The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) has selected Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller for the 2025 Covey Award. The Covey Award recognizes senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived.
Müller is Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of AI and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is also Visiting Professor at TU Eindhoven, President of the European Society for Cognitive Systems, Chair of the Society for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and Chair of the euRobotics topics group on ethical, legal and socio-economic issues. Previously, he was Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2019-22) and at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki (1998-2019), Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London (2018-22), University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds (2016-22), James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-15), and Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (2005-6).
Müller works mainly on philosophical problems connected to artificial intelligence, both from an ethical and a theoretical perspective. He organises a conference series on the Philosophy of AI (PT-AI/PhAI), co-edits the journal Philosophy of AI, and co-founded the Society for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. In 2014, he organized an IACAP conference in Thessaloniki (Greece). He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Ethics of AI and Robotics, and has two forthcoming books: Can Machines Think? and Artificial Minds (the latter with G. Löhr).
The board recognizes the significant contributions Prof. Dr. Müller has made to the scholarship on issues such as AI and robotic ethics, the nature of computation and cognition, and the philosophical significance of AI, as well as the importance of his sustained role in leading and organizing the philosophical community on these and other topics.
Prof. Dr. Müller will present the Covey Award Keynote Address at IACAP-AISB 2025 conference at University of Twente, The Netherlands, 1-3 July. For more information see https://iacapconf.org/.
Please join us at IACAP-AISB 2025 to congratulate Prof. Dr. Müller on this well-deserved award.