I am a tenure-track Junior-Professor of Philosophy and Ethics in Technology at Hamburg University of Technology, where I lead the Institute for Ethics in Technology. I specialise in moral and legal philosophy, with a particular focus on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence. I am also an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, at which I was based between 2015 and 2022, and an Associate Research Fellow at The Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford, the ERC-project Roots of Responsibility, based at UCL, and at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.
Previously, I obtained the BPhil (2017) and DPhil (PhD) (2019) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and worked as an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow (2019-2021) and as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Oxford (2021-2022).
In addition to my academic research, I am also an ethics adviser to policymakers and industry partners, especially on digital communication, good medical practice, and responsible artificial intelligence.
See my academic CV here.
My email address is maximilian.kiener@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Previously, I obtained the BPhil (2017) and DPhil (PhD) (2019) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and worked as an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow (2019-2021) and as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Oxford (2021-2022).
In addition to my academic research, I am also an ethics adviser to policymakers and industry partners, especially on digital communication, good medical practice, and responsible artificial intelligence.
See my academic CV here.
My email address is maximilian.kiener@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Testimonials
Professor Julian Savulescu (National University of Singapore) on my book 'Voluntary Consent: Theory and Practice' (Routledge, 2023)
Max Kiener proposes a radical, novel account of when consent is voluntary: consent is voluntary by default and becomes involuntary when motivated by influences that cannot be interpersonally justified. His account has striking implications for organ donation, payment in clinical trials and nudging, and also extends to sexual relations. The most significant and original contribution to consent in the last 20 years.
Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford) on my book 'Voluntary Consent: Theory and Practice' (Routledge, 2023)
This book is extremely impressive. It presents a new and original approach to the issue of the role of voluntariness in valid consent, one emerging from and informed by a thorough knowledge of the extensive literature in the field and in a wide array of different debates. The presentation is very well organised, and the overall strategy is powerfully and clearly articulated. At the same time, it contains a remarkable number of fruitful and suggestive arguments.
Anyonymous Student Feedback
Max was one of the best tutors I have had at Oxford, conscientious, interested and sharp. It was a pleasure to be taught by him and he really cared about being a good tutor and very much succeeded.