Vincent Blok is a Dutch philosopher working as professor at the School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). In 2005 he received his PhD degree in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialization in philosophy of technology. Blok is interested in the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment and studies these phenomena from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch), and A new meaning of life. The novel as a signpost in a world at the turning point (Noordboek, 2024 (in Dutch). Blok published over hundred articles in disciplinary philosophy journals like Philosophy & Technology, Synthese and Heidegger Studies, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Environmental Values, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Responsible Innovation.

Research interests:

Philosophy of Technology

Environmental Philosophy

Continental Philosophy

Philosophy of Data Science and AI

Responsible Innovation

Philosophy of Management

Martin Heidegger

Ernst Junger