John Danaher is a Senior LecturerAssociate Professorin the Law School. He holds a BCL from University College Cork (2006); an LLM from Trinity College Dublin (2007); and a PhD from University College Cork (2011). He was lecturer in law at Keele University in the UK from 2011 until 2014. He joined Galway in July 2014.Johns research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of new technologies. He maintains a blog calleda target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.iePhilosophical Disquisitions , and produces a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.comppodcast.htmla podcast with the same title.He also writes for thea target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:ieet.orgindex.phpIEETbiodanaherInstitute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies .Free, open-access pre-prints of his academic papers can be found on a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:philpapers.orgprofile29321Philpapers , a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.researchgate.netprofileJohn_Danaher3Researchgate and a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:nuigalway.academia.eduJohnDanaherAcademia .

Johns research interests are in the areas of legal philosophy, emerging technologies and the future of human society. He is the author ofAutomation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (Harvard University Press, 2019) andthe coeditor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press 2017). He has published papers on manydifferenttopics, including the risks of advanced AI, the ethics of social robotics, meaning of life and the future of work, and the ethics of human enhancement, His work has appearedin The Atlantic, VICE: Motherboard, The Guardian , The Irish Times , The Sunday Times , Aeon , and The Philosophers Magazine .He also maintains an active research interest in moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

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