New Directions in Philosophy of Technology
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Philosophy of Technology is a rapidly evolving field which gains its momentum not only from the emergence of new technologies but also theoretical developments in neighbouring fields and disciplines. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working at the forefront of a variety of different topics in philosophy of technology in order to showcase the breadth and diversity of innovative work currently taking place within the field.
Programme:
(Abstract to talks can be found in the "Documents"-section below.)
June 5
13:00 Welcome: Introduction (Mark Thomas Young & Wessel Reijers)
13:30 Talks
- Marilu Papandreou (University of Bergen): “Artworks, Technical Artefacts, and a Few Other Things: A Fresh Aristotelian Approach”
- Bas de Boer (University of Twente): “Objectification as a Lens in the Philosophy of Technology”
- Bruno Gransche (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): “Cultivating Options: A pragmatic of shaping futures by orchestrating resistances”
15:00 Break
15:30 Talks
- Mark Young (University of Oslo): “Taking Things Apart: Clips, Glues and Pentalobe Screws”
- Wessel Reijers (Paderborn University): “Governance Through the Point: Social Credit as the Nemesis of Rawls and Arendt”
- Andrea Gammon (Technical University of Delft): “Environment, Technology, and Philosophy of Maintenance”
17:00 Closing
19:00 Dinner
June 6
9:00 Coffee and welcome
9:30 Talks
- Jason Branford (University of Hamburg): “It’s time to talk about moral progress: Facing the normativity of the philosophy of (disruptive) technologies”
- Milan Stuermer (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Process and Technology. On entropic machines and reasonable life”
10:30 Break
11:00 Talks
- Sanna Lehtinen (Aalto University): “Moving from Preferences to the Quest for Attention in Studying the Aesthetics of Urban Everyday Environments”
- Ryan Wittingslow (University of Groningen): “Nelson Goodman and Philosophy of Technology”
12:00 Lunch (workshop closes)
Contact Person
Mark Thomas Young: mark.young@ifikk.uio.no
