Conference Agenda

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

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

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

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

Virtual Pregnancy

Daria Bylieva

"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

LLMs, autonomy, and narration

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

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

Magdalena Holy-Luczaj

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

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

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

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

Democratizing workplace AI as general intellect

Tim Christiaens

All play and no work? AI and existential unemployment

Gary David O'Brien

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 – What procedural epistemology can offer for the making of AI technologies: A casuistic exploration of AI knowledge technologies

Sabine Ammon, Philipp Geyer

Ways of worldmaking - symbolic orders and material compositions

Alfred Nordmann

Function as Exemplification

Ryan Wittingslow

Discussion and Commentary

Daria Bylieva, Sadegh Mirzaei, Leonie Möck

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

Alessandro Savi

Immaterial Constitution

Harry R. Halpin

“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

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, Ian Werkheiser

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

Alexander Martin Mussgnug

The bullshit singularity is near

Dylan Eric Wittkower

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

Clemens Uhing

AI ‘ancestors’? AI avatars in African ethics

Christopher Wareham

Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics) -Part II

Chair(s): Marc Steen, Zoe Robaey

Presentations of the Symposium

Technological bullshit

Mandi Astola

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

Pak Hang Wong

Artificial moral discourse and the future of human morality

Elizabeth O'Neill

Recognition through technology: Design for recognition and its dangers

Nynke van Uffelen

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

Franziska Marie Poszler

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

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

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

The power topology of algorithmic governance

Taicheng Tan

Believable generative agents: A self-fulfilling prophecy?

Leonie Alina Möck, Sven Thomas

What is “mental” about Mental Privacy?

Felicitas Holzer, Orsolya Friedrich, Samuel Pedziwiatr

Is Privacy Security?

Daniel Susser

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

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

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

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

What grounds technical functions: a critical assessment of dispositional account of technical functions

Enrong Pan, Kuiyuan Huang

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

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

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

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

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

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

New reprogenetic technologies and challenges to informed consent in research

Inmaculada de Melo-Martin

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

Nathan Degreef, Alain Loute

Intimate technology and moral vulnerability

Harry Weir-McAndrew

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

Techsploitation cinema: how movies shaped our technological world

Nolen Gertz

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

Lotte Asveld, Nynke Boiten

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

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

Anthropomorphism, false beliefs and conversational AIs

Beatrice Marchegiani

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

Giles Howdle

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

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

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

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