Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025 | ||||
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Registration Location: Voorhof |
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1:30pm - 1:45pm |
Word of Welcome Location: Blauwe Zaal |
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1:45pm - 2:45pm |
Keynote 1 - Sabina Leonelli - Environmental intelligence: Subverting the philosophical premises for AI Location: Blauwe Zaal |
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3:00pm - 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 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 Thinking Otherwise Intimate technologies and liberation Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI |
(Symposium) Democratic technologies in East Asia Location: Auditorium 1 Democratic technologies in East Asia Presentations of the Symposium CCTV use among Hong Kong sex workers Democratic strateies in South Korean energy communities Addressing technological literarcy for Hong Kong elderly Digital technologies' impact on charcter formation in Hong Kong young people |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Historicising voice biometrics: the colonial continuity of listening, from the sound archive to the acoustic database Antimilitarism & algorithms: design interventions and investigative data practices Teaching machines, managed learning and remote examination Exemplary situations of technological breakdown in the philosophy of technology: who and what is at stake in learning from failure? |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Understanding generalization in large language models Large language models are conversational zombies. Chatbots and speech acts: how to (not) do things with words The double LLM trust fallacy Generative AI, political communication and manipulation: the role of epistemic agency |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Session structure |
(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue Location: Auditorium 5 Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue Presentations of the Symposium Practice is the source of true knowledge: Lesson from the flight experiments of Samuel Langley and the Wright brothers A reflection on the development of cryogenic engineering Effective development of gulong shale oil under the guidance of engineering philosophy Engineering innovations in novel supercritical fluids energy and power systems: from fundamentals to application demonstrations The enhancement of technical requirements for astronaut training in deep space exploration and philosophical reflections |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium List of discussants |
(Symposium) Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation Location: Auditorium 7 Between mind and machine: symbolic and phenomenological roots of computation Presentations of the Symposium Writing as calculus. New sciences of writing and phenomenology (Logical) Piano lessons: Jevons and the roots of computational subjectivity Turing’s design of a brain. Operative and thematic concepts of computing machinery Is your brain a sort of computer? Computation as a symbolic form between humans and machines |
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4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Coffee & Tea break Location: Voorhof |
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5:00pm - 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 Presentations of the Symposium Can technology destroy desire? Stieglerian considerations The algorithmic other: AI, desire, and self-formation on digital platforms Deadbots and the unconscious: A qualitative analysis Reconceptualizing reciprocity through a lacanian lens: the case of human-robot-interactions |
(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 Grasping the impact of artificial intelligence on the tourism industry Battery development beyond justice. A care-based energy ethics |
(Papers) Malfunction Location: Auditorium 3 Chair: Samuela Marchiori That’s not a bug, that’s an accidental function: on malfunctioning artifacts and concepts The Ethics and Epistemology of Malfunction in Human-Technology Integration Ascribing functions to software |
(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? Presentations of the Symposium Symposium Schedule (90 minutes) |
(Symposium) Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue Location: Auditorium 5 Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue Presentations of the Symposium Ethical frontiers in human stem cell-based embryo model AI-driven synthetic biology: engineering philosophy, challenges, and ethical implications Bridging the responsibility gap: ethical responsibility pathways and framework reconstruction in artificial intelligence Basic Ideas on Engineering science and engineering scientists: a contribution to philosophy of engineering science |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium The power and emotions in trustworthy AI Addressing problematic conceptual assumptions about human-technology relations in AI development practices AI, Gender, and Agri-food |
(Symposium) A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners Location: Auditorium 7 A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners Presentations of the Symposium A code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners |
(Symposium) Teaching engineering ethics through aesthetic and embodied experiences Location: Auditorium 8 Teaching Engineering Ethics through Aesthetic and embodied Experiences Presentations of the Symposium Teaching Philosophy through the Embodied Experience: Space and Power in the Classroom Engineering as an act of Care: Teaching Responsible Innovation through Empathy |
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6:30pm - 8:00pm |
Social drinks Location: Senaatszaal |
Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025 | ||||
8:15am - 8:45am |
Registration Location: Voorhof |
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8:45am - 10:00am |
(Papers) Disruptive technology I Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Philip Antoon Emiel Brey The role of technology in conceptual disruption The good, the bad, and the disruptive: On the promise of niche construction theory for technology ethics The sense of disruptive innovation |
(Papers) Postphenomenology Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Udo Pesch Developing a Posthuman and Postphenomenological AI Literacy The temporal aspect of multistability: Extending postphenomenology through Bergson's theory of time Technologically mediated deliberation: bringing postphenomenology to phronesis |
(Papers) Human - Technology Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Julia Hermann Human-technology relations down to earth Special obligations from relationships with robots ——Beyond the relational approach to moral status—— Transforming technology: Marcuse and Simondon on technology, alienation, and work |
(Papers) Virtue ethics I Location: Auditorium 3 Chair: Maaike Eline Harmsen Does technology transform phronesis? A foray into the virtues and vices of procycling Creative machines & human well-being: an ethical challenge for the fully flourishing life? Virtual Pregnancy |
(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 Smoking versus social networking; analyzing the analogy between tobacco use and social media use |
(Papers) Large Language Models I Location: Auditorium 5 Chair: Alexandra Prégent LLMs, autonomy, and narration Intimacy as a Tech-Human Symbiosis: Reframing the LLM-User Experience from a Phenomenological Perspective Large language models and cognitive deskilling |
(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 |
(Papers) Engineering ethics Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Andreas Spahn Artificial Intelligence in design engineering practice Concept Engineering: a new approach to address Conceptual Disruption and Virtual Ethical Dilemmas |
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(Symposium) Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics) Location: Atlas 2.215 Virtue ethics (SPT Special Interest Group on virtue ethics) Presentations of the Symposium Internal conflicts among moral obligations: pursuing a quest for the good as innovators Artificial virtues and hermeneutic harm |
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10:05am - 11:20am |
(Papers) Disruptive technology II Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Jeroen Hopster Digital technologies and the disruption of the lifeworld Understanding deep technological disruptiveness as the social construction of human kinds Conceptual disruption and niche disruption |
(Papers) Phenomenology I Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Wouter Eggink Lost in extension: technology, ignorance, and cognitive phenomenology In the eye of the shitstorm: a critical phenomenology of digital conflict Responsibility gap: Introducing the phenomenological account of criminal law |
(Papers) Work Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Aarón Moreno Inglés Democratizing workplace AI as general intellect All play and no work? AI and existential unemployment |
(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 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 Ways of worldmaking - symbolic orders and material compositions Function as Exemplification Discussion and Commentary |
(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 Immaterial Constitution |
(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 Connecting Dots: Political and Ethical Considerations on the Centralization of Knowledge and Information in Data Platforms and LLMs LLMs and Testimonal Injustice |
(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 Information Technology engineers' professionalism international comparison Enactivist App Design: Exper - a case study |
(Papers) Ethics I Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Andrea Gammon Technology as uncharted territory: Contextual integrity and the notion of AI as new ethical ground The bullshit singularity is near |
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(Papers) Avatar Location: Auditorium 8 Chair: Robin Hillenbrink Avatar attachment in virtual worlds: The conflict between self-fictionalization and authentic representations AI ‘ancestors’? AI avatars in African ethics |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Technological bullshit Digital doppelgangers, moral deskilling, and the fragmented identity: a Confucian critique |
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11:20am - 11:50am |
Coffee & Tea break Location: Voorhof |
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11:50am - 1:05pm |
(Papers) Values Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Pieter Vermaas Artificial moral discourse and the future of human morality Recognition through technology: Design for recognition and its dangers LLM-based chatbots – the moral advisor in your pocket…why not? |
(Papers) Philosophy of technology I Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Krist Vaesen Philosophy of Technology and its extractivist Blind Spot: On Mechanisms of Occlusion An empirical study of empirical philosophy of technology celebrating plurality Technoscience: perspectives on a new concept for the philosophy of technology |
(Papers) Well-being Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Mariska Bosschaert AI’s undervalued burden: Psychological impacts Personal well-being in the digital age: on the role of the sense of self |
(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 (Post)emotions in care: AI, mechanization, and emotional practices in the age of efficiency Affective injustice and affective artificial intelligence |
(Papers) Algorithms Location: Auditorium 5 Chair: Sage Cammers-Goodwin The power topology of algorithmic governance Believable generative agents: A self-fulfilling prophecy? |
(Papers) Privacy Location: Auditorium 6 Chair: Donovan van der Haak What is “mental” about Mental Privacy? Is Privacy Security? |
(Papers) Ethics II Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Maren Behrensen Considering the social and economic sustainability of AI Synthetic socio-technical systems: poiêsis as meaning making Exploring Kantian Part-Representation and Self-Setting Concepts in the Age of Artificial Intelligence |
(Papers) Digital age Location: Auditorium 8 Chair: Martin Sand The affective scaffolding of grief in the digital age: the case of deathbots So close, yet so far: spatial production and immersive experiences in mixed reality-a case study of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Kagami |
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1:05pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch break Location: Senaatszaal |
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2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Keynote 2 - Shannon Vallor - De-coding our humanity: Reflections on intimate and immanent technologies Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Lambèr Royakkers |
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3:35pm - 4:50pm |
(Papers) Sex robots Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Lily Frank Queering the sex robot: insights from queer Lacanian psychoanalysis and new materialism Buddhist killer bots, sex bots and enlightenment bots |
(Papers) Philosophy of technology II Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Olya Kudina Vulnerability and technologies in post-normal times Technical Expression and the mitigation of alienation in human-technology relationships What grounds technical functions: a critical assessment of dispositional account of technical functions |
(Papers) Personality, pediatrics and psychiatry Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Luca Possati Personality without theory: Engineering AI personalities The use of AI in pediatrics - an assessment matrix for consent requirements |
(Papers) Care I Location: Auditorium 3 Chair: Matthew Dennis The helpless robot and the serving human Preserving intimacy in dementia care: an ethical and technological approach towards an ecology of memory |
(Papers) Disruptive technology III Location: Auditorium 4 Chair: Nolen Gertz Ethical frameworks for disruptive technologies: Balancing innovation, privacy, and value-sensitive design It’s time to talk about moral progress: Facing the normativity of the philosophy of (disruptive) technologies Navigating conceptual disruption through affordances-informed conceptual engineering. Taxonomy and operationalisation |
(Papers) Machine Learning Location: Auditorium 5 Chair: Vlasta Sikimić Fair to understansd fairness contexually in machine learning Technology as a constellation: The challenges of doing ethics on enabling technologies |
(Papers) Aligning values Location: Auditorium 6 Chair: Donovan van der Haak Aligning technology with human values Aligning AI with ideal values: Comparing metanormative methods to the Social Expert Model Aligning values: setting better agendas for technology development |
(Papers) Ethics III Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Daphne Brandenburg The ethics of blockchain-based construction e-bidding Managing folk terms in AI: the placeholder strategy as a lesson from comparative cognition New reprogenetic technologies and challenges to informed consent in research |
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(Papers) Intimacy I Location: Auditorium 8 Chair: Samuele Murtinu Intimacy and the Spatialization of Care: the case of Teleconsultation Booths Intimate technology and moral vulnerability |
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4:50pm - 5:20pm |
Coffee & Tea break Location: Voorhof |
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5:20pm - 6:35pm |
(Papers) Intimacy II Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Lily Frank Personal and intimate relationships with AI: an assessment of their desirability Hybrid family – intimate life with artificial intelligence (Don’t) come closer: Excentric design for intimate technologies |
(Papers) Philosophy of technology III Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Anna Melnyk Techsploitation cinema: how movies shaped our technological world The Semi-Rational Creation of life: Challenges in Synthetic Biology |
(Papers) Gender and the self Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Julia Hermann Unpacking gender affirming surgeries: technology, identity, and acceptance The connected self: anthropotechnics and identity in the digital domestic space |
(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 From institutional psychotherapy to caring robots – a posthumanist perspective Transformation of Autonomy in Human(patient)-AI/Robot-Relations |
(Papers) Anthropomorphism Location: Auditorium 4 Chair: Ibo van de Poel Anthropomorphism, false beliefs and conversational AIs What's the problem with anthropomorphising AI-driven systems? |
(Papers) Language Location: Auditorium 5 Chair: Diego Morales Is extensible markup language perspectivist? Wittgenstein’s Woodsellers and AI: Interpreting Large Language Models in practice: Rationality First vs Coherence First approaches Time and Temporality in Engineering Language |
(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 On the philosophical limits of artificially intelligent decisions Shaping technology with society's voice: measuring gut feelings and values |
(Papers) Virtue ethics II Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Matthew Dennis Intelligence over wisdom: the price of conceptual priorities Addressing challenges to virtue ethics in the application of artificial moral agents: From a Confucian perspective |
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(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 Do artifacts have eco-politics? A convivial critique of environmental techno-solutionism Environment, Technology, and Philosophy of Maintenance |
Date: Friday, 27/June/2025 | |||
8:15am - 8:45am |
Registration Location: Voorhof |
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8:45am - 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 The Pull-Factor of Metaphors in Technology Development - a conceptual Vehicle for Ethical Vision Design Personal & prosthetic, historical & surgical |
(Papers) Philosophy of technology IV Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Udo Pesch REX with AI? Challenges for the return on experience in the digitized lifeworld Cognitive maps and the quantitative-qualitative divide Semiotics, technology, and the Infosphere |
(Papers) Responsibility Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Jordi Viader Guerrero Beyond acceptance: expanding the desirability assessment of potable water reuse Responsibility Gaps and Engineers’ Obligations in the Design of AI Systems Mapping the ethics landscape: moral distance in geospatial AI research |
(Papers) Cyborgs Location: Auditorium 3 Chair: Lotte Asveld Homo Translator: From biological models to to bio-inspired robots A two-dimensional conceptualization of human-technology intimacy: against the notion of cyborg-relations To be a Cyborg - an autobiographical Narrative about the intimate Impact of Neurotechnology |
(Papers) Trust Location: Auditorium 4 Chair: Federica Russo Human Trust and Artificial Intelligence Is an alignment possible? A Foul Stain? Trust in digital data reconsidered with Zuboff and Kant A network approach to public trust in generative AI |
(Papers) Generative AI and risk Location: Auditorium 5 Chair: Christa Laurens Memes, generative AI, humor, and intimacy: collective empowerment through shared laughter ‘Trust the Machine?’: Conceptualising Trust in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence The Concept of ai Risk |
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(Papers) Quantified lives Location: Auditorium 6 Chair: Wybo Houkes Quantified self and society of control The Quantification and Mechanization of Human-beings |
(Papers) Ethics V Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Andrea Gammon Transcendental Technology Ethics Sustainable AI and the third wave of AI ethics: a structural turn Against an ideal theory of justice for AI ethics |
(Papers) Justice Location: Auditorium 8 Chair: Andreas Spahn Technopolitical mediation and gezi park of istanbul Rethinking data ownership : Towards relational approaches to property The limits of empathy as a design principle for intimate technologies: Wearable age-simulation devices |
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10:05am - 11:20am |
(Papers) Ontology Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Ibo van de Poel Information as dispositions: an ontological analysis The Picture of Existence: Ontological commitments and existential trade-offs in the age of intimate technologies Re-ontologising psychiatric illness using deep learning: ethical concerns beyond the clinic |
(Papers) Instrumentalism Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Wybo Houkes Categories, institutions, instruments: technology as a category? Instrumental rationality, value trade-offs, and medical AI Beyond Instrumentalism: reframing human-centered AI through Simondon's philosophy of technical objects |
(Papers) Mediation I Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Bouke van Balen Can interpersonal trust be digitally mediated? A panoramic view of trust relations on Airbnb Design and the Contemporary Self as Extimate Form A Critique of technological Ideology in Taiwanese folk religion |
(Papers) Autonomous systems Location: Auditorium 3 Chair: Hans Voordijk Vicarious responsibility and autonomous systems Ensuring Transparency and Accepting Failure in the Application of Autonomous Driving Technology in Smart City FormationーUtilization of Special Zones in Japan |
(Papers) Epistemology I Location: Auditorium 4 Chair: Maaike Eline Harmsen The Sullenberger case and the epistemic role of simulations and digital twin technologies (In)visibility reductions: a feminist epistemology critique of online ‘shadowbanning’ Epistemological imbalances in assessment of surveillance technologies: what CCTV cameras show us |
(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 The Soylent Mentality: "Efficiency Fundamentalism" and the Future of Food The ethical fabric of computational social science research: norms, practices, and values |
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(Papers) Politics I Location: Auditorium 6 Chair: Michael Nagenborg Ontic capture and technofascism The Politics of social XAI Algorithmic politics and totalitarianism: a critical analysis of ai politics from hannah arendt’s perspective |
(Papers) Agency I Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Lotte Asveld Welcoming the other: More-than-human agency in regenerative design Philosophical reflections on agency in the making Enactive agency in the technological world: rethinking human-technology relationships |
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11:20am - 11:50am |
Coffee & Tea break Location: Voorhof |
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11:50am - 1:05pm |
(Papers) Climate change Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Kaush Kalidindi Geo-engineering revisited: A reformational critique |
(Symposium) Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production Location: Auditorium 1 Maintenance & repair: philosophy of technology after production Presentations of the Symposium Artifact metabolisms: the material flows of an iphone Maintenance of ethnological artifacts: from preservation to reconciliation Brokedown tractors and the existential need for a right to repair |
(Papers) System Design Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Wybo Houkes Technological immersion and automatism Integrating social vulnerabilities in implementing nuclear power plants design |
(Papers) Authenticity Location: Auditorium 3 Chair: Filippo Santoni de Sio AI-produced research in the humanities: Am I the author? Does it matter? From Automation to Authenticity: Rethinking AI through the MEAT framework Autonomy, relationality and emancipation in the digital age |
(Papers) Epistemology II Location: Auditorium 4 Chair: Philip Nickel The epistemology of AI: public perceptions and interventions for responsible use The epistemic competences needed for Human Machine Interaction: Dealing with individual, social, and other factors to solve the engineering problem of interface design Intimate compression: AI systems and the personal nature of architectural knowledge |
(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 AI agency in medical practices: The case of pathology Could Artificial Intelligence Assuage Loneliness? If so, which kind? |
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(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) Political instability and technological society Beyond technopolitics: presuppositions of a redeemed future |
(Papers) Agency II Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Pieter Vermaas Temporal intimacy. Near-term expectations of a driverless future "Agency, alienation, and recognition in the AI-mediated workplace" |
(Papers) Education I Location: Auditorium 8 Chair: Gunter Bombaerts A conceptual framework for defining the responsibilities of engineers and situating them in education practice Philosophical pedagogy and the role of board games: a cross-disciplinary exploration Technological designs as possibility operators |
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1:05pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch break Location: Senaatszaal |
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2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Keynote 3 - Jens Schlieter - Robots with empathy. Exploring buddhist ethics of technology and personhood in Asia Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Tom Hannes |
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3:35pm - 4:50pm |
(Papers) Anthropocene Location: Blauwe Zaal Chair: Gunter Bombaerts Shipwrecks as adaptive mediators: a new media reality of the Anthropocene From anthropocene to technocene. The story of our fate |
(Papers) Conceptual analysis Location: Auditorium 1 Chair: Krist Vaesen Phronesis for AI systems: conceptual foundations One possible definition of technology- an approach from Don Ihde Queering 'the Times of AI' |
(Papers) Mediation III Location: Auditorium 2 Chair: Maren Behrensen On Escape: breaking free from technological mediation The ‘Technological Environmentality Compass’: factors to consider when designing technological mediations across humans, technologies, and the environment. Outside-in: rethinking technologically mediated moral enhancement |
(Papers) Artificial Intelligence Location: Auditorium 3 Chair: Luuk Stellinga Towards friendship among nonhumans: human, dog and robot Artificial intelligence aided resolution of moral disagreement Befriending AI: a cybernetic view |
(Papers) Epistemology III Location: Auditorium 4 Chair: Philip Nickel Epistemic (in)justice in self-monitoring platforms for mental health Crip expertise and technological knowledge |
(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 Reclaiming control of thought and behavior data through the right to freedom of thought. |
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(Papers) Sovereignty Location: Auditorium 6 Chair: Sabine Roeser On technological Sovereignty and innovation Sovereignty Digital technologies and social sustainability: from data governances’ perspective Rethinking sovereignty in a digital age |
(Papers) Autonomy Location: Auditorium 7 Chair: Mariska Bosschaert AI outsourcing and the value of autonomy Analysis of the problem of human autonomy from the perspective of authenticity ethics Driving for Values: Exploring the experience of autonomy with speculative design |
(Papers) Education II Location: Auditorium 8 Chair: Andreas Spahn AI and democratic education: A critical pragmatist perspective AI in primary and secondary education: Sphere transgressions and value disruptions based on a scoping review of policy documents |
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4:50pm - 5:20pm |
Coffee & Tea break Location: Voorhof |
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5:20pm - 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 |
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6:20pm - 6:50pm |
Awards presentation Location: Blauwe Zaal |
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7:00pm - 9:30pm |
Conference dinner Location: Markthal |
Date: Saturday, 28/June/2025 | ||||
8:15am - 8:45am |
Registration Location: Voorhof |
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8:45am - 9:45am |
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology Location: Blauwe Zaal Third wave continental philosophy of technology Presentations of the Symposium The ‘third wave’ of philosophical questioning: on concepts coming into action (Technology and being there) «Die Frage nach der Technik» as «Die Frage nach der Philosophie» Heidegger and the limits of the empirical turn |
(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition Location: Auditorium 15 The History of the Philosophy of Technology: The German tradition Presentations of the Symposium Heidegger, "the intimate technology revolution," and AI Simondon, Heidegger, and the digitalization of farming |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Intelligent writing habits: a Deweyan take on the postphenomenology of generative AI Dewey and the interaction between technology and morality Democracy as communication: democracy from a Deweyan perspective and its implications for evaluating technology AI, the public, and its problems: a Deweyan perspective |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Digital transformation and personal autonomy amid the authoritarian governance: An analysis of Vietnam’s 2024 Data Law Everyone is safe now: constructing the meaning of data privacy regulation in vietnam Not-Too-Late for Data Propertization in Vietnam: Trends, Blockages and Proposals Exploring changes in vietnam’s crypto-assets regulation: networks, nodes, and gravity Promoting innovative technologies and addressing privacy concerns in green finance in vietnam |
(Symposium) Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution Location: Auditorium 11 Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution 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 Infrastructures of responsible quantum technologies Revisiting the Security Dilemma in the Context of the Quantum Internet |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Philosophy of Technology in Latin America and SPT’s Global Support |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Where to political philosophy of technology? The tragedy of great power technologies Problematising Political Uses of History in the Philosophy of Technology |
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9:50am - 10:50am |
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology Location: Blauwe Zaal Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part II Presentations of the Symposium Pharmacology of artificial intelligence: Stiegler’s exotranscendantal philosophy of digital technology Response against Reaction: Stiegler’s positive philosophy of technology |
(Symposium) The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition Location: Auditorium 15 The History of the Philosophy of Technology: the French Tradition Presentations of the Symposium Huamans, Technique, and Machine in Canguilhem's philosophy A History of Vitalism in French Philosophers of Technology Pharmacology of plasticity: bridging stiegler and malabou |
(Symposium) Postphenomenology II: practical applications Location: Auditorium 14 Postphenomenology II: practical applications Presentations of the Symposium Appropriating hidden technologies: a postphenomenological response to critical algorithm studies Intimate technology: the postphenomenological meme use case Postphenomenology and technologies in times of multiple crises |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Identifying alternatives to the de facto division of moral labour in ELSA engagement with quantum technology development Responsible innovation ecosystems: advancing quantum for good through gender-transformative approaches |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Why Representations of the Future (Should) Matter for Political Philosophy of Technology? ‘Modal Power’ and Socio-Technical Directionality Gadgets, gimmicks, garbage: domination and irresponsible innovation Energy, war, power: political philosophy of engineering and technology during armed conflict |
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10:50am - 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. All in on AI: A critical look at the effects of creating with AI-powered tools Digital colonialism and critical communication infrastructures: submarine cables and data and power routes in Portugal and Brazil EduLARP as an educational method for discussing ethical impact of intimate technologies How do scientists accept knowledge generated by AI technology?——A case study of AlphaFold How semantic web technologies afford information processing agents Research ethics education using scientific Communication: the case of kyushu university in japan Shareable health data dashboard for social support during grief recovery Speculative Ethics; Practicing philosophy of technology in design education Traffic lights: from social justice to digital surveillance Where am I? -- Self and Attention in the Digital Net Culture |
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11:50am - 12:50pm |
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology Location: Blauwe Zaal Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part III Presentations of the Symposium Philosophy of technology today: ethics without self Rationality after the ‘algorithmic turn’ For the Ontological Rehabilitation of the Techno-Aesthetic Feeling |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium The long History of the Empirical Turn: Dutch Philosophy of Technology, 1930-1990 Regimes of Historicity of Technology: Toward an Epistemology of the History of the Philosophy of Technology |
(Symposium) Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons Location: Auditorium 14 Postphenomenology III: new theoretical horizons Presentations of the Symposium The technical artefact mediating between hegel and ihde My life continues without me: sartre on death and personally-curated griefbots Postphenomenology and temporality: digital technologies and tertiary retentions |
(Symposium) TechnoPedia - an online Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Encyclopedia Location: Auditorium 13 Introducing the 4TU.ethics encyclopedia of philosophy and ethics of technology Presentations of the Symposium [no separate papers in this symposium, see NB below] |
(Papers) Phenomenology II Location: Auditorium 12 Chair: Tom Hannes A better self: transhumanism and deincarnation. Psychopathology, criminalization and portable technologies among people experiencing homelessness and mental illness: a postphenomenogical analysis |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Reciprocity & Reasonability in the Age of AI Technologies as promoters of justice. a capability-based framework A rawlsian philosophy of technology and engineering? |
Author-Meets-Critics session Location: Forum Are LLMs Creative? Design for Democracy: Deliberation, experimentation, aesthetic engagement, anti-power The routledge international handbook of engineering ethics education What's wrong with technological mediation theory (and how to fix it) Why should we revive the definition of technology as applied science? |
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12:50pm - 2:20pm |
Lunch break Location: Senaatszaal |
Poster session Location: Senaatszaal |
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2:20pm - 3:45pm |
(Symposium) Third wave continental philosophy of technology Location: Blauwe Zaal Third wave continental philosophy of technology - Part IV Presentations of the Symposium After cybernetics, after thinking Evil incorporated. the tragic philosophy of technology of mehdi belhaj kacem Towards an Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology Can we read Stiegler environmentally |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Irradiating the Intimate: the Storytelling of Walter Benjamin's Technological Revolution of the Intimate Arendt and the Philosophy of Technology Technology and Historical Time: Insights from the Annales and Hermeneutics |
(Papers) Prediction Location: Auditorium 13 Chair: Wouter Eggink Technological predictions: rethinking design through active inference and the free energy principle AI Oracles and the Technological Re-Enchantment of the World Sleepwalkers in a scenario of a happy apocalypse? |
(Papers) Sustainability and energy Location: Auditorium 12 Chair: Gunter Bombaerts Understanding Polarisation in the Energy Transition "Koyaanisqatsi", that is, Technophany at work |
(Papers) Legislation Location: Auditorium 11 Chair: Lambèr Royakkers Between Human and Algorithmic Decisions: Analyzing the Ambiguities in the AI Act Definition of AI Test and regulation: how testing to regulation leads to failure |
(Papers) Farming Location: Auditorium 10 Chair: Tijn Borghuis Reconciling technology and tradition: exploring the sustainability of drone-assisted wild berry foraging in Finland What did the rice-farming calendar do? -Changing relationships between farmers and farmland in Japanese rice farming Preparing the Field for AI and Data Intensive Agroecological Research |
(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 Presentations of the Symposium Toward a robust political philosophy of technology: aiming to transform and transcend regionalizations Artificial intelligence and common goods: an uneasy relationship Explainable AI as a rhetorical technology |
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3:50pm - 4:30pm |
Closing and Members Meeting Location: Blauwe Zaal |
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