Prof. Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem

Prof. Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem is a professor of Philosophy and Logic in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Prof. Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem is the leader of the Ethics of AI research group at the Centre for AI Research in South Africa. Her fields of research expertise include ethics of artificial intelligence (ethics of social robotics; the artificial moral agent project; the ethics of autonomous weapon systems; AI and sustainability in Africa; and fair, accountable and transparent machine learning), philosophy of science (scientific realism; the structure of scientific theories; the demarcation problem; scientific progress; scientific truth) and formal logic (mathematical logic, non-monotonic logic, epistemic logic). She currently participates in research projects in ethics of AI, scientific realism and the structure of theories, and epistemic justice.