This symposium presents results of the SPT Special Interest Group for collecting recommendation on how SPT can support the development of philosophy of technology in all regions globally (https://www.spt.org/sigs/sig-global-support-to-philosophy-of-technology/). The aim is twofold: making these results available to SPT, and reviewing how future efforts by SPT to support philosophy of technology globally can be improved.
The results that will be presented at the symposium concern philosophy of technology in Latin America. In different regions of this part of the world there are active communities working in the field, were notably Colombia is demonstrating a growth through its Network of Philosophy of Technology (https://redcolfiltec.wordpress.com). These communities are moreover planning to collaborate on, for instance, work on Latin American visions on philosophy of technology and on reaching out to SPT for association.
The symposium will present these communities and sketch their planned activities. It moreover will bring together authors from these communities presenting their latest results.
Efforts by the special interest group to reach out to other areas of the world have not led to similar tangible results. The symposium therefore also aims at collecting feedback from the participating Latin American scholars and from the SPT membership how future efforts to collect recommendations for supporting philosophy of technology globally can be organized alternatively. For instance, within contacts with Latin American communities it was important not to cling too hard on the label of philosophy of technology but use a more wider scope that also includes STS and more political work on technologies. An open question is what adjustments can be made for enabling SPT to also effectively reach out to other areas of the world.
Structure of the symposium
The symposium combines three related aims. In the first part SPT’s efforts are reviewed to collect recommendations about how it can support philosophy of technology in all regions globally. Discussions with panelists and with the audience are directed at collecting initial recommendations from the philosophy of technology communities in Latin America and at improving SPT’s efforts towards other areas in the world. In the second part an overview will be given of the communities in Latin America, and of the activities that are developed to strengthen the communities. Third a number of regular presentations from authors from Latin America are added. (Note to the local organizers of SPT2025: this third part can be composed from contributions that are accepted for presentation; abstract for these contributions are submitted separately by the authors involved.)
Schedule
Introduction (5 minutes)
- Pieter Vermaas and Judith Sutz
Part 1:
Recommendations by panel (15 minutes)
- Daian Flórez,
- Andrés Santa-María
- Judith Sutz
Discussion (10 minutes)
- Audience
Part 2:
Survey of Latin American philosophy of technology (20 minutes)
- Diego Lawler on Argentina
- Ángel Rivera on Colombia
- Andrés Santa-María on other regions and overall plans
Discussion (10 minutes)
Audience
Part 3:
N presentations of regular papers by Latin American authors N x 30 minutes
(There are planned submissions by Sara María Guzmán, Diego Lawler, Juan Carlos Moreno, Ángel Rivera, and Andrés Santa-María)
total: 60 minutes plus 30 per accepted talk
Participants
Coordinator and moderator:
- Judith Sutz (online), Universidad de la República, Uruguay; jsutz@csic.edu.uy.
- Pieter Vermaas (in person), Philosophy Department, TU Delft, the Netherlands; p.e.vermaas@tudelft.nl
Panelists:
- Daian Flórez (in person), Universidad de Caldas-Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; daian.florez@ucaldas.edu.co.
- Andrés Santa-María (in person), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile; andres.santamaria@usm.cl.
- Judith Sutz (online), Universidad de la República, Uruguay; jsutz@csic.edu.uy.
Surveyors:
- Diego Lawler (in person), Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas SADAF/CONICET/UNQ, Argentina: diego.lawler@gmail.com.
- Ángel Rivera (in person), Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia; angel.riveran@udea.edu.co.
- Andrés Santa-María (in person), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile; andres.santamaria@usm.cl.
