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Dr. Theofanis Tasis

Dr. Theofanis Tasis – Short CV

Academic Role: Assistant Professor / Researcher / Philosopher of Technology
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Information & Digital Humanism, Ionian University
Scientific Areas: Digital Humanism, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Human Enhancement, Ethics and Politics of Technology, Iconistic Theory, Philosophy of Mortality, Art of Living, Posthumanism

Academic Profile

Theofanis Tasis teaches Philosophy of Information and Digital Humanism at the Ionian University. He has served as lecturer at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, and visiting professor at Universität St. Gallen and Freie Universität Berlin.

A graduate in Physics, he received his PhD in Philosophy with distinction (summa cum laude) from Freie Universität Berlin. He has been a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles.

His research focuses on Digital Humanism as a philosophical framework for understanding artificial intelligence, technological mediation and the image-based society; the ethics and politics of human enhancement; mortality and finitude in the posthuman condition; and the art of living in late technological modernity.

His books include Cornelius Castoriadis: A Philosophy of Autonomy (2007, 3rd ed. 2022) and Politics of Life: Irony (2012, 2nd ed. 2025), both awarded the Kavtantzogleio Prize. He later published Politics of Life II: The Care of the Self in the Iconistic Society (2017, 3rd ed. 2021), Digital Humanism: Iconistic Subject and Artificial Intelligence (2019, 5th ed. 2025) — shortlisted for the State Essay Award — Philosophy of Human Enhancement (2021, 2nd ed. 2022), and Digital Humanism II: Artificial Intelligence and the Art of Living (2025), which extends his inquiry into the iconic condition.

His literary work also includes the philosophical diary En Mesi Odo (2023) and poetry collections Physiological Findings (2001), Afternoons in Capitalism (2010), and Pharmakon (2011). He has translated works by Martin Heidegger, John Stuart Mill, Alexander Nehamas, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger.

He is an Academic Advisor at the Onassis Foundation and an active public intellectual, contributing to events such as the Delphi Economic Forum, Economist Round Table, Liberty Fund, and Quo Vadis AI Act. Since 2016, he has been a regular contributor to the annual Greek edition of The Economist.

Key Roles & Achievements

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    Associate Professor of Philosophy of Information and Digital Humanism, Ionian University
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    Former Lecturer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
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    Visiting Professor, Universität St. Gallen & Freie Universität Berlin
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    Stanley J. Seeger Fellow, Princeton University
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    Marie Curie Research Fellow, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles
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    Academic Advisor, Onassis Foundation
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    Public Speaker, Delphi Economic Forum, Economist Round Table, Liberty Fund, Quo Vadis AI Act

Selected Interests & Research Areas

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    Digital Humanism
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    Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
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    Human Enhancement and Posthumanism
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    Ethics and Politics of Technology
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    Philosophy of the Iconistic and the Imaginary
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    Philosophy of Mortality and the Art of Living
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    Technological Mediation and Autonomy

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