Project for ethics teaching as Open Resources continues
Members of 4TU.Ethics do a lot of ethics teaching for engineering students, in a wide range of engineering disciplines. Since ethics are mostly taught in context, case-based exercises (CBEs) are a central instrument in this teaching practice. Teachers create these exercises for use in their own teaching, but these CBEs are hardly ever shared...
Location and program 4TU.Ethics research day
We are now glad to announce that we have found a suitable location for the 4TU.Ethics research day 2022 at ‘Kasteel Montfoort’. The Research Day will have a relatively open character, allowing members to meet each other, discuss work with peers, write, read, and develop new ideas. Kasteel Montfoort is an ideal venue for...
New blog series published: Photography
A new blog series has been published about photography and philosophical concepts. The introduction to the series can be found here. The series as a whole can be found here....
Postdoc in Ethics of autonomous vehicles
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...
Call for papers CEPE 2023: Human-AI Interaction and the Future
CEPE (Computer Ethics—Philosophical Enquiry) is a leading international conference. It has played a significant role in defining the field since its first event in 1997. CEPE is held biennially and is organized by INSEIT (the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology). For CEPE 2023, the conference theme will be on ethics, values, and freedoms,...
1st International Conference Ethics of Engineering Life
The engineering of molecular and cellular systems for clinical applications capitalises on the unique competences achieved worldwide within the past 10 years. While in the long run such systems engineering approaches will help to cure pertinent diseases, methods to modify, edit, correct and/or complement the genome of patients can be also used to improve a person’s lifestyle, or be even...
Call for abstracts SRA-E Benelux conference extended
The 6th SRA-E Benelux Annual Meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 and will be hosted by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). The theme will be “Risk Perception: From Science to Policy.” This event is multi-disciplinary and we also hope that ethicists/philosophers that are engaged with the topic...
Dates PhD course Design for Values changed
The PhD course LC8 Design for Values has moved to a week earlier. The lectures will be given September 5th until 9th and the presentations will be September 16th. About the course: Approaches like Value Sensitive Design and ethics-by-design have become popular over the last decade to integrate values, and other moral considerations, from...
4TU member Janna van Grunsven receives Veni grant
4TU member Janna van Grunsven, a scientists of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, has been awarded a Veni grant worth up to 280,000 euros from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) . The grant provides her with the opportunity to further elaborate her own research idea during a period of three years. Janna...
ESDIT conference 2022
This will be a major academic conference in 2022, organized by a consortium of seven universities in the Netherlands. The focus will be on those new technologies that are disruptive and transformative of society: artificial intelligence, robotics, neurotechnology, synthetic biology, 3D printing, energy transition technologies, and others. Conference website: https://www.esdit.nl/conferences/Esdit2022/ For all questions and...