Hi, I'm Anna Puzio
My research areas include philosophy of technology, philosophical anthropology (of technology), medical ethics, bioethics and environmental ethics. I studied philosophy, theology, and German language and literature in Münster and Munich. I received my PhD from the Munich School of Philosophy with a dissertation on the anthropology of transhumanism. Afterwards, I conducted research in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, Oxford, Cambridge (UK), and Berkeley (USA). In recent years, I worked on emerging technologies at the University of Twente (Netherlands). I am also an affiliated researcher at the Critical Data Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin. I am currently based at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and involved in the ESDiT Research Programme (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) in the Netherlands.
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ANNA PUZIO
Dr. Anna Puzio
Phone:
+49 174 6218603
Email:
anna.puzio@unibe.ch, mail@annapuzio.com
Address:
Vienna (Austria) & Bern (Switzerland)
Research:
Philosophy of Technology, Ethics, Environmental Ethics
RECOMMENDED READINGS
1 Puzio, Anna: Not Relational Enough? Towards an Eco-Relational Approach in Robot Ethics. In: Philosophy & Technology 37, 45 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00730-2.
2 Puzio, Anna: Robot, let us pray! Can and should robots have religious functions? An ethical exploration of religious robots. In: AI & Society, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01812-z.
3 Puzio, Anna: The entangled human being – a new materialist approach to anthropology of technology. In: AI Ethics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00537-z.
4 Puzio, Anna: AI and the Disruption of Personhood. In: Oxford Intersections (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0016
5 Puzio, Anna: The Material Agency of a Large Language Model. In: Digital Society 4,73 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-025-00225-3
AREAS OF RESEARCH
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Humanoid robots, social robots
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Human-tech relations, relationships to non-human entities
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Diversity, queer AI
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Reproductive technologies, artificial womb
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Religion and technology, religious robots
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New anthropological approaches
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Philosophical engagement with the natural sciences (e.g. neuroscience, genetics)
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Philosophy of the body
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Medical technologies, social robots in medicine
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Feminist medical ethics
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Animal studies, human-animal relationship, bioethics, relationship to non-human entities
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Technology and environment/nature
ANTHROPOLOGY AND
MEDICAL ETHICS
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
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Donna Haraway, Karen Barad
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Critique of anthropocentrism
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Technofeminism
NEW MATERIALISM
CRITICAL POSTHUMANISM
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Diversity, queerness
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Identity, body, hybridity
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Intercultural perspectives
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Sexual ethics
DIVERSITY
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Transhumanism, posthumanism, future technologies
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Self-optimization
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Transhumanism and religion
Philosophy and ethics in literature and film, e.g. science fiction