Invitation to the 4TU.Ethics Independent Blog Christmas Gathering
Dear 4TU.Ethics community,We, the editorial team of the 4TU.Ethics Independent blog invite you to our Christmas gathering on December 16 from 18.30 on in The Kitchen Bar in Utrecht. Would you like to contribute to our initiative? Come join us! Would you like to become a member of the editorial team? Don’t hesitate! Would...
PhD defense: Responsibilities in a Datafied Health Environment
Chirag Arora will defend his thesis at the 6th of December at 13:30. Venue Atlas Building room 0.710, TU Eindhoven Description of the thesis Characterized by an accelerating rise in the collection and analysis of quantified data, the healthcare sector is witnessing rapid ‘’datafication’’. Health datafication is driven by technologies that enable the collection...
Cancelled: 4TU.Ethics pre-Christmas dinner and PhD day
Unfortunately, both the 4TU.Ethics Pre-Christmas dinner and the PhD day of 1 December 2022 have been cancelled. ...
Location for the November writing retreat found
We are happy to announce that the 4TU November writing retreat is happening! Surrounded by nature and like-minded PhDs, the writing retreat is the perfect occasion to get some nice writing done, bond with the rest of the group, and learn from each other. The days will kick off with morning workshops on writing, both academic...
Intersectional Philosophy of Technology Speaker Series
Description: As an extension of TPM’s Intersectional Philosophy of Technology (IPT) reading group, we will host a 3-part speaking series to bring the language, concepts and methods of intersectional studies of technology to TPM’s AI research. We adopt the definition of “intersectional feminism” described by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein in Data Feminism: “ a feminism that is...
Final program 4TU.Ethics Research day
Time Activity Location 09:30 – 10:15 Arrivals Schepenzaal (1st floor) 10:15 – 10:30 Opening by Marcel Verweij Orangerie (1st floor behind the Schepenzaal) 10:30 – 11:10 Keynote Lecture by Neelke Doorn: Intergenerational justice and climate adaptation: The currency question revisited Orangerie 11:10 – 11:30 Plenary discussion Orangerie 11:30 – 13:00 Lunch* Schepenzaal and...
After-summer school Challenges in Responsible Research and Innovation
Do you have questions on how to pursue the so-called responsible research and innovation (RRI) way of working? Are you working with scientists from other disciplines or with societal stakeholders? Are you interested in sharing best and bad practices in such collaborations? Would you like to get to know RRI peers? Then our after-summer...
Postdoc How theories of technology and its relation to society can inform and transform ethics
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...
Research Associate (Postdoc) Ethics in Information Technologies
Institution Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, Research Group on Ethics in Information Technologies Salary level EGR. 13 TV-L Start date 01 October 2022, fixed for a period of three years (This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act ).The...
Postdoc in “embedded ethics”
The Radboud University is looking for 1 Postdoc in “embedded ethics” to join the new National AI and education lab (NOLAI), located at Radboud. You will be part of a team collaborating on ethical/societal impacts of AI on education with developers and teachers. Start date September 1st 2022. More information or applying? Contact Prof. Tamar...