Dr Cillian Ó Fathaigh
I’m a philosopher, working on technology, the political, & European thought.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.

Right now, I’m working on 2 questions:

1) What are the philosophical implications of the digital?
In particular, how does this technological transformation shape what we perceive as unjust? This project is funded by an MSCA Actions Grant/Polonez (€260,000).


2) What is the impact of Generative AI on education?
How do we need to adapt our pedagogy? What needs to change and what shouldn’t? This project is funded by Una Europa (€27,000).

Before coming to Krakow, I was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge; a Lecturer at King’s College London; a Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; a Research Fellow on an AHRC-DFG project; and, a Teaching Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. You can find out more here.

What I’ve been up to …

AI & Pedagogy – Survey – 550+ Responses

As part of AIHUMS101, we’ve produced one of the largest survey of European academics to date on AI & Pedagogy in the Humanities & Social Sciences. This is a crucial issue for teaching and one which we still know too little about. This survey, with…

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Social Media Exhibition – Recognising Injustice

November: as part of my RECIND (MSCA COFUND) project, I’m organising a social media exhibit, with posts from a range of social media activists. The aim is to highlight how they view politics, what activities they think social media makes possible and how they understand…

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AI Workshop – Bologna – Research Institute for Human-Centered AI

With Prof. Valeria Zotti, I co-organised the first hybrid workshop of our Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101) research network. We were hosted in the spectacular Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. The workshop was our first hybrid…

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Edited Volume – Transformations – Edinburgh UP

Transformation is a tricky concept; something we rely on regularly in public discourse, especially the “digital transformation”, but the concept itself is not as clear or stable as we might think. Within French-speaking philosophy, the concept has a really crucial role, one which I think…

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Organised Society for European Philosophy Conference (July)

In July, I co-organised, with Prof. Patrick ffrench, the Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, hosted at King’s College London from 7–9 July 2025. The conference is the largest annual gatherings of scholars working in European/continental philosophy, with over 30 panels & 100 papers. We…

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