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Date Summer school: 17-21 June 2024
The deadline for applications: 15 May 2024
We invite contributions to the 3rd edition of the annual event: Philosophy in Technology.
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At 1 May, Keje Boersma will defend his dissertation.
Upcoming events
At 1 May, Keje Boersma will defend his dissertation.
The course runs across five days, with each day covering one dimension of philosophy of technology: metaphysics (May 14 and 15), (meta)ethics (May 16), politics (May 21), applied ethics (May 22).
Located on a beautiful farm, surrounded by nature and like-minded PhD students, the writing retreat is the perfect occasion to get some nice writing done, bond with others, and learn from each othe
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Creating a space in the 4TU.Ethics community for reflecting on the colonial and decolonial responsibility of engineering and design grounds in a basic predicame
Creating a space in the 4TU.Ethics community for reflecting on the colonial and decolonial responsibility of engineering and design grounds in a basic predicame
Dependency is an inherent feature of human existence. At various stages in our lives, we will inevitably have needs and desires that we cannot meet on our own.
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Creating a space in the 4TU.Ethics community for reflecting on the colonial and decolonial responsibility of engineering and design grounds in a basic predicame
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Statement 4TU.Ethics against use of technology for violence
The 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology is distraught by the brutal violence against innocent people in Iran, Ukraine, and many other places in the world. In our mission we state that we envision “..a world in which technology is developed and used for benefit of humanity and the preservation of our planet. It is a world in which ethical considerations concerning human rights, well-being, global and inter-generational justice, the social good are systematically included in practices of technology and engineering.”
This is an ideal vision indeed. Throughout human history, technology has been applied to suppress and to attack innocent people, either in warfare or by violent regimes towards their own people. Notwithstanding this repeating history, we are always shocked again, for example now in the ways how the Iranian regime is suppressing Iranian citizens by means of digital technologies (including tracking protesters with spyware on their mobile phones and using facial recognition technologies to identify protesters) and in the drone attacks by the Russian army on Ukrainian technological infrastructures, necessary for all citizens to survive. We cannot but reject such violence. Human rights should be served by technological developments, not violated. We call on all governments and engineers to resist such use of technology.