Muriel Leuenberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 7102311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muriel Leuenberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Leuenberger |
| SIGNATURE | LEUENBERGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5427-0108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Value of Authenticity for Meaning in Life
This article develops an original account of the value of authenticity for meaning in life that explains how and when acting authentically enhances meaning in life. I argue that we appropriate meaningful actions by acting authentically, contra Joseph Raz’s (2001) position that appropriation occurs through attachments. Authentic actions are distinctly owned by the individual and the more a meaningful action is appropriated, the more it contributes…
Who Am I When You're a Bot? Relational Identity and AI Companions
Self‐conceptions provide a framework through which we can make sense of ourselves, interpret and navigate the world, plan our lives, and relate to others. Relational influences can greatly shape them, for instance, when others react to us or offer advice. What if this ‘other’ is not a human being, but an AI? AI companions (AICs) are dialogue systems that offer highly agreeable, low‐risk, and personalized ‘friendships’ or ‘romantic partnerships’ w…
The Role of the Voice for Identity and Implications for Voice Cloning Technology
Recent advances in generative AI have made voice cloning widely accessible, raising pressing legal and ethical concerns. Besides economic harm and misuse in fraud or blackmail, the voice’s intricate connection to identity highlights a further dimension of risk, as argued in a recent article by Berkowitz and Sweeney. The following explores how different dimensions of identity intersect with the voice and how voice cloning technology can impact the…
Against Personalized AI Moral Advisors: Commentary on ‘Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth?’ by Matthieu Queloz
Technology, Personal Information, and Identity
Novel and emerging technologies can provide users with new kinds and unprecedented amounts of information about themselves, such as autobiographical information, neurodata, health information, or characteristics inferred from online behavior. Technology that provides extensive personal information (PI technology) can impact who we understand ourselves to be, how we constitute ourselves, and indeed who we are. This paper analyzes how PI technology…
Track Thyself? The Value and Ethics of Self-knowledge Through Technology
Novel technological devices, applications, and algorithms can provide us with a vast amount of personal information about ourselves. Given that we have ethical and practical reasons to pursue self-knowledge, should we use technology to increase our self-knowledge? And which ethical issues arise from the pursuit of technologically sourced self-knowledge? In this paper, I explore these questions in relation to bioinformation technologies (health an…
A Life of Our Own’: Why Authenticity is More Than a Condition for Autonomy
What is the Point of Being Your True Self? A Genealogy of Essentialist Authenticity
This paper presents a functional genealogy of essentialist authenticity. The essentialist account maintains that authenticity is the result of discovering and realizing one's ‘true self’. The genealogy shows that essentialist authenticity can serve the function of supporting continuity in one's individual characteristics. A genealogy of essentialist authenticity is not only methodologically interesting as the first functional genealogy of a conti…
In Defense of Narrative Authenticity: Response to the Discussion of Pugh et al. and Nyholm and O’Neill
This paper ties in with the ongoing debate on authenticity and the influence of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) on authenticity, in particular with the exchange between Pugh et al. and Nyholm and O’Neill. Both argue against a narrative approach to authenticity, which will be defended in this paper. First, it is shown that the critique they offer does not hold against a more refined view on narrativism. Second, a narrative approach to authenticity is…
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In Defense of Narrative Authenticity: Response to the Discussion of Pugh et al. and Nyholm and O’Neill
This paper ties in with the ongoing debate on authenticity and the influence of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) on authenticity, in particular with the exchange between Pugh et al. and Nyholm and O’Neill. Both argue against a narrative approach to authenticity, which will be defended in this paper. First, it is shown that the critique they offer does not hold against a more refined view on narrativism. Second, a narrative approach to authenticity is…
What is the Point of Being Your True Self? A Genealogy of Essentialist Authenticity
This paper presents a functional genealogy of essentialist authenticity. The essentialist account maintains that authenticity is the result of discovering and realizing one's ‘true self’. The genealogy shows that essentialist authenticity can serve the function of supporting continuity in one's individual characteristics. A genealogy of essentialist authenticity is not only methodologically interesting as the first functional genealogy of a conti…
A Life of Our Own’: Why Authenticity is More Than a Condition for Autonomy
Technology, Personal Information, and Identity
Novel and emerging technologies can provide users with new kinds and unprecedented amounts of information about themselves, such as autobiographical information, neurodata, health information, or characteristics inferred from online behavior. Technology that provides extensive personal information (PI technology) can impact who we understand ourselves to be, how we constitute ourselves, and indeed who we are. This paper analyzes how PI technology…
Track Thyself? The Value and Ethics of Self-knowledge Through Technology
Novel technological devices, applications, and algorithms can provide us with a vast amount of personal information about ourselves. Given that we have ethical and practical reasons to pursue self-knowledge, should we use technology to increase our self-knowledge? And which ethical issues arise from the pursuit of technologically sourced self-knowledge? In this paper, I explore these questions in relation to bioinformation technologies (health an…
The Role of the Voice for Identity and Implications for Voice Cloning Technology
Recent advances in generative AI have made voice cloning widely accessible, raising pressing legal and ethical concerns. Besides economic harm and misuse in fraud or blackmail, the voice’s intricate connection to identity highlights a further dimension of risk, as argued in a recent article by Berkowitz and Sweeney. The following explores how different dimensions of identity intersect with the voice and how voice cloning technology can impact the…
Against Personalized AI Moral Advisors: Commentary on ‘Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth?’ by Matthieu Queloz
The Value of Authenticity for Meaning in Life
This article develops an original account of the value of authenticity for meaning in life that explains how and when acting authentically enhances meaning in life. I argue that we appropriate meaningful actions by acting authentically, contra Joseph Raz’s (2001) position that appropriation occurs through attachments. Authentic actions are distinctly owned by the individual and the more a meaningful action is appropriated, the more it contributes…
Who Am I When You're a Bot? Relational Identity and AI Companions
Self‐conceptions provide a framework through which we can make sense of ourselves, interpret and navigate the world, plan our lives, and relate to others. Relational influences can greatly shape them, for instance, when others react to us or offer advice. What if this ‘other’ is not a human being, but an AI? AI companions (AICs) are dialogue systems that offer highly agreeable, low‐risk, and personalized ‘friendships’ or ‘romantic partnerships’ w…
Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy of technology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)