Stefan Koller

Former Assistant Director and Coordinator of the 4.TU Centre of Ethics and Technology.

Stefan Koller holds a B.A.Hons. degree in Philosophy and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford; a BPhil. (MA equivalent) degree in Philosophy, also University of Oxford; and a PhD degree (cum laude) from the Technical University of Delft.

His doctoral thesis, The Birth of Ethics from the Spirit of Tectonics, was on the ethics of architecture. The thesis established conditions under which ascriptions of moral value to buildings are meaningful, true, and justified (when they are). The thesis tested these conditions against a variety of case studies from historic buildings to modernist and contemporary architecture. Contemporary case studies included a forensic clinic outside Munich, and an (unrealized) opera house in The Hague.

Since 2012, he is on the Business Group of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture, and has co-organized most of the society’s research events since then.

Since 2013, he is co-editor of ArchitecturePhilosophy, the first (double blind) peer reviewed journal to demand that submissions meet standards of disciplinary excellence in the fields of architecture and philosophy.

In late 2014, Koller was vice-chancellory ‘profesor visitante’ at the philosophy faculty at the University of Asturias in Oviedo, Spain.

Since 2016, he is faculty member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

AOS: philosophy of language, ancient philosophy, aesthetics.
AOE: environmental ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action.

He is now a attorney at Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

For a full CV including details of publications, please go here.