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Prof.dr. Jos de Mul, Erasmus School of Philosophy, Bayle-Building, J5-45
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Mail: P.O. 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Invited lectures & keynotes
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2022-10-17 (Bari) Uncle 'Sim' wants you! Playful warefare
Jos de Mul. Uncle 'Sim' wants you! Playful warefare. Lecture and contribution to the Panel…Read more...
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2022-06-13 (Rotterdam) Artificial Intelligence: promises and public concerns
Jos de Mul. Panel discussion Artificial Intelligence: promises and public concerns. Trust in Science Conference. …Read more...
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2022-04-01 (Amsterdam) Giving the Devil his Due: The Ambiguous Presence of Carl Schmitt in Plessner’s Political Writings
Julien Kloeg en Jos de Mul. Giving the Devil his Due: The Ambiguous Presence of…
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2022-03-28 (Hong Kong) Fourfold Hermeneutics. De Mul on Prooi on Kiyozawa on Epictetus (workshop)
Jos de Mul. From mythology to technology and back. Fourfold Hermeneutics. De Mul on Prooi…
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2022-03-28 (Hong Kong) From mythology to technology and back. Human‐animal combinations in the era of digital recombinability
Jos de Mul. From mythology to technology and back. Human‐animal combinations in the era of…
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2022-02-02 (Rotterdam) Is life a simulation? On The Matrix Resurrections
Jos de Mul. Is life a simulation? Lecture Studium Generale Erasmus University. Rotterdam: Campus Woudenstein,…Read more...
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2021-12-17 (Bari) Cyber Homo Ludens
Jos de Mul. Cyber Homo Ludens. Contribution to the Panel Discussion of the conference Videogames…
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2021-09-09 (Delphi) Aesthetics of everyday life after corona
Jos de Mul. Aesthetics of everyday life in times of corona. Keynote at the 8th…
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2021-03-25 (Wiesbaden/Zoom) Biopolitical Anthropology in the Age of Converging Technologies
Jos de Mul. Biopolitical Anthropology in the Age of Converging Technologies. Invited lecture at the…
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2019-11-05 (Köln) The Task of Philosophical Anthropology in the Age of Converging Technologies
Jos de Mul. The Task of Philosophical Anthropology in the Age of Converging Technologies. Keynote…Read more...
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2019-10-11 (Tokyo) Some reflections on the Japanese Society 5.0 program
Jos de Mul. Some reflections on the Japanese Society 5.0 program. Tokyo: Cabinet Office Japanese…
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2019-10-09 (Kyoto) Glocality. On kimonos, spaghetti and tulips
Jos de Mul. Glocality. On kimonos, spaghetti and tulips. Invited lecture. Kyoto: Seminar Glocalization. Faculty…
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2019-10-08 (Kyoto) The Total Turing Test. Robotics from Japanese and European perspectives
Jos de Mul. The Total Turing Test. Robotics from Japanese and European perspectives. Kyoto: Graduate…
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2019-07-10 (München) Transhumanismus aus Sicht der Philosophischen Anthropologie Helmuth Plessners
Jos de Mul. Transhumanismus aus Sicht der Philosophischen Anthropologie Helmuth Plessners. Forum Philosophische Anthropologie der…Read more...
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2019-07-07 (Dresden) The Turing Test in recent science fiction films. A philosophical analysis against the background of the Turing-Wittgenstein Debate
Jos de Mul. The Turing Test in recent science fiction films A philosophical analysis against…
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2019-06-29 (Porto) Metadesign. Imagination in the age of digital recombination
Jos de Mul. Metadesign. Imagination in the age of digital recombination. Keynote at the workshop…
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2018-12-29 (Utrecht) Plessner and actual theories about embodied cognition
Jos de Mul. Plessner and actual theories about embodied cognition. Invited lecture at the workshop…
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2018-11-10 (Nijmegen) Human or Robot? The Art in Artificial Intelligence
Jos de Mul. Participation in panel discussion Human or Robot? The Art in Artificial Intelligence. …
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2018-09-05 (Eindhoven) A post-human scenario
Jos de Mul. A post-human scenario. Studium Generale TU/e. Eindhoven, September 5, 2018. Wednesday September…
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2018-07-02 (Zürich) Einführung in das Denken Plessners
Jos de Mul. Einführung in das Denken Plessners. Keynote Konferenz Deutsche Theorie II: Helmuth Plessner.…
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2018-02-17 (Heidelberg) Polycentricity and poly(ex)centricity - next levels of positionality? On telepresence, social insects, craniopagus twins & global brains
Jos de Mul, Polycentricity and poly(ex)centricity - next levels of positionality? On telepresence, social insects,…Read more...
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2018-01-18 (Lüneburg) Exzentrische Positionalität 2.0
Jos de Mul. Exzentrische Positionalität 2.0. Keynote at the conference Mensch und Welt im Zeichen…
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2017-08-28 (UMC Utrecht) Biology beyond genes. Psychiatry in the age of postgenomics
Jos de Mul. 2017-08-28 Biology beyond genes. Psychiatry in the age of postgenomics. Invited lecture…
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2017-06-27 (Köln) “Leben erfaßt hier Leben”. Dilthey as a philosopher of (the) life (sciences). Invited lecture in a series on philosophical anthropology
Jos de Mul. “Leben erfaßt hier Leben”. Dilthey as a philosopher of (the) life (sciences). …
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2017-05-31/06-02 (Hannover) Database Identity
Jos de Mul. Database Identity. Invited lecture at the Herrenhausen conference Society through the Lens…Read more...
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2016-11-02 (Malta) Games as the true organon of philosophy. On Schelling, Huizinga, and playful ontologies
Jos de Mul. Games as the true organon of philosophy. On Schelling, Huizinga, and playful…Read more...
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2016-07-26 (Seoul) Meeting Erica and OSCAR. On almost living bodies, new media aesthetics, and the East-West divide
Jos de Mul. Meeting Erica and OSCAR. On almost living bodies, new media aesthetics, and…
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2016-07-22 (Kyoto) Cognitive space, global brains, and the hive mind.An evolutionary account of information and communication technologies
Jos de Mul. Cognitive space, global brains, and the hive mind An evolutionary account of…
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2016-06-21 (Kyoto) The Turing Test in recent science fiction films. A philosophical analysis against the background of the Turing-Wittgenstein Debate
Jos de Mul. The Turing Test in recent science fiction films. A philosophical analysis against…
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2016-04-20 (Utrecht), The self as agent and process: a view from the systems approach
Denis Noble and Jos de Mul. The self as agent and process: a view from…
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2016-04-07 (Warsaw) Michel Houellebecq’s tragic humanism
Jos de Mul, Michel Houellebecq’s tragic humanism. Invited lecture in the series Personhood, Law &…
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2016-04-05 (Warsaw) Playful Identities. From narrative to ludic identity formation
Jos de Mul, Playful Identities. From narrative to ludic identity formation. (Invited) Public lecture at…
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2016-04-05 (Warsaw) Europe, the tragic continent
Jos de Mul, Europe, the tragic continent. Public lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, University…
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2016-02-15 (Nijmegen) Human Nature after Neo-Darwinism
Jos de Mul. Human Nature after Neo-Darwinism. Lecture and Seminar with prof. Jos de Mul.…
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2016-01-20 (Amsterdam) Turing for movie lovers
Jos de Mul. Turing for movie lovers. Artificial intelligence in Her, Ex Machina, and Uncanny.…
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2016-01-10/11 (Beijing) Database Identity: between construction and control
Jos de Mul. Database Identity: between construction and control. Invited lecture at the 1st Thinkers’…
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2015-11-23 (Amsterdam) Encyclopedias, hive minds and global brains. A cognitive evolutionary account of Wikipedia
Jos de Mul. Encyclopedias, hive minds and global brains. A cognitive evolutionary account of Wikipedia.…
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2015-11-07 (Beijing) Jos de Mul. Encyclopedias, hive minds and global brains. A cognitive evolutionary account of Wikipedia
Jos de Mul. Encyclopedias, hive minds and global brains. A cognitive evolutionary account of Wikipedia.…Read more...
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2015-11-04 (Hangzhou) Premodern, modern, and postmodern art in the age of globalization
Jos de Mul. Premodern, modern, and postmodern art in the age of globalization. Invited lecture…
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2015-10-24 (Amsterdam) The technological sublime
Jos de Mul. The biotechnological sublime. Lecture at the Vrij Nederland Everything is algorithm session…
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2015-09-24 (Warsaw) Human Nature after Neo-Darwinism
Jos de Mul, Human Nature after Neo-Darwinism. Keynote lecture at the Conference Human Nature. Human…Read more...
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2015-05-24 (Wuhan) NextNature. Sublime natural and technological landscapes
Jos de Mul. NextNature. Sublime natural and technological landscapes. Invited lecture at the Department of…
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2015-05-21 (Wuhan) Earth Garden. Not going back, but going forward to nature
Jos de Mul. Earth Garden. Not going back, but going forward to nature. Invited lecture…Read more...
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2015-05-18 (Wuhan) Photography in the Age of Digital Recombination
Jos de Mul. Photography in the Age of Digital Recombination. Hubei Institute for Fine Arts…Read more...
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2015-02-25 (Porto) Big Data, Small People, and the Hive Mind. An Evolutionary Look at the Information Society
Jos de Mul. Big Data, Small People, and the Hive Mind. An Evolutionary Look at…
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2015-01-12 (Wuppertal) Philosophische Anthropologie 2.0
Jos de Mul. Philosophische Anthropologie 2.0. Vortrag Philosophisches Seminar Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Philosophische Anthropologie 2.0.…
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2014-10-16 (Lille) Big data and online identity
Jos de Mul, Big data and online identity. Lecture at the conference Soft data pour…Read more...
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2014-08-21 (Guangzhou) Presentation Chinese translation of Destiny Domesticated
Jos de Mul, Presentation Chinese translation of Destiny Domesticated. Guangzhou, South China Book Festival, 19/23…
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2014-08-20 (Guangzhou) Lost in translation? Conference on the Chinese translations of the works of Jos de Mul
Lost in translation? Conference on the Chinese translations of the works of Jos de Mul. …
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2013/08/05 (Athens) Athens, or the fate of Europe. Two faces of Greek tragedy
Jos de Mul, Athens, or the fate of Europe. Two faces of Greek tragedy. Invited…Read more...
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2013/06/02 (Wien) Diltheyan epigenetics
Jos de Mul. Diltheyan epigenetics. Reading Dilthey in the light of contemporary biohermeneutics and biosemiotics.…Read more...
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2013-10-24 (Osaka) The work of art in the age of digital recombination
Jos de Mul. The work of art in the age of digital recombination. Invited lecture…
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2013-10-19 (Kyoto) NextNature. Sublime analogue and digital landscapes
Jos de Mul. NextNature. Sublime analogue and digital landscape. Invited lecture at the Conference Avant-garde…
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2013-10-16 (Kyoto) Homo ludens 2.0. Play, Media & Identity
Jos de Mul. Homo ludens 2.0. Play, Media & Identity. Invited lecture at the Department…
© Jos de Mul
Jos de Mul studied philosophy, art history and social sciences at the universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Nijmegen (The Netherlands). At present he is full professor Philosophy of Man and Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has also taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 2007-2008), Fudan University (Shanghai, 2008), and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, 2016). In 2012 he became a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. From 2005 to 2011 he was Vice-President of the Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, and from 2007 to 2010 President of the International Association for Aesthetics.
His research is on the interface of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of technology, aesthetics, and history of 19th and 20th century German philosophy. He has published more than 20 books and more than 220 scientific articles and book contributions. His book publications include: Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 1999) , The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life (Yale University Press, 2004, 2010), Cyberspace Odyssey. Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), and Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology (State University of New York Press, 2014).