, UCD Online Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories. University College Dublin, Ireland, 1-2 July 2021.

‘Do Others Mind? Moral Agents Without Mental States’, Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations. University of Twente, The Netherlands, 4-7 November 2020.

‘Toward a Coherent Account of Moral Agency’, South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research, Cape Town, South Africa, 3-6 December 2019.

‘Functional Moral Agency’. 4IR: Philosophical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 3-5 September 2019.

‘AI Ethics Panel’, Boston Computational Club, 7 October 2023.

'An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough', Cambridge NLP Seminars, 3 March 2023.

'Does AI Undermine Forward-Looking Responsibility?', UCT Department of Philosophy Seminar, 1 March 2023.

‘Does AI Pose a Threat to Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility?’, ZEPP-Talks, LMU, Germany, 9 November 2022.

‘From Designed Properties to Possibilities for Action’, MilaNLP Lab, Bocconi University, Italy, 4 November 2022.

‘The Ethics and Imperative of Digital Nudging’, MKAI September AI Inclusive Forum, 23 September 2021.

‘From Responsibility Gaps to Responsibility Maps’, Data and Computational Ethics Research Group, Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, 13 May 2021.

2023:

3rd ETEG Workshop Series, with keynote by Deborah Johnson.

2022:

2nd ETEG Workshop Series, with keynote by Sven Nyholm.

2022-present:

Co-Organizer of the Ethics and Technology Early-career Group (ETEG).

Reviewer for International Journal of Technoethics, AI & Society, AI and Ethics, Science and Engineering Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, Philosophy and Technology

2022-present:

Book reviews editor for the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies

2019:

Chairperson, Socratic Society Stellenbosch

2018:

Vice-Chairperson (and founder), Socratic Society Stellenbosch

‘The Soft Impacts of Emerging Technologies’

‘Artificial Systems: Entities or Agents?’

‘Responsibility Gaps and Technology: Old Wine in New Bottles’

‘R-AI: Communities of Practice’ 

2023:

3rd ETEG Workshop Series, with keynote by Deborah Johnson.

2022:

2nd ETEG Workshop Series, with keynote by Sven Nyholm.