Conference Agenda

Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: Revisiting the bright-line argument

Chair(s): John Sullins (Sonoma State University, United States of America)

Presentations of the Symposium

The Crux of the Bright-line Argument as an Explanatory Lens for Understanding Why the Problem of Authenticity Concerning Artificial Companions Persists

Aaron Butler
University of Lucerne, Faculty of Theology, Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics LGSE, Institute of Social Ethics ISE

Thinking Otherwise

David Gunkel
Northern Illinois University

Intimate technologies and liberation

John Sullins
Sonoma State University

Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI

Robin Zebrowski
Beloit College

Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity

Chair(s): Luca Possati (University of Twente, Netherlands, The), Maaike van der Horst (University of Twente)

Presentations of the Symposium

Can technology destroy desire? Stieglerian considerations

Bas De Boer
University of Twente

The algorithmic other: AI, desire, and self-formation on digital platforms

Ciano Aydin
University of Twente

Deadbots and the unconscious: A qualitative analysis

Luca Possati
University of Twente

Reconceptualizing reciprocity through a lacanian lens: the case of human-robot-interactions

Maaike van der Horst, Ciano Aydin, Luca Possati
University of Twente

The role of technology in conceptual disruption

Ibo van de Poel

TU Delft, Netherlands, The

The good, the bad, and the disruptive: On the promise of niche construction theory for technology ethics

Jeroen Hopster¹, Elizabeth O'Neill²

¹Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; ²Eindhoven University of Technology

The sense of disruptive innovation

Georgios Tsagdis

Wageningen University and Research

Digital technologies and the disruption of the lifeworld

Christa Laurens¹, Vincent Blok¹, Bernice Bovenkerk¹, Nolen Gertz²

¹WUR, Netherlands, The; ²UT, Netherlands, The

Understanding deep technological disruptiveness as the social construction of human kinds

Wybo Houkes

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The

Conceptual disruption and niche disruption

Guido Löhr

Vrije Uni Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Toward beneficial technology: A transformative master’s program for product managers

Sari Harrison

California Institute of Integral Studies, United States of America

Artificial moral discourse and the future of human morality

Elizabeth O'Neill

TU/E, Netherlands, The

Recognition through technology: Design for recognition and its dangers

Nynke van Uffelen

Delft University of Technology, Belgium

Queering the sex robot: insights from queer Lacanian psychoanalysis and new materialism

Maaike van der Horst, Anna Puzio

University of Twente, Netherlands, The

Buddhist killer bots, sex bots and enlightenment bots

Tom Hannes

Eindhoven University of Technology

Personal and intimate relationships with AI: an assessment of their desirability

Philip Antoon Emiel Brey

University of Twente, Netherlands, The

Hybrid family – intimate life with artificial intelligence

Miroslav Vacura

Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

(Don’t) come closer: Excentric design for intimate technologies

Esther L.O. Keymolen

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The

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

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

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

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 Erlach^1,2

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

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