Constantin Vică is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. In 2011, he obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy, with a thesis on web technology and its cognitive, moral, and political challenges. His areas of interest include applied ethics, information and computer ethics, philosophy of computing and artificial intelligence, bioethics, social and political philosophy. He has published various articles on the internet and cognitive enhancement, online outrage, authenticity, autonomy and neurotechnologies, Artificial intelligence and the ethics of the future, responsibility of AI systems, epistemology and politics of open data, the Pirate Parties politics, robots as assistants and companions, and the conflict between intellectual property institutions and informal online norms, etc.
He has published in journals such as Science and Engineering Ethics, Ethics and Information Technology, Philosophy & Technology, International Journal of Social Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Philosophical Psychology, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Public Reason, etc.
In 2023, he published the volume Civilizație algoritmică și viața în lumea digitală (Algorithmic Civilization and Life in the Digital World) (Bucharest University Press).
He co-edited, along with Mircea Flonta and Emanuel-Mihail Socaciu, the volume Philosophy of The Human Sciences. In Memoriam Mihail Radu Solcan (Bucharest University Press, 2015). In 2019, he co-edited Vremuri noi, vremuri vechi. Jurnal 2007–2013 (New Times, Old Times. Diary 2007–2013) by Mihail Radu Solcan (Art Publishing House), the first philosopher-programmer in Romania, polyglot, and polymath.
He co-authored the handbook Academic Ethics and Integrity (Bucharest University Press, 2018), which is available in open access (in Romanian).
He was part of several research teams in national and international projects between 2010 and 2023. Since 2024, he is a researcher within the avataResponsibility project, funded by the European Research Council.
Between 2017 and 2023, he was the deputy director of the Research Centre in Applied Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. Between 2019 and 2023, he managed the Applied Ethics in Society, Business, and Organizations master’s programme at the Faculty of Philosophy.
He teaches courses on Technology Ethics, Ethics of Cognitive Technologies, Ethics and Politics of New Technologies, Morality, Business and Information Technology, and Philosophy of History, Philosophy of the Future at the Faculty of Philosophy. Between 2014 and 2023, he taught the Digital Culture course in the Visual Studies and Society master’s programme (SNSPA).
Since 2023, he has been a member of the Scientific and Ethics Council on Artificial Intelligence (Government of Romania, Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization).
He writes for publications such as Dilema veche, Scena 9, and Suplimentul de cultură.
CONTACT
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EMAIL
constantin.vica@unibuc.ro
Monday: 12:00 – 14:00
Thursday: 12:00 – 14:00
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