Sune Hannibal Holm
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20052024

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Personal profile

Short presentation

Sune Holm is associate professor in philosophy and holds a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews (UK).

Sune's current research focuses on questions concerning the ethics of AI, philosophy of biology, and bioethics. 

He participates in several national and international research projects on the use of AI in healthcare, and he is co-director of the Trustworthy AI Lab hosted by the Dept. of Datascience as well as a member of the scientific committee of the European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF). From  2016-2020 Sune was PI of the DFF2-project Living Machines? which examined philosophical issues relating to the machine-organism analogy.

In recent years Sune has primarily taught courses in ethics and philosophy of science. He is an experienced supervisor at both BA, MA, and PhD-level.

Primary fields of research

 

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

  • Privacy
  • Autonomy
  • Transparency
  • Responsibility
  • Discrimination
  • Integrity
  • Predictive algorithms
  • Data ownership and control

 

Moral theory

  • Work discussing the morality of risk-imposing actions from the perspective of consequentialist, rights-based, and contractualist moral theories

  • Work discussing the moral basis of the precautionary principle, the moral significance of risk thresholds, and the role of public deliberation in decisions about risky biotechnology.

  • Interdisciplinary work on ethics and patent law of CRISPR/Cas 9 technology

  • Doctoral research on personal identity and questions about inter- and intrapersonal distribution of welfare.

Environmental, bio-and medical ethics

  • Work on the moral status of living beings and the relation between moral status and the ontology of organisms.

  • Author of some of the first papers discussing the moral status and interests of organisms in light of developments in synthetic biology.

  • Published work assessing biocentric accounts of the moral value of life appealing to natural selection-based accounts of the biological function.

  • Published work analysing function-based concepts of health and disease in the context of synthetic biology.

  • Published work on ethical aspects of synthetic biology, e.g. on the need for an analytic approach.

Applied Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology

  • Work discussing the nature of artifacts and normative and evolutionary accounts of artifact functions.

  • Work on artifacts focusing on morally relevant differences and similarities between organisms and machines.

    Philosophy of Science

  • Work in philosophy of biology focusing on theories of biological function.

  • Work discussing Cartesian mechanical approaches to living systems.

  • Research on causation in biological systems, the ontological and epistemologica role of models in synthetic and systems biology, and on the machine analogy and engineering approaches to biology

Teaching

Theoretical and practical philosophy

CV

 

Sune Hannibal Holm (15.12.1974)
Lektor, Institut for Fødevare- og Ressourceøkonomi

 

Rolighedsvej 25, Frederiksberg

 

Tlf: +45 23966885
Email: [email protected]

 

EDUCATION

Ph.d. (University of St. Andrews) 2006 Cand. Mag. (University of Copenhagen) 2000 M.Litt. (University of St. Andrews) 1998 B.A. (University of Copenhagen) 1997

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Moral theory
  • Philosophy of science
  • Biothics
  • Risk
  • Philosophy of biology
  • Metaphysics

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