book chapters

2026

Coeckelbergh, M. 2026. ‘Cultural Robotics or Robocolonialism? Meaning, Narrative, and Power with Social Robots‘ in Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability, edited by R. Hakli, S. Nyholm, M. Nørskov, S. Nørskov, chapter 4. Palgrave Macmillan.

Gunkel, D., Coeckelbergh, M. 2026. ‘A Relational Approach to Moral Standing‘ in New Directions in Relational Sociology, Volume Two, edited by F. Vandenberghe and C. Papilloud, 285-302. Palgrave Macmillan.

2025

Coeckelbergh, M., Reader, J. 2025. ‘Searching for the Good Life‘ in Postdigital Ethical Futures: Essays in Honor of John Reader, edited by M. Savin-Baden and M. Power, chapter 3. Chapman and Hall.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2025. ‘Artificial Power: Power, Technoperformances, and the Politics of AI,’ in A Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI, edited by M. Hähnel and R. Müller, 322-343. Wiley.

2024

Coeckelbergh, M. 2024 (reprint). ‘The Ubuntu Robot: Towards a Relational Conceptual Framework for Intercultural Robotics,’ in The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Policy, and Regulation for Human–Robot Interaction, edited by W. Barfield, Y.-H. Weng, U. Pagallo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 408-420. Originally published in 2022, Science and Engineering Ethics 28(16).

Parviainen, J., Coeckelbergh, M. 2024. ‘Sophia the Robot as a Political Choreography to Advance Economic Interests: An Exercise in Political Phenomenology and Critical Performance-Oriented Philosophy of Technology.’ In: Breyer, T., Gerner, A.M., Grouls, N., Schick, J.F. (eds) Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology, pp. 57-66. Cham: Springer.

2023

Coeckelbergh, M. 2023. ‘Technology as Process’ In: Miller, G., Jeronimo, H.M., and Qin Zu (eds.), Thinking Through Science and Technology: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Raper, R., Boeddinghaus, J., Coeckelbergh, M., Gross, W., Campigotto, P., and Lincoln, C.N. 2022. ‘Sustainability Budgets: A Practical Management and Governance Method for Achieving Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals for AI Development.’ In: van Wynsbergh, A., Vandemeulebroucke, T., Bolte, L., et al. (eds.), Towards the Sustainability of AI. Basel: MDPI Books.

[Reprint of Special Issue in Sustainability 14(7), 4019, 2022]

Coeckelbergh, M. 2023. ‘Foreword.’ In: Eke, D.O., Wakunuma, K., Akintoye, S. (eds.), Responsible AI in Africa. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

2022

Coeckelbergh, M. 2022. ‘Vulnerability, AI, and Power in a Global Context: From Being-at-Risk to Biopolitics in the COVID-19 Pandemic‘. In: Tinnirello, M. (ed.) The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC.

2021

Romele, A., Reijers, W., and Coeckelbergh, M. 2021. ‘Introduction: Hermeneutic Philosophy of Technology: A Research Program’. In: Reijers, W., Romele, A., and Coeckelbergh, M. (eds.) Interpreting Technology: Ricoeur on Questions Concerning Ethics and Philosophy of Technology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2021. ‘Antropologias do monstro e tecnologia: máquinas, ciborgues e outras ferramentas tecno-antropológicas.’ Portuguese translation of my ‘Monster Anthropologies and Technology’ (2019) by Ananda Missailidis. In: Bannell, R. I., Mizrahi, M., and Ferreira, M. (eds.). Deseducando a Educação. Rio de Janeiro: Editoria PUC-Rio.

2020

Coeckelbergh, M. 2020. ‘Using Philosophy of Language in Philosophy of Technology.’ In: Vallor, S. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Coeckelbergh, M. and Loh, J. 2020. ‘Transformations of Responsibility in the Age of Automation: Being Answerable to Human and Non-Human Others.’ In: Beck, B. and Kühler, M. (eds.). Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 7-22.

2019

Coeckelbergh, M. 2019. ‘Technology Games/Gender Games. From Wittgenstein’s Toolbox and Language Games to Gendered Robots and Biased Artificial Intelligence.’ In: Loh, J. and Coeckelbergh, M. (eds.). Feminist Philosophy of Technology. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 27-38.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2019. ‘Monster Anthropologies and Technology: Machines, Cyborgs and other Techno-Anthropological Tools.’ In: Compagna, D. and Steinhart, S. (eds.). Monsters, Monstrosities and the Monstrous in Culture and Society. Malaga: Vernon Press, 353-370. [scan]

Coeckelbergh, M. 2019. ‘Technology, Narrative, and Performance in the Social Theatre’. In: Kreps, D. (ed.). Understanding Digital Events: Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital. London: Routledge.

2018

Köszegi, S., and Coeckelbergh, M. 2018. ‘Envisioning our future with robots & AI: Opportunities & challenges for Europe’. In: Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. Re:thinking Europe: Positions on shaping an Idea. Vienna: Holzhausen, 285-299.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2018. ‘What do we mean by a relational ethics? Growing a relational approach to the moral standing of plants, robots, and other non-humans’. In: Kallhoff, A., Di Paola, M., and Schörgenhumer, M. (eds.). Plant Ethics: Concepts and Applications. London and New York: Routledge, 98-109.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2018. ‘Transzendenzmaschinen: Der Transhumanismus und seine (technisch-)religiösen Quellen‘. In: Göcke, B. P. and Meier-Hamidi, F. (eds.). Designobjekt Mensch: Die Agenda des Transhumanismus auf dem Prüfstand. Freiburg: Herder, 81-93.

2017

Coeckelbergh, M. 2017. ‘The phenomenology of environmental health risk: Vulnerability to modern technological risk, risk alienation and risk politics’. In: Zölzer, F. and Meskens G. (eds.). Ethics of Environmental Health. Routledge Studies in Environment and Health. Oxon / New York: Routledge, 89-102.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2017. ‘Cyborg Humanity and the Technologies of Human Enhancement’. In: Beavers, A. (ed.). Philosophy: Technology. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy series. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA/Gale, a Cengage Company.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2017. ‘Quantification Machines and Artificial Agents in Global Finance: Historical-Phenomenological Perspectives from Philosophy and Sociology of Technology and Money‘. In: Ippoliti, E. and Chen, P. (eds.). Methods and Finance. A Unifying View on Finance, Mathematics and Philosophy. Cham: Springer, 169-178.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2017. ‘Beyond “Nature”. Towards more engaged and care-full ways of relating to the environment‘. In: Kopnina, H. and Shoreman-Ouimet, E. (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 105-116.

2016

Coeckelbergh, M. 2016. ‘Alterity ex Machina: The Encounter with Technology
as an Epistemological-Ethical Drama’. In: Gunkel, D., Filho, C.M. and Mersch, D. (eds.). The Changing Face of Alterity: Communication, Technology, and Other Subjects, London and Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield International, 181-196.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2016. ‘Drones, Morality, and Vulnerability: Two Arguments Against Automated Killing’. In: Custers, B. The Future of Drone Use: Technologies, Opportunities and Privacy Issues, TMC Asser Press.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2016.’Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Philosophical Reflections on the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Natural Disaster Risk‘. In Gardoni, P., Murphy, C., and Rowell, A. Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards, Heidelbergh and New York: Springer, 27-41.

2015

Coeckelbergh, M. 2015. ‘Afterword‘. In: Sundar Sethy, Satya (ed), Ethical Issues in Engineering, Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2015. ‘How “Secular” and “Modern” are our Technological Practices and Culture? Techno-Religious Forms of Life and Hierophanies in the Information Age’. In: Funk, M. (ed.). ‘Transdisziplinär’ ‘Interkulturell’. Technikphilosophie nach der akademischen Kleinstaaterei, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 313-329.

2014

Coeckelbergh, M. 2014. ‘Good Healthcare is in the How: The Quality of Care, the Role of Machines, and the Need for New Skills’. In: Coeckelbergh, M., van Rysewyk, S.P. and Pontier, M. (eds.). Machine Medical Ethics, Springer, 33-47.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2014. ‘Robotic Appearances and Forms of Life. A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Approach to the Relation between Robotics and Culture’. In: Funk, M. and Irrgang, B. (eds.). Robotics in Germany and Japan. Philosophical and Technical Perspectives, Dresden: Philosophy of Technology Studies.

Coeckelbergh, M. 2014. ‘Moral Craftsmanship’. In: Moran, S., Cropley, D. and Kaufman, J. (eds.). The Ethics of Creativity, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 46-61.

2013

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Enhancement and the vulnerable body: Questioning some philosophical assumptions’ in: Lucivero, F., Vedder, A. (eds.) Beyond Therapy v. Enhancement?, Pisa: University Press, 15-26, 2013

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Too close to kill, too far to talk. Interpretation and narrative in drone fighting and surveillance in public places’. In: Leenes, R., Kosta E. (eds.) Bridging distances in technology and regulation, Oisterwijk, Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP) 2013

Funk, M & Coeckelbergh, M.’ Is gesture knowledge? A philosophical approach to the epistemology of musical gestures’ in De Preester, H (ed) Moving Imagination. Explorations of gesture and inner movement, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 113 – 131, 2013

2012

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Care robots, Virtual Virtue, and the Best Possible Life‘ in Brey, P., Briggle, A, Spence, E. (eds) The Good Life in a Technological Age. New York/London: Routledge, 281-292, 2012 (ISBN13 978-0-415-89126-4)

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘ “How I learned to Love the Robot“: Capabilities, Information Technologies, and Elderly Care’ in: Oosterlaken, I. and van den Hoven, J (eds.) The Capability Approach, Technology and Design. Dordrecht: Springer, 77-86, 2012 (ISBN 9789400738782)

2011

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Virtue, Empathy, and Vulnerability: Evaluating Violence in Digital Games‘ in: Poels, K. and Malliet, S. (eds.) Vice City Virtue: Moral Issues in Digital Game Play. Leuven/Den Haag: Acco Academic, 89-105, 2011. (ISBN 9789033484681)

2010

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘The Spider and the Web: Emotions, Evolution, and Ethics of Technological Risk” in: Lavino J G and Neumann, R B (eds) Psychology of Risk Perception. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 133-143, 2010

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Computer Games, Education, and the Good Life‘ in: Edvardsen, F and Kulle, H (eds) Educational Games: Design, Learning, and Applications. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 223-229, 2010

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Risk Emotions and Risk Judgments: Passive Bodily Experience and Active Moral Reasoning in Judgmental Constellations‘ in: Roeser, S. (ed.) Emotions and Risky Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, 213-230 [table of contents]

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Imagining Worlds: Responsible Engineering Under Conditions of Epistemic Opacity’ in: van de Poel, I., Goldberg, D.E. (eds) Philosophy & Engineering: An Emerging Agenda. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010 [table of contents]

2009

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Risk and Public Imagination: Mediated Risk Perception as Imaginative Moral Judgment’ in: Asveld, L. and Roeser, S. (eds) The Ethics of Technological Risk. London/Sterling, VA: Earthscan Publishers, 2009

2004

Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Can We Choose Evil? A Discussion of the Problem of Radical Evil as a Modern and Ancient Problem of Freedom’ in: Keen, D.E. and P.Rossi Keen (eds.) Considering Evil and Human Wickedness. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2004 (e-book)