Professor Orsolya Friedrich

Orsolya Friedrich is Professor of Philosophy of Medicine and Technology at the Institute of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen. She previously worked as a researcher at LMU Munich, where she also completed her doctorate in medicine and philosophy. Orsolya’s work mainly focuses on the philosophy of technology and medical ethics, especially on questions of neuroscience and psychiatry. In addition, she is interested in questions concerning moral philosophy, metaethics and philosophy of medicine. Her latest publications can be found at: 

https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/philosophie/lg4/en/staff/orsolya.friedrich. 

In recent years, she has led an international collaborative project on the philosophical, ethical, legal and social implications of brain-computer interfaces and currently leads an Emmy Noether research group that studies new interaction phenomena between humans and technology from a philosophical perspective (for more information see: https://interactionphilosophy.wordpress.com/). Through her work on two national ethics committees, she is also involved in normative questions of early life. 

During her time at Oxford, she would like to continue her research on the phenomenon of human-machine interaction, with a particular focus on its implications for issues of autonomy and epistemic injustice.