Speaker Bio

Prof. Theofanis Tasis teaches Philosophy of Information and Digital Humanism at the Ionian University. He has held academic positions at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and as Visiting Professor at the Universität St. Gallen and the Freie Universität Berlin. A graduate of Physics, he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (summa cum laude) from the Freie Universität Berlin. He has been a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles. His research focuses on Digital Humanism, the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement. He examines how digital infrastructures and intelligent systems reshape democracy, urban space, subjectivity, and the art of living. Central to his work are the concepts of the iconistic condition, mortality, and practices of autonomy in data-driven societies and AI-mediated public spheres. He is the author of Cornelius Castoriadis: A Philosophy of Autonomy (Kaftantzoglio Prize), Politics of Bios (Kaftantzoglio Prize), Digital Humanism: The Iconistic Subject and Artificial Intelligence (5th ed., 2025;nominated for the State Literary Award for Essay), Philosophy of Human Enhancement (2nd ed., 2022), and Digital Humanism II: Artificial Intelligence and the Art of Living (2025). He contributes regularly to international debates on AI governance and digital transformation and participates in major intellectual forums, including The Economist Round Table with the Greek Government, on technology, democracy, and the future of society.