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Welcome to the blog series about Responsible Research and Innovation! All blogs in this series were written by participants of the 4TU.Ethics PhD course ‘Philosophy of Responsible Innovation’, organized by prof. dr. Vincent Blok and prof. dr. Ibo van de Poel. This course aims to introduce participants to philosophical issues related to responsible innovation,...
Matthew Dennis is an Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology in the Philosophy and Ethics Group at TU Eindhoven. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the universities of Warwick and Monash, and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft and TU Eindhoven. In addition to his academic research, he has also...
Historically, ethical theory and moral practice have found many different forms of expression. The ancient Greeks, for instance, relied on the moral judgments and prophecies of the priestesses of the cult of Pythia, also known as the Oracle of Delphi. Greek philosopher Aristotle consulted Alexander the Great about morality, religion, logic, and art. In...
Welcome to the first introductory blogpost of the 4TU.Ethics Alumni Network! The Alumni Network project was first developed in the final months of 2021 and is now back on track to organize exciting events and activities in 2023. But first of all, you might be wondering, why set up an Alumni Network? As I’ve...
This series of blog posts is the result of the 4TU.Ethics’ PhD course “Philosophies of Technology”. The course aims to introduce students to classic themes, concepts, and authors in the ethics and philosophy of technology. Students gain the opportunity to engage in discussions with invited lecturers of the 4TU.Ethics community who represent a particular...
In this series we present the photographs that were shoot during a PhD workshop by Anthonie Meijers. Visual presentation is key if you want to convey a message. Our task was to shoot a photograph that represents our PhD project. Not so easy, if you work with philosophical concepts! Running around the campus of...
At the 2021 4TU.Ethics bi-annual conference on Ethics and Technology we, a group of 4TU.Ethics PhDs, decided to give the conference’s motto “IT’S ALIVE” a twist. In our symposium “It’s out of the box”, we had just one rule – break as many rules as possible; discursive rules, that is. Our hypothesis was—for some—provocative....
