Leonie Möck

Praedoc

Leonie Möck (state examination/MA in philosophy, German philology and mathematics, University of Freiburg) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh and Prof. Toni Loh. In her research, she is interested in the epistemic significance of metaphors for ways of understanding technology and develops a relational hermeneutic approach, based on philosophical hermeneutics, postphenomenology and Donna Haraway's works.

Leonie’s areas of interest include the philosophy of digital technologies such as AI and Digital Twins, the ethics of human enhancement, metaphor theory, phenomenological anthropology, critical posthumanism and new materialism. 

Before joining the Philosophy of Media and Technology group, Leonie worked as a research member in two interdisciplinary research projects on the media representation of responsibility in the automation debate (MARA) and the ethics of autonomous driving (EMERGENCY-VRD).

Published Research

Email: leonie.moeck@univie.ac.at