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Session Overview
Date: Friday, 27/June/2025
8:15am - 8:45amRegistration
Location: Voorhof
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Medical technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Matters of the Heart: Ethical Considerations in the development of a Soft Biocompatible Artificial Heart

Anne Bonvanie1, Merlijn Smits2

1Saxion UAS, research group Ethics & Technology, Deventer, the Netherlands; 2Saxion UAS, research group Industrial Design, Enschede, the Netherlands



The Pull-Factor of Metaphors in Technology Development - a conceptual Vehicle for Ethical Vision Design

Nils Neuhaus, Nele Fischer, Sabine Ammon

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany



Personal & prosthetic, historical & surgical

Ashley Shew

Virginia Tech, United States of America

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Philosophy of technology IV
Location: Auditorium 1
 

REX with AI? Challenges for the return on experience in the digitized lifeworld

Bruno Gransche

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany



Cognitive maps and the quantitative-qualitative divide

Dan Jerome Spitzner

University of Virginia, United States of America



Semiotics, technology, and the Infosphere

Andrew Wells Garnar

College of Charleston, United States of America

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Responsibility
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Beyond acceptance: expanding the desirability assessment of potable water reuse

Karen Moesker, Udo Pesch

TU Delft, Netherlands, The



Responsibility Gaps and Engineers’ Obligations in the Design of AI Systems

Yutaka Akiba

Nagoya University, Japan



Mapping the ethics landscape: moral distance in geospatial AI research

Peter Darch

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Cyborgs
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Homo Translator: From biological models to to bio-inspired robots

Marco Tamborini

TU Darmstadt, Germany



A two-dimensional conceptualization of human-technology intimacy: against the notion of cyborg-relations

Bouke van Balen1, Caroline Bollen2

1TU Eindhoven, UMC Utrecht, TU Delft, Netherlands, The; 2TU Eindhoven



To be a Cyborg - an autobiographical Narrative about the intimate Impact of Neurotechnology

Trijsje Franssen

TUDelft, Netherlands, The

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Trust
Location: Auditorium 4
 

‘Trust the Machine?’: Conceptualising Trust in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Pia-Zoe Hahne

University of Vienna, Austria



Human Trust and Artificial Intelligence Is an alignment possible?

Angelo Tumminelli1,3, Federica Russo2,3, Calogero Caltagirone3, Dolores Sanchez3, Antonio Estella3, Livio Fenga3

1Lumsa University, Italy; 2Utrecht University; 3Solaris Project



A Foul Stain? Trust in digital data reconsidered with Zuboff and Kant

Esther Oluffa Pedersen

Roskilde University, Denmark

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Generative AI
Location: Auditorium 5
 

A network approach to public trust in generative AI

Andrew McIntyre1, Federica Russo2, Lucy Conover2

1University of Amsterdam; 2Utrecht University



Memes, generative AI, humor, and intimacy: collective empowerment through shared laughter

Alberto Romele1, Fabrizio Defilippi2

1Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France; 2University of Paris Nanterre, France



Creative AI and human achievement

Alice Courtney Helliwell

Northeastern University London, United Kingdom

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Risk
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Ethical risks of Artificial Intelligence applications in civil engineering

Yuqi Peng1, Dongli Zhu2, Jin Wang2

1Dalian University of Technology, China, People's Republic of; 2Central South University, China, People's Republic of



Hidden risks: artificial intelligence and hermeneutic harm

Andrew Rebera1,2, Lode Lauwaert1, Ann-Katrien Oimann1,2

1KU Leuven, Belgium; 2Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium



The Concept of ai Risk

Lieke Fröberg

University of Hamburg, Germany

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Ethics V
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Transcendental Technology Ethics

Donovan van der Haak

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The



Sustainable AI and the third wave of AI ethics: a structural turn

Larissa Bolte, Aimee van Wynsberghe

University of Bonn, Germany



Against an ideal theory of justice for AI ethics

Alice Rangel Teixeira

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

 
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Justice
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Technopolitical mediation and gezi park of istanbul

Melis Bas

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The



Rethinking data ownership : Towards relational approaches to property

Aditya Singh

University of Edinburgh

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Ontology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Information as dispositions: an ontological analysis

Mitchell Roberts

Texas A&M University, United States of America



The Picture of Existence: Ontological commitments and existential trade-offs in the age of intimate technologies

Ângelo Nunes Milhano

University of Évora, Portugal - Praxis: Centre of Philosophy, Politics and Culture



Re-ontologising psychiatric illness using deep learning: ethical concerns beyond the clinic

Emily Postan

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Instrumentalism
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Categories, institutions, instruments: technology as a category?

Johannes F.M. Schick

University of Siegen, Germany



Instrumental rationality, value trade-offs, and medical AI

Zachary Daus

Monash University, Australia



Beyond Instrumentalism: reframing human-centered AI through Simondon's philosophy of technical objects

Luuk Stellinga, Paulan Korenhof, Vincent Blok

Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, The

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Mediation I
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Can interpersonal trust be digitally mediated? A panoramic view of trust relations on Airbnb

Micol Mieli

Roskilde University, Denmark



Representations in low vision technologies and their implications about social inclusion

Yin Chung Au

Independent Scholar/National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan



Design and the Contemporary Self as Extimate Form

Jesse Josua Benjamin

Eindhoven University of Technology

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Autonomous systems
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Vicarious responsibility and autonomous systems

Fabio Tollon

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom



Ensuring Transparency and Accepting Failure in the Application of Autonomous Driving Technology in Smart City FormationーUtilization of Special Zones in Japan

Mayu Terada

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Epistemology I
Location: Auditorium 4
 

The Sullenberger case and the epistemic role of simulations and digital twin technologies

Laura Crompton

University of Vienna, Austria



(In)visibility reductions: a feminist epistemology critique of online ‘shadowbanning’

Mariam Al Askari

Independent, United Arab Emirates



Epistemological imbalances in assessment of surveillance technologies: what CCTV cameras show us

Blas Alonso

University of Twente, Spain

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Computing and quantification
Location: Auditorium 5
 

The productive function of technology with regard to subjectification and the example of affective computing

Sebastian Nähr-Wagener, Orsolya Friedrich

FernUniversität Hagen, Germany



The Soylent Mentality: "Efficiency Fundamentalism" and the Future of Food

Ryan Jenkins

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, United States of America



The ethical fabric of computational social science research: norms, practices, and values

Chirag Arora

TU Delft, Netherlands, The

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Politics I
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Ontic capture and technofascism

Maren Behrensen

University of Twente, Germany



The Politics of social XAI

Suzana Alpsancar1, Eugenia Stamboliev2

1Paderborn University, Germany; 2University of Vienna, Austria



Algorithmic politics and totalitarianism: a critical analysis of ai politics from hannah arendt’s perspective

Donghoon Lee

Virginia Tech, United States of America / Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Agency I
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Welcoming the other: More-than-human agency in regenerative design

Anna Puzio1, Alessio Gerola2, Samuela Marchiori3

1University of Twente; 2Wageningen University; 3Delft University of Technology



Philosophical reflections on agency in the making

Mike Martin

Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom



Enactive agency in the technological world: rethinking human-technology relationships

Xue Yu

Dalian University of Technology, China, People's Republic of

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Intercultural philosophy
Location: Auditorium 8
 

A Critique of technological Ideology in Taiwanese folk religion

Wei Min Tsai

Aletheia University, Taiwan, Taiwan



Development paths in the philosophy of technology in Latin America

Juan-Carlos Moreno1, Sara Guzmán-Ortiz2

1Santo Tomas University, Colombia; 2Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD



Beyond the walls of intelligence: the counterinsurgent genealogy of artificial intelligence and the necessity of an ai anti-ethics as revelation of death

Syan Timothy Lopez

Columbia University, United States of America

 
11:20am - 11:50amCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Climate change
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Backgrounding in climate engineering: a multispecies perspective for carbon dioxide removal

Elisa Paiusco

University of Twente, Netherlands, The



Geo-engineering revisited: A reformational critique

Maaike Eline Harmsen

Vu Amsterdam, Netherlands, The



Epistemic justice in climate adaptation: balancing technological data and human experience across socioeconomic divides

Sara Vermeulen

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Symposium) Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production

Chair(s): Mark Thomas Young (University of Oslo, Norway)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Artifact metabolisms: the material flows of an iphone

Mark Thomas Young
University of Oslo

 

Maintenance of ethnological artifacts: from preservation to reconciliation

Mark Theunissen
Delft University of Technology

 

Brokedown tractors and the existential need for a right to repair

Brooke Rudow
University of Central Florida

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Mediation II
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Outside-in: rethinking technologically mediated moral enhancement

Ching Hung

National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan



Technological immersion and automatism

Roberto Wu

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil



Autonomy, moralization of technology, and human enhancement

Andres Santa-Maria

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Authenticity
Location: Auditorium 3
 

AI-produced research in the humanities: Am I the author? Does it matter?

Thomas Nelson Metcalf1,2

1Institute for Science and Ethics, University of Bonn, Germany; 2Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, United States



From Automation to Authenticity: Rethinking AI through the MEAT framework

Rasleen Kour

Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, India, India



Autonomy, relationality and emancipation in the digital age

Eloise Changyue Soulier

University of Hamburg, Germany

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Epistemology II
Location: Auditorium 4
 

The epistemology of AI: public perceptions and interventions for responsible use

Aviv Barnoy

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The



The epistemic competences needed for Human Machine Interaction: Dealing with individual, social, and other factors to solve the engineering problem of interface design

Michael Poznic1, Vivek Kant2

1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur



Intimate compression: AI systems and the personal nature of architectural knowledge

Simon Maris

University of Applied Sciences Trier, Germany

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Ethics VI
Location: Auditorium 5
 

From artificial wombs to lab grown embryos: technologies and the myth of the ex-utero human

Llona Kavege1, Amy Hinterberger2

1The University of Edinburgh; 2University of Washington



AI agency in medical practices: The case of pathology

Oceane Fiant

Universite Cote d'Azur, France



Could Artificial Intelligence Assuage Loneliness? If so, which kind?

Ramon Alvarado

University of Oregon, United States of America

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Politics II
Location: Auditorium 6
 

The Drivers of technological Hegemony: the political Dynamic of the Computerization of the French National Health Insurance Fund (1963-1979)

Maud Barret Bertelloni1,2

1Université Technologique de Compiègne, France; 2Sciences Po, France



Political instability and technological society

Wha-Chul Son

Handong Global University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)



Beyond technopolitics: presuppositions of a redeemed future

Mallikarjun Nagral

IIT Delhi, India

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Agency II
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Temporal intimacy. Near-term expectations of a driverless future

Sebastian Pranz

Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany



"Agency, alienation, and recognition in the AI-mediated workplace"

Joel Anderson

Utrecht University, Netherlands, The



Technical objects as adaptive mediators

Aurora Hoel

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Education I
Location: Auditorium 8
 

A conceptual framework for defining the responsibilities of engineers and situating them in education practice

Diana Adela Martin

University College London, United Kingdom



Philosophical pedagogy and the role of board games: a cross-disciplinary exploration

Jing-Li Hong

Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan



Technological designs as possibility operators

Alvaro David Monterroza-Rios

ITM Institucion Universitaria, Colombia

 
1:05pm - 2:30pmLunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
2:30pm - 3:30pmKeynote 3 - Jens Schlieter - Robots with empathy. Exploring buddhist ethics of technology and personhood in Asia
Location: Blauwe Zaal
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Anthropocene
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Programming with Care: AI as Non-Anthropocentric and Entangled

Ceren Polat

Koç University, Turkiye



Shipwrecks as adaptive mediators: a new media reality of the Anthropocene

Benjamin Morris King

NTNU Trondheim, Norway



From anthropocene to technocene. The story of our fate

Klaus Erlach1,2

1Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany; 2Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management IFF, University of Stuttgart, Germany

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Conceptual analysis
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Phronesis for AI systems: conceptual foundations

Paweł Polak, Roman Krzanowski

Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland



One possible definition of technology- an approach from Don Ihde

Yingke Wang

Nagoya University, Japan



Queering 'the Times of AI'

Judith Campagne

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Mediation III
Location: Auditorium 2
 

On Escape: breaking free from technological mediation

Jan Peter Bergen

University of Twente, Netherlands, The



The ‘Technological Environmentality Compass’: factors to consider when designing technological mediations across humans, technologies, and the environment.

Margoth Gonzalez Woge

University of Twente, Netherlands, The

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Artificial Intelligence
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Towards friendship among nonhumans: human, dog and robot

Masashi Takeshita

Hokkaido University, Japan



Artificial intelligence aided resolution of moral disagreement

Berker Bahceci

TU/e, Netherlands, The



Befriending AI: a cybernetic view

Naketa Williams

New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Epistemology III
Location: Auditorium 4
 

Epistemic (in)justice in self-monitoring platforms for mental health

Tineke Broer, Emiel Krahmer, Gert Meyers, Roshnee Ossewaarde, Jenny Slatman, Charlotte Zegveld

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The



Crip expertise and technological knowledge

Oliver Shuey

Virginia Tech, United States of America

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Data II
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Rediscover Bodily Experience in the Era of Digital Intelligence through Data Privacy issues

Zhengyang Zhou

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of



Epistemology of ignorance and datafication – To interrogate the necessity for secrecy in AI through marginalised groups’ experiences

Marilou Niedda

Utrecht University, Netherlands, The



Reclaiming control of thought and behavior data through the right to freedom of thought.

Kristina Pakhomchik

University of Vienna, Austria

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Sovereignty
Location: Auditorium 6
 

On technological Sovereignty and innovation Sovereignty

Rene von Schomberg

RWTH Aachen University, Germany



Digital technologies and social sustainability: from data governances’ perspective

Pauldin Lawrence

Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Italy



Rethinking sovereignty in a digital age

Glen Miller

Texas A&M University, United States of America

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Autonomy
Location: Auditorium 7
 

AI outsourcing and the value of autonomy

Eleonora Catena

Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR}, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany



Analysis of the problem of human autonomy from the perspective of authenticity ethics

Guihong Zhang

University of Science and Technology of China, China, People's Republic of



Driving for Values: Exploring the experience of autonomy with speculative design

Kathrin Bednar1, Julia Hermann2

1Eindhoven University of Technology; 2University of Twente

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Education II
Location: Auditorium 8
 

AI and democratic education: A critical pragmatist perspective

Michał Wieczorek

Dublin City University, Ireland



AI in primary and secondary education: Sphere transgressions and value disruptions based on a scoping review of policy documents

Yuri Gawein Toussaan Tax1, Marthe Stevens1, Tamar Sharon2, Femke Takes1

1Nationaal Onderwijslab AI, Netherlands, The; 2Radboud Universiteit



Navigating civic education in the digital era

Dan Mamlok

Tel Aviv University, Israel

 
4:50pm - 5:20pmCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
5:20pm - 6:20pmKeynote 4 - Robert Rosenberger - Sartre's letter opener and the hard problem in the philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
6:20pm - 6:50pmAwards presentation
Location: Blauwe Zaal
7:00pm - 9:30pmConference dinner
Location: Markthal

 
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