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Session Overview
Location: Auditorium 7
Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation

Chair(s): Lorenzo De Stefano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Felice Masi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Francesco Pisano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Luigi Laino (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Caludio Fabbroni (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Writing as calculus. New sciences of writing and phenomenology

Felice Masi
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

 

(Logical) Piano lessons: Jevons and the roots of computational subjectivity

Francesco Pisano
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

 

Turing’s design of a brain. Operative and thematic concepts of computing machinery

Lorenzo De Stefano
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

 

Is your brain a sort of computer?

Claudio Fabbroni
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

 

Computation as a symbolic form between humans and machines

Luigi Laino
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

 
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Symposium) A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners
Location: Auditorium 7
 

A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners

Chair(s): Pieter Vermaas (TU Delft, the Netherlands, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners

Pieter Vermaas
Technische Universiteit Delft

 
Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Engineering ethics
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Artificial Intelligence in design engineering practice

Hans Voordijk, Farid Vahdatikhaki, Maarten Verkerk

University of Twente, Netherlands, The



Concept Engineering: a new approach to address Conceptual Disruption and Virtual Ethical Dilemmas

伯灵 孙, 旭 徐

Inner Mongolia University, China, People's Republic of

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Ethics I
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Technology as uncharted territory: Contextual integrity and the notion of AI as new ethical ground

Alexander Martin Mussgnug

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom



OPERA: Operational ethics readiness evaluation for AI

Laurynas Adomaitis1, Alexei Grinbaum2

1RISE, Sweden; 2CEA, France



The bullshit singularity is near

Dylan Eric Wittkower

Old Dominion University, United States of America

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Ethics II
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Considering the social and economic sustainability of AI

Rosalie Waelen, Aimee Van Wynsberghe

University of Bonn, Germany



Synthetic socio-technical systems: poiêsis as meaning making

Federica Russo1, Andrew McIntyre2

1Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 2University of Amsterdam



Exploring Kantian Part-Representation and Self-Setting Concepts in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Pan Deng

Shenzhen University, China

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Ethics III
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The ethics of blockchain-based construction e-bidding

Venus Azamnia

Virginia Tech, United States of America



Managing folk terms in AI: the placeholder strategy as a lesson from comparative cognition

Diego Morales

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The



Ethics readiness: Aligning ethical approaches with a technology’s stage of development

Eline de Jong

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

 
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Ethics IV
Location: Auditorium 7
Date: Friday, 27/June/2025
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Ethics V
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Transcendental Technology Ethics

Donovan van der Haak

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The



Sustainable AI and the third wave of AI ethics: a structural turn

Larissa Bolte, Aimee van Wynsberghe

University of Bonn, Germany



Against an ideal theory of justice for AI ethics

Alice Rangel Teixeira

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

 
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Agency I
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Welcoming the other: More-than-human agency in regenerative design

Anna Puzio1, Alessio Gerola2, Samuela Marchiori3

1University of Twente; 2Wageningen University; 3Delft University of Technology



Philosophical reflections on agency in the making

Mike Martin

Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom



Enactive agency in the technological world: rethinking human-technology relationships

Xue Yu

Dalian University of Technology, China, People's Republic of

 
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Agency II
Location: Auditorium 7
 

Temporal intimacy. Near-term expectations of a driverless future

Sebastian Pranz

Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany



"Agency, alienation, and recognition in the AI-mediated workplace"

Joel Anderson

Utrecht University, Netherlands, The



Technical objects as adaptive mediators

Aurora Hoel

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

 
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Autonomy
Location: Auditorium 7
 

AI outsourcing and the value of autonomy

Eleonora Catena

Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR}, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany



Analysis of the problem of human autonomy from the perspective of authenticity ethics

Guihong Zhang

University of Science and Technology of China, China, People's Republic of



Driving for Values: Exploring the experience of autonomy with speculative design

Kathrin Bednar1, Julia Hermann2

1Eindhoven University of Technology; 2University of Twente

 
Date: Saturday, 28/June/2025
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition

Chair(s): Piero Carreras (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore\Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Precision farming in light of the world in which we live and act

Mariska Bosschaert
Wageningen University

 

Heidegger, "the intimate technology revolution," and AI

Natalie Nenadic
University of Kentucky

 

The Missing Body: Philosophical Anthropology and the Heideggerian temptation

Piero Carreras
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore\Bergische Universität Wuppertal

 
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition

Chair(s): Federica Buongiorno (University of Florence)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Huamans, Technique, and Machine in Canguilhem's philosophy

Emanuele Clarizio
Catholic University Lille

 

A History of Vitalism in French Philosophers of Technology

Hannes van Engeland
Maastricht University

 

Pharmacology of plasticity: bridging stiegler and malabou

Pietro Prunotto
University of Turin

 
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: History and Historicity of the Empirical Turn
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: History and Historicity of the Empirical Turn

Chair(s): Darryl Cressman (Maastricht University, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The long History of the Empirical Turn: Dutch Philosophy of Technology, 1930-1990

Massimiliano Simons
Maastricht University

 

Regimes of Historicity of Technology: Toward an Epistemology of the History of the Philosophy of Technology

Agostino Cera
University of Ferrara

 

Technology and Historical Time: Insights from the Annales and Hermeneutics

Darryl Cressman
Maastricht University

 
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: Hidden philosophers of technology
Location: Auditorium 7
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: Hidden philosophers of technology

Chair(s): Massimiliano Simons (Maastricht University, Netherlands, The)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Arendt's Philosophy of Technology: Rethinking the Human Condition in the age of AI

Jurgita Imbrasaite
University for Applied Sciences Europe, Hamburg

 

Political philosophy of technology: after bertrand russel

Carl Mitcham
Colorado School of Mines

 

Irradiating the Intimate: the Storytelling of Walter Benjamin's Technological Revolution of the Intiimate

Dominic Smith
University of Dundee

 

 
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