Conference Agenda

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