Conference Agenda

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

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

Anne Bonvanie, Merlijn Smits



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

Nils Neuhaus, Nele Fischer, Sabine Ammon



Personal & prosthetic, historical & surgical

Ashley Shew

(Papers) Philosophy of technology IV
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Udo Pesch
 

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

Bruno Gransche



Cognitive maps and the quantitative-qualitative divide

Dan Jerome Spitzner



Semiotics, technology, and the Infosphere

Andrew Wells Garnar

(Papers) Responsibility
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Jordi Viader Guerrero
 

Beyond acceptance: expanding the desirability assessment of potable water reuse

Karen Moesker, Udo Pesch



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

Yutaka Akiba



Mapping the ethics landscape: moral distance in geospatial AI research

Peter Darch

(Papers) Cyborgs
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Lotte Asveld
 

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

Marco Tamborini



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

Bouke van Balen, Caroline Bollen



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

Trijsje Franssen

(Papers) Trust
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Federica Russo
 

Human Trust and Artificial Intelligence Is an alignment possible?

Angelo Tumminelli, Federica Russo, Calogero Caltagirone, Dolores Sanchez, Antonio Estella, Livio Fenga



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

Esther Oluffa Pedersen



A network approach to public trust in generative AI

Andrew McIntyre, Federica Russo, Lucy Conover

(Papers) Generative AI and risk
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Christa Laurens
 

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

Alberto Romele, Fabrizio Defilippi



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

Pia-Zoe Hahne



The Concept of ai Risk

Lieke Fröberg

(Papers) Quantified lives
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Wybo Houkes
 

Quantified self and society of control

Armen Khatchatouorv



The Quantification and Mechanization of Human-beings

Weibo Li

(Papers) Ethics V
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Andrea Gammon
 

Transcendental Technology Ethics

Donovan van der Haak



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

Larissa Bolte, Aimee van Wynsberghe



Against an ideal theory of justice for AI ethics

Alice Rangel Teixeira

(Papers) Justice
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Andreas Spahn
 

Technopolitical mediation and gezi park of istanbul

Melis Bas



Rethinking data ownership : Towards relational approaches to property

Aditya Singh



The limits of empathy as a design principle for intimate technologies: Wearable age-simulation devices

Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil

10:05am
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11:20am
(Papers) Ontology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Chair: Ibo van de Poel
 

Information as dispositions: an ontological analysis

Mitchell Roberts



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

Ângelo Nunes Milhano



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

Emily Postan

(Papers) Instrumentalism
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Wybo Houkes
 

Categories, institutions, instruments: technology as a category?

Johannes F.M. Schick



Instrumental rationality, value trade-offs, and medical AI

Zachary Daus



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

Luuk Stellinga, Paulan Korenhof, Vincent Blok

(Papers) Mediation I
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Bouke van Balen
 

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

Micol Mieli



Design and the Contemporary Self as Extimate Form

Jesse Josua Benjamin



A Critique of technological Ideology in Taiwanese folk religion

Wei Min Tsai

(Papers) Autonomous systems
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Hans Voordijk
 

Vicarious responsibility and autonomous systems

Fabio Tollon



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

(Papers) Epistemology I
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Maaike Eline Harmsen
 

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

Laura Crompton



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

Mariam Al Askari



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

Blas Alonso

(Papers) Computing and quantification
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Chirag Arora
 

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

Sebastian Nähr-Wagener, Orsolya Friedrich



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

Ryan Jenkins



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

Chirag Arora

(Papers) Politics I
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Michael Nagenborg
 

Ontic capture and technofascism

Maren Behrensen



The Politics of social XAI

Suzana Alpsancar, Eugenia Stamboliev



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

Donghoon Lee

(Papers) Agency I
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Lotte Asveld
 

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

Anna Puzio, Alessio Gerola, Samuela Marchiori



Philosophical reflections on agency in the making

Mike Martin



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

Xue Yu

 
11:20am
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11:50am
Coffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
11:50am
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1:05pm
(Papers) Climate change
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Chair: Kaush Kalidindi
 

Geo-engineering revisited: A reformational critique

Maaike Eline Harmsen

(Symposium) Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production

Chair(s): Mark Thomas Young

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Artifact metabolisms: the material flows of an iphone

Mark Thomas Young

 

Maintenance of ethnological artifacts: from preservation to reconciliation

Mark Theunissen

 

Brokedown tractors and the existential need for a right to repair

Brooke Rudow

(Papers) System Design
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Wybo Houkes
 

Technological immersion and automatism

Roberto Wu



Integrating social vulnerabilities in implementing nuclear power plants design

JOHANES NARASETU WIDYATMANTO

(Papers) Authenticity
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Filippo Santoni de Sio
 

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

Thomas Nelson Metcalf



From Automation to Authenticity: Rethinking AI through the MEAT framework

Rasleen Kour



Autonomy, relationality and emancipation in the digital age

Eloise Changyue Soulier

(Papers) Epistemology II
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Philip Nickel
 

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

Aviv Barnoy



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

Michael Poznic, Vivek Kant



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

Simon Maris

(Papers) Ethics VI
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Nynke van Uffelen
 

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

Llona Kavege, Amy Hinterberger



AI agency in medical practices: The case of pathology

Oceane Fiant



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

Ramon Alvarado

(Papers) Politics II
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Alessio Gerola
 

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

Maud Barret Bertelloni



Political instability and technological society

Wha-Chul Son



Beyond technopolitics: presuppositions of a redeemed future

Mallikarjun Nagral

(Papers) Agency II
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Pieter Vermaas
 

Temporal intimacy. Near-term expectations of a driverless future

Sebastian Pranz



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

Joel Anderson

(Papers) Education I
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
 

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

Diana Adela Martin



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

Jing-Li Hong



Technological designs as possibility operators

Alvaro David Monterroza-Rios

1:05pm
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2:30pm
Lunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
2:30pm
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3:30pm
Keynote 3 - Jens Schlieter - Robots with empathy. Exploring buddhist ethics of technology and personhood in Asia
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Chair: Tom Hannes
3:35pm
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4:50pm
(Papers) Anthropocene
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
 

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

Benjamin Morris King



From anthropocene to technocene. The story of our fate

Klaus Erlach

(Papers) Conceptual analysis
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Krist Vaesen
 

Phronesis for AI systems: conceptual foundations

Roman Krzanowski, Paweł Polak



One possible definition of technology- an approach from Don Ihde

Yingke Wang



Queering 'the Times of AI'

Judith Campagne

(Papers) Mediation III
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Maren Behrensen
 

On Escape: breaking free from technological mediation

Jan Peter Bergen



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

Margoth Gonzalez Woge



Outside-in: rethinking technologically mediated moral enhancement

Ching Hung

(Papers) Artificial Intelligence
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Luuk Stellinga
 

Towards friendship among nonhumans: human, dog and robot

Masashi Takeshita



Artificial intelligence aided resolution of moral disagreement

Berker Bahceci



Befriending AI: a cybernetic view

Naketa Williams

(Papers) Epistemology III
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Philip Nickel
 

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

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



Crip expertise and technological knowledge

Oliver Shuey

(Papers) Data II
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Sage Cammers-Goodwin
 

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

Marilou Niedda



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

Kristina Pakhomchik

(Papers) Sovereignty
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Sabine Roeser
 

On technological Sovereignty and innovation Sovereignty

Rene von Schomberg



Digital technologies and social sustainability: from data governances’ perspective

Pauldin Lawrence



Rethinking sovereignty in a digital age

Glen Miller

(Papers) Autonomy
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Mariska Bosschaert
 

AI outsourcing and the value of autonomy

Eleonora Catena



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

Guihong Zhang



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

Kathrin Bednar, Julia Hermann

(Papers) Education II
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Andreas Spahn
 

AI and democratic education: A critical pragmatist perspective

Michał Wieczorek



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

Yuri Gawein Toussaan Tax, Marthe Stevens, Tamar Sharon, Femke Takes

4:50pm
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5:20pm
Coffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
5:20pm
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6:20pm
Keynote 4 - Robert Rosenberger - Sartre's letter opener and the hard problem in the philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
6:20pm
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6:50pm
Awards presentation
Location: Blauwe Zaal
7:00pm
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9:30pm
Conference dinner
Location: Markthal

 
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