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Session Overview
Date: Saturday, 28/June/2025
8:15am - 8:45amRegistration
Location: Voorhof
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens (Radboud University, Netherlands, The), Vincent Blok (Wageningen University), Hub Zwart (Erasmus University), Yuk Hui (Erasmus University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Pharmacology of artificial intelligence: Stiegler’s exotranscendantal philosophy of digital technology

Anne Alombert
Université Paris 8

 

Philosophy of technology today: ethics without self

Amelie Berger-Soraruff
University of Dundee

 

World constitutive technicity in the digital age: rehabilitating the domains of the Sun and the Earth in the constitution of the digital World

Vincent Blok
Wageningen University

 

«Die Frage nach der Technik» as «Die Frage nach der Philosophie»

Agostino Cera
University of Ferrara

 

Response against Reaction: Stiegler’s positive philosophy of technology

Benoit Dillet
University of Bath

 

Heidegger and the limits of the empirical turn

Matheus Ferreira de Barros
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

 

After cybernetics, after thinking

Yuk Hui
Erasmus University

 

Rationality after the ‘algorithmic turn’

Natalia Juchniewicz
University of Warsaw

 

Evil incorporated. the tragic philosophy of technology of mehdi belhaj kacem

Pieter Lemmens
Radboud University

 

Towards an Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology

Marco Pavanini
University of Turin

 

Can we read stiegler environmentally

Martin Ritter
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

 

For the Ontological Rehabilitation of the Techno-Aesthetic Feeling

Andrea Zoppis
University of Ferrara

 
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical epistemical and political
Location: Auditorium 1
 

John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical, epistemic and political

Chair(s): Michał Wieczorek (Dublin City University, Ireland)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Intelligent writing habits: a Deweyan take on the postphenomenology of generative AI

Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann
Ruhr-University Bochum

 

Dewey and the interaction between technology and morality

Ibo van de Poel
TU Delft

 

Democracy as communication: democracy from a Deweyan perspective and its implications for evaluating technology

Mark Coeckelbergh
University of Vienna

 

AI, the public, and its problems: a Deweyan perspective

Olya Kudina
TU Delft

 
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Philosophy of technology in Latin America and SPT's global support
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Philosophy of Technology in Latin America and SPT’s Global Support

Chair(s): Pieter Vermaas (TU Delft, the Netherlands, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Philosophy of Technology in Latin America and SPT’s Global Support

pieter vermaas
TU Delft, the Netherlands

 
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution

Chair(s): Benedict Lane (TU Delft, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A relational ethics approach to navigate the socio-technical challenges of quantum technologies: Addressing the gaps in Responsible Innovation and Design for Values

María Palacios Barea
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

 

Infrastructures of responsible quantum technologies

Adrian Schmidt, Zeki C. Seskir
Institut für Technikfolgen­abschätzung und System­analyse, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

 

Revisiting the Security Dilemma in the Context of the Quantum Internet

Sybolt Doorn
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

 

Identifying alternatives to the de facto division of moral labour in ELSA engagement with quantum technology development

Clare Shelley-Egan, Benedict Lane
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

 

Responsible innovation ecosystems: advancing quantum for good through gender-transformative approaches

Shamira Ahmed
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

 
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) In search of legitimation: the dynamic tensions in the regulation of privacy and data rights in Vietnam
Location: Auditorium 4
 

In Search of Legitimation: The Dynamic Tensions in the Regulation of Privacy and Data Rights in Vietnam

Chair(s): Toan Le (Swinburne University of Technology/University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Digital transformation and personal autonomy amid the authoritarian governance: An analysis of Vietnam’s 2024 Data Law

Thiem Hai Bui
Institute for Legal Studies and Legal Aid

 

Everyone is safe now: constructing the meaning of data privacy regulation in vietnam

Tu Thien Huynh
Monash University/University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 

Not-Too-Late for Data Propertization in Vietnam: Trends, Blockages and Proposals

Khoi Trong Dao
Faculty of Civil Law, University of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

 

Exploring changes in vietnam’s crypto-assets regulation: networks, nodes, and gravity

Khanh Thuy Le
Swinburne University of Technology, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City,

 

Promoting innovative technologies and addressing privacy concerns in green finance in vietnam

Tram Anh Ngoc Nguyen
University of Warwick/University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Auditorium 5
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Postphenomenology I: artificial intelligence
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Postphenomenology I: artificial intelligence

Chair(s): Kirk M. Besmer (Gonzaga University, United States of America)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A postphenomenological analysis of the impact of generative AI in education

Hagit meishar-Tal, Ilya Levin, Konstantin Minyar-Beloruchev
Holon Institute of Technology

 

AI and human experience: navigating the challenges of algorithmic reasoning in education

Dan Mamlok
Tel-Aviv University

 

Thinking of responsibility in the age of AI with Hans Jonas

Galit Wellner
Holon Institute of Technology

 
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition

Chair(s): Piero Carreras (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore\Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Precision farming in light of the world in which we live and act

Mariska Bosschaert
Wageningen University

 

Heidegger, "the intimate technology revolution," and AI

Natalie Nenadic
University of Kentucky

 

The Missing Body: Philosophical Anthropology and the Heideggerian temptation

Piero Carreras
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore\Bergische Universität Wuppertal

 
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 8
 

A Political (Re-)Turn in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

Chair(s): Paige Benton (University of Johannesburg), Avigail Ferdman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Michael W. Schmidt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Where to political philosophy of technology?

Martin Sand
Delft University of Technology

 

The tragedy of great power technologies

Carl Mitcham
Colorado School of Mines

 

Why Representations of the Future (Should) Matter for Political Philosophy of Technology? ‘Modal Power’ and Socio-Technical Directionality

Sergio Urueña
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

 

Technologies as promoters of justice. a capability-based framework

Daniel Lara De La Fuente
University of Málaga

 

Gadgets, gimmicks, garbage: domination and irresponsible innovation

Lukas Fuchs
University of Stirling

 

Energy, war, power: political philosophy of engineering and technology during armed conflict

Giovanni Frigo
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

 

Reciprocity & Reasonability in the Age of AI

Paige Benton
University of Johannesburg

 

Artificial intelligence and common goods: an uneasy relationship

Avigail Ferdman
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

 

A rawlsian philosophy of technology and engineering?

Michael W. Schmidt
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

 

Toward a robust political philosophy of technology: aiming to transform and transcend regionalizations

Glen Miller
Texas A&M University

 

Problematising Political Uses of History in the Philosophy of Technology

Christopher Coenen
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

 

Explainable AI as a rhetorical technology

Wessel Reijers, Tobias Matzner, Suzana Alpsancar
University Paderborn, Germany

 
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical epistemical and political
Location: Auditorium 1
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Philosophy of technology in Latin America and SPT's global support
Location: Auditorium 2
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution
Location: Auditorium 3
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) In search of legitimation: the dynamic tensions in the regulation of privacy and data rights in Vietnam
Location: Auditorium 4
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Auditorium 5
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Postphenomenology II: practical applications
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Postphenomenology II: practical applications

Chair(s): Kirk M. Besmer (Gonzaga University, United States of America)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Appropriating hidden technologies: a postphenomenological response to critical algorithm studies

Olya Kudina1, Anthony Longo2
1TU Delft, 2University of Antwerp

 

Intimate technology: the postphenomenological meme use case

Stacey Irwin
Millersville University

 

How technologies mediate trustwork in the care collective

Asle H. Kiran
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

Postphenomenology and technologies in times of multiple crises

Markus Bohlmann
University of Muenster

 
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition

Chair(s): Federica Buongiorno (University of Florence)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Huamans, Technique, and Machine in Canguilhem's philosophy

Emanuele Clarizio
Catholic University Lille

 

A History of Vitalism in French Philosophers of Technology

Hannes van Engeland
Maastricht University

 

Pharmacology of plasticity: bridging stiegler and malabou

Pietro Prunotto
University of Turin

 
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 8
10:50am - 11:50amCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
10:50am - 11:50amPoster session
Location: Senaatszaal
 

Polished, primitive, or sophisticated: What videogame graphics can tell us about colonial and postcolonial aesthetics.

Afra Willems

Saxion, Netherlands, The



All in on AI: A critical look at the effects of creating with AI-powered tools

Denzel Hagen, Marcello Gómez Maureira, Kristi Claassen

University of Twente, Netherlands, The



Digital colonialism and critical communication infrastructures: submarine cables and data and power routes in Portugal and Brazil

Ana Carolina Haddad

Researcher, Portugal



EduLARP as an educational method for discussing ethical impact of intimate technologies

Verena Schulze Greiving

Saxion Hogeschool, Netherlands, The



How do scientists accept knowledge generated by AI technology?——A case study of AlphaFold

Enrong Pan, Ziming Wang

Sun Yat-sen University, China, People's Republic of



How semantic web technologies afford information processing agents

Yaoli Du

TU Braunschweig, Germany



Research ethics education using scientific Communication: the case of kyushu university in japan

Toshiya Kobayashi

Kyushu University



Shareable health data dashboard for social support during grief recovery

Angelos Chatzimparmpas1, Sam Muller2, Sanne Schoenmakers3

1Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 2University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands, The; 3Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The



Speculative Ethics; Practicing philosophy of technology in design education

Wouter Eggink

University of Twente, Netherlands, The



Traffic lights: from social justice to digital surveillance

Victoria Lobatyuk

Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russian Federation



Where am I? -- Self and Attention in the Digital Net Culture

Domenico Schneider

TU Braunschweig, Germany

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
11:50am - 12:50pm(Papers) Phenomenology III
Location: Auditorium 1
 

A better self: transhumanism and deincarnation.

Orane Kail

Université Vincennes - Saint-Denis, France



Psychopathology, criminalization and portable technologies among people experiencing homelessness and mental illness: a postphenomenogical analysis

Vincent Laliberté

McGill University, Canada

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Papers) Philosophy of Technology V
Location: Auditorium 2
 

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

Enrong Pan, Kuiyuan Huang

Sun Yat-sen University, China, People's Republic of

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Papers) Capability approach
Location: Auditorium 4
 

Phenomenology & the capability approach: considering lived experience in designing technologies for older adults

Freek van der Weij

TU Eindhoven, Netherlands, The



Integrating social vulnerabilities in implementing nuclear power plants design

JOHANES NARASETU WIDYATMANTO

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) TechnoPedia - an online Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Encyclopedia
Location: Auditorium 5
 

TechnoPedia - an online Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Encyclopedia

Chair(s): Jochem Zwier (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands, Netherlands, The), Vincent Blok (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Udo Pesch (Technical University Delft), Wybo Houkes (Eindhoven Technical University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

[no separate papers in this symposium, see NB below]

Jochem Zwier 4TU Zwier
Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons

Chair(s): Bas de Boer (University of Twente, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The technical artefact mediating between hegel and ihde

Fernando Secomandi
Delft University of Technology

 

My life continues without me: sartre on death and personally-curated griefbots

Kirk Besmer
Gonzaga University

 

Postphenomenology and temporality: digital technologies and tertiary retentions

Bas de Boer
niversity of Twente, Netherlands, The

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: History and Historicity of the Empirical Turn
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: History and Historicity of the Empirical Turn

Chair(s): Darryl Cressman (Maastricht University, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The long History of the Empirical Turn: Dutch Philosophy of Technology, 1930-1990

Massimiliano Simons
Maastricht University

 

Regimes of Historicity of Technology: Toward an Epistemology of the History of the Philosophy of Technology

Agostino Cera
University of Ferrara

 

Technology and Historical Time: Insights from the Annales and Hermeneutics

Darryl Cressman
Maastricht University

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 8
11:50am - 12:50pmAuthor-Meets-Critics session
Location: Auditorium 16
 

Are LLMs Creative?

Fernando Nascimento1, Scott Davidson2

1Bowdoin College, United States of America; 2West Virginia University



Design for Democracy: Deliberation, experimentation, aesthetic engagement, anti-power

Filippo Santoni de Sio

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The



The routledge international handbook of engineering ethics education

Tom Børsen1, Diana Adela Martin2, Gunter Bombaerts3

1Aalborg University, Denmark; 2University College London, United Kingdom; 3TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands



What's wrong with technological mediation theory (and how to fix it)

Phillip Honenberger1,2

1Center for Equitable AI & Machine Learning Systems (CEAMLS), Morgan State University, United States of America; 2Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Morgan State University



Why should we revive the definition of technology as applied science?

Daian Tatiana Flórez1, Carlos García2

1Universidad de Caldas-Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; 2Universidad de Caldas-Universidad de Manizales

 
12:50pm - 2:20pmLunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
12:50pm - 2:20pmPoster session
Location: Senaatszaal
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Engineering
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Thematic origins of ancient Indian temple design

MANJARI CHAKRABARTY

Visva Bharati (A Central University), India



Research programs in Bioengineering progress by 'languaging': making new phenomena referable to make them measurable and engineerable.

Alok Srivastava

Playful Dyads Inc., United States of America



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

Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Farming
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Reconciling technology and tradition: exploring the sustainability of drone-assisted wild berry foraging in Finland

Anne-Marie Oostveen

Cranfield University, United Kingdom



What did the rice-farming calendar do? -Changing relationships between farmers and farmland in Japanese rice farming

Toshihiro Suzuki

Sojo University, Japan



Preparing the Field for AI and Data Intensive Agroecological Research

Emma Cavazzoni1, Sabina Leonelli2, Daniele Giannetti3, Niccolò Patelli4, Giacomo Vaccari5

1Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2Technical University of Munich, Germany; 3Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy; 4Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy; 5Consorzio Fitosanitario Provinciale: Modena. Italy

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Legislation
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Exploring SME responses to the EU AI Act: Balancing innovation and compliance

Lara Teresa Vitale1,2, Suzana Alpsancar1,2,3

1University of Paderborn, Germany; 2Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Germany; 3The Association of German Engineers​​ (VDI), Germany



Between Human and Algorithmic Decisions: Analyzing the Ambiguities in the AI Act Definition of AI

David Doat

Catholic university of Lille, Belgium



Test and regulation: how testing to regulation leads to failure

Matthew James Phillip Wragg

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Sustainability and energy
Location: Auditorium 4
 

Understanding Polarisation in the Energy Transition

Udo Pesch

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The



Battery development beyond justice. A care-based energy ethics

Rafaela Christina Hillerbrand

KIT, Germany



"Koyaanisqatsi", that is, Technophany at work

Agostino Cera

Università di Ferrara, Italy

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Prediction
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Technological predictions: rethinking design through active inference and the free energy principle

Luca Possati

University of Twente, Netherlands, The



AI Oracles and the Technological Re-Enchantment of the World

Lucy Císař Brown1,3, Petr Špecián1,2

1Charles University, Czech Republic; 2Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic; 3Czech Academy of Sciences



Sleepwalkers in a scenario of a happy apocalypse?

Helena Mateus Jeronimo

ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa & Advance/CSG, Portugal

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Genetics
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Genomic Reshaping: The Role of Genetics in the Emergence of Biological Citizenship.

Jessica Lombard

Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST), Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France, France



New reprogenetic technologies and challenges to informed consent in research

Inmaculada de Melo-Martin

Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell Universtiy, United States of America

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: Hidden philosophers of technology
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: Hidden philosophers of technology

Chair(s): Massimiliano Simons (Maastricht University, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Arendt's Philosophy of Technology: Rethinking the Human Condition in the age of AI

Jurgita Imbrasaite
University for Applied Sciences Europe, Hamburg

 

Political philosophy of technology: after bertrand russel

Carl Mitcham
Colorado School of Mines

 

Irradiating the Intimate: the Storytelling of Walter Benjamin's Technological Revolution of the Intiimate

Dominic Smith
University of Dundee

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 8
3:50pm - 4:30pmClosing and Members Meeting
Location: Blauwe Zaal

 
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