Biography
Vincent Blok is a Dutch philosopher working as professor at the School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). In 2005 he received his PhD degree in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialization in philosophy of technology. Blok is interested in the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment and studies these phenomena from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch), and A new meaning of life. The novel as a signpost in a world at the turning point (Noordboek, 2024 (in Dutch). Blok published over hundred articles in disciplinary philosophy journals like Philosophy & Technology, Synthese and Heidegger Studies, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Environmental Values, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Responsible Innovation.
Research interests:
Philosophy of Technology
Environmental Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
Philosophy of Data Science and AI
Responsible Innovation
Philosophy of Management
Martin Heidegger
Ernst Junger
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Work
- Vincent Blok (2025) - Economics and Politics in the Age of AI: Towards a Political Concept of Technological Innovations - Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, x (x) - [link]
- Hao Wang & Vincent Blok (2025) - Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework - Big Data and Society, 12 (2) - doi: 10.1177/20539517251340620 - [link]
- M. W. Vegter, V. Blok & R. Wesselink (2025) - Process industry disrupted: AI and the need for human orchestration - Journal of Responsible Technology, 21 - doi: 10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100105 - [link]
- Simeon Veloudis, Mark Ryan, Elina Ketikidi & Vincent Blok (2025) - Responsible innovation in start-ups: entrepreneurial perspectives and formalisation of social responsibility - Journal of Responsible Innovation, 12 (1) - doi: 10.1080/23299460.2025.2453251 - [link]
- Vincent Blok (2025) - Technology as a Theme in Phenomenology
- Mark Ryan, Eugen Popa, Vincent Blok, Andrea Declich, Maresa Berliri, Alfonso Alfonsi, Simeon Veloudis, Natalia Costanzo & Martina Iannuzzi (2024) - Start doing the right thing: Indicators for socially responsible start-ups and investors - Journal of Responsible Technology, 20 - doi: 10.1016/j.jrt.2024.100094 - [link]
- Vincent Blok (2024) - The ontology of creation: towards a philosophical account of the creation of World in innovation processes - Foundations of Science, 29 (2), 503-520 - doi: 10.1007/s10699-022-09848-y - [link]
- Joshua B. Cohen, Anne M.C. Loeber, Ilse Marschalek, Michael J. Bernstein, Vincent Blok, Raúl Tabarés, Robert Gianni & Erich Griessler (2024) - From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation - Science and Public Policy, 51 (2), 324-336 - doi: 10.1093/scipol/scad065 - [link]
- Hub Zwart, Ana Barbosa Mendes & Vincent Blok (2024) - Epistemic inclusion: a key challenge for global RRI - Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11 (1) - doi: 10.1080/23299460.2024.2326721 - [link]
- Johannes Starkbaum, Robert Braun, Vincent Blok, Fabian Schroth, Johann Jakob Häußermann, Claudia Colonnello, Eugen Popa, Renate Wesselink & Anna Gerhardus (2024) - Responsible innovation across societal sectors: a practice perspective on Quadruple Helix collaboration - Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11 (1) - doi: 10.1080/23299460.2024.2414531 - [link]
- Eugen Octav Popa, Vincent Blok, Georgios Katsoukis & Cornelius Schubert (2023) - Moral impact of technologies from a pluralist perspective: Artificial photosynthesis as a case in point - Technology in Society, 75 - doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102357 - [link]
Philosophical Anthropology
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-MA0028
