Eloise Soulier
About
Eloïse is a PhD candidate and research associate in the Ethics in IT Research Group at the University of Hamburg, working under the supervision of Professor Judith Simon. Her background is in Computer science and Mathematics and in Philosophy. Her dissertation work focuses on a relational reframing of the concept of autonomy in the context of digital technologies. More broadly, drawing from feminist epistemology and philosophy of language, she researches the ways in which our conceptual choices shape the – digital – realities we live in, and whether and how we can act on them. During her stay at WI, she will work on the project Conceptions of Knowledge in AI (CoKAI), investigating the dominant conceptions of „knowledge“ in the AI community and their implications for technology development.
Research Group: Digitalization and Opening up Science (06.07.-06.09.2026)
Fields of Research
Eloïse Soulier conducts research on:
- Digital ethics
- Feminist philosophy
- Conceptual ethics
- Feminist epistemology
Selected Publications
Soulier, E. Should we speak of machine agency? A case against conceptual extension. Ethics Inf Technol 28, 17 (2026).
Branford, J., Soulier, E., & Fichtner, L. (2025). Generative AI and democratic culture. Philosophy & Technology, 38(3), 123.
Kraft, A., & Soulier, E. (2024, June). Knowledge-enhanced language models are not bias-proof: Situated knowledge and epistemic injustice in AI. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 1433-1445).