Graduate Student, Philosophy
PhD Research Fellow
Thesis Title: The Value of Virtual Tools and Environments
About
Johnny Hartz Søraker is a PhD research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente. He is a member of the VICI project on the Evaluation of the Cultural Quality of New Media, working on the sub-project “The Quality of Virtual Environments and Tools”.
Søraker received his masters degree (Cand. Philol.) in Philosophy from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The masters thesis, entitled “Man vs. Machine – an exploration of the concept ‘continuity’”, was an inquiry into claims about the uniqueness of man, the prospects of artificial intelligence, the reducibility of conscious experience and the adequacy of third-person perspectives when explaining human behavior. Since then, Søraker has published papers and given numerous lectures related to computer ethics – especially on Internet regulation and the moral status of information technology.
Contact Information
http://www.utwente.nl/ceptes/research_staff/Soraker/
