Virginie Maris is an environmental philosopher who currently works at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive and the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) in France.
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The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is starting a PhD project on the use of the future European quantum internet for governm
The Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) has a vacancy at the Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation (ARRTI) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
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Virginie Maris is an environmental philosopher who currently works at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive and the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) in France.
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At 28 May, Caroline Bollen will defend her thesis called 'Empathy 2.0: what it means to be empathetic in a diverse and digital world'.
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At 1 May, Keje Boersma will defend his dissertation.
At 28 May, Caroline Bollen will defend her thesis called 'Empathy 2.0: what it means to be empathetic in a diverse and digital world'.
The course runs across five days, with each day covering one dimension of philosophy of technology: metaphysics (May 14 and 15), (meta)ethics (May 16), politics (May 21), applied ethics (May 22).
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The well-being of Ph.D. candidates has been an important and much-discussed issue within the 4TU.Ethics community and beyond.
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Statement 4TU.Ethics against use of technology for violence
The 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology is distraught by the brutal violence against innocent people in Iran, Ukraine, and many other places in the world. In our mission we state that we envision “..a world in which technology is developed and used for benefit of humanity and the preservation of our planet. It is a world in which ethical considerations concerning human rights, well-being, global and inter-generational justice, the social good are systematically included in practices of technology and engineering.”
This is an ideal vision indeed. Throughout human history, technology has been applied to suppress and to attack innocent people, either in warfare or by violent regimes towards their own people. Notwithstanding this repeating history, we are always shocked again, for example now in the ways how the Iranian regime is suppressing Iranian citizens by means of digital technologies (including tracking protesters with spyware on their mobile phones and using facial recognition technologies to identify protesters) and in the drone attacks by the Russian army on Ukrainian technological infrastructures, necessary for all citizens to survive. We cannot but reject such violence. Human rights should be served by technological developments, not violated. We call on all governments and engineers to resist such use of technology.