Dr. Federica Buongiorno (University of Florence)
Federica Buongiorno is an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology of Technology at the University of Florence, Italy, and a Visiting Fellow (2020-2024) at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, Germany.
Her research interests include Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology, the philosophy of technology (with a special focus on AI, algorithmic thinking and the digital turn), and the contemporary theories of knowledge. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2013 from “Sapienza” University of Rome with a dissertation on the pre-categorial foundation of Husserl’s early philosophy. She has been a Post-Doc researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Storici of Naples (2012-2013), at the Freie Universität Berlin (2014-2017), at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici of Naples (2017) and at the Technische Universität Dresden (2017-2020).
She is a member of the editorial board of “Lo Sguardo”, the Editor in chief of the international journal of philosophy “Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age” and the co-founder and director of the philosophical book series Umweg (Inschibboleth editions). She collaborates as a translator from German for several Italian publishers.
Among her latest publications: “Do We Really Need a ‘Digital Humanism’? A Critique Based on Post-human Philosophy of Technology and Socio-legal Techniques” (with Xenia Chiaramonte). Journal of Responsible Technology, 18 (2024); “Can Algorithms Be Embodied? A Phenomenological Perspective on the Relationship between Algorithmic Thinking and the Life-World”. Foundations of Science, 28 (2023); “Beyond Efficiency: Comparing Andrew Feenberg’s and Byung-Chul Han’s Philosophy of Technology”. In: Darryl Cressman (ed.). The Necessity of Critique. Andrew Feenberg and the Philosophy of Technology, Springer (2022).
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Dr. Francois-Xavier Guchet (Université de technologie de 
Compiègne)
Xavier Guchet is Professor of the Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the Université de technologie de Compiègne. He has written extensively on various topics in the philosophy of technology, including work on Gilbert Simondon, Hans Jonas, and André Leroi-Gourhan.
In many of his publications, he examines contemporary technosciences from the perspective of French philosophical traditions and bases philosophical analyses on detailed descriptions of technoscientific objects, such as nano-objects and biomarkers in personalized genomic medicine.
Guchet has published several books, including Pour un humanisme technologique. Culture, technique et société dans la philosophie de Gilbert Simondon (PUF, 2010), Philosophie des nanotechnologies (Hermann, 2014), and La médecine personnalisée: un essai philosophique (Les Belles Lettres, 2016). He was also one of the editors of the volume French Philosophy of Technology: Classical Readings and Contemporary Approaches (Springer, 2018, together with Sacha Loeve and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent).
Among his latest publications: “Leroi-Gourhan and the Object of Technology.” Technology and Language, 5(2) (2024),
116-124; “‘Technological Object’ in Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy: One Word, Three Different Meanings.” Philosophy Today (Celina), 63(3) (2019), 705–716; and “Towards an Object-Oriented Philosophy of Technology”, 237-256. In: Loeve, S., Bensaude-Vincent, B., & Guchet, X. (2018). French Philosophy of Technology. Springer.
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