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AI, design, and democracy are terms whose definitions seem ever-expanding. They refer to a wide variety of technical systems, methods, infrastructures, and social practices that are not always in dialogue with each other. This workshop starts out from the assumption that definitions are not an expression of a stable identity, but moments of reading...
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ValueMonitor is an easy-to-use tool for empirical investigations of values and value change in text corpora (e.g., scientific articles, newspaper articles). Investigations performed with ValueMonitor can be used to discover neglected moral issues voiced by societal actors or to map the current state of scientific research on specific values and technologies....
The KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) has selected eighteen new members in 2020. KNAW members, leading scientists from all disciplines, are chosen on the basis of their scientific and scholarly achievements. The Academy has approximately 550 members who are appointed for life. Ibo van de Poel, TU Delft Professor of Ethics...
Per 1 September 2019 Behnam Taebi succeeds Pieter van Gelder, who in the past five years has led the institute in strengthening its research position in the broad field of safety and security. Dr. Behnam Taebi is Associate Professor in ethics of technology at the faculty of TPM. He studied Material Science and...
On Monday 15th April 2019 the first workshop for members of the university research ethics committees that review Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics related human research (i.e. research involving human subjects or participants) will take place. Besides medical ethics committees and ethics committees for social and behavioural sciences, Dutch universities have also recognised...
4TU.Ethics colleagues are cordially invited to Taylor Stone’s PhD Defence. On 21st January he will present and defend his dissertation “Designing for Darkness: Urban Nighttime Lighting and Environmental Values.” Following the defence there will be a reception and a panel discussion with some of the committee on “Re-imagining the City at Night.” Please note that both the...
Behnam Taebi has been appointed as a member of an Expert Group of the OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) on ‘Transdisciplinary Research’. This GSF project, in which Taebi will participate, is designed to promote mutual learning between countries. The main output will be policy recommendations on transdisciplinary research to address global societal challenges. The Expert...
On Friday September 22, 2017, The Dutch newspaper FD published an op-ed written by 4TU.Ethics member Neelke Doorn about the proposal to introduce a system of flood insurances in the Netherlands. In this piece, Neelke argues that the Dutch flood risk management system is based on solidarity and that any system for financial compensation...
On Monday May 15, 2017, The Dutch newspaper FD published an op-ed written by Dr. Neelke Doorn and two colleagues. In this piece, Neelke and colleagues argue that there should be more attention in climate policy for how costs and benefits are distributed in measures that are taken to encourage transition to a sustainable...
The Digital Humanities & Experimental Philosophy CollaborATive (DHEPCAT — http://www.alfanophilosophy.com/lab-home/) will host a workshop and masterclass December 14-15 in Amsterdam at De Waag Society, located at Nieuwmarkt 4 in Amsterdam. On December 14, talks will be given on the topic of digital humanities, social epistemology, and virtue theory in a post-truth society. The keynote...
