Conference Agenda

Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: Revisiting the bright-line argument

Chair(s): John Sullins

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

Aaron Butler

Thinking Otherwise

David Gunkel

Intimate technologies and liberation

John Sullins

Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI

Robin Zebrowski

Democratic technologies in East Asia

Chair(s): Levi Mahonri Checketts

Presentations of the Symposium

CCTV use among Hong Kong sex workers

Levi Mahonri Checketts

Democratic strateies in South Korean energy communities

Joohee Lee

Addressing technological literarcy for Hong Kong elderly

Ann Gillian Chu, Wan Ping Vincent Lee, Rachel Siow Robertson

Digital technologies' impact on charcter formation in Hong Kong young people

Rachel Siow Robertson

Design as a contested space: technological innovations, critical investigations, military interests

Chair(s): Jordi Viader Guerrero, Eke Rebergen, Dmitry Muravyov

Presentations of the Symposium

Historicising voice biometrics: the colonial continuity of listening, from the sound archive to the acoustic database

Daniel Leix Palumbo

Antimilitarism & algorithms: design interventions and investigative data practices

Eke Rebergen

Teaching machines, managed learning and remote examination

Alex Zakkas

Exemplary situations of technological breakdown in the philosophy of technology: who and what is at stake in learning from failure?

Dmitry Muravyov

The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human

Chair(s): Francesco Striano

Presentations of the Symposium

Understanding generalization in large language models

Alessio Miaschi

Large language models are conversational zombies. Chatbots and speech acts: how to (not) do things with words

Laura Gorrieri

The double LLM trust fallacy

Francesco Striano

Generative AI, political communication and manipulation: the role of epistemic agency

Maria Zanzotto

(Workshop) Reviewing and publishing for early career researchers: a bridge towards scholarly expertise

Chair(s): Behnam Taebi, Diana Adela Martin

Presentations of the Symposium

Session structure

Behnam Taebi, Diana Martin

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Chair(s): Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen, Aleksandra Kazakova

Presentations of the Symposium

Basic Ideas on Engineering science and engineering scientists: a contribution to philosophy of engineering science

Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen

Practice is the source of true knowledge: Lesson from the flight experiments of Samuel Langley and the Wright brothers

Fangyi Shi, Nan Wang

A reflection on the development of cryogenic engineering

Zhongjun Hu, Dhazou Wang

Effective development of gulong shale oil under the guidance of engineering philosophy

He Liu

Yin Ruiyu and metallurgical process engineering: a philosophical reflection

Anjun Xu, Zhifeng Ciu

Engineering innovations in novel supercritical fluids energy and power systems: from fundamentals to application demonstrations

Lin Chen

The enhancement of technical requirements for astronaut training in deep space exploration and philosophical reflections

Zhihui Zhang

Ethical frontiers in human stem cell-based embryo model

Yaojin Peng

AI-driven synthetic biology: engineering philosophy, challenges, and ethical implications

Lu Gao

Rethinking numbers, data, and algorithms from philosophical perspective

Tiejian Luo

Bridging the responsibility gap: ethical responsibility pathways and framework reconstruction in artificial intelligence

Shuchan Wan, Cheng Zhou

Refusal to grant AI subject qualification: reasons and practical approaches

Dongming Cao, Xiaohui Jiang, Junjie Wu

Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach

Chair(s): Hao Wang

Presentations of the Symposium

The power and emotions in trustworthy AI

Hao Wang

Addressing problematic conceptual assumptions about human-technology relations in AI development practices

Luuk Stellinga

AI, Gender, and Agri-food

Mark Ryan

Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation

Chair(s): Lorenzo De Stefano, Felice Masi, Francesco Pisano, Luigi Laino, Caludio Fabbroni

Presentations of the Symposium

Writing as calculus. New sciences of writing and phenomenology

Felice Masi

(Logical) Piano lessons: Jevons and the roots of computational subjectivity

Francesco Pisano

Turing’s design of a brain. Operative and thematic concepts of computing machinery

Lorenzo De Stefano

Is your brain a sort of computer?

Claudio Fabbroni

Computation as a symbolic form between humans and machines

Luigi Laino

Ways of Worldmaking and the Languages of Technology and Art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the Philosophy of Technology

Chair(s): Sabine Ammon, Alfred Nordmann, Ryan Wittingslow

Presentations of the Symposium

Ways of Worldmaking – Understanding Worlds in the Making

Sabine Ammon

Ways of worldmaking - symbolic orders and material compositions

Alfred Nordmann

Function as Exemplification

Ryan Wittingslow

Discussion and Commentary

Daria Bylieva, Sadegh Mirzaei, Leonie Möck

Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity

Chair(s): Luca Possati, Maaike van der Horst

Presentations of the Symposium

Can technology destroy desire? Stieglerian considerations

Bas De Boer

The algorithmic other: AI, desire, and self-formation on digital platforms

Ciano Aydin

Deadbots and the unconscious: A qualitative analysis

Luca Possati

Reconceptualizing reciprocity through a lacanian lens: the case of human-robot-interactions

Maaike van der Horst, Ciano Aydin, Luca Possati

Navigating the complexities of quantitative social credit systems in china: assemblage, performativity, and impact

Yiping Cao

The Quantification and Mechanization of Human-beings

Weibo Li

Quantified self and society of control

Armen Khatchatouorv

Derailing a high-speed train: Limitations of Agile in the AI development with marginalized communities

Aida Kalender, Giovanni Sileno

Grasping the impact of artificial intelligence on the tourism industry

Marcel Heerink

The discourse on the video game industry sexual misconduct crisis in comments at online news sites

John Fennimore

That’s not a bug, that’s an accidental function: on malfunctioning artifacts and concepts

Herman Veluwenkamp, Sebastian Köhler

The Ethics and Epistemology of Malfunction in Human-Technology Integration

Alexandra Karakas

Ascribing functions to software

Jeroen de Haas

What is Intercultural Philosophy of Technology and why is it important?

Chair(s): Gunter Bombaerts, Andreas Spahn, Elena Ziliotti

Presentations of the Symposium

Symposium Schedule (90 minutes)

Gunter Bombaerts

Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration

Chair(s): Leonie Möck, Wenzel Mehnert, Bruno Gransche, Nele Fischer, Nils Neuhaus

Presentations of the Symposium

List of discussants

Wenzel Mehnert, Leonie Möck, Maximillian Roßmann, Mark Coeckelbergh, Kanta Dihal, Galit Wellner, Yu Xue, Alexandra Kazakova

A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners

Chair(s): Pieter Vermaas

Presentations of the Symposium

A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners

Pieter Vermaas

Teaching Engineering Ethics through Aesthetic and embodied Experiences

Chair(s): Filippo Santoni de Sio, Jordi Viader Guerrero

Presentations of the Symposium

Teaching Philosophy through the Embodied Experience: Space and Power in the Classroom

Aarón Moreno Inglés

Art as a Catalyst: how Science, Technology and Art Collaboration can contribute to Higher Engineering Education

Sabine de Lat, Isolde Hallensleben

Overview of Engineering Ethics Education as a Research Field

Tom Holmgaard Børsen, Vivek Ramachandran

Engineering as an act of Care: Teaching Responsible Innovation through Empathy

Vivek Ramachandran