Events Archive (May 2007)
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Workshop ‘Ethics in Epistemology’
The Philosophy Department of the University of Twente and the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology are organizing a workshop on ‘Ethics in Epistemology’. This workshop aims to explore the possibility of an internal relation between ethics and epistemology. Ethics and epistemology are usually considered as two distinct philosophical domains.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Workshop ‘Moral Agency & Technical Artefacts’
Scientific workshop to be held at the NIAS from 10-12 May 2007
The central topic of this workshop is whether moral issues about technology can be dealt with adequately by assuming that technical artefacts are just ‘morally passive’ instruments for human action or whether it is more fruitful to assume that they have some form of (moral) agency.
Monday, May 07, 2007
Thesis defence ‘SophoLab’
Mr. V. Wiegel will defend his PhD-thesis titled ‘SophoLab; Experimental Computational Philosophy’. In his project, it is investigated to which extend we can equip artificial agents with moral reasoning capacity.
Time: 12.30 o’clock
Location: Aula, Delft University of Technology
Download the complete PhD thesis
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Conference ‘Moral Emotions about Risky Technologies’
Scientific conference: 3 and 4 May 2007
In memory of Robert Solomon*
Pioneering empirical research by Paul Slovic and his colleagues has shown that people rely on emotions in making judgments concerning risky technologies (Slovic 1999, Finucane et.al. 2000). Examples of technological risks that spark heated and emotional debates are cloning, GM-foods, and nuclear energy. Many people are afraid of the possible unwanted consequences of such technologies.
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