Communication professional for the multi-university, ten-year international research programme “Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies”, responsible for the external communication of the Esdit programme, and also a role in internal communication. “Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies” (Esdit) is an international research programme of seven academic institutions in the Netherlands. It has a combined budget of...
This workshop aims to explore why contemporary philosophical approaches to technology tend to seek close proximity to phenomenology, and what this proximity means and entails. Although the role of technologies in contemporary life is carefully analyzed in various ways, what remains undiscussed is how such careful attention must be qualified as having a phenomenological...
The section of Philosophy (PHIL) of the Department of Technology, Policy and Society (TPS) at the University of Twente (UT) is seeking an assistant professor in Philosophy with a focus on human-technology relations. APPLY NOW You are envisaged to (further) develop a coherent and innovative line of research focused on the interplay between, on...
The central question of this project is how we can conceptualize the moral role of technological products and systems, and what implications this conceptualization may have for ethical analysis. The aim is to develop new theories and approaches for analyzing the moral role of technology. One of the key challenges of ethical analysis in...
The course description of the PhD course Good Technology for Users and Society turned out to be the description of last year. It has been updated now, so if you’re interested, you can read the updated information and register. The course starts at 5 September 2022. ...
The aim of this postdoc project is to investigate how theories and approaches that concern the interactive relationship between technology and society and technology and human beings, as found in philosophy and STS in particular, can inform ethics, specifically the ethics of technology. There will be a particular focus on socially disruptive technologies: technologies...
The registration for the PhD course LC6 Good technology for users and society is open. Registration You can register by sending an email to Marlies Tijhuis (UT) About the course This course will ask what good technology is, and will consider various ways of assessing, guiding and improving the moral and nonmoral goodness of technology. ...
The Philosophy Section of the University of Twente in the Netherlands is looking for a Postdoc (20-month position) in ethics of autonomous vehicles, with special attention to ethical analysis of human factors in trust in autonomous vehicle as part of a large European project on ethics of emerging technologies. APPLY NOW The Challenge The...
Melis Bas will be defending her dissertation “Technological Mediation of Politics: An Arendtian Critique of Political Philosophy of Technology” on Friday, April 29 @ 14.30. Melis’ dissertation criticizes the narrow focus of the current political philosophy of technology on power relations and expands this focus with Hannah Arendt’s analysis of politics as intersubjective sense-making....
The Philosophy Section of the University of Twente in the Netherlands is looking for an Assistant professor in Environmental Ethics (full-time, with prospects of permanent position upon good performance) with a (future) research interest in technology and its role in society The philosophy section is internationally leading in the philosophy and ethics of technology....
4TU.Ethics member Adam Henschke has recently produced a report, Cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure, and Ethics, for the Conflict Studies Research Centre. In this report, he gives an overview of the main ethical issues that arise in relation to cybersecurity, and when cybersecurity underpins critical infrastructure. The report finishes with a set of recommendations for how...
Podcast with Julia Hermann on “Faith in the Flybottle”
David Anderson, Ph.D. candidate at Texas A&M University, recently interviewed Julia Hermann for his podcast “Faith in the Flybottle”. They talked about her work on Wittgenstein and ethics, her personal experiences in academia, philosophizing with children, and other issues. With his podcast, David aims to make philosophy accessible for the non-philosophically trained public and...
