Events Archive
Monday, September 13, 2010
Colloquium: Functional kinds, structural kinds, and the irreducibility of the special sciences.
Maarten Franssen, Philosophy, TU Delft, Monday 13th September 2010, room a3.100, TPM building, TU Delft.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Colloquium: Functional Decomposition: On Rationality and Incommensurability
Dingmar van Eck, Philosophy, TU Delft, Monday 30th August 2010, room a3.100, TPM building, TU Delft.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
KIVI-NIRIA - 3TU.Ethics Lectures Series - Pols
KIVI-NIRIA - 3TU.Ethics Lectures Series
(In Dutch)
Verantwoordelijkheid overdragen met gebruiksplannen
Auke Pols
Wednesday 14 July at 19:00 hour in De Poort van Kleef, Mariaplaats 7, Utrecht.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
PhD Defense: Nuclear Power and Justice between Generations
PhD Defense: Nuclear Power and Justice between Generations
A Moral Analysis of Fuel Cycels
Behnam Taebi
Tuesday June 29th at 12:00, Aula, TU Delft, Delft.
Friday, June 25, 2010
PhD defense: Doing Good with Things: taking responsibility for the social role of technologies.
Doing Good with Things: taking responsibility for the social role of technologies.
June 25, 2010, 16.30, De Waaier, University of Twente
Katinka Waelbers
PhD Defense: Designing for Moral Identity in Information Technology
PhD Defense: Designing for Moral Identity in Information Technology
Noemi Manders-Huits
Friday June 25th at 09:30, Aula, TU Delft, Delft.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Conference ‘Ethics, Energy & the Future’
June 24-26th 2010, TU Delft, The Netherlands
From June 24-26th 2010 3TU.Ethics organizes the conference ‘Ethics, Energy and the Future: Technology for a Sustainable Society’. A call for papers is now available and can be found here. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 15th 2010.
See www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/sustainability for more info.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Colloquium: human diversity and the ‘appropriateness’ of technical artefacts
Ilse Oosterlaken, TU Delft, Netherlands
15.30-17.00, room a3.100 of TPM building, TU Delft.
Abstract of paper:
Human beings differ very much from one another, both in their personal characteristics and circumstances. Within political philosophy and ethics this has been emphasized by the capability approach of Nussbaum and Sen, within engineering design by social design movements like universal/inclusive design. Not only is is fruitful to connect these different domains, they also both invoke questions about technical artefacts and normativity. In order to explicate this connection and shed some light on these questions, I will turn to philosophy of technology. More in particular, I will build on work of Houkes and Vermaas about the nature of technical artefacts and of engineering design and on connected work of Franssen about artefacts and normativity. User characteristics and circumstances have been given an explicit place there. Yet, so I will argue, the implications have not been fully driven through. Human diversity makes normative statements like ‘this is an inappropriate bicycle’ of great importance, but Franssen leaves them unmentioned. I will analyze their meaning and argue that they should be distinguished from statements like ‘this is a good bicycle’. Normativity is in this paper mainly limited to the context of individual, instrumental rationality. I will, however, also briefly explore how inappropriateness may be at the basis of moral judgments about artefacts, more in particular concerning social injustice. It is to such injustices that both the capability approach and universal/inclusive design have been responding, each in their own way.
Summer School - IDEAL Climate ‘Responsible Engineering in a Warming World’
IDEA-League Summer School, June 21-26, 2010, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Monday, June 14, 2010
Colloquium: Biosecurity and Dual Use Research
Pauline Kleingeld, Philosophy Department, Leiden University, Netherlands, Monday 14th June 2010, room a3.100, TPM building, TU Delft, Delft.