CC1 Philosophies of Technology
The course runs across five days, with each day covering one dimension of philosophy of technology: metaphysics (May 15 and 16), (meta)ethics (May 17), politics (May 22), applied ethics (May 23). For each topic there will be at least one invited lecture from someone from the 4TU.Ethics network, and at least one interactive exercise....
LC7 Empirical methods for Philosophy of Technology
The registration for the PhD course Empirical Methods for Philosophy of Technology is open! The course will be held May 8-10 and the course coordinator is Olya Kudina. The deadline for registering is April 24th, but the maximum amount of students has been reached and therefore the waiting list has opened. You could register for the waiting list, but the...
LC5 Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
This course focuses on present-day and particularly continental philosophical approaches to technology and science. The course consists of 12 sessions (120mins), with 6 sessions centering around authors (e.g. Heidegger, Simondon, Stiegler), and the other six sessions being more thematic (e.g. Synthetic Cell, AI, Anthropocene). Confirmed lecturers include Prof. Peter-Paul Verbeek; dr. Vincent Blok; Prof....
CC2 Writing retreat May 2023
Aim / objective The aim is to enable students to get a lot of writing done for their dissertation. In addition, several workshops will help PhD students to become a better writer. This writing retreat will be held in Linschoten, near Utrecht. Assessment Students are obligatory to attend the whole retreat. There will be...