Conference Agenda

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Chair(s): Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen, Aleksandra Kazakova

Presentations of the Symposium

Basic Ideas on Engineering science and engineering scientists: a contribution to philosophy of engineering science

Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen

Practice is the source of true knowledge: Lesson from the flight experiments of Samuel Langley and the Wright brothers

Fangyi Shi, Nan Wang

A reflection on the development of cryogenic engineering

Zhongjun Hu, Dhazou Wang

Effective development of gulong shale oil under the guidance of engineering philosophy

He Liu

Yin Ruiyu and metallurgical process engineering: a philosophical reflection

Anjun Xu, Zhifeng Ciu

Engineering innovations in novel supercritical fluids energy and power systems: from fundamentals to application demonstrations

Lin Chen

The enhancement of technical requirements for astronaut training in deep space exploration and philosophical reflections

Zhihui Zhang

Ethical frontiers in human stem cell-based embryo model

Yaojin Peng

AI-driven synthetic biology: engineering philosophy, challenges, and ethical implications

Lu Gao

Rethinking numbers, data, and algorithms from philosophical perspective

Tiejian Luo

Bridging the responsibility gap: ethical responsibility pathways and framework reconstruction in artificial intelligence

Shuchan Wan, Cheng Zhou

Refusal to grant AI subject qualification: reasons and practical approaches

Dongming Cao, Xiaohui Jiang, Junjie Wu

How LLMs diminish our autonomy

Björn Lundgren, Inken Titz

Intimacy as a Tech-Human Symbiosis: Reframing the LLM-User Experience from a Phenomenological Perspective

Stefano Calzati

Large language models and cognitive deskilling

Richard Heersmink

“Who” is silenced when AI does the talking? Philosophical implications of using LLMs in relational settings

Tara Miranovic, Katleen Gabriels

Connecting Dots: Political and Ethical Considerations on the Centralization of Knowledge and Information in Data Platforms and LLMs

Anne-Marie McManus

LLMs and Testimonal Injustice

William James Victor Gopal

Algorithms, abortion, and making decisions

Hannah Steinhauer

The power topology of algorithmic governance

Taicheng Tan

Believable generative agents: A self-fulfilling prophecy?

Leonie Alina Möck, Sven Thomas

“Does it really hurt that much?” The Ethical Implications of Epistemically Unjust Practices in Machine Learning Based Migraine Assessments

Sasha Lee Smit

Fair to understansd fairness contexually in machine learning

Jyoti Kishore

Technology as a constellation: The challenges of doing ethics on enabling technologies

Sage Cammers-Goodwin, Michael Nagenborg

Is extensible markup language perspectivist?

Timothy Tambassi

Wittgenstein’s Woodsellers and AI: Interpreting Large Language Models in practice: Rationality First vs Coherence First approaches

Mark Robrecht Theunissen

Time and Temporality in Engineering Language

Aleksandra Kazakova

A network approach to public trust in generative AI

Andrew McIntyre, Federica Russo, Lucy Conover

Memes, generative AI, humor, and intimacy: collective empowerment through shared laughter

Alberto Romele, Fabrizio Defilippi

Creative AI and human achievement

Alice Courtney Helliwell

The productive function of technology with regard to subjectification and the example of affective computing

Sebastian Nähr-Wagener, Orsolya Friedrich

The Soylent Mentality: "Efficiency Fundamentalism" and the Future of Food

Ryan Jenkins

The ethical fabric of computational social science research: norms, practices, and values

Chirag Arora

From artificial wombs to lab grown embryos: technologies and the myth of the ex-utero human

Llona Kavege, Amy Hinterberger

AI agency in medical practices: The case of pathology

Oceane Fiant

Could Artificial Intelligence Assuage Loneliness? If so, which kind?

Ramon Alvarado

Rediscover Bodily Experience in the Era of Digital Intelligence through Data Privacy issues

Zhengyang Zhou

Epistemology of ignorance and datafication – To interrogate the necessity for secrecy in AI through marginalised groups’ experiences

Marilou Niedda

Reclaiming control of thought and behavior data through the right to freedom of thought.

Kristina Pakhomchik

TechnoPedia - an online Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Encyclopedia

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

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