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
 

Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: Revisiting the bright-line argument

Chair(s): John Sullins

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Crux of the Bright-line Argument as an Explanatory Lens for Understanding Why the Problem of Authenticity Concerning Artificial Companions Persists

Aaron Butler

 

Thinking Otherwise

David Gunkel

 

Intimate technologies and liberation

John Sullins

 

Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI

Robin Zebrowski

(Symposium) Democratic technologies in East Asia
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Democratic technologies in East Asia

Chair(s): Levi Mahonri Checketts

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

CCTV use among Hong Kong sex workers

Levi Mahonri Checketts

 

Democratic strateies in South Korean energy communities

Joohee Lee

 

Addressing technological literarcy for Hong Kong elderly

Ann Gillian Chu, Wan Ping Vincent Lee, Rachel Siow Robertson

 

Digital technologies' impact on charcter formation in Hong Kong young people

Rachel Siow Robertson

(Symposium) Design as a contested space: technological innovations, critical investigations, military interests
Location: Auditorium 2
 

Design as a contested space: technological innovations, critical investigations, military interests

Chair(s): Jordi Viader Guerrero, Eke Rebergen, Dmitry Muravyov

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Historicising voice biometrics: the colonial continuity of listening, from the sound archive to the acoustic database

Daniel Leix Palumbo

 

Antimilitarism & algorithms: design interventions and investigative data practices

Eke Rebergen

 

Teaching machines, managed learning and remote examination

Alex Zakkas

 

Exemplary situations of technological breakdown in the philosophy of technology: who and what is at stake in learning from failure?

Dmitry Muravyov

(Symposium) The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human
Location: Auditorium 3
 

The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human

Chair(s): Francesco Striano

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Understanding generalization in large language models

Alessio Miaschi

 

Large language models are conversational zombies. Chatbots and speech acts: how to (not) do things with words

Laura Gorrieri

 

The double LLM trust fallacy

Francesco Striano

 

Generative AI, political communication and manipulation: the role of epistemic agency

Maria Zanzotto

(Workshop) Reviewing and publishing for early career researchers: a bridge towards scholarly expertise
Location: Auditorium 4
 

(Workshop) Reviewing and publishing for early career researchers: a bridge towards scholarly expertise

Chair(s): Behnam Taebi, Diana Adela Martin

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Session structure

Behnam Taebi, Diana Martin

(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Chair(s): Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen, Aleksandra Kazakova

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Practice is the source of true knowledge: Lesson from the flight experiments of Samuel Langley and the Wright brothers

Fangyi Shi, Nan Wang

 

A reflection on the development of cryogenic engineering

Zhongjun Hu, Dazhou Wang

 

Effective development of gulong shale oil under the guidance of engineering philosophy

He Liu, Dongqi Ji

 

Engineering innovations in novel supercritical fluids energy and power systems: from fundamentals to application demonstrations

Lin Chen

 

The enhancement of technical requirements for astronaut training in deep space exploration and philosophical reflections

Zhihui Zhang

(Symposium) Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Technologies at the limits of language – Symposium on conceptuality, metaphorisation & narration

Chair(s): Leonie Möck, Wenzel Mehnert, Bruno Gransche, Nele Fischer, Nils Neuhaus

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

List of discussants

Wenzel Mehnert, Leonie Möck, Maximillian Roßmann, Mark Coeckelbergh, Kanta Dihal, Galit Wellner, Yu Xue, Alexandra Kazakova

(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, Felice Masi, Francesco Pisano, Luigi Laino, Caludio Fabbroni

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Writing as calculus. New sciences of writing and phenomenology

Felice Masi

 

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

Francesco Pisano

 

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

Lorenzo De Stefano

 

Is your brain a sort of computer?

Claudio Fabbroni

 

Computation as a symbolic form between humans and machines

Luigi Laino

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
 

Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity

Chair(s): Luca Possati, Maaike van der Horst

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Can technology destroy desire? Stieglerian considerations

Bas De Boer

 

The algorithmic other: AI, desire, and self-formation on digital platforms

Ciano Aydin

 

Deadbots and the unconscious: A qualitative analysis

Luca Possati

 

Reconceptualizing reciprocity through a lacanian lens: the case of human-robot-interactions

Maaike van der Horst, Ciano Aydin, Luca Possati

(Papers) Disrupting digital industries
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Richard Heersmink
 

Derailing a high-speed train: Limitations of Agile in the AI development with marginalized communities

Aida Kalender, Giovanni Sileno



Grasping the impact of artificial intelligence on the tourism industry

Marcel Heerink



Battery development beyond justice. A care-based energy ethics

Rafaela Christina Hillerbrand

(Papers) Malfunction
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Samuela Marchiori
 

That’s not a bug, that’s an accidental function: on malfunctioning artifacts and concepts

Herman Veluwenkamp, Sebastian Köhler



The Ethics and Epistemology of Malfunction in Human-Technology Integration

Alexandra Karakas



Ascribing functions to software

Jeroen de Haas

(Symposium) What is Intercultural Philosophy of Technology and why is it important?
Location: Auditorium 4
 

What is Intercultural Philosophy of Technology and why is it important?

Chair(s): Gunter Bombaerts, Andreas Spahn

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Symposium Schedule (90 minutes)

Gunter Bombaerts, Andreas Spahn, Patricia Reyes Benavides, Alessio Gerola, Tom Hannes, Emma Kopeinigg, Joseph Sta. Maria, Anna Puzio, Hin Sing Yuen

(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Location: Auditorium 5
 

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Chair(s): Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen, Aleksandra Kazakova

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Ethical frontiers in human stem cell-based embryo model

Yaojin Peng

 

AI-driven synthetic biology: engineering philosophy, challenges, and ethical implications

Lu Gao

 

Bridging the responsibility gap: ethical responsibility pathways and framework reconstruction in artificial intelligence

Shuchan Wan, Cheng Zhou

 

Basic Ideas on Engineering science and engineering scientists: a contribution to philosophy of engineering science

Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen

(Symposium) Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach
Location: Auditorium 6
 

Human, gender, and trust in AI ethics: addressing structural issues through Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) Lab approach

Chair(s): Hao Wang

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The power and emotions in trustworthy AI

Hao Wang

 

Addressing problematic conceptual assumptions about human-technology relations in AI development practices

Luuk Stellinga

 

AI, Gender, and Agri-food

Mark Ryan

(Symposium) A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners
Location: Auditorium 7
 

A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners

Chair(s): Pieter Vermaas

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners

Pieter Vermaas

(Symposium) Teaching engineering ethics through aesthetic and embodied experiences
Location: Auditorium 8
 

Teaching Engineering Ethics through Aesthetic and embodied Experiences

Chair(s): Filippo Santoni de Sio, Jordi Viader Guerrero

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Teaching Philosophy through the Embodied Experience: Space and Power in the Classroom

Aarón Moreno Inglés

 

Engineering as an act of Care: Teaching Responsible Innovation through Empathy

Vivek Ramachandran

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
 

The role of technology in conceptual disruption

Ibo van de Poel



The good, the bad, and the disruptive: On the promise of niche construction theory for technology ethics

Jeroen Hopster, Elizabeth O'Neill



The sense of disruptive innovation

Georgios Tsagdis

(Papers) Postphenomenology
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Udo Pesch
 

Developing a Posthuman and Postphenomenological AI Literacy

Richard S Lewis



The temporal aspect of multistability: Extending postphenomenology through Bergson's theory of time

Shigeru Kobayashi



Technologically mediated deliberation: bringing postphenomenology to phronesis

Andrew Simon Zelny

(Papers) Human - Technology
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Julia Hermann
 

Human-technology relations down to earth

Steven Dorrestijn, Wouter Eggink



Special obligations from relationships with robots ——Beyond the relational approach to moral status——

Hayate Shimizu



Transforming technology: Marcuse and Simondon on technology, alienation, and work

Antonio Oraldi

(Papers) Virtue ethics I
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Maaike Eline Harmsen
 

Does technology transform phronesis? A foray into the virtues and vices of procycling

Tiago Mesquita Carvalho



Creative machines & human well-being: an ethical challenge for the fully flourishing life?

Matthew Dennis



Virtual Pregnancy

Daria Bylieva

(Papers) Social media
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Luca Possati
 

"But I did not mean to say that". On affective utterances on social media and their collective epistemic effects

Lavinia Marin



Smoking versus social networking; analyzing the analogy between tobacco use and social media use

Daphne Brandenburg

(Papers) Large Language Models I
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Alexandra Prégent
 

LLMs, autonomy, and narration

Björn Lundgren, Inken Titz



Intimacy as a Tech-Human Symbiosis: Reframing the LLM-User Experience from a Phenomenological Perspective

Stefano Calzati



Large language models and cognitive deskilling

Richard Heersmink

(Papers) Responsible innovation
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Kaush Kalidindi
 

Between Responsible Innovation and the Maintenance Turn: Imaginaries of Changeability and the Collaborative Frameworks for Philosophy of Technology and Environmental Ethics

Magdalena Holy-Luczaj

(Papers) Engineering ethics
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Andreas Spahn
 

Artificial Intelligence in design engineering practice

Hans Voordijk, Farid Vahdatikhaki, Maarten Verkerk



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

伯灵 孙, 旭 徐

(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Atlas 2.215
 

Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)

Chair(s): Marc Steen, Zoe Robaey

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Internal conflicts among moral obligations: pursuing a quest for the good as innovators

Marco Innocenti

 

Artificial virtues and hermeneutic harm

Andrew Rebera

     
10:05am
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11:20am
(Papers) Disruptive technology II
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Chair: Jeroen Hopster
 

Digital technologies and the disruption of the lifeworld

Christa Laurens, Vincent Blok, Bernice Bovenkerk, Nolen Gertz



Understanding deep technological disruptiveness as the social construction of human kinds

Wybo Houkes



Conceptual disruption and niche disruption

Guido Löhr

(Papers) Phenomenology I
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Wouter Eggink
 

Lost in extension: technology, ignorance, and cognitive phenomenology

Angel Rivera-Novoa



In the eye of the shitstorm: a critical phenomenology of digital conflict

Niclas Rautenberg



Responsibility gap: Introducing the phenomenological account of criminal law

Kamil Mamak

(Papers) Work
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Aarón Moreno Inglés
 

Democratizing workplace AI as general intellect

Tim Christiaens



All play and no work? AI and existential unemployment

Gary David O'Brien

(Symposium) Ways of Worldmaking and the Languages of Technology and art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the philosophy of technology
Location: Auditorium 3
 

Ways of Worldmaking and the Languages of Technology and Art – Symposium on Nelson Goodman and the Philosophy of Technology

Chair(s): Sabine Ammon, Alfred Nordmann, Ryan Wittingslow

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Ways of Worldmaking – What procedural epistemology can offer for the making of AI technologies: A casuistic exploration of AI knowledge technologies

Sabine Ammon, Philipp Geyer

 

Ways of worldmaking - symbolic orders and material compositions

Alfred Nordmann

 

Function as Exemplification

Ryan Wittingslow

 

Discussion and Commentary

Daria Bylieva, Sadegh Mirzaei, Leonie Möck

(Papers) Democracy
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Daphne Brandenburg
 

The new stage of democracy. A call for regulation of social media platforms based on theater theory

Alessandro Savi



Immaterial Constitution

Harry R. Halpin

(Papers) Large Language Models II
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Alexandra Prégent
 

“Who” is silenced when AI does the talking? Philosophical implications of using LLMs in relational settings

Tara Miranovic, Katleen Gabriels



Connecting Dots: Political and Ethical Considerations on the Centralization of Knowledge and Information in Data Platforms and LLMs

Anne-Marie McManus



LLMs and Testimonal Injustice

William James Victor Gopal

(Papers) Interpreting and engineering technology
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Hans Voordijk
 

Visualising the Quantum World in Quantum Technology: on Pragmatist and Realist Considerations in Quantum Interpretations

Thijs Latten



Information Technology engineers' professionalism international comparison

Hiroaki Kanematsu, Fuki Ueno, Minao Kukita



Enactivist App Design: Exper - a case study

Michael Butler, Colin Graves, Ian Werkheiser

(Papers) Ethics I
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Andrea Gammon
 

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

Alexander Martin Mussgnug



The bullshit singularity is near

Dylan Eric Wittkower

(Papers) Avatar
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Robin Hillenbrink
 

Avatar attachment in virtual worlds: The conflict between self-fictionalization and authentic representations

Clemens Uhing



AI ‘ancestors’? AI avatars in African ethics

Christopher Wareham

(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics)
Location: Atlas 2.215
 

Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics) -Part II

Chair(s): Marc Steen, Zoe Robaey

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Technological bullshit

Mandi Astola

 

Digital doppelgangers, moral deskilling, and the fragmented identity: a Confucian critique

Pak Hang Wong

   
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
 

Artificial moral discourse and the future of human morality

Elizabeth O'Neill



Recognition through technology: Design for recognition and its dangers

Nynke van Uffelen



LLM-based chatbots – the moral advisor in your pocket…why not?

Franziska Marie Poszler

(Papers) Philosophy of technology I
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Krist Vaesen
 

Philosophy of Technology and its extractivist Blind Spot: On Mechanisms of Occlusion

Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, Larissa Bolte, Julia Pelger



An empirical study of empirical philosophy of technology celebrating plurality

Anna Melnyk, Nynke Van Uffelen, Aafke Fraaije, Olya Kudina, Karen Moesker, Lavinia Marin, Dmitry Muravev



Technoscience: perspectives on a new concept for the philosophy of technology

José Luís Garcia

(Papers) Well-being
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Mariska Bosschaert
 

AI’s undervalued burden: Psychological impacts

Marcell Sebestyen



Personal well-being in the digital age: on the role of the sense of self

Lyanne Uhlhorn

(Papers) Emotions
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Maaike van der Horst
 

Emotional expressions, Informational opacity, and Technology: On the necessity of overt emotional expressions in social life

Alexandra Prégent



(Post)emotions in care: AI, mechanization, and emotional practices in the age of efficiency

Eliana Bergamin



Affective injustice and affective artificial intelligence

Kris Goffin, Alfred Archer

(Papers) Algorithms
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Sage Cammers-Goodwin
 

The power topology of algorithmic governance

Taicheng Tan



Believable generative agents: A self-fulfilling prophecy?

Leonie Alina Möck, Sven Thomas

(Papers) Privacy
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Donovan van der Haak
 

What is “mental” about Mental Privacy?

Felicitas Holzer, Orsolya Friedrich, Samuel Pedziwiatr



Is Privacy Security?

Daniel Susser

(Papers) Ethics II
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Maren Behrensen
 

Considering the social and economic sustainability of AI

Rosalie Waelen, Aimee Van Wynsberghe



Synthetic socio-technical systems: poiêsis as meaning making

Federica Russo, Andrew McIntyre



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

Pan Deng

(Papers) Digital age
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Martin Sand
 

The affective scaffolding of grief in the digital age: the case of deathbots

Mark Alfano



So close, yet so far: spatial production and immersive experiences in mixed reality-a case study of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Kagami

Jingni HUANG

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
 

Queering the sex robot: insights from queer Lacanian psychoanalysis and new materialism

Maaike van der Horst, Anna Puzio



Buddhist killer bots, sex bots and enlightenment bots

Tom Hannes

(Papers) Philosophy of technology II
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Olya Kudina
 

Vulnerability and technologies in post-normal times

Natalia Fernández Jimeno, Marta I. González García



Technical Expression and the mitigation of alienation in human-technology relationships

Kaush Kalidindi



What grounds technical functions: a critical assessment of dispositional account of technical functions

Enrong Pan, Kuiyuan Huang

(Papers) Personality, pediatrics and psychiatry
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Luca Possati
 

Personality without theory: Engineering AI personalities

Roman Krzanowski, Isabela Lipinska



The use of AI in pediatrics - an assessment matrix for consent requirements

Tommaso Bruni, Bert Heinrichs

(Papers) Care I
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Matthew Dennis
 

The helpless robot and the serving human

Lena Alicija Philine Fiedler



Preserving intimacy in dementia care: an ethical and technological approach towards an ecology of memory

Nathan Degreef

(Papers) Disruptive technology III
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Nolen Gertz
 

Ethical frameworks for disruptive technologies: Balancing innovation, privacy, and value-sensitive design

Mireia Bosch, Diego Zamora



It’s time to talk about moral progress: Facing the normativity of the philosophy of (disruptive) technologies

Jason Branford



Navigating conceptual disruption through affordances-informed conceptual engineering. Taxonomy and operationalisation

Samuela Marchiori

(Papers) Machine Learning
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Vlasta Sikimić
 

Fair to understansd fairness contexually in machine learning

Jyoti Kishore



Technology as a constellation: The challenges of doing ethics on enabling technologies

Sage Cammers-Goodwin, Michael Nagenborg

(Papers) Aligning values
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Donovan van der Haak
 

Aligning technology with human values

Martin Peterson



Aligning AI with ideal values: Comparing metanormative methods to the Social Expert Model

Erich Mark Riesen



Aligning values: setting better agendas for technology development

Yunxuan Miao

(Papers) Ethics III
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Daphne Brandenburg
 

The ethics of blockchain-based construction e-bidding

Venus Azamnia



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

Diego Morales



New reprogenetic technologies and challenges to informed consent in research

Inmaculada de Melo-Martin

(Papers) Intimacy I
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Samuele Murtinu
 

Intimacy and the Spatialization of Care: the case of Teleconsultation Booths

Nathan Degreef, Alain Loute



Intimate technology and moral vulnerability

Harry Weir-McAndrew

     
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
 

Personal and intimate relationships with AI: an assessment of their desirability

Philip Antoon Emiel Brey



Hybrid family – intimate life with artificial intelligence

Miroslav Vacura



(Don’t) come closer: Excentric design for intimate technologies

Esther L.O. Keymolen

(Papers) Philosophy of technology III
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Anna Melnyk
 

Techsploitation cinema: how movies shaped our technological world

Nolen Gertz



The Semi-Rational Creation of life: Challenges in Synthetic Biology

Lotte Asveld, Nynke Boiten

(Papers) Gender and the self
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Julia Hermann
 

Unpacking gender affirming surgeries: technology, identity, and acceptance

Stephen Lyndon Frommer



The connected self: anthropotechnics and identity in the digital domestic space

Carlo De Conte

(Papers) Care II
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Maaike van der Horst
 

The limits of care: A critical analysis of AI companions' capacity for good care

meiting Wang



From institutional psychotherapy to caring robots – a posthumanist perspective

Christoph Hubatschke, Ralf Vetter



Transformation of Autonomy in Human(patient)-AI/Robot-Relations

Kiyotaka Naoe

(Papers) Anthropomorphism
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Ibo van de Poel
 

Anthropomorphism, false beliefs and conversational AIs

Beatrice Marchegiani



What's the problem with anthropomorphising AI-driven systems?

Giles Howdle

(Papers) Language
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Diego Morales
 

Is extensible markup language perspectivist?

Timothy Tambassi



Wittgenstein’s Woodsellers and AI: Interpreting Large Language Models in practice: Rationality First vs Coherence First approaches

Mark Robrecht Theunissen



Time and Temporality in Engineering Language

Aleksandra Kazakova

(Papers) Decision-making
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Bouke van Balen
 

Two’s company, three’s a crowd: theoretical considerations for shared-decision making in AI-assisted healthcare

Emma-Jane Spencer, Cathleen Parsons, Stefan Buijsman



On the philosophical limits of artificially intelligent decisions

Samuele Murtinu



Shaping technology with society's voice: measuring gut feelings and values

Marieke van Vliet, Linda Hofman, Anika Kok, Fleur van Liesdonk, Bart Wernaart

(Papers) Virtue ethics II
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Matthew Dennis
 

Intelligence over wisdom: the price of conceptual priorities

Anuj Puri



Addressing challenges to virtue ethics in the application of artificial moral agents: From a Confucian perspective

Yin On Billy Poon

(Papers) Geo-engineering
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Aarón Moreno Inglés
 

The question concerning planetary technology: geo-engineering, sustainable technology, planetary boundaries, and the end of the Earth

Ole Thijs, Jochem Zwier



Do artifacts have eco-politics? A convivial critique of environmental techno-solutionism

Alessio Gerola



Environment, Technology, and Philosophy of Maintenance

Andrea Gammon

     
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
 

Matters of the Heart: Ethical Considerations in the development of a Soft Biocompatible Artificial Heart

Anne Bonvanie, Merlijn Smits



The Pull-Factor of Metaphors in Technology Development - a conceptual Vehicle for Ethical Vision Design

Nils Neuhaus, Nele Fischer, Sabine Ammon



Personal & prosthetic, historical & surgical

Ashley Shew

(Papers) Philosophy of technology IV
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Udo Pesch
 

REX with AI? Challenges for the return on experience in the digitized lifeworld

Bruno Gransche



Cognitive maps and the quantitative-qualitative divide

Dan Jerome Spitzner



Semiotics, technology, and the Infosphere

Andrew Wells Garnar

(Papers) Responsibility
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Jordi Viader Guerrero
 

Beyond acceptance: expanding the desirability assessment of potable water reuse

Karen Moesker, Udo Pesch



Responsibility Gaps and Engineers’ Obligations in the Design of AI Systems

Yutaka Akiba



Mapping the ethics landscape: moral distance in geospatial AI research

Peter Darch

(Papers) Cyborgs
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Lotte Asveld
 

Homo Translator: From biological models to to bio-inspired robots

Marco Tamborini



A two-dimensional conceptualization of human-technology intimacy: against the notion of cyborg-relations

Bouke van Balen, Caroline Bollen



To be a Cyborg - an autobiographical Narrative about the intimate Impact of Neurotechnology

Trijsje Franssen

(Papers) Trust
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Federica Russo
 

Human Trust and Artificial Intelligence Is an alignment possible?

Angelo Tumminelli, Federica Russo, Calogero Caltagirone, Dolores Sanchez, Antonio Estella, Livio Fenga



A Foul Stain? Trust in digital data reconsidered with Zuboff and Kant

Esther Oluffa Pedersen



A network approach to public trust in generative AI

Andrew McIntyre, Federica Russo, Lucy Conover

(Papers) Generative AI and risk
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Christa Laurens
 

Memes, generative AI, humor, and intimacy: collective empowerment through shared laughter

Alberto Romele, Fabrizio Defilippi



‘Trust the Machine?’: Conceptualising Trust in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Pia-Zoe Hahne



The Concept of ai Risk

Lieke Fröberg

(Papers) Quantified lives
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Wybo Houkes
 

Quantified self and society of control

Armen Khatchatouorv



The Quantification and Mechanization of Human-beings

Weibo Li

(Papers) Ethics V
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Andrea Gammon
 

Transcendental Technology Ethics

Donovan van der Haak



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

Larissa Bolte, Aimee van Wynsberghe



Against an ideal theory of justice for AI ethics

Alice Rangel Teixeira

(Papers) Justice
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Andreas Spahn
 

Technopolitical mediation and gezi park of istanbul

Melis Bas



Rethinking data ownership : Towards relational approaches to property

Aditya Singh



The limits of empathy as a design principle for intimate technologies: Wearable age-simulation devices

Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil

10:05am
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11:20am
(Papers) Ontology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
Chair: Ibo van de Poel
 

Information as dispositions: an ontological analysis

Mitchell Roberts



The Picture of Existence: Ontological commitments and existential trade-offs in the age of intimate technologies

Ângelo Nunes Milhano



Re-ontologising psychiatric illness using deep learning: ethical concerns beyond the clinic

Emily Postan

(Papers) Instrumentalism
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Wybo Houkes
 

Categories, institutions, instruments: technology as a category?

Johannes F.M. Schick



Instrumental rationality, value trade-offs, and medical AI

Zachary Daus



Beyond Instrumentalism: reframing human-centered AI through Simondon's philosophy of technical objects

Luuk Stellinga, Paulan Korenhof, Vincent Blok

(Papers) Mediation I
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Bouke van Balen
 

Can interpersonal trust be digitally mediated? A panoramic view of trust relations on Airbnb

Micol Mieli



Design and the Contemporary Self as Extimate Form

Jesse Josua Benjamin



A Critique of technological Ideology in Taiwanese folk religion

Wei Min Tsai

(Papers) Autonomous systems
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Hans Voordijk
 

Vicarious responsibility and autonomous systems

Fabio Tollon



Ensuring Transparency and Accepting Failure in the Application of Autonomous Driving Technology in Smart City FormationーUtilization of Special Zones in Japan

Mayu Terada

(Papers) Epistemology I
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Maaike Eline Harmsen
 

The Sullenberger case and the epistemic role of simulations and digital twin technologies

Laura Crompton



(In)visibility reductions: a feminist epistemology critique of online ‘shadowbanning’

Mariam Al Askari



Epistemological imbalances in assessment of surveillance technologies: what CCTV cameras show us

Blas Alonso

(Papers) Computing and quantification
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Chirag Arora
 

The productive function of technology with regard to subjectification and the example of affective computing

Sebastian Nähr-Wagener, Orsolya Friedrich



The Soylent Mentality: "Efficiency Fundamentalism" and the Future of Food

Ryan Jenkins



The ethical fabric of computational social science research: norms, practices, and values

Chirag Arora

(Papers) Politics I
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Michael Nagenborg
 

Ontic capture and technofascism

Maren Behrensen



The Politics of social XAI

Suzana Alpsancar, Eugenia Stamboliev



Algorithmic politics and totalitarianism: a critical analysis of ai politics from hannah arendt’s perspective

Donghoon Lee

(Papers) Agency I
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Lotte Asveld
 

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

Anna Puzio, Alessio Gerola, Samuela Marchiori



Philosophical reflections on agency in the making

Mike Martin



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

Xue Yu

 
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
 

Geo-engineering revisited: A reformational critique

Maaike Eline Harmsen

(Symposium) Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production
Location: Auditorium 1
 

Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production

Chair(s): Mark Thomas Young

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Artifact metabolisms: the material flows of an iphone

Mark Thomas Young

 

Maintenance of ethnological artifacts: from preservation to reconciliation

Mark Theunissen

 

Brokedown tractors and the existential need for a right to repair

Brooke Rudow

(Papers) System Design
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Wybo Houkes
 

Technological immersion and automatism

Roberto Wu



Integrating social vulnerabilities in implementing nuclear power plants design

JOHANES NARASETU WIDYATMANTO

(Papers) Authenticity
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Filippo Santoni de Sio
 

AI-produced research in the humanities: Am I the author? Does it matter?

Thomas Nelson Metcalf



From Automation to Authenticity: Rethinking AI through the MEAT framework

Rasleen Kour



Autonomy, relationality and emancipation in the digital age

Eloise Changyue Soulier

(Papers) Epistemology II
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Philip Nickel
 

The epistemology of AI: public perceptions and interventions for responsible use

Aviv Barnoy



The epistemic competences needed for Human Machine Interaction: Dealing with individual, social, and other factors to solve the engineering problem of interface design

Michael Poznic, Vivek Kant



Intimate compression: AI systems and the personal nature of architectural knowledge

Simon Maris

(Papers) Ethics VI
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Nynke van Uffelen
 

From artificial wombs to lab grown embryos: technologies and the myth of the ex-utero human

Llona Kavege, Amy Hinterberger



AI agency in medical practices: The case of pathology

Oceane Fiant



Could Artificial Intelligence Assuage Loneliness? If so, which kind?

Ramon Alvarado

(Papers) Politics II
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Alessio Gerola
 

The Drivers of technological Hegemony: the political Dynamic of the Computerization of the French National Health Insurance Fund (1963-1979)

Maud Barret Bertelloni



Political instability and technological society

Wha-Chul Son



Beyond technopolitics: presuppositions of a redeemed future

Mallikarjun Nagral

(Papers) Agency II
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Pieter Vermaas
 

Temporal intimacy. Near-term expectations of a driverless future

Sebastian Pranz



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

Joel Anderson

(Papers) Education I
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
 

A conceptual framework for defining the responsibilities of engineers and situating them in education practice

Diana Adela Martin



Philosophical pedagogy and the role of board games: a cross-disciplinary exploration

Jing-Li Hong



Technological designs as possibility operators

Alvaro David Monterroza-Rios

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
 

Shipwrecks as adaptive mediators: a new media reality of the Anthropocene

Benjamin Morris King



From anthropocene to technocene. The story of our fate

Klaus Erlach

(Papers) Conceptual analysis
Location: Auditorium 1
Chair: Krist Vaesen
 

Phronesis for AI systems: conceptual foundations

Roman Krzanowski, Paweł Polak



One possible definition of technology- an approach from Don Ihde

Yingke Wang



Queering 'the Times of AI'

Judith Campagne

(Papers) Mediation III
Location: Auditorium 2
Chair: Maren Behrensen
 

On Escape: breaking free from technological mediation

Jan Peter Bergen



The ‘Technological Environmentality Compass’: factors to consider when designing technological mediations across humans, technologies, and the environment.

Margoth Gonzalez Woge



Outside-in: rethinking technologically mediated moral enhancement

Ching Hung

(Papers) Artificial Intelligence
Location: Auditorium 3
Chair: Luuk Stellinga
 

Towards friendship among nonhumans: human, dog and robot

Masashi Takeshita



Artificial intelligence aided resolution of moral disagreement

Berker Bahceci



Befriending AI: a cybernetic view

Naketa Williams

(Papers) Epistemology III
Location: Auditorium 4
Chair: Philip Nickel
 

Epistemic (in)justice in self-monitoring platforms for mental health

Tineke Broer, Emiel Krahmer, Gert Meyers, Roshnee Ossewaarde, Jenny Slatman, Charlotte Zegveld



Crip expertise and technological knowledge

Oliver Shuey

(Papers) Data II
Location: Auditorium 5
Chair: Sage Cammers-Goodwin
 

Epistemology of ignorance and datafication – To interrogate the necessity for secrecy in AI through marginalised groups’ experiences

Marilou Niedda



Reclaiming control of thought and behavior data through the right to freedom of thought.

Kristina Pakhomchik

(Papers) Sovereignty
Location: Auditorium 6
Chair: Sabine Roeser
 

On technological Sovereignty and innovation Sovereignty

Rene von Schomberg



Digital technologies and social sustainability: from data governances’ perspective

Pauldin Lawrence



Rethinking sovereignty in a digital age

Glen Miller

(Papers) Autonomy
Location: Auditorium 7
Chair: Mariska Bosschaert
 

AI outsourcing and the value of autonomy

Eleonora Catena



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

Guihong Zhang



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

Kathrin Bednar, Julia Hermann

(Papers) Education II
Location: Auditorium 8
Chair: Andreas Spahn
 

AI and democratic education: A critical pragmatist perspective

Michał Wieczorek



AI in primary and secondary education: Sphere transgressions and value disruptions based on a scoping review of policy documents

Yuri Gawein Toussaan Tax, Marthe Stevens, Tamar Sharon, Femke Takes

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
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The ‘third wave’ of philosophical questioning: on concepts coming into action (Technology and being there)

Hub Zwart

 

«Die Frage nach der Technik» as «Die Frage nach der Philosophie»

Agostino Cera

 

Heidegger and the limits of the empirical turn

Matheus Ferreira de Barros

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition
Location: Auditorium 15
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition

Chair(s): Darryl Cressman

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Heidegger, "the intimate technology revolution," and AI

Natalie Nenadic

 

Simondon, Heidegger, and the digitalization of farming

Mariska Bosschaert

(Symposium) John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical epistemical and political
Location: Auditorium 13
 

John Dewey and philosophy of technology: bridging the ethical, epistemic and political

Chair(s): Michał Wieczorek

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Intelligent writing habits: a Deweyan take on the postphenomenology of generative AI

Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann

 

Dewey and the interaction between technology and morality

Ibo van de Poel

 

Democracy as communication: democracy from a Deweyan perspective and its implications for evaluating technology

Mark Coeckelbergh

 

AI, the public, and its problems: a Deweyan perspective

Olya Kudina

(Symposium) In search of legitimation: the dynamic tensions in the regulation of privacy and data rights in Vietnam
Location: Auditorium 12
 

In Search of Legitimation: The Dynamic Tensions in the Regulation of Privacy and Data Rights in Vietnam

Chair(s): Toan Le

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Digital transformation and personal autonomy amid the authoritarian governance: An analysis of Vietnam’s 2024 Data Law

Thiem Hai Bui

 

Everyone is safe now: constructing the meaning of data privacy regulation in vietnam

Tu Thien Huynh

 

Not-Too-Late for Data Propertization in Vietnam: Trends, Blockages and Proposals

Khoi Trong Dao

 

Exploring changes in vietnam’s crypto-assets regulation: networks, nodes, and gravity

Khanh Thuy Le

 

Promoting innovative technologies and addressing privacy concerns in green finance in vietnam

Tram Anh Ngoc Nguyen

(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution
Location: Auditorium 11
 

Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution

Chair(s): Benedict Lane

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A relational ethics approach to navigate the socio-technical challenges of quantum technologies: Addressing the gaps in Responsible Innovation and Design for Values

María Palacios Barea

 

Infrastructures of responsible quantum technologies

Adrian Schmidt, Zeki C. Seskir

 

Revisiting the Security Dilemma in the Context of the Quantum Internet

Sybolt Doorn

(Symposium) Philosophy of technology in Latin America and SPT's global support
Location: Auditorium 10
 

Philosophy of Technology in Latin America and SPT’s Global Support

Chair(s): Pieter Vermaas

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Philosophy of Technology in Latin America and SPT’s Global Support

pieter vermaas

(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
 

A Political (Re-)Turn in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology - Political philosophy of technology: between tragedy and utopia

Chair(s): Giovanni Frigo

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Where to political philosophy of technology?

Martin Sand

 

The tragedy of great power technologies

Carl Mitcham

 

Problematising Political Uses of History in the Philosophy of Technology

Christopher Coenen

 
9:50am
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10:50am
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part II

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Pharmacology of artificial intelligence: Stiegler’s exotranscendantal philosophy of digital technology

Anne Alombert

 

Response against Reaction: Stiegler’s positive philosophy of technology

Benoit Dillet

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition
Location: Auditorium 15
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition

Chair(s): Federica Buongiorno

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Huamans, Technique, and Machine in Canguilhem's philosophy

Emanuele Clarizio

 

A History of Vitalism in French Philosophers of Technology

Hannes van Engeland

 

Pharmacology of plasticity: bridging stiegler and malabou

Pietro Prunotto

(Symposium) Postphenomenology II: practical applications
Location: Auditorium 14
 

Postphenomenology II: practical applications

Chair(s): Kirk M. Besmer

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Appropriating hidden technologies: a postphenomenological response to critical algorithm studies

Olya Kudina, Anthony Longo

 

Intimate technology: the postphenomenological meme use case

Stacey Irwin

 

Postphenomenology and technologies in times of multiple crises

Markus Bohlmann

(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
 

Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution

Chair(s): Benedict Lane

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Identifying alternatives to the de facto division of moral labour in ELSA engagement with quantum technology development

Clare Shelley-Egan, Benedict Lane

 

Responsible innovation ecosystems: advancing quantum for good through gender-transformative approaches

Shamira Ahmed

(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
 

A Political (Re-)Turn in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology - Power and domination

Chair(s): Glenn Miller

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Why Representations of the Future (Should) Matter for Political Philosophy of Technology? ‘Modal Power’ and Socio-Technical Directionality

Sergio Urueña

 

Gadgets, gimmicks, garbage: domination and irresponsible innovation

Lukas Fuchs

 

Energy, war, power: political philosophy of engineering and technology during armed conflict

Giovanni Frigo

 
10:50am
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11:50am
Coffee & Tea break
Location: Voorhof
Poster session
Location: Senaatszaal
 

Polished, primitive, or sophisticated: What videogame graphics can tell us about colonial and postcolonial aesthetics.

Afra Willems



All in on AI: A critical look at the effects of creating with AI-powered tools

Denzel Hagen, Marcello Gómez Maureira, Kristi Claassen



Digital colonialism and critical communication infrastructures: submarine cables and data and power routes in Portugal and Brazil

Ana Carolina Haddad



EduLARP as an educational method for discussing ethical impact of intimate technologies

Verena Schulze Greiving



How do scientists accept knowledge generated by AI technology?——A case study of AlphaFold

Enrong Pan, Ziming Wang



How semantic web technologies afford information processing agents

Yaoli Du



Research ethics education using scientific Communication: the case of kyushu university in japan

Toshiya Kobayashi



Shareable health data dashboard for social support during grief recovery

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Sam Muller, Sanne Schoenmakers



Speculative Ethics; Practicing philosophy of technology in design education

Wouter Eggink



Traffic lights: from social justice to digital surveillance

Victoria Lobatyuk



Where am I? -- Self and Attention in the Digital Net Culture

Domenico Schneider

11:50am
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12:50pm
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology
Location: Blauwe Zaal
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part III

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Philosophy of technology today: ethics without self

Amelie Berger-Soraruff

 

Rationality after the ‘algorithmic turn’

Natalia Juchniewicz

 

For the Ontological Rehabilitation of the Techno-Aesthetic Feeling

Andrea Zoppis

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: History and Historicity of the Empirical Turn
Location: Auditorium 15
 

The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn and the historization of the philosophy of technology

Chair(s): Darryl Cressman

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Massimiliano Simons

 

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

Agostino Cera

(Symposium) Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons
Location: Auditorium 14
 

Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons

Chair(s): Bas de Boer

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The technical artefact mediating between hegel and ihde

Fernando Secomandi

 

My life continues without me: sartre on death and personally-curated griefbots

Kirk Besmer

 

Postphenomenology and temporality: digital technologies and tertiary retentions

Bas de Boer

(Symposium) TechnoPedia - an online Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Encyclopedia
Location: Auditorium 13
 

Introducing the 4TU.ethics encyclopedia of philosophy and ethics of technology

Chair(s): Jochem Zwier, Vincent Blok, Udo Pesch, Wybo Houkes

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

[no separate papers in this symposium, see NB below]

Jochem Zwier 4TU Zwier

(Papers) Phenomenology II
Location: Auditorium 12
Chair: Tom Hannes
 

A better self: transhumanism and deincarnation.

Orane Kail



Psychopathology, criminalization and portable technologies among people experiencing homelessness and mental illness: a postphenomenogical analysis

Vincent Laliberté

(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
 

A Political (Re-)Turn in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology - Political liberal philosophy

Chair(s): Lukas Fuchs

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Reciprocity & Reasonability in the Age of AI

Paige Benton

 

Technologies as promoters of justice. a capability-based framework

Daniel Lara De La Fuente

 

A rawlsian philosophy of technology and engineering?

Michael W. Schmidt

Author-Meets-Critics session
Location: Forum
 

Are LLMs Creative?

Fernando Nascimento, Scott Davidson



Design for Democracy: Deliberation, experimentation, aesthetic engagement, anti-power

Filippo Santoni de Sio



The routledge international handbook of engineering ethics education

Tom Børsen, Diana Adela Martin, Gunter Bombaerts



What's wrong with technological mediation theory (and how to fix it)

Phillip Honenberger



Why should we revive the definition of technology as applied science?

Daian Tatiana Flórez, Carlos García

 
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
 

Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part IV

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

After cybernetics, after thinking

Yuk Hui

 

Evil incorporated. the tragic philosophy of technology of mehdi belhaj kacem

Pieter Lemmens

 

Towards an Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology

Marco Pavani

 

Can we read Stiegler environmentally

Martin Ritter

(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: Hidden philosophers of technology
Location: Auditorium 15
 

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

Chair(s): Massimiliano Simons

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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

Dominic Smith

 

Arendt and the Philosophy of Technology

Jurgita Imbrasaite

 

Technology and Historical Time: Insights from the Annales and Hermeneutics

Darryl Cressman

(Papers) Prediction
Location: Auditorium 13
Chair: Wouter Eggink
 

Technological predictions: rethinking design through active inference and the free energy principle

Luca Possati



AI Oracles and the Technological Re-Enchantment of the World

Lucy Císař Brown, Petr Špecián



Sleepwalkers in a scenario of a happy apocalypse?

Helena Mateus Jeronimo

(Papers) Sustainability and energy
Location: Auditorium 12
Chair: Gunter Bombaerts
 

Understanding Polarisation in the Energy Transition

Udo Pesch



"Koyaanisqatsi", that is, Technophany at work

Agostino Cera

(Papers) Legislation
Location: Auditorium 11
Chair: Lambèr Royakkers
 

Between Human and Algorithmic Decisions: Analyzing the Ambiguities in the AI Act Definition of AI

David Doat



Test and regulation: how testing to regulation leads to failure

Matthew James Phillip Wragg

(Papers) Farming
Location: Auditorium 10
Chair: Tijn Borghuis
 

Reconciling technology and tradition: exploring the sustainability of drone-assisted wild berry foraging in Finland

Anne-Marie Oostveen



What did the rice-farming calendar do? -Changing relationships between farmers and farmland in Japanese rice farming

Toshihiro Suzuki



Preparing the Field for AI and Data Intensive Agroecological Research

Emma Cavazzoni, Sabina Leonelli, Daniele Giannetti, Niccolò Patelli, Giacomo Vaccari

(Symposium) A political (re-)turn in the philosophy of engineering and technology
Location: Auditorium 9
 

A Political (Re-)Turn in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology - Technological mediation

Chair(s): Michael W. Schmidt

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Toward a robust political philosophy of technology: aiming to transform and transcend regionalizations

Glenn Miller

 

Artificial intelligence and common goods: an uneasy relationship

Avigail Ferdman

 

Explainable AI as a rhetorical technology

Wessel Reijers, Tobias Matzner, Suzana Alpsancar

 
3:50pm
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4:30pm
Closing and Members Meeting
Location: Blauwe Zaal

 
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