Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies
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Ben Hofbauer on "Governing Prometheus: Ethical Reflections On Risk & Uncertainty In Solar Climate Engineering Research"
25 november 2024 · 27 min
In this episode, Jeroen Hopster speaks with Ben Hofbauer about his dissertation.
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Caroline Bollen on "Empathy 2.0. What it means to be empathetic in a diverse and digital world"
10 november 2024 · 45 min
Caroline Bollen is a Postdoc at Technical University of Eindhoven, and she was a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology (Ethics & Philosophy of Technology). She has an interdisciplinary background in medical biology, neuroscience, and science in society. In this episode, she is interviewed by Bouke van Balen about her PhD project, that centred around the question: what does it mean to be empathetic in a diverse and digital world? Lees meer
Check out the papers that she published as part of her dissertation:
A reflective guide on the meaning of empathy in autism research, published in Methods in Psychology, 2023
Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy, published in Social Epistemology, 2023
A Conceptual and Ethical framework for Empathy and Communication Technologies, published in Technology and Society, 2023
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Janna van Grunsven on "Moral Visibility and Technology"
4 november 2024 · 59 min
Janna van Grunsven is assistant professor in TU Delft’s ethics and philosophy of technology section. With the support of a Veni personal grant from the Dutch Research Council, she conducts research at the intersection of embodied cognition, philosophy and ethics of technology, and disability studies. In this episode, she is interviewed by Bouke van Balen about moral visibility and technology. Lees meer
Check out these papers if you want to read more about Janna's work:
Enactivism and the Paradox of Moral Perception. Published in Topoi, 2021.
Technosocial disruption, enactivism, & social media: On the overlooked risks of teenage cancel culture. Published in Technology in Society, 2024.
Disabled Body-Minds in Hostile Environments: Disrupting our Cartesian Sociotechnical Imagination with Enactive Embodied Cognition and Critical Disability Studies. Published in Topoi, 2024.
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Kevin Macnish & Adam Henschke on "The Ethics of Surveillance in Times of Emergency"
23 september 2024 · 50 min
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Alessio Gerola on "The Ethics and Philosophy of Biomimicry"
15 september 2024 · 36 min
Alessio Gerola is a doctoral researcher at Wageningen University. His research is about the ethical and philosophical implications of biomimicry. Lees meer
In this episode, Patricia Reyes interviews Alessio about his work. If you want to know more, you can find a paper of Alessio here.
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Adam Henschke on "When Enhancements need Therapy"
23 juni 2023 · 42 min
Recent enhancements such as brain stimulation technologies pose new possibilities to enhance soldiers. But what happens when these “enhanced” soldiers need therapy? Lees meer
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Adam Henschke from the University of Twente. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Henschke’s article “When Enhancements need Therapy: Disenhancements, Iatrogenesis, and the Responsibility of Military Institutions”. The article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-022-00169-1
We also refer to the article “Can a Soldier Say No to an Enhancing Intervention?” co-written by Adam and Sahar Latheef. This article can be found at https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies5030013
We hope that you enjoy the episode!
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Elena Ziliotti on “Confucianism and Social Media Technologies”
9 maart 2023 · 36 min
Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In this episode, Elena shares some insights into how Confucianism can shape our thinking about Social Media Technologies. We also discuss the article “Living Well Together Online: Digital Wellbeing from a Confucian Perspective” which she co-wrote with Matthew Dennis. Lees meer
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Philip Brey on "The Ethics of the Metaverse"
28 februari 2023 · 53 min
Philip Brey is a professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente and the current programme leader of the ESDiT consortium. His research includes a wide variety of topics, including the ethical assessment of emerging technologies, the ethics of AI and robotics, innovative approaches to research ethics, and the ethics of the (future) internet. He is the former president of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT) and of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). He has coordinated European Union funded projects like SATORI and SIENNA, led NWO projects and was the former scientific director of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics of Technology. Professor Brey is also the most recent recipient of the prestigious Weizenbaum Award for his significant contribution to the field of information and computer ethics, to be awarded at the upcoming International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2023). Lees meer
In this episode, Kristy Claassen interviews him about the “ethics of the Metaverse”. This episode also includes a discussion about the ESDiT consortium, how it came to be and the aims of the programme.
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Guido Löhr on "Do socially disruptive technologies really change our concepts or just our conceptions?"
6 februari 2023 · 34 min
Guido Löhr is a postdoctoral researcher at Technical University Eindhoven. Their research focuses on the notions like meaning, concept, and commitment and their roles in neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. The past two years they have also been working on philosophy of technology and AI. Lees meer
In this episode, Bouke van Balen speaks with Guido about conceptual disruption. The backbone of their discussion is a recent paper from Guido titles "Do socially disruptive technologies really change our concepts or just our conceptions?" You can find it here
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Sven Nyholm on "A new control problem? Humanoid robots, artificial intelligence, and the value of control"
16 januari 2023 · 49 min
Sven Nyholm is an associate professor at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. His main areas of research are applied ethics (especially the ethics of technology), ethical theory, and the history of ethics. Nyholm’s research covers a wide range of topics in ethics, including well-being and meaning in life, the philosophy of love and sex, agency and moral responsibility, the concept of the self, and the ethics of human-robot interaction. Lees meer
In this episode, Bouke van Balen interviews Sven on the topic of robot-ethics. The backbone of their discussion is a paper Sven recently published: "A new control problem? Humanoid robots, artificial intelligence, and the value of control." You can find it here.
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Lucie White on "Were Lockdowns Justified?"
11 juli 2022 · 40 min
Lucie White is an assistant professor at Utrecht University. Kristy Claassen interviews her on this episode: Were Lockdowns Justified?
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Sabine Roeser on "Technological Risk, Emotions and Art"
4 juli 2022 · 36 min
Sabine Roeser is Professor of Ethics at TU Delft. Jeroen Hopster interviews her about "Technological Risk, Emotions and Art". Lees meer
To know more:
Sabine Roeser, Behnam Taebi & Neelke Doorn (2020) Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges: what we can learn from moral emotions and art, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 23:5, 641-658, DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2020.1694225
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Sabine Roeser. 2017. Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions. Routledge. https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/risk-technology-and-moral-emotions/9200000082164967
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Dina Babushkina on "Disruption, technology and the question of (artificial) identity"
27 juni 2022 · 25 min
Dina Babushkina is an assistant professor in philosophy of technology & society at University of Twente. Cindy Friedman interviews her about her paper "Disruption, technology and the question of (artificial) identity" Lees meer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00110-y
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Ben Hofbauer on "Geo-engineering & techno-moral change"
20 juni 2022 · 40 min
Ben Hofbauer is a PhD Candidate at University of Delft. Kristy Claassen interviews him about his research on Geo-engineer and techno-moral change
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Steven Kraaijeveld on "Experimental Philosophy of Technology"
13 juni 2022 · 40 min
Steven Kraaijeveld is a PhD Candidate at Wageningen University & Research. Sven Nyholm interviews him about his paper 'Experimental Philosophy of Technology’. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-021-00447-6
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Behnam Taebi on “Climate Risk and Normative Uncertainties”
28 maart 2022 · 29 min
Behnam Taebi is Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics at Delft University of Technology. Jeroen Hopster interviews him about his co-authored article “Governing climate risks in the face of normative uncertainties”, which has been published in WIREs Climate Change (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.666 Lees meer
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Matthew Dennis on "digital wellbeing"
16 januari 2022 · 34 min
Matthew Dennis is postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven Technical University. Sven Nyholm interviews him about his recent article 'Towards a Theory of Digital Well‑Being: Reimagining Online', published in Science and Engineering Ethics.
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Patricia Reyes on "Climate Technoactivism"
10 november 2021 · 26 min
Patricia Reyes is PhD fellow at the University of Twente. Ben Hofbauer interviews her about a political philosophy for climate technoactivism. Lees meer
https://people.utwente.nl/p.d.reyes
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Emily Sullivan on "Social Epistemic Networks"
3 november 2021 · 26 min
Emily Sullivan is Assistant Professor at Eindhoven Technical University. Jeroen Hopster interviews her about online epistemic vulnerability, on which she recently co-authored the article "Vulnerability in Social Epistemic Networks". Lees meer
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09672559.2020.1782562
https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/emily-sullivan
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Bernice Bovenkerk on "Ethics of Animal Modification"
1 november 2021 · 31 min
Bernice Bovenkerk is associate professor at Wageningen University. In this episode Jeroen Hopster interviews her about arguments regarding animal modification, discussing her article "Ethical perspectives on modifying animals: beyond welfare arguments". Lees meer
https://bernicebovenkerk.wordpress.com/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952862/
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Cindy Friedman on "Social Robots"
1 november 2021 · 28 min
Cindy Friedman is PhD-researcher at Utrecht University. In this episode Sven Nyholm interviews her about the ethics of social robots, discussing her paper: “Human-Robot Moral Relations: Human Interactants as Moral Patients of Their Own Agential Moral Actions Towards Robots” Lees meer
https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/human-robot-moral-relations-human-interactants-as-moral-patients/18702584
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Naomi Jacobs on "Capability Sensitive Design"
1 november 2021 · 37 min
Naomi Jacobs is assistant professor in bioethics at the University of Twente. In this episode Sven Nyholm interviews her about a key topic of her doctoral research: capability sensitive design. Lees meer
https://people.utwente.nl/n.jacobs
https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/183192842/20210929_Jacobs_hf.pdf
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Julia Hermann on "The Artificial Womb"
29 oktober 2021 · 23 min
Julia Hermann is assistant professor at the University of Twente and researcher in the ESDiT programme. Her current research fouses on biomedical ethics, specifically on ethical issues raised by the artificial womb. In this episode Jeroen Hopster interviews her about the ethics of the artificial womb and the disruptions it provokes. Lees meer
https://people.utwente.nl/j.s.hermann
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Jeroen Hopster on "The Nature of Socially Disruptive Technologies"
29 oktober 2021 · 26 min
Jeroen Hopster is postdoctoral researcher at Twente University and member of ESDiT. In October 2021 he published the paper "The nature of socially disruptive technologies" in Technology in Society. In this episode Julia Hermann interviews him about his research on technosocial disruption. Lees meer
https://people.utwente.nl/j.k.g.hopster
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101750