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| Location: Auditorium 6 |
| Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025 | |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | (Symposium) Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach Presentations of the Symposium The power and emotions in trustworthy AI Addressing problematic conceptual assumptions about human-technology relations in AI development practices AI, Gender, and Agri-food |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | (Symposium) Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration Emerging technologies move at the limits of language. People (in the end usually a small group of them) struggle to find appropriate ways for referring to them, search for the right concepts and often use metaphors to catch the supposedly right meaning and evokeing the desired associations, initiating processes that are barely under our control. From a more comprehensive perspective, the limits of language are an omnipresent phenomenon we have to face at any given time and in any given context. Language is an important tool for human engagement with the world while at the same time a source for confusion, we often end up as flies in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s iconic fly bottle. How do technologies stress or overload our thinking and talking about them? And what expectations and imaginaries are caused/invited by certain linguistic expressions? Taking the linguistic and discursive crystallizations of our engagements with socio-technical systems – the narratives, metaphors, or clusters of conceptuality – as entry points to our struggles in reference, we learn about the frames of thinking that get imprinted oninto our engagements with technologies and techno-imaginaries. Scratching at the boundaries of language then is also a way to initiate a process for reimagining technologies in better ways, in the sense of a constant practice of revising patterns and images of thought, while putting them under ethical evaluation. How can we (if we should decide to do so and find it legitimate) use linguistic techniques to influence discourse and subsequently awareness and behaviour (green IT, responsible innovation, etc.)? Lastly, supposedly familiar concepts such as intelligence get reshaped in the light of our artifacts and techniques and postphenomenology has shown that technologies shape our hermeneutic relations. So, addressing the material hermeneutics of technologies can help to avoid linguistic monism, taking account of the limits of language as an epistemic source of explanation and worldmaking. As Karen Barad, Donna Haraway and others have argued, there has to be an account of the world that is not falling back on language only, while at the same time we have to acknowledge that there is no world ‘for us’ apart from construction, no direct access to a pure reality. So how do we productively stay with the trouble of recognizing both the limits of linguistic language and the agency of the world? This panel will be organized by the Special Interest Group (SIG) on “Languages of Technology: Prompts, Scripts, Narratives, and Grammars of Composition”. There will be short inputs by the discussants followed by a moderated discussion between all panelists. The main findings of the discussion will simultaneously be documented. Presentations of the Symposium List of discussants Biographies Alexandra Kazakova (tbd) Prof. Galit Wellner, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) and an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University. Galit studies digital technologies and their interrelations with humans. She is an active member of the Postphenomenology Community. She published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and edited special issues of Techne and some collections. Her book A Postphenomenological Inquiry of Cellphones: Genealogies, Meanings and Becoming was published in 2015 by Lexington Books. She translated to Hebrew Don Ihde’s book Postphenomenology and Technoscience (Resling 2016). She coedited Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations (Lexington Books, 2017) and The Philosophy of Imagination: Technology, Art, Ethics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Her research on AI led her to become the academic advisor of the AI Regulation Forum of the Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and before that to become a member of the stakeholder board of SHERPA, an EU Horizon project for the shaping of the ethical dimensions of smart information systems (2020-1). In the past Galit was the vice-chair of Israeli UNESCO’s Information for All Program (IFAP) and a board member of the FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) Council Europe. Dr. Kanta Dihal is Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London, where she is Course Director of the MSc in Science Communication, and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on science narratives, particularly science fiction, and how they shape public perceptions and scientific development. She is co-editor of the books AI Narratives (2020) and Imagining AI (2023) and has advised international governmental organizations and NGOs. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford on the communication of quantum physics. Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, ERA Chair at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and Guest Professor at the University of Uppsala. He member of several advisory bodies including the federal Belgian Committee for Ethics of Data and AI, the advisory council of the Austrian UNESCO Commission, and previously the High Level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission. He is author of numerous books including AI Ethics, The Political Philosophy of AI, and Why AI Undermines Democracy. Previously he was the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). Dr. Maximillian Roßmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the department of Environmental Economics of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). His research explores how citizen narratives shape the perception of the European Energy crisis. Before joining VU Amsterdam, Maximilian Roßmann was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Maastricht University in the ERC project “NanoBubbles”. He obtained his PhD at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and worked in TA projects on the Vision Assessment of microalgae nutrition, 3D printing, and nuclear waste management at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS). Yu Xue (Ph.D.) is an associated professor at the Department of Philosophy, Dalian University of Technology. She was a visiting fellow at Delft University of Technology (2015-2016) and University of Vienna (2024-2025). Her research interests are in ethics of technology and philosophy of technology, with a particular focus on robotics ethics and AI ethics. |
| Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025 | |
| 8:45am - 10:00am | (Papers) Responsible innovation Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Between Responsible Innovation and the Maintenance Turn: Imaginaries of Changeability and the Collaborative Frameworks for Philosophy of Technology and Environmental Ethics University of Wroclaw, Poland Responsible Innovation as Practiced by Ceramic Craftsmen in China Dalian University of Technology, China, People's Republic of On the episteme of technology alignment: A critical hermeneutics of the current understanding of responsiveness in Responsible Innovation and Responsible AI discourses Wageningen University, Netherlands, The |
| 10:05am - 11:20am | (Papers) Interpreting and engineering technology Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Visualising the Quantum World in Quantum Technology: on Pragmatist and Realist Considerations in Quantum Interpretations TU Delft, Netherlands, The Information Technology engineers' professionalism international comparison Nagoya University, Japan Enactivist App Design: Exper - a case study 1University of North Dakota, United States of America; 2St. Lawrence College, Canada |
| 11:50am - 1:05pm | (Papers) Privacy Location: Auditorium 6 |
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What is “mental” about Mental Privacy? 1University of Zurich; 2University of Hagen Is Privacy Security? Cornell University, United States of America |
| 3:35pm - 4:50pm | (Papers) Aligning values Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Aligning technology with human values Texas A&M University, United States of America Aligning AI with ideal values: Comparing metanormative methods to the Social Expert Model Texas A&M University, United States of America Aligning values: setting better agendas for technology development TU Delft, the Netherlands |
| 5:20pm - 6:35pm | (Papers) Decision-making Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Two’s company, three’s a crowd: theoretical considerations for shared-decision making in AI-assisted healthcare 1Erasmus MC, TU Delft; 2TU Delft; 3TU Delft On the philosophical limits of artificially intelligent decisions Utrecht University, Netherlands, The Shaping technology with society's voice: measuring gut feelings and values Fontys, Netherlands, The |
| Date: Friday, 27/June/2025 | |
| 8:45am - 10:00am | (Papers) Risk Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Ethical risks of Artificial Intelligence applications in civil engineering 1Dalian University of Technology, China, People's Republic of; 2Central South University, China, People's Republic of Hidden risks: artificial intelligence and hermeneutic harm 1KU Leuven, Belgium; 2Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium The Concept of ai Risk University of Hamburg, Germany |
| 10:05am - 11:20am | (Papers) Politics I Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Ontic capture and technofascism University of Twente, Germany The Politics of social XAI 1Paderborn University, Germany; 2University of Vienna, Austria Algorithmic politics and totalitarianism: a critical analysis of ai politics from hannah arendt’s perspective Virginia Tech, United States of America / Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea |
| 11:50am - 1:05pm | (Papers) Politics II Location: Auditorium 6 |
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The Drivers of technological Hegemony: the political Dynamic of the Computerization of the French National Health Insurance Fund (1963-1979) 1Université Technologique de Compiègne, France; 2Sciences Po, France Political instability and technological society Handong Global University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Beyond technopolitics: presuppositions of a redeemed future IIT Delhi, India |
| 3:35pm - 4:50pm | (Papers) Sovereignty Location: Auditorium 6 |
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On technological Sovereignty and innovation Sovereignty RWTH Aachen University, Germany Digital technologies and social sustainability: from data governances’ perspective Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Italy Rethinking sovereignty in a digital age Texas A&M University, United States of America |
| Date: Saturday, 28/June/2025 | |
| 8:45am - 9:45am | (Symposium) Postphenomenology I: artificial intelligence Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Postphenomenology I: artificial intelligence Presentations of the Symposium A postphenomenological analysis of the impact of generative AI in education AI and human experience: navigating the challenges of algorithmic reasoning in education Thinking of responsibility in the age of AI with Hans Jonas |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | (Symposium) Postphenomenology II: practical applications Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Postphenomenology II: practical applications Presentations of the Symposium Appropriating hidden technologies: a postphenomenological response to critical algorithm studies Intimate technology: the postphenomenological meme use case How technologies mediate trustwork in the care collective Postphenomenology and technologies in times of multiple crises |
| 11:50am - 12:50pm | (Symposium) Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons Presentations of the Symposium The technical artefact mediating between hegel and ihde My life continues without me: sartre on death and personally-curated griefbots Postphenomenology and temporality: digital technologies and tertiary retentions |
| 2:20pm - 3:45pm | (Papers) Genetics Location: Auditorium 6 |
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Genomic Reshaping: The Role of Genetics in the Emergence of Biological Citizenship. Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST), Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France, France New reprogenetic technologies and challenges to informed consent in research Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell Universtiy, United States of America |
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