Janna van Grunsven
- Visiting address:
- Faculty of Technology
Policy and Management
Building 31
Room number: b4.220
Profile
Janna van Grunsven is an assistant professor in the ethics and philosophy of technology department at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research primarily targets ableist technologies, systems, and theories and their pernicious impacts on how disabled and neurodivergent people are morally perceived and interacted with. She is currently exploring these topics in the Philosophies of Technology PhD-course at the 4TU Centre for Ethics, through her NWO Veni grant (2022-2026) and an NWO-KIC project on co-created neuroinclusive interaction technology (called COINTEND) and as coordinator of a research-line on ‘health, well-being, and emotions’ within the NWO-Gravitation programme Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies.
Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Epistemology, Minds and Machines, Ethics and Information Technology, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Currently, she is working on a book-project that presents moral visibility as an important but undertheorized ethical phenomenon. She conceptualizes moral visibility as a person’s bodily visibility to others as a dignified self who matters, and argues that this visibility is unjustly distributed: some bodies (e.g. disabled bodies) aren’t as morally visible as they ought to be. She shows, that technologies mediate moral visibility in both ethically problematic and emancipatory ways, thereby playing a complex central role in ethical life. To make her case, she integrates normative and metaethical theory, disability & neurodiversity studies, phenomenology, enactive embodied cognition, and philosophy of technology.