Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Registration
Location: Voorhof
1:30pm
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1:45pm
Word of Welcome
Location: Blauwe Zaal
1:45pm
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2:45pm
Keynote 1 - Sabina Leonelli - Environmental intelligence: Subverting the philosophical premises for AI
Location: Blauwe Zaal
3:00pm
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4:30pm
(Symposium) Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: revisting the bright-line argument
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

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

(Symposium) Democratic technologies in East Asia
Location: Auditorium 1
 

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

(Symposium) Design as a contested space: technological innovations, critical investigations, military interests
Location: Auditorium 2
 

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

(Symposium) The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human
Location: Auditorium 3
 

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
Location: Auditorium 4
 

(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

(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

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

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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, Dazhou Wang

 

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

He Liu, Dongqi Ji

 

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

(Symposium) Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration
Location: Auditorium 6
 

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

(Symposium) Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation
Location: Auditorium 7
 

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

4:30pm
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5:00pm
Coffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
5:00pm
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6:30pm
(Symposium) Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

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

(Papers) Disrupting digital industries
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Richard Heersmink
 

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



Battery development beyond justice. A care-based energy ethics

Rafaela Christina Hillerbrand

(Papers) Malfunction
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Samuela Marchiori
 

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

(Symposium) What is Intercultural Philosophy of Technology and why is it important?
Location: Auditorium 4
 

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

Chair(s): Gunter Bombaerts, Andreas Spahn

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Symposium Schedule (90 minutes)

Gunter Bombaerts, Andreas Spahn, Patricia Reyes Benavides, Alessio Gerola, Tom Hannes, Emma Kopeinigg, Joseph Sta. Maria, Anna Puzio, Hin Sing Yuen

(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

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

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Ethical frontiers in human stem cell-based embryo model

Yaojin Peng

 

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

Lu Gao

 

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

Shuchan Wan, Cheng Zhou

 

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

Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen

(Symposium) Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach
Location: Auditorium 6
 

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

(Symposium) A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners
Location: Auditorium 7
 

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

(Symposium) Teaching engineering ethics through aesthetic and embodied experiences
Location: Auditorium 8
 

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

 

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

Vivek Ramachandran

6:30pm
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8:00pm
Social drinks
Location: Senaatszaal

 
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