Conference Agenda

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

Third wave continental philosophy of technology

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The ‘third wave’ of philosophical questioning: on concepts coming into action (Technology and being there)

Hub Zwart

 

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

Agostino Cera

 

Heidegger and the limits of the empirical turn

Matheus Ferreira de Barros

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition
Location: Auditorium 15
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition

Chair(s): Darryl Cressman

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Heidegger, "the intimate technology revolution," and AI

Natalie Nenadic

 

Simondon, Heidegger, and the digitalization of farming

Mariska Bosschaert

(Symposium) John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical epistemical and political
Location: Auditorium 13
 

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

Chair(s): Michał Wieczorek

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann

 

Dewey and the interaction between technology and morality

Ibo van de Poel

 

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

Mark Coeckelbergh

 

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

Olya Kudina

(Symposium) In search of legitimation: the dynamic tensions in the regulation of privacy and data rights in Vietnam
Location: Auditorium 12
 

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

Chair(s): Toan Le

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Thiem Hai Bui

 

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

Tu Thien Huynh

 

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

Khoi Trong Dao

 

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

Khanh Thuy Le

 

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

Tram Anh Ngoc Nguyen

(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution
Location: Auditorium 11
 

Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution

Chair(s): Benedict Lane

 

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

 

Infrastructures of responsible quantum technologies

Adrian Schmidt, Zeki C. Seskir

 

Revisiting the Security Dilemma in the Context of the Quantum Internet

Sybolt Doorn

(Symposium) Philosophy of technology in Latin America and SPT's global support
Location: Auditorium 10
 

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

Chair(s): Pieter Vermaas

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

pieter vermaas

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

A Political (Re-)Turn in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology - Political philosophy of technology: between tragedy and utopia

Chair(s): Giovanni Frigo

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Where to political philosophy of technology?

Martin Sand

 

The tragedy of great power technologies

Carl Mitcham

 

Problematising Political Uses of History in the Philosophy of Technology

Christopher Coenen

 
9:50am
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10:50am
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part II

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Anne Alombert

 

Response against Reaction: Stiegler’s positive philosophy of technology

Benoit Dillet

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition
Location: Auditorium 15
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition

Chair(s): Federica Buongiorno

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Huamans, Technique, and Machine in Canguilhem's philosophy

Emanuele Clarizio

 

A History of Vitalism in French Philosophers of Technology

Hannes van Engeland

 

Pharmacology of plasticity: bridging stiegler and malabou

Pietro Prunotto

(Symposium) Postphenomenology II: practical applications
Location: Auditorium 14
 

Postphenomenology II: practical applications

Chair(s): Kirk M. Besmer

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Appropriating hidden technologies: a postphenomenological response to critical algorithm studies

Olya Kudina, Anthony Longo

 

Intimate technology: the postphenomenological meme use case

Stacey Irwin

 

Postphenomenology and technologies in times of multiple crises

Markus Bohlmann

(Symposium) John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical epistemical and political
Location: Auditorium 13
(Symposium) In search of legitimation: the dynamic tensions in the regulation of privacy and data rights in Vietnam
Location: Auditorium 12
(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution
Location: Auditorium 11
 

Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution

Chair(s): Benedict Lane

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Clare Shelley-Egan, Benedict Lane

 

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

Shamira Ahmed

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

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

Chair(s): Glenn Miller

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Sergio Urueña

 

Gadgets, gimmicks, garbage: domination and irresponsible innovation

Lukas Fuchs

 

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

Giovanni Frigo

 
10:50am
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11:50am
Coffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
Poster session
Location: Senaatszaal
 

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

Afra Willems



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

Denzel Hagen, Marcello Gómez Maureira, Kristi Claassen



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

Ana Carolina Haddad



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

Verena Schulze Greiving



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

Enrong Pan, Ziming Wang



How semantic web technologies afford information processing agents

Yaoli Du



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

Toshiya Kobayashi



Shareable health data dashboard for social support during grief recovery

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Sam Muller, Sanne Schoenmakers



Speculative Ethics; Practicing philosophy of technology in design education

Wouter Eggink



Traffic lights: from social justice to digital surveillance

Victoria Lobatyuk



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

Domenico Schneider

11:50am
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12:50pm
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part III

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Philosophy of technology today: ethics without self

Amelie Berger-Soraruff

 

Rationality after the ‘algorithmic turn’

Natalia Juchniewicz

 

For the Ontological Rehabilitation of the Techno-Aesthetic Feeling

Andrea Zoppis

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: History and Historicity of the Empirical Turn
Location: Auditorium 15
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn and the historization of the philosophy of technology

Chair(s): Darryl Cressman

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Massimiliano Simons

 

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

Agostino Cera

(Symposium) Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons
Location: Auditorium 14
 

Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons

Chair(s): Bas de Boer

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The technical artefact mediating between hegel and ihde

Fernando Secomandi

 

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

Kirk Besmer

 

Postphenomenology and temporality: digital technologies and tertiary retentions

Bas de Boer

(Symposium) TechnoPedia - an online Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Encyclopedia
Location: Auditorium 13
 

Introducing the 4TU.ethics encyclopedia of philosophy and ethics of technology

Chair(s): Jochem Zwier, Vincent Blok, Udo Pesch, Wybo Houkes

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Jochem Zwier 4TU Zwier

(Papers) Phenomenology II
Location: Auditorium 12
Chair: Tom Hannes
 

A better self: transhumanism and deincarnation.

Orane Kail



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

Vincent Laliberté

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

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

Chair(s): Lukas Fuchs

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Reciprocity & Reasonability in the Age of AI

Paige Benton

 

Technologies as promoters of justice. a capability-based framework

Daniel Lara De La Fuente

 

A rawlsian philosophy of technology and engineering?

Michael W. Schmidt

Author-Meets-Critics session
Location: Forum
 

Are LLMs Creative?

Fernando Nascimento, Scott Davidson



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

Filippo Santoni de Sio



The routledge international handbook of engineering ethics education

Tom Børsen, Diana Adela Martin, Gunter Bombaerts



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

Phillip Honenberger



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

Daian Tatiana Flórez, Carlos García

 
12:50pm
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2:20pm
Lunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
Poster session
Location: Senaatszaal
2:20pm
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3:45pm
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part IV

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

After cybernetics, after thinking

Yuk Hui

 

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

Pieter Lemmens

 

Towards an Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology

Marco Pavani

 

Can we read Stiegler environmentally

Martin Ritter

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: Hidden philosophers of technology
Location: Auditorium 15
 

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

Chair(s): Massimiliano Simons

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Dominic Smith

 

Arendt and the Philosophy of Technology

Jurgita Imbrasaite

 

Technology and Historical Time: Insights from the Annales and Hermeneutics

Darryl Cressman

(Papers) Prediction
Location: Auditorium 13
Chair: Wouter Eggink
 

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

Luca Possati



AI Oracles and the Technological Re-Enchantment of the World

Lucy Císař Brown, Petr Špecián



Sleepwalkers in a scenario of a happy apocalypse?

Helena Mateus Jeronimo

(Papers) Sustainability and energy
Location: Auditorium 12
Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
 

Understanding Polarisation in the Energy Transition

Udo Pesch



"Koyaanisqatsi", that is, Technophany at work

Agostino Cera

(Papers) Legislation
Location: Auditorium 11
Chair: Lambèr Royakkers
 

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

David Doat



Test and regulation: how testing to regulation leads to failure

Matthew James Phillip Wragg

(Papers) Farming
Location: Auditorium 10
Chair: Tijn Borghuis
 

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

Anne-Marie Oostveen



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

Toshihiro Suzuki



Preparing the Field for AI and Data Intensive Agroecological Research

Emma Cavazzoni, Sabina Leonelli, Daniele Giannetti, Niccolò Patelli, Giacomo Vaccari

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

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

Chair(s): Michael W. Schmidt

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Glenn Miller

 

Artificial intelligence and common goods: an uneasy relationship

Avigail Ferdman

 

Explainable AI as a rhetorical technology

Wessel Reijers, Tobias Matzner, Suzana Alpsancar

 
3:50pm
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4:30pm
Closing and Members Meeting
Location: Blauwe Zaal

 
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