Anda Zahiu este asistent universitar și student doctorand în cadrul Facultății de Filosofie, cu un proiect de doctorat dedicat teoriei politice libertariene și politicilor de redistribuție. 

Activitatea sa se concentrează asupra temelor clasice din filosofia politică (teorii ale dreptății, libertate, muncă), dar și asupra impactului etic și politic al tehnologiilor noi și emergente. 

Anda Zahiu este membră a Centrului de Cercetare în Etică Aplicată și parte a proiectului avataResponsibility.

Poziția didactică: Asistent universitar doctorand, Departamentul Filosofie practică și Istoria filosofiei, Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din București.

Contact: anda.zahiu@unibuc.ro 

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Assistant Professor PhD Candidate / Department of Practical Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy , University of Bucharest

Member of the Center for Research in Applied Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy

Studies: Ion Luca Caragiale National College, Ploiești (2011-2015). *Bachelor’s Degree (2015-2018) and Master’s Degree (2018-2020) within the Faculty of Philosophy.

• Doctoral student in the Philosophy Doctoral School (2020-present) with a thesis on the philosophical foundations of redistributive policies.

Research areas: Philosophy of law, political philosophy, ethics of new and emerging technologies.

Teaching experience: Seminaries within the Faculty of Philosophy (Philosophy of Law, Political and Social Philosophy, History of Political Ideas, Philosophy of Social Sciences, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of History). *Collaboration with the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and the Faculty of Administration and Business at the University of Bucharest.

Research/ training: Research visit at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (July 2022, June 2018 ). *Bergen Summer Research School: „Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals” – University of Bergen, Norway (June 2021). *New Challenges for Freedom – Institute for Economic Studies-Europe, Centre for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom-Romania.Urlați, Romania (June 2021).

Research projects

• 2024-present: Research Assistant in „avataResponsibility”, ERC 101117761
• 2020-2023: Research Assistant in „ENHATEC.The ethics of people of the future: developing a pluralistic framework for assessing bioenhancement technologies”.PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0521
• 2016-2018: The Scholarship of the Young Researcher, PN-III-P1-1.1-BT-2016-0016

International conferences (selection)

• Romanian Conference for Education and Research 2023, 7-9 november 2023, Bucharest: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Harnessing the Power of VR in Research
• Moral Judgements in the Era of New Digital Technologies Workshop, 4-6 september 2023, Keele University, UK.
• Bucharest-Oxford-Singapore Conference on Applied Ethics, Bucharest, Romania, 25-25.05.2023: ”Virtual Reality Punishment” (with Emilian Mihailov)
• Understanding Value XI, Sheffield University, UK, 22-23 March 2023: ”Meaningful work as a response-dependent concept. Implications for distributive pleas”
• The European PhD Net in Philosophy, 3rd Cycle, 3rd Seminar, Bucharest, 14-15 octombrie 2022: ”A Nozickian response-strategy to the trivial incursion problem: Non-infringement rights as bargained side-constraints”
• World’s Bioethics Congress, Basel, Switzerland, 20-22 July 2022: ”Technologies for moral enhancement: VRPT as empathy training”
• Oxford-Bucharest Workshop în Practical Ethics, Oxford, UK, 18 July 2022: ”If you can do it for entertainment, you can do it for knowledge! Simulated sacrificial dilemmas in VR”;
• The European PhD Net in Philosophy, 3rd Cycle, 1st Seminar, 19-20 November 2021, Uppsala, Sweden: ”Redistribution, self-ownership, and property rights in Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia. An argument for present-day injustice rectification”
• Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology, Budapest, 9-10 December 2021: ”If you can do it for entertainment, you can do it for research: On the moral permissibility of simulationg sacrificial dilemmas”
• BIEN Congress, Basic Income Earth Network, Glasgow, 18-21 August 2021: ”The case for a digital labour productive fund”
• 25th Annual Brave New World Postgraduate Conference, Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), Manchester, 7-8 July 2021: “Justice for Users: the case for a Digital Universal Basic Income”.
• The XI Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, University of Mingo, Braga, Portugal, 9-11 June 2021: “The Internet of Abilities and the future of meaningful work. An integrationist approach”.
• 2021 HKU Legal and Political Theory Postgraduate Conference, 5-7.05.2021, Hong-Kong: ”The neo-Lockean case for Digital Universal Basic Income”
• Social Bridges, University of Munchen, 21-23.04.2021, Munchen, Germany: ”You’ll never work alone: AI, robots, and the future of meaningful coaching in football” (with Radu Uszkai)
• The Digital DNA Summit, 10-11 December 2020, Bucharest:”Building an Ethics for Machine Learning”
• London School of Economics Political Theory Graduate Conference, 12-13 March 2020, Londra, UK: “Self(data)-Ownership and Digital Universal Basic Income”
• Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology, 12-13 December 2019, Budapest, Hungary: “Autonomous decision-making: A potential ethical problem for immersive VR technologies”.

Publications:

• Zahiu Anda, Emilian Mihailov, Brian Earp, Kathryn Francis & Julian Savulescu (2023). Empathy training through virtual reality: moral enhancement with the freedom to fall?. Ethics and Information Technology, 25(4), 1-14.
• Zahiu, Anda. ”Universalitatea în redistribuție ca ideal normativ”, Revista de Filosofie, Tomul LXVIII, No. 4, 2021, pp. 453-459.
• Zahiu, Anda,”The Wealth of the Seven Kingdoms, A Smithian Analysis of the Troubles Financial and Political Relationships in Game of Thrones”, Revista de Filosofie Aplicată 6(4), 2021.
• Zahiu, Anda. ”I, Avatar. Towards an Extended Theory of Selfhood in Immersive VR”, Informacios Tarsadalom 19(4):147, 2020. DOI: 10.22503/inftars.XIX.2019.4.10
• Zahiu, Anda. ”Exposed. Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age Review”, Public Reason 9(1-2), 2017.