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1:30pm Word of Welcome Location: Blauwe Zaal
1:45pm Keynote 1 - Sabina Leonelli - Environmental intelligence: Subverting the philosophical premises for AI Location: Blauwe Zaal
3:00pm (Symposium) Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: revisting the bright-line argument Location: Blauwe Zaal
Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: Revisiting the bright-line argument
Chair(s): John Sullins
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
Thinking Otherwise
David Gunkel
Intimate technologies and liberation
John Sullins
Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI
Robin Zebrowski
5:00pm (Symposium) Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity Location: Blauwe Zaal
Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity
Chair(s): Luca Possati , Maaike van der Horst
Presentations of the Symposium
Can technology destroy desire? Stieglerian considerations
Bas De Boer
The algorithmic other: AI, desire, and self-formation on digital platforms
Ciano Aydin
Deadbots and the unconscious: A qualitative analysis
Luca Possati
Reconceptualizing reciprocity through a lacanian lens: the case of human-robot-interactions
Maaike van der Horst , Ciano Aydin , Luca Possati
8:45am (Papers) Disruptive technology I Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Philip Antoon Emiel Brey
The role of technology in conceptual disruption
Ibo van de Poel
The good, the bad, and the disruptive: On the promise of niche construction theory for technology ethics
Jeroen Hopster , Elizabeth O'Neill
The sense of disruptive innovation
Georgios Tsagdis
10:05am (Papers) Disruptive technology II Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Jeroen Hopster
Digital technologies and the disruption of the lifeworld
Christa Laurens , Vincent Blok, Bernice Bovenkerk, Nolen Gertz
Understanding deep technological disruptiveness as the social construction of human kinds
Wybo Houkes
Conceptual disruption and niche disruption
Guido Löhr
11:50am (Papers) Values Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Pieter Vermaas
Artificial moral discourse and the future of human morality
Elizabeth O'Neill
Recognition through technology: Design for recognition and its dangers
Nynke van Uffelen
LLM-based chatbots – the moral advisor in your pocket…why not?
Franziska Marie Poszler
2:30pm Keynote 2 - Shannon Vallor - De-coding our humanity: Reflections on intimate and immanent technologies Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Lambèr Royakkers
3:35pm (Papers) Sex robots Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Lily Frank
Queering the sex robot: insights from queer Lacanian psychoanalysis and new materialism
Maaike van der Horst , Anna Puzio
Buddhist killer bots, sex bots and enlightenment bots
Tom Hannes
5:20pm (Papers) Intimacy II Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Lily Frank
Personal and intimate relationships with AI: an assessment of their desirability
Philip Antoon Emiel Brey
Hybrid family – intimate life with artificial intelligence
Miroslav Vacura
(Don’t) come closer: Excentric design for intimate technologies
Esther L.O. Keymolen
8:45am (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
10:05am (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
11:50am (Papers) Climate change Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Kaush Kalidindi
Geo-engineering revisited: A reformational critique
Maaike Eline Harmsen
2:30pm Keynote 3 - Jens Schlieter - Robots with empathy. Exploring buddhist ethics of technology and personhood in Asia Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Tom Hannes
3:35pm (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
5:20pm 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 Awards presentation Location: Blauwe Zaal
8:45am (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
9:50am (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
11:50am (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
2:20pm (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
3:50pm Closing and Members Meeting Location: Blauwe Zaal
