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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025
8:15am
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8:45am
Registration
Location: Voorhof
8:45am
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10:00am
(Papers) Disruptive technology I
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

The role of technology in conceptual disruption

Ibo van de Poel



The good, the bad, and the disruptive: On the promise of niche construction theory for technology ethics

Jeroen Hopster, Elizabeth O'Neill



The sense of disruptive innovation

Georgios Tsagdis

(Papers) Phenomenology I
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Developing a Posthuman and Postphenomenological AI Literacy

Richard S Lewis



The temporal aspect of multistability: Extending postphenomenology through Bergson's theory of time

Shigeru Kobayashi



Technologically mediated deliberation: bringing postphenomenology to phronesis

Andrew Simon Zelny

(Papers) Human - Technology
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Human-technology relations down to earth

Steven Dorrestijn, Wouter Eggink



Special obligations from relationships with robots ——Beyond the relational approach to moral status——

Hayate Shimizu



Transforming technology: Marcuse and Simondon on technology, alienation, and work

Antonio Oraldi

(Papers) Virtue ethics I
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Does technology transform phronesis? A foray into the virtues and vices of procycling

Tiago Mesquita Carvalho



Creative machines & human well-being: an ethical challenge for the fully flourishing life?

Matthew Dennis

(Papers) Social media
Location: Auditorium 4
 

"But I did not mean to say that". On affective utterances on social media and their collective epistemic effects

Lavinia Marin



Smoking versus social networking; analyzing the analogy between tobacco use and social media use

Daphne Brandenburg

(Papers) Large Language Models I
Location: Auditorium 5
 

How LLMs diminish our autonomy

Björn Lundgren, Inken Titz



Intimacy as a Tech-Human Symbiosis: Reframing the LLM-User Experience from a Phenomenological Perspective

Stefano Calzati



Large language models and cognitive deskilling

Richard Heersmink

(Papers) Responsible innovation
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Between Responsible Innovation and the Maintenance Turn: Imaginaries of Changeability and the Collaborative Frameworks for Philosophy of Technology and Environmental Ethics

Magdalena Holy-Luczaj



Responsible Innovation as Practiced by Ceramic Craftsmen in China

Hui Zhang, Jiale Zhang



On the episteme of technology alignment: A critical hermeneutics of the current understanding of responsiveness in Responsible Innovation and Responsible AI discourses

Víctor Betriu Yáñez

(Papers) Engineering ethics
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Artificial Intelligence in design engineering practice

Hans Voordijk, Farid Vahdatikhaki, Maarten Verkerk



Concept Engineering: a new approach to address Conceptual Disruption and Virtual Ethical Dilemmas

伯灵 孙, 旭 徐

(Papers) Virtual
Location: Auditorium 8
 

The Virtual and the Sacred

Enrico Beltramini



Virtual Pregnancy

Daria Bylieva



How new interaction relationships are possible: the social imaginary of elderly holograms

Yu-cheng Liu

(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Atlas 2.215
 

Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)

Chair(s): Marc Steen, Zoe Robaey

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Internal conflicts among moral obligations: pursuing a quest for the good as innovators

Marco Innocenti

 

Artificial virtues and hermeneutic harm

Andrew Rebera

 

Technological bullshit

Mandi Astola

 

Digital doppelgangers, moral deskilling, and the fragmented identity: a Confucian critique

Pak Hang Wong

   
10:05am
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11:20am
(Papers) Disruptive technology II
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Digital technologies and the disruption of the lifeworld

Christa Laurens, Vincent Blok, Bernice Bovenkerk, Nolen Gertz



Understanding deep technological disruptiveness as the social construction of human kinds

Wybo Houkes



Conceptual disruption and niche disruption

Guido Löhr

(Papers) Phenomenology II
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Lost in extension: technology, ignorance, and cognitive phenomenology

Angel Rivera-Novoa



In the eye of the shitstorm: a critical phenomenology of digital conflict

Niclas Rautenberg



Responsibility gap: Introducing the phenomenological account of criminal law

Kamil Mamak

(Papers) Work
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Democratizing workplace AI as general intellect

Tim Christiaens



All play and no work? AI and existential unemployment

Gary David O'Brien



Algorithms at Work between Discrimination and Domination

Marianna Capasso

(Papers) Virtue ethics II
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Intelligence over wisdom: the price of conceptual priorities

Anuj Puri



Addressing challenges to virtue ethics in the application of artificial moral agents: From a Confucian perspective

Yin On Billy Poon



News, AI, and issues in ethics

Nikhil Moro

(Papers) Democracy
Location: Auditorium 4
 

The new stage of democracy. A call for regulation of social media platforms based on theater theory

Alessandro Savi



Rethinking Democracy in the age of AI

Adrien Tallent



Immaterial Constitution

Harry R. Halpin

(Papers) Large Language Models II
Location: Auditorium 5
 

“Who” is silenced when AI does the talking? Philosophical implications of using LLMs in relational settings

Tara Miranovic, Katleen Gabriels



Connecting Dots: Political and Ethical Considerations on the Centralization of Knowledge and Information in Data Platforms and LLMs

Anne-Marie McManus



LLMs and Testimonal Injustice

William James Victor Gopal

(Papers) Interpreting and engineering technology
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Visualising the Quantum World in Quantum Technology: on Pragmatist and Realist Considerations in Quantum Interpretations

Thijs Latten



Information Technology engineers' professionalism international comparison

Hiroaki Kanematsu, Fuki Ueno, Minao Kukita



Enactivist App Design: Exper - a case study

Michael Butler, Colin Graves

(Papers) Ethics I
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Technology as uncharted territory: Contextual integrity and the notion of AI as new ethical ground

Alexander Martin Mussgnug



OPERA: Operational ethics readiness evaluation for AI

Laurynas Adomaitis, Alexei Grinbaum



The bullshit singularity is near

Dylan Eric Wittkower

(Papers) Avatar
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Avatars as digital naming

Shih Yun Liu



Avatar attachment in virtual worlds: The conflict between self-fictionalization and authentic representations

Clemens Uhing



AI ‘ancestors’? AI avatars in African ethics

Christopher Wareham

(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Atlas 2.215
   
11:20am
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11:50am
Coffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
11:50am
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1:05pm
(Papers) Values
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Toward beneficial technology: A transformative master’s program for product managers

Sari Harrison



Artificial moral discourse and the future of human morality

Elizabeth O'Neill



Recognition through technology: Design for recognition and its dangers

Nynke van Uffelen

(Papers) Philosophy of technology I
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Philosophy of Technology and its extractivist Blind Spot: On Mechanisms of Occlusion

Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, Larissa Bolte, Julia Pelger



An empirical study of empirical philosophy of technology celebrating plurality

Anna Melnyk, Nynke Van Uffelen, Aafke Fraaije, Olya Kudina, Karen Moesker, Lavinia Marin, Dmitry Muravev



Technoscience: perspectives on a new concept for the philosophy of technology

José Luís Garcia

(Papers) Well-being
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Spiritual Learning for Mental Health and Well-being in the Digital Age

Richa Kapoor MEHRA



AI’s undervalued burden: Psychological impacts

Marcell Sebestyen



Personal well-being in the digital age: on the role of the sense of self

Lyanne Uhlhorn

(Papers) Emotions
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Emotional expressions, Informational opacity, and Technology: On the necessity of overt emotional expressions in social life

Alexandra Prégent



(Post)emotions in care: AI, mechanization, and emotional practices in the age of efficiency

Eliana Bergamin



Affective injustice and affective artificial intelligence

Kris Goffin, Alfred Archer

(Papers) Chatbots
Location: Auditorium 4
 

LLM-based chatbots – the moral advisor in your pocket…why not?

Franziska Marie Poszler



In ChatGPT, we trust! Exploring GenAI's trust-knowledge relation

Eugenia Stamboliev

(Papers) Algorithms
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Algorithms, abortion, and making decisions

Hannah Steinhauer



The power topology of algorithmic governance

Taicheng Tan



Believable generative agents: A self-fulfilling prophecy?

Leonie Alina Möck, Sven Thomas

(Papers) Privacy
Location: Auditorium 6
 

What is “mental” about Mental Privacy?

Felicitas Holzer, Orsolya Friedrich, Samuel Pedziwiatr



Is Privacy Security?

Daniel Susser

(Papers) Ethics II
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Considering the social and economic sustainability of AI

Rosalie Waelen, Aimee Van Wynsberghe



Synthetic socio-technical systems: poiêsis as meaning making

Federica Russo, Andrew McIntyre



Exploring Kantian Part-Representation and Self-Setting Concepts in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Pan Deng

(Papers) Digital age
Location: Auditorium 8
 

The affective scaffolding of grief in the digital age: the case of deathbots

Mark Alfano



So close, yet so far: spatial production and immersive experiences in mixed reality-a case study of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Kagami

Jingni HUANG

     
1:05pm
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2:30pm
Lunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
2:30pm
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3:30pm
Keynote 2 - Shannon Vallor - De-coding our humanity: Reflections on intimate and immanent technologies
Location: Blauwe Zaal
3:35pm
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4:50pm
(Papers) Sex robots
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Queering the sex robot: insights from queer Lacanian psychoanalysis and new materialism

Maaike van der Horst, Anna Puzio



Buddhist killer bots, sex bots and enlightenment bots

Tom Hannes

(Papers) Philosophy of technology II
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Vulnerability and technologies in post-normal times

Natalia Fernández Jimeno, Marta I. González García



Technical Expression and the mitigation of alienation in human-technology relationships

Kaush Kalidindi

(Papers) Personality, pediatrics and psychiatry
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Personality without theory: Engineering AI personalities

Roman Krzanowski, Isabela Lipinska



The use of AI in pediatrics - an assessment matrix for consent requirements

Tommaso Bruni, Bert Heinrichs



Developing ambiguous classifications for a clinically relevant psychiatric research

Elodie Gratreau

(Papers) Care I
Location: Auditorium 3
 

The helpless robot and the serving human

Lena Alicija Philine Fiedler



Preserving intimacy in dementia care: an ethical and technological approach towards an ecology of memory

Nathan Degreef



Matters of care? How screenshotting reveals mental therapy chatbots’ artificial intimacies

Renée Ridgway

(Papers) Disruptive technology III
Location: Auditorium 4
 

Ethical frameworks for disruptive technologies: Balancing innovation, privacy, and value-sensitive design

Mireia Bosch, Diego Zamora



It’s time to talk about moral progress: Facing the normativity of the philosophy of (disruptive) technologies

Jason Branford



Navigating conceptual disruption through affordances-informed conceptual engineering. Taxonomy and operationalisation

Samuela Marchiori

(Papers) Machine Learning
Location: Auditorium 5
 

“Does it really hurt that much?” The Ethical Implications of Epistemically Unjust Practices in Machine Learning Based Migraine Assessments

Sasha Lee Smit



Fair to understansd fairness contexually in machine learning

Jyoti Kishore



Technology as a constellation: The challenges of doing ethics on enabling technologies

Sage Cammers-Goodwin, Michael Nagenborg

(Papers) Aligning values
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Aligning technology with human values

Martin Peterson



Aligning AI with ideal values: Comparing metanormative methods to the Social Expert Model

Erich Mark Riesen



Aligning values: setting better agendas for technology development

Yunxuan Miao

(Papers) Ethics III
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The ethics of blockchain-based construction e-bidding

Venus Azamnia



Managing folk terms in AI: the placeholder strategy as a lesson from comparative cognition

Diego Morales



Ethics readiness: Aligning ethical approaches with a technology’s stage of development

Eline de Jong

(People) Intimacy I
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Intimacy and the Spatialization of Care: the case of Teleconsultation Booths

Nathan Degreef, Alain Loute



Intimate technology and moral vulnerability

Harry Weir-McAndrew

     
4:50pm
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5:20pm
Coffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
5:20pm
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6:35pm
(People) Intimacy II
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Personal and intimate relationships with AI: an assessment of their desirability

Philip Antoon Emiel Brey



Hybrid family – intimate life with artificial intelligence

Miroslav Vacura



(Don’t) come closer: Excentric design for intimate technologies

Esther L.O. Keymolen

(Papers) Philosophy of technology III
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Pharmacology of plasticity: bridging Stiegler and Malabou

Pietro Prunotto



Techsploitation cinema: how movies shaped our technological world

Nolen Gertz



The Semi-Rational Creation of life: Challenges in Synthetic Biology

Lotte Asveld

(Papers) Gender and the self
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Unpacking gender affirming surgeries: technology, identity, and acceptance

Stephen Lyndon Frommer



The connected self: anthropotechnics and identity in the digital domestic space

Carlo De Conte

(Papers) Care II
Location: Auditorium 3
 

The limits of care: A critical analysis of AI companions' capacity for good care

meiting Wang



From institutional psychotherapy to caring robots – a posthumanist perspective

Christoph Hubatschke, Ralf Vetter



Transformation of Autonomy in Human(patient)-AI/Robot-Relations

Kiyotaka Naoe

(Papers) Anthropomorphism
Location: Auditorium 4
 

Anthropomorphism, false beliefs and conversational AIs

Beatrice Marchegiani



What's the problem with anthropomorphising AI-driven systems?

Giles Howdle

(Papers) Language
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Is extensible markup language perspectivist?

Timothy Tambassi



Wittgenstein’s Woodsellers and AI: Interpreting Large Language Models in practice: Rationality First vs Coherence First approaches

Mark Robrecht Theunissen



Time and Temporality in Engineering Language

Aleksandra Kazakova

(Papers) Decision-making
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Two’s company, three’s a crowd: theoretical considerations for shared-decision making in AI-assisted healthcare

Emma-Jane Spencer, Cathleen Parsons, Stefan Buijsman



On the philosophical limits of artificially intelligent decisions

Samuele Murtinu



Shaping technology with society's voice: measuring gut feelings and values

Marieke van Vliet, Linda Hofman, Anika Kok, Fleur van Liesdonk, Bart Wernaart

(Papers) Ethics IV
Location: Auditorium 7
(Papers) Geo-engineering
Location: Auditorium 8
 

The question concerning planetary technology: geo-engineering, sustainable technology, planetary boundaries, and the end of the Earth

Ole Thijs, Jochem Zwier



Do artifacts have eco-politics? A convivial critique of environmental techno-solutionism

Alessio Gerola



Environment, Technology, and Philosophy of Maintenance

Andrea Gammon

     

 
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