Rosas, O.V. (Omar)
Research profile
Omar Rosas is associate researcher in philosophy at the Center for the Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science (CEPTES), University of Twente. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 2005 and did a specialization in psychology (Neurosciences and Emotions) in 2006 both at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His research activities at the University of Twente are part of the international research project ;Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media;, leaded by Dr. Philip Brey (VICI Project), which is aimed at building a normative framework to examine the impact of Virtual Reality technologies on the Good Life and the Good Society. He;s principally concerned with the subproject ;The Quality of Virtual Environments and Tools;. His approach to Virtual Environments and Tools draws basically on three sources: Ecological Psychology (especially, J. J. Gibson;s ecological approach to perception), contemporary theories of Agency (especially, Joseph Raz;s and Albert Bandura;s views of human agency), and normative conceptions of well-being and the quality of life (Joseph Raz;s account of values and Amartya Sen;s account of capabilities). Such an approach is intended to put forward a normative framework to qualitatively evaluate the impact of virtual reality technologies on human perception and action by putting a special emphasis on how these technologies affect the way people appraise cognitively, affectively, and behaviorally the differences between real and virtual perception, real and virtual agency, as well as with how these perceived differences may bring about significant changes in people;s conceptions of the Good Life and the Good Society.
3TU.Ethics Projects
Scientific publications (selection)
Rosas, Omar 2008. On the ecological/representational structure of virtual environments. In Current issues in computing and philosophy edited by A. R. Briggle, K. Waelbers and P. A. E. Brey. Amsterdam: IOS Press available online
