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Dr Tanya de Villiers-Botha

Senior Lecturer: Philosophy | Head: Unit for the Ethics of Technology, Centre for Applied Ethics

tdev@sun.ac.za

Dr Tanya de Villiers-Botha is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Stellenbosch University. She is also head of the Unit for the Ethics of Technology in the Centre for Applied Ethics, coordinator of the Data and Computational Ethics Research Group, and a member of member of the Global AI Ethics Consortium of the Institute for the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich. Her research interests include: philosophy of mind and cognitive science, meta-ethics and the epistemology and ethics of AI.

Publications

Teaching

 

Undergraduate
  • Philosophy 144: Introduction to Moral Argumentation (Ancient Greek and Medieval Philosophy)
  • Philosophy 244: Philosophical Sub-disciplines II (Philosophy of Mind)
Postgraduate
  • Philosophy Honours (Philosophy of AI)
  • MPhil (Applied Ethics) (Introduction to Data Ethics)
  • Postgraduate diploma (History of Philosophy; AI and Data Ethics)