Verbeek, P.P.C.C. (Peter-Paul)

Research profile

Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is professor of philosophy of technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, and director of the international master program Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society. He is also an editor of the journal Techn�: Research in Philosophy and Technology and a member of the board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. As from 2009, Verbeek is a member of the �Young Academy�, which is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Verbeeks research focuses on the social and cultural roles of technology and the ethical and anthropological aspects of human-technology relations. He recently published the book What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design (Penn State University Press, 2005), in which he elaborates an analysis of how technologies mediate human actions and experiences, with applications to industrial design. He also co-edited the volume User Behavior and Technology Design � Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies (Springer, 2006) about the interaction between technology and behavior, and its relevance to technology design and environmental policy.

Currently he is working on the project �Technology and the limits of humanity: the ethics and anthropology of posthumanism�, about human enhancement technology and its ethical and anthropological implications (NWO VIDI grant 2007). He recently finished the project Technology and the Matter of Morality, about the moral significance of technologies, and its implications for ethical theory and the ethics of technology design (NWO VENI grant 2003).

3TU.Ethics Projects

Technology and the limits of humanity: the ethics and anthropology of posthumanism

Technology and the Matter of Morality

Telecare at home: Anticipating conflicting norms in telemonitoring technologies for chronic patients

Scientific publications (selection)

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. Cyborg Intentionality; Rethinking the Phenomenology of Human-Technology Relations. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (3):387-395.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Meditation of Morality. Human Studies 31 (1):11-26.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. Cultivating Humanity: towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology. In New Waves in Philosophy of Technology, edited by J. K. B. Olsen, E. Selinger and S. Riis. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts. In Philosophy and Design: from Engineering to Architecture edited by P. Vermaas, P. Kroes, A. Light and S. Moore. Dordrecht: Springer.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. De grens van de mens. Over de relatie tussen mens en techniek. In Technologie en mensbeeld (Annalen van het Thijmgenootschap), edited by I. L. Consoli and R. Hoekstra. Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. De moraliteit van medische technologie. In Chirurg en ethiek: Mensbeelden en dilemma's onder het mes, edited by M. Peijnenburg, C. Leget and T. Wobbes. Budel: Damon.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. In den beginne was techniek. Over de technologische bemiddeling van het religieuze. In Deus et Machina. De verwevenheid van technologie en religie, edited by M. v. Well. Den Haag: STT.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2008. Disclosing Visions of Technology. Review of S. Strijbos and A. Basden, 'In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology'. Techn� 12 (1):85-89.

Heijs, W., and P.P.C.C. Verbeek. 2006. Conceptual Frameworks for Analyzing Technology-Behavior Interactions. In User Behavior and Technology Development, edited by P.P.C.C. Verbeek and A. Slob. Dordrecht: Springer.available online

van de Poel, I.R., and P.P. Verbeek. 2006. Editorial: Ethics and Engineering Design. Science, Technology & Human Values 31:223-236.available online

Slob, A., and P.P.C.C. Verbeek. 2006. Technology and User Behavior: An Introduction. In User Behavior and Technology Development, edited by P. P. C. C. Verbeek and A. Slob. Dordrecht: Springer.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2006. Acting Artifacts. The Technological Mediation of Action. In User Behavior and Technology Development. Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies, edited by P. P. C. C. Verbeek and A. Slob. Dordrecht: Springer.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2006. Materializing Morality. Design Ethics and Technological Mediation. Science, Technology and Human Values 31 (3):361-380.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2006. Moraliteit voorbij de Mens. Over De Mogelijkheden van een Posthumanistische Ethiek. Krisis: Tijdschrift voor Empirische Filosofie, 42-57.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2006. The Morality of Things. A Postphenomenological Inquiry. In Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde, edited by E. Selinger. New York: State University of New York Press.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C., and A. Slob. 2006. Analyzing the Relations between Technologies and User Behavior: Toward a Conceptual Framework. In User Behavior and Technology Development, edited by P. P. C. C. Verbeek and A. Slob. Dordrecht: Springer.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C., and A. Slob, eds. 2006. User Behavior and Technology Development. Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies, Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science. Dordrecht: Springer.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. Artifacts and Attachment. A Post-Script Philosophy of Mediation. In Inside the Politics of Technology, edited by H. Harbers. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. Beyond the Human Eye. Mediated Vision and Posthumanity.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. De Materialiteit van de Moraal. Algemeen Nederlands tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 139-145.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. Karl Jaspers. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, edited by C. Mitcham. Detroit: MacMillan Reference.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. Verlichting. Krisis: Tijdschrift voor Empirische Filosofie, 105-108.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. What Things Do. Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency and Design.. Penn State: Penn State University Press.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C., and R. Benschop. 2005. De Bemiddelde Blik. Inleiding Bij Themanummer 'Andere Ogen'. Krisis: tijdschrift voor empirische filosofie, 3-4.

Professional/Popular publications (selection)

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2007. Techniek en Existentie. Filosofie 17 (3):16-21.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C 2007. Voorbij het Menselijk Oog. In Mediated Vision edited by P.J.H. Kockelkoren. Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers en ARTez Press.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2007. Beyond the Human Eye: Technological Meditation and Posthuman Visions. In Mediated Vision (English edition), edited by P. J. H. Kockelkoren. Arnhem/Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. .2007. Integrating Visions of Technology: a Discussion Paper. In Integrating Visions of Technology, edited by A. Basden. Maarssen: CPTS.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2006. Ethiek en Technologie: Moreel Actorschap en Subjectiviteit in een Technologische Cultuur. Ethische Perspectieven, 267-289.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2006. Geschiedenis van de Techniekfilosofie: Geen Canon maar Zelfreflectie. Filosofie, 45-45.

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. De Zelfkant van de Techniek: De Existentiele Techniekfilosofie van Karl Jaspers. Filosofie, 46-50.available online

Verbeek, P.P.C.C. 2005. Naar een Moreel Debat over Techniek. In Ethiek van de Wetenschapscommunicatie, edited by H. Zwart. Amsterdam: Boom.available online

Teaching

Philosophy of Technology
Philosophy of Communication
Philosophy of Technological Culture
Design History and Human-Product Relations
Methods in Philosophical Research
Philosophy of Engineering Science and Design
Philosophical Anthropology
Environmental Philosophy