Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025
12:30pm - 1:30pmRegistration
Location: Voorhof
1:30pm - 1:45pmWord of Welcome
Location: Blauwe Zaal
1:45pm - 2:45pmKeynote 1 - Sabina Leonelli - Environmental intelligence: Subverting the philosophical premises for AI
Location: Blauwe Zaal
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: revisting the bright-line argument
Location: Blauwe Zaal
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) Democratic technologies in East Asia
Location: Auditorium 1
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) Design as a contested space: technological innovations, critical investigations, military interests
Location: Auditorium 2
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human
Location: Auditorium 3
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Workshop) Reviewing and publishing for early career researchers: a bridge towards scholarly expertise
Location: Auditorium 4
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Location: Auditorium 5
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration
Location: Auditorium 6
3:00pm - 4:30pm(Symposium) Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation
Location: Auditorium 7
4:30pm - 5:00pmCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Symposium) Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity
Location: Blauwe Zaal
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Papers) Disrupting digital industries
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Richard Heersmink
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Papers) Malfunction
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Samuela Marchiori
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Symposium) What is Intercultural Philosophy of Technology and why is it important?
Location: Auditorium 4
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Location: Auditorium 5
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Symposium) Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach
Location: Auditorium 6
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Symposium) A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners
Location: Auditorium 7
5:00pm - 6:30pm(Symposium) Teaching engineering ethics through aesthetic and embodied experiences
Location: Auditorium 8
6:30pm - 8:00pmSocial drinks
Location: Senaatszaal
Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025
8:15am - 8:45amRegistration
Location: Voorhof
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Disruptive technology I
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Philip Antoon Emiel Brey
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Postphenomenology
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Udo Pesch
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Human - Technology
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Julia Hermann
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Virtue ethics I
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Maaike Eline Harmsen
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Social media
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Luca Possati
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Large Language Models I
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Alexandra Prégent
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Responsible innovation
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Kaush Kalidindi
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Engineering ethics
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Andreas Spahn
8:45am - 10:00am(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Atlas 2.215
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Disruptive technology II
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Jeroen Hopster
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Phenomenology I
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Wouter Eggink
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Work
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Aarón Moreno Inglés
10:05am - 11:20am(Symposium) Ways of Worldmaking and the Languages of Technology and art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the philosophy of technology
Location: Auditorium 3
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Democracy
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Daphne Brandenburg
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Large Language Models II
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Alexandra Prégent
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Interpreting and engineering technology
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Hans Voordijk
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Ethics I
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Andrea Gammon
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Avatar
Location: Auditorium 8
Session Chair: Robin Hillenbrink
10:05am - 11:20am(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Atlas 2.215
11:20am - 11:50amCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Values
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Pieter Vermaas
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Philosophy of technology I
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Krist Vaesen
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Well-being
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Mariska Bosschaert
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Emotions
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Maaike van der Horst
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Algorithms
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Sage Cammers-Goodwin
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Privacy
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Donovan van der Haak
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Ethics II
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Maren Behrensen
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Digital age
Location: Auditorium 8
Session Chair: Martin Sand
1:05pm - 2:30pmLunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
2:30pm - 3:30pmKeynote 2 - Shannon Vallor - De-coding our humanity: Reflections on intimate and immanent technologies
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Lambèr Royakkers
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Sex robots
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Lily Frank
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Philosophy of technology II
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Olya Kudina
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Personality, pediatrics and psychiatry
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Luca Possati
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Care I
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Matthew Dennis
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Disruptive technology III
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Nolen Gertz
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Machine Learning
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Vlasta Sikimić
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Aligning values
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Donovan van der Haak
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Ethics III
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Daphne Brandenburg
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Intimacy I
Location: Auditorium 8
Session Chair: Samuele Murtinu
4:50pm - 5:20pmCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Intimacy II
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Lily Frank
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Philosophy of technology III
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Anna Melnyk
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Gender and the self
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Julia Hermann
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Care II
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Maaike van der Horst
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Anthropomorphism
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Ibo van de Poel
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Language
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Diego Morales
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Decision-making
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Bouke van Balen
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Virtue ethics II
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Matthew Dennis
5:20pm - 6:35pm(Papers) Geo-engineering
Location: Auditorium 8
Session Chair: Aarón Moreno Inglés
Date: Friday, 27/June/2025
8:15am - 8:45amRegistration
Location: Voorhof
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Medical technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Katleen Gabriels
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Philosophy of technology IV
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Udo Pesch
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Responsibility
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Jordi Viader Guerrero
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Cyborgs
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Lotte Asveld
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Trust
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Federica Russo
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Generative AI and risk
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Christa Laurens
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Quantified lives
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Wybo Houkes
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Ethics V
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Andrea Gammon
8:45am - 10:00am(Papers) Justice
Location: Auditorium 8
Session Chair: Andreas Spahn
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Ontology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Ibo van de Poel
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Instrumentalism
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Wybo Houkes
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Mediation I
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Bouke van Balen
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Autonomous systems
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Hans Voordijk
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Epistemology I
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Maaike Eline Harmsen
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Computing and quantification
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Chirag Arora
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Politics I
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Michael Nagenborg
10:05am - 11:20am(Papers) Agency I
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Lotte Asveld
11:20am - 11:50amCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Climate change
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Kaush Kalidindi
11:50am - 1:05pm(Symposium) Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production
Location: Auditorium 1
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) System Design
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Wybo Houkes
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Authenticity
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Filippo Santoni de Sio
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Epistemology II
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Philip Nickel
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Ethics VI
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Nynke van Uffelen
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Politics II
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Alessio Gerola
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Agency II
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Pieter Vermaas
11:50am - 1:05pm(Papers) Education I
Location: Auditorium 8
Session Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
1:05pm - 2:30pmLunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
2:30pm - 3:30pmKeynote 3 - Jens Schlieter - Robots with empathy. Exploring buddhist ethics of technology and personhood in Asia
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Tom Hannes
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Anthropocene
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Conceptual analysis
Location: Auditorium 1
Session Chair: Krist Vaesen
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Mediation III
Location: Auditorium 2
Session Chair: Maren Behrensen
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Artificial Intelligence
Location: Auditorium 3
Session Chair: Luuk Stellinga
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Epistemology III
Location: Auditorium 4
Session Chair: Philip Nickel
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Data II
Location: Auditorium 5
Session Chair: Sage Cammers-Goodwin
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Sovereignty
Location: Auditorium 6
Session Chair: Sabine Roeser
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Autonomy
Location: Auditorium 7
Session Chair: Mariska Bosschaert
3:35pm - 4:50pm(Papers) Education II
Location: Auditorium 8
Session Chair: Andreas Spahn
4:50pm - 5:20pmCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
5:20pm - 6:20pmKeynote 4 - Robert Rosenberger - Sartre's letter opener and the hard problem in the philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Session Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
6:20pm - 6:50pmAwards presentation
Location: Blauwe Zaal
7:00pm - 9:30pmConference dinner
Location: Markthal
Date: Saturday, 28/June/2025
8:15am - 8:45amRegistration
Location: Voorhof
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition
Location: Auditorium 15
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical epistemical and political
Location: Auditorium 13
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) In search of legitimation: the dynamic tensions in the regulation of privacy and data rights in Vietnam
Location: Auditorium 12
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution
Location: Auditorium 11
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) Philosophy of technology in Latin America and SPT's global support
Location: Auditorium 10
8:45am - 9:45am(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition
Location: Auditorium 15
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Postphenomenology II: practical applications
Location: Auditorium 14
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical epistemical and political
Location: Auditorium 13
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) In search of legitimation: the dynamic tensions in the regulation of privacy and data rights in Vietnam
Location: Auditorium 12
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution
Location: Auditorium 11
9:50am - 10:50am(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
10:50am - 11:50amCoffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
10:50am - 11:50amPoster session
Location: Senaatszaal
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: History and Historicity of the Empirical Turn
Location: Auditorium 15
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons
Location: Auditorium 14
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) TechnoPedia - an online Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Encyclopedia
Location: Auditorium 13
11:50am - 12:50pm(Papers) Phenomenology II
Location: Auditorium 12
Session Chair: Tom Hannes
11:50am - 12:50pm(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
11:50am - 12:50pmAuthor-Meets-Critics session
Location: Forum
12:50pm - 2:20pmLunch break
Location: Senaatszaal
12:50pm - 2:20pmPoster session
Location: Senaatszaal
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: Hidden philosophers of technology
Location: Auditorium 15
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Prediction
Location: Auditorium 13
Session Chair: Wouter Eggink
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Sustainability and energy
Location: Auditorium 12
Session Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Legislation
Location: Auditorium 11
Session Chair: Lambèr Royakkers
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Papers) Farming
Location: Auditorium 10
Session Chair: Tijn Borghuis
2:20pm - 3:45pm(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
3:50pm - 4:30pmClosing and Members Meeting
Location: Blauwe Zaal