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Phone Number: +43/463/2700-6175
E-Mail: greif@ifz.tugraz.at
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Born and raised in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Hajo Greif received his PhD in philosophy in 2004 from the Technical University Darmstadt, after undergraduate studies in philosophy, cultural anthropology and sociology at J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, and a doctoral fellowship at the Darmstadt-based graduate school “Technisierung und Gesellschaft” (“Technology and Society”). In 2001, he was a visiting fellow at the Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. From 2003 to 2004, Hajo Greif was stipendiary fellow at the IAS-STS, and from 2004 to 2005 he worked as part-time lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Universität of Frankfurt. He also translated Ruth Millikan’s book Varieties of Meaning into German.
Since October, 2005, Hajo Greif is working at the IFZ as the coordinator of the newly founded Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit. His areas of specialisation are the philosophy and social studies of science and technology as well as the analytical philosophy of mind and language.
As of Spring 2009, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Klagenfurt University.
Main fields of activity:
Technology and human agency, Risk perception and risk policies in the field of ICTs, Theories of information and the Information Society, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Methodological issues in Science and Technology Studies
Selected Publications:
Greif H.: “Vom Nachahmungsspieler zum Handlungsträger: Formen maschineller Intelligenz”. In: Berger W. und Getzinger G. (Eds.): Handlungsträgerschaft und Partizipation, Wien: Profil 2009
Greif H., Mitrea O., Werner M.: “Usability vs. Functionality? Mobile Broadband Technologies and User Agency”. In: Fortunati L. et al. (Ed.): Experiencing Broadband Society, Berlin: Peter Lang 2009. (In press)
Greif H.: Versuche, die Welt zurückzugewinnen. Die Kontroverse über die ‘Handlungsfähigkeit der Dinge’ in den Science and Technology Studies. In: Zittel C. (Ed.): Wissen und soziale Konstruktion in Geschichte, Kultur und Wissenschaft. Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Sozialkonstruktivismus, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag 2002.
Bux K.-U., Greif H.: Ja, Der Da hat es gesagt. Über den dekonstruktiven Umgang mit Texten, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 50/1, 2002: pp. 17-34.
Greif H.: Dawkins and Latour. A Tale of Two Unlikely Fellows. In: Bammé A. et al. (Ed.): Yearbook 2005 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Profil Munich/Vienna 2005.
Greif H.: Wer spricht im Parlament der Dinge? Über die Idee einer nicht-menschlichen Handlungsfähigkeit, Paderborn: mentis 2005.
Greif H.: On the Very Idea of an Information Society. In: Hrachovec H. et al. (Ed.): Beiträge der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, Bd. XV, Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS 2007, pp. 75-77.
Greif H., Mitrea O., Werner M.: Information und technologische Handlungsfähigkeit. In: Greif H. et al. (Ed): Information und Gesellschaft. Technologien einer sozialen Beziehung. Wiesbaden: VS Research 2008, pp. 49-71.
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