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Session Overview
Location: Auditorium 8
Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025
3:00pm
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4:30pm
(Symposium) Ways of worldmaking and the languages of technology and art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the philosophy of technology
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Ways of Worldmaking and the Languages of Technology and Art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the Philosophy of Technology

Chair(s): Sabine Ammon, Alfred Nordmann, Ryan Wittingslow

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Ways of Worldmaking – Understanding Worlds in the Making

Sabine Ammon

 

Ways of worldmaking - symbolic orders and material compositions

Alfred Nordmann

 

Function as Exemplification

Ryan Wittingslow

 

Discussion and Commentary

Daria Bylieva, Sadegh Mirzaei, Leonie Möck

5:00pm
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6:30pm
(Symposium) Teaching engineering ethics through aesthetic and embodied experiences
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Teaching Engineering Ethics through Aesthetic and embodied Experiences

Chair(s): Filippo Santoni de Sio, Jordi Viader Guerrero

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Teaching Philosophy through the Embodied Experience: Space and Power in the Classroom

Aarón Moreno Inglés

 

Art as a Catalyst: how Science, Technology and Art Collaboration can contribute to Higher Engineering Education

Sabine de Lat, Isolde Hallensleben

 

Overview of Engineering Ethics Education as a Research Field

Tom Holmgaard Børsen, Vivek Ramachandran

 

Engineering as an act of Care: Teaching Responsible Innovation through Empathy

Vivek Ramachandran

Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025
8:45am
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10:00am
(Papers) Virtual
Location: Auditorium 8
 

The Virtual and the Sacred

Enrico Beltramini



Virtual Pregnancy

Daria Bylieva



How new interaction relationships are possible: the social imaginary of elderly holograms

Yu-cheng Liu

10:05am
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11:20am
(Papers) Avatar
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Avatars as digital naming

Shih Yun Liu



Avatar attachment in virtual worlds: The conflict between self-fictionalization and authentic representations

Clemens Uhing



AI ‘ancestors’? AI avatars in African ethics

Christopher Wareham

11:50am
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1:05pm
(Papers) Digital age
Location: Auditorium 8
 

The affective scaffolding of grief in the digital age: the case of deathbots

Mark Alfano



So close, yet so far: spatial production and immersive experiences in mixed reality-a case study of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Kagami

Jingni HUANG

3:35pm
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4:50pm
(People) Intimacy I
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Intimacy and the Spatialization of Care: the case of Teleconsultation Booths

Nathan Degreef, Alain Loute



Intimate technology and moral vulnerability

Harry Weir-McAndrew

5:20pm
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6:35pm
(Papers) Geo-engineering
Location: Auditorium 8
 

The question concerning planetary technology: geo-engineering, sustainable technology, planetary boundaries, and the end of the Earth

Ole Thijs, Jochem Zwier



Do artifacts have eco-politics? A convivial critique of environmental techno-solutionism

Alessio Gerola



Environment, Technology, and Philosophy of Maintenance

Andrea Gammon

Date: Friday, 27/June/2025
8:45am
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10:00am
(Papers) Justice
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Technopolitical mediation and gezi park of istanbul

Melis Bas



Rethinking data ownership : Towards relational approaches to property

Aditya Singh

10:05am
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11:20am
(Papers) Intercultural philosophy
Location: Auditorium 8
 

A Critique of technological Ideology in Taiwanese folk religion

Wei Min Tsai



Development paths in the philosophy of technology in Latin America

Juan-Carlos Moreno, Sara Guzmán-Ortiz



Beyond the walls of intelligence: the counterinsurgent genealogy of artificial intelligence and the necessity of an ai anti-ethics as revelation of death

Syan Timothy Lopez

11:50am
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1:05pm
(Papers) Education I
Location: Auditorium 8
 

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

3:35pm
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4:50pm
(Papers) Education II
Location: Auditorium 8
 

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



Navigating civic education in the digital era

Dan Mamlok

Date: Saturday, 28/June/2025
8:45am
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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, Avigail Ferdman, Michael W. Schmidt

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Where to political philosophy of technology?

Martin Sand

 

The tragedy of great power technologies

Carl Mitcham

 

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

Sergio Urueña

 

Technologies as promoters of justice. a capability-based framework

Daniel Lara De La Fuente

 

Gadgets, gimmicks, garbage: domination and irresponsible innovation

Lukas Fuchs

 

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

Giovanni Frigo

 

Reciprocity & Reasonability in the Age of AI

Paige Benton

 

Artificial intelligence and common goods: an uneasy relationship

Avigail Ferdman

 

A rawlsian philosophy of technology and engineering?

Michael W. Schmidt

 

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

Glen Miller

 

Problematising Political Uses of History in the Philosophy of Technology

Christopher Coenen

 

Explainable AI as a rhetorical technology

Wessel Reijers, Tobias Matzner, Suzana Alpsancar

9:50am
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10:50am
(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 8
11:50am
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12:50pm
(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 8
2:20pm
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3:45pm
(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 8

 
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