Events Archive
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Colloquium: Michael Davis on professional ethics
Time: 15.30 - 17.00
Location: campus University of Twente
Title: ”Of all professions, begging is the best: some problems in the study of professions”
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Summerschool: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology
August 28-30, 2007
The philosophy department of Delft University of Technology will be organizing an IDEA League Summerschool on the Ethics of Synthetic Biology. There is place for 10 PhD students in synthetic biology or (bio)nanotechnology. Topics include - amongst others - regulation of synthetic biology, dual use and biosecurity and patents & ethical issues.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Conference E-CAP ‘07 - Computing & Philosophy
Scientific conference, June 21-23
The philosophy department of the University of Twente is proud to host the fifth European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (ECAP). Program chair is our member Philip Brey. E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, president: Luciano Floridi).
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.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Colloquium: The place of expertise in liberal democracies
Photo by Steve Rhodes
Colloquium by Klemens Kappel (University of Copenhagen; Ethical Council)
15.30 - 17.00 h, room b4.140, TPM-building, TU Delft
Abstract
This work-in-progres presentation outlines a view of the place of experts in liberal democracies that is constituted by the particular division of cognitive and deliberative labour that is characteristic of liberal democracies. On this background, I address one (among several) area(s) where the existence of experts is thought somehow to be in conflict with certain normative ideals of democracy. This is the suggestion that just as a liberal democracy should remain neutral between at least some views of the good (or some normative views), so the liberal state should in some sense remain epistemically neutral between at least some competing factual views. I argue that the question of epistemic neutrality is a pressing concern for the liberal democrat, despite the almost complete lack of attention this question has received in recent political philosophy. I my presentation I shall offer a defence of the view that liberal democracy should not remain epistemically neutral, despite its commitment to certain forms of value neutrality.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Workshop ‘Philosophy & Architecture’
Architecture is a discipline founded on a wide and intricately branched body of knowledge. When that knowledge is appealed to at the intersection of culture and technology, a creative process begins to unfold which, it is hoped, can lead to the making of good buildings. The awareness of the intellectual foundation of architecture has become a natural part of the approach to design at the Department of Architecture, Building and Planning at Eindhoven University of Technology. Not, however, so self-evident as to render the careful scrutiny and review of the grounds and motives of this attitude superfluous.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Lecture ‘Ethics and Architecture’
Studium Generale (Eindhoven University of Technology) and the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology are together organizing a public lecture on the topic ‘Ethics and Architecture’. The lecture will be given by architect Nicolas Ray, author of the book ‘Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas’.