Technology, Policy and Management The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the insights from engineering with the humanities and the social sciences. The Department of Values, Technology and Innovation (VTI) focuses on the value dimension of comprehensive engineering, the overarching research theme of...
Job Description The PhD candidate will perform research as part of the research project T-TRIPP: Tools for Translation of Risk research into Policies and Practices. The project is a collaboration with the Rathenau Instituut and the serious gaming department of Delft University of Technology. The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Ibo van...
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...
To be held at EACL 2017 in Valencia on April 3 or 4, 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/ethicsinnlp/ Submission deadline: Jan 16, 2017 Overview: NLP is a rapidly maturing field. NLP technologies now play a role in business applications and decision processes that affect billions of people on a daily basis. However, increasing amounts of data and...
The Department of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology is hiring two PhD candidates for a project on crowd-based innovations. For one of these positions, we are looking for a candidate with a background in applied ethics and affinity with technology and engineering. Background The “crowd” increasingly seems to be key...
Departmental colloquium TU Delft, Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Date: November 21, 2016; 15:30 – 17:00 hr. Location: Boardroom (A1.370) Speaker: Viola Schiaffonati, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano Abstract: The debate on the experimental method, its role, its limits, and its possible applications has recently gained attention in autonomous robotics....
At the TU Delft a vacancy has opened up for a postdoc for two European project in the field of Responsible Innovation. This position is located in the Section of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Department of Values, Technology & Innovation. 3 year, 0.7 fte Starting...
