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Session Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025 | |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Registration Location: Voorhof |
| 1:30pm - 1:45pm | Word of Welcome Location: Blauwe Zaal |
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm | Keynote 1 - Sabina Leonelli - Environmental intelligence: Subverting the philosophical premises for AI Location: Blauwe Zaal |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: revisting the bright-line argument Location: Blauwe Zaal |
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Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: Revisiting the bright-line argument Presentations of the Symposium The Crux of the Bright-line Argument as an Explanatory Lens for Understanding Why the Problem of Authenticity Concerning Artificial Companions Persists Thinking Otherwise Intimate technologies and liberation Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Democratic technologies in East Asia Location: Auditorium 1 |
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Democratic technologies in East Asia Presentations of the Symposium CCTV use among Hong Kong sex workers Democratic strateies in South Korean energy communities Addressing technological literarcy for Hong Kong elderly Digital technologies' impact on charcter formation in Hong Kong young people |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Design as a contested space: technological innovations, critical investigations, military interests Location: Auditorium 2 |
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Design as a contested space: technological innovations, critical investigations, military interests Presentations of the Symposium Historicising voice biometrics: the colonial continuity of listening, from the sound archive to the acoustic database Antimilitarism & algorithms: design interventions and investigative data practices Teaching machines, managed learning and remote examination Exemplary situations of technological breakdown in the philosophy of technology: who and what is at stake in learning from failure? |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human Location: Auditorium 3 |
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The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human Presentations of the Symposium Understanding generalization in large language models Large language models are conversational zombies. Chatbots and speech acts: how to (not) do things with words The double LLM trust fallacy Generative AI, political communication and manipulation: the role of epistemic agency |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Workshop) Reviewing and publishing for early career researchers: a bridge towards scholarly expertise Location: Auditorium 4 |
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(Workshop) Reviewing and publishing for early career researchers: a bridge towards scholarly expertise Presentations of the Symposium Session structure |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue Location: Auditorium 5 |
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Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue Presentations of the Symposium Basic Ideas on Engineering science and engineering scientists: a contribution to philosophy of engineering science Practice is the source of true knowledge: Lesson from the flight experiments of Samuel Langley and the Wright brothers A reflection on the development of cryogenic engineering Effective development of gulong shale oil under the guidance of engineering philosophy Yin Ruiyu and metallurgical process engineering: a philosophical reflection Engineering innovations in novel supercritical fluids energy and power systems: from fundamentals to application demonstrations The enhancement of technical requirements for astronaut training in deep space exploration and philosophical reflections Ethical frontiers in human stem cell-based embryo model AI-driven synthetic biology: engineering philosophy, challenges, and ethical implications Rethinking numbers, data, and algorithms from philosophical perspective Bridging the responsibility gap: ethical responsibility pathways and framework reconstruction in artificial intelligence Refusal to grant AI subject qualification: reasons and practical approaches |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach Presentations of the Symposium The power and emotions in trustworthy AI Addressing problematic conceptual assumptions about human-technology relations in AI development practices AI, Gender, and Agri-food |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation Location: Auditorium 7 |
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Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation Presentations of the Symposium Writing as calculus. New sciences of writing and phenomenology (Logical) Piano lessons: Jevons and the roots of computational subjectivity Turing’s design of a brain. Operative and thematic concepts of computing machinery Is your brain a sort of computer? Computation as a symbolic form between humans and machines |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Ways of worldmaking and the languages of technology and art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the philosophy of technology Location: Auditorium 8 |
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Ways of Worldmaking and the Languages of Technology and Art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the Philosophy of Technology Presentations of the Symposium Ways of Worldmaking – Understanding Worlds in the Making Ways of worldmaking - symbolic orders and material compositions Function as Exemplification Discussion and Commentary |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Coffee & Tea break Location: Voorhof |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Symposium) Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity Location: Blauwe Zaal |
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Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity Presentations of the Symposium Can technology destroy desire? Stieglerian considerations The algorithmic other: AI, desire, and self-formation on digital platforms Deadbots and the unconscious: A qualitative analysis Reconceptualizing reciprocity through a lacanian lens: the case of human-robot-interactions |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Papers) Quantified lives Location: Auditorium 1 |
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Navigating the complexities of quantitative social credit systems in china: assemblage, performativity, and impact University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom The Quantification and Mechanization of Human-beings Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of Quantified self and society of control DICEN - IdF Lab, University Gustave Eiffel, France |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Papers) Disrupting digital industries Location: Auditorium 2 |
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Derailing a high-speed train: Limitations of Agile in the AI development with marginalized communities 1SIAS | Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems Group , Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam; 2SIAS | Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems Group , Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam Grasping the impact of artificial intelligence on the tourism industry Saxion university of applied sciences, Netherlands, The The discourse on the video game industry sexual misconduct crisis in comments at online news sites North Carolina State University, United States of America |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Papers) Malfunction Location: Auditorium 3 |
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That’s not a bug, that’s an accidental function: on malfunctioning artifacts and concepts 1University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany The Ethics and Epistemology of Malfunction in Human-Technology Integration Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Ascribing functions to software 1Avans University of Applied Sciences; 2Eindhoven University of Technology |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Symposium) What is Intercultural Philosophy of Technology and why is it important? Location: Auditorium 4 |
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What is Intercultural Philosophy of Technology and why is it important? Presentations of the Symposium Symposium Schedule (90 minutes) |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue Location: Auditorium 5 |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Symposium) Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration Emerging technologies move at the limits of language. People (in the end usually a small group of them) struggle to find appropriate ways for referring to them, search for the right concepts and often use metaphors to catch the supposedly right meaning and evokeing the desired associations, initiating processes that are barely under our control. From a more comprehensive perspective, the limits of language are an omnipresent phenomenon we have to face at any given time and in any given context. Language is an important tool for human engagement with the world while at the same time a source for confusion, we often end up as flies in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s iconic fly bottle. How do technologies stress or overload our thinking and talking about them? And what expectations and imaginaries are caused/invited by certain linguistic expressions? Taking the linguistic and discursive crystallizations of our engagements with socio-technical systems – the narratives, metaphors, or clusters of conceptuality – as entry points to our struggles in reference, we learn about the frames of thinking that get imprinted oninto our engagements with technologies and techno-imaginaries. Scratching at the boundaries of language then is also a way to initiate a process for reimagining technologies in better ways, in the sense of a constant practice of revising patterns and images of thought, while putting them under ethical evaluation. How can we (if we should decide to do so and find it legitimate) use linguistic techniques to influence discourse and subsequently awareness and behaviour (green IT, responsible innovation, etc.)? Lastly, supposedly familiar concepts such as intelligence get reshaped in the light of our artifacts and techniques and postphenomenology has shown that technologies shape our hermeneutic relations. So, addressing the material hermeneutics of technologies can help to avoid linguistic monism, taking account of the limits of language as an epistemic source of explanation and worldmaking. As Karen Barad, Donna Haraway and others have argued, there has to be an account of the world that is not falling back on language only, while at the same time we have to acknowledge that there is no world ‘for us’ apart from construction, no direct access to a pure reality. So how do we productively stay with the trouble of recognizing both the limits of linguistic language and the agency of the world? This panel will be organized by the Special Interest Group (SIG) on “Languages of Technology: Prompts, Scripts, Narratives, and Grammars of Composition”. There will be short inputs by the discussants followed by a moderated discussion between all panelists. The main findings of the discussion will simultaneously be documented. Presentations of the Symposium List of discussants Biographies Alexandra Kazakova (tbd) Prof. Galit Wellner, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) and an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University. Galit studies digital technologies and their interrelations with humans. She is an active member of the Postphenomenology Community. She published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and edited special issues of Techne and some collections. Her book A Postphenomenological Inquiry of Cellphones: Genealogies, Meanings and Becoming was published in 2015 by Lexington Books. She translated to Hebrew Don Ihde’s book Postphenomenology and Technoscience (Resling 2016). She coedited Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations (Lexington Books, 2017) and The Philosophy of Imagination: Technology, Art, Ethics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Her research on AI led her to become the academic advisor of the AI Regulation Forum of the Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and before that to become a member of the stakeholder board of SHERPA, an EU Horizon project for the shaping of the ethical dimensions of smart information systems (2020-1). In the past Galit was the vice-chair of Israeli UNESCO’s Information for All Program (IFAP) and a board member of the FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) Council Europe. Dr. Kanta Dihal is Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London, where she is Course Director of the MSc in Science Communication, and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on science narratives, particularly science fiction, and how they shape public perceptions and scientific development. She is co-editor of the books AI Narratives (2020) and Imagining AI (2023) and has advised international governmental organizations and NGOs. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford on the communication of quantum physics. Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, ERA Chair at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and Guest Professor at the University of Uppsala. He member of several advisory bodies including the federal Belgian Committee for Ethics of Data and AI, the advisory council of the Austrian UNESCO Commission, and previously the High Level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission. He is author of numerous books including AI Ethics, The Political Philosophy of AI, and Why AI Undermines Democracy. Previously he was the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). Dr. Maximillian Roßmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the department of Environmental Economics of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). His research explores how citizen narratives shape the perception of the European Energy crisis. Before joining VU Amsterdam, Maximilian Roßmann was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Maastricht University in the ERC project “NanoBubbles”. He obtained his PhD at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and worked in TA projects on the Vision Assessment of microalgae nutrition, 3D printing, and nuclear waste management at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS). Yu Xue (Ph.D.) is an associated professor at the Department of Philosophy, Dalian University of Technology. She was a visiting fellow at Delft University of Technology (2015-2016) and University of Vienna (2024-2025). Her research interests are in ethics of technology and philosophy of technology, with a particular focus on robotics ethics and AI ethics. |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Symposium) A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners Location: Auditorium 7 |
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A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners Presentations of the Symposium A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Symposium) Teaching engineering ethics through aesthetic and embodied experiences Location: Auditorium 8 |
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Teaching Engineering Ethics through Aesthetic and embodied Experiences Presentations of the Symposium Teaching Philosophy through the Embodied Experience: Space and Power in the Classroom Art as a Catalyst: how Science, Technology and Art Collaboration can contribute to Higher Engineering Education Overview of Engineering Ethics Education as a Research Field Engineering as an act of Care: Teaching Responsible Innovation through Empathy |
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Social drinks Location: Senaatszaal |
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