Events Archive (March 2008)
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Colloquium: Neurotechnologies, personal identity & health
Colloquium, 2.30 - 4.00 p.m, room A2.100, building TPM, TU Delft
(NOTE: location has been changed!!)
On Tuesday March, 25 Mariassunta Piccinni of the Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification of the University of Padua (Italy) will present a paper on “Neurotechnologies, personal identity and health in the patient-physician relationship: a private law perspective”. The talk is part of the cooperation on nano-ethics between the Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification of the University of Padua and the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. Mariassunta Piccinni will visit Delft from March, 24 until March, 28.
Information meeting about MA program Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society
Information activity about this master of science program, time: 6.15 - 8.00 p.m, location: Campus University of Twente
Can we anticipate the future implications of nanotechnology in society? How are information technologies affecting our privacy? Are there ethical limits to genetic fiddling with animals and human beings? How do new devices help to change our behavior and our perceptions of the world? Questions like these are explored in the Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society Master of Science program. Visit the information activity on Tuesday, March 25 2008, to meet students and staff and to explore your possibilities within the Master of Science program. You’re cordially invited! Contact: Nienke Nijenhuis, , telephone: +31 (0) 53 489 1017.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Colloquium: Understanding the Electronic Voting Controversy
(Picture by ShutterCat7
under Creative Commons)
Colloquium by Wolter Pieters, 15.30 – 17.00, Cubicus B209, University of Twente
In many countries, the use of electronic voting machines in elections has become controversial. It is no longer taken for granted that these computers do what they are supposed to do. Both in the United States and in the Netherlands, devices without a so-called “paper trail” have been decertified. Meanwhile, the rapidly modernising country of Estonia allows its citizens to cast their votes through the Internet, apparently without triggering disaster. What is going on here? It turns out that understanding the electronic voting controversies is related to answering very old questions: what is nature, what is technology, what is trust? Wouter Pieter’s PhD thesis ”La Volonte Machinale; Understanding the Electronic Voting Controversy” explores the relation between the electronic voting controversies and such philosophical questions. This leads to a new look on the scientific discipline of information security, and its efforts to secure both personal and public data in the information age.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Colloquium: risk ethics; a provisional approach
Photo by Vicki & Chuck Rogers
Colloquium by Henrik Pontzen (Capco)
15.30 - 17.00 hours, room a3.100, TPM building, TU Delft
Abstract ‘Risk Ethics: A Provisional Approach’
Risk can be defined as the uncertain or unpredictable consequence of an action. Risk ethic deals with the question to what extent it is morally justifiable to jeopardize the needs, interests or rights of others.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Workshop: Ethics of Architecture & Urban Planning
A workshop with special focus on teaching ethics to architecture students
On March 7th, 2008 the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, the Delft Platform for Ethics and Technology and the Faculty of Architecture (TU Delft) are together organizing a workshop on the ethics of architecture and urban planning. Special focus will be on teaching ethics to architecture students. Speakers include Warwock Fox, Nicholas Ray and Tom Spector. The workshop will end with a panel discussion, co-organized with Stylos, the association of architecture students.
Location workshop: room a2.100 in the TPM-building
Location panel discussion: Grote Vergaderzaal of the Architecture building
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