John Danaher is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the School of Law. 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 a lecturer in law at Keele University in the UK from 2011 until 2014. He joined Galway in July 2014.

John’s research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of new technologies. He maintains a blog called Philosophical Disquisitions, and produces a podcast with the same title. He also writes for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Free, open-access pre-prints of his academic papers can be found on PhilPapers, ResearchGate and Academia.

John's research interests are in the areas of legal philosophy, emerging technologies and the future of human society. He is the author of Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (Harvard University Press, 2019) and the coeditor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press, 2017). He has published papers on many different topics, including the risks of advanced AI, the ethics of social robotics, the meaning of life and the future of work, and the ethics of human enhancement.

His work has appeared in 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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