Monday 28 October |
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| 10:00 |
Registration and Coffee |
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| 11:00 |
Spiegelzaal – Welcoming Remarks Darryl Cressman |
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| 11:30 |
Keynote: Spiegelzaal Xavier Guchet (Université de technologie de Compiègne) Technology: A Matter of Care |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30 | Political Philosophy & Technology
Attic (3.002) Chair: Cassy Juhasz |
The Empirical Turn
Spiegelzaal (1.003), Chair: Dani Shanley |
Hidden Philosophies of Technology
Room 0.001, Chair: Antonio Oraldi |
| Aljosa Kravanja (University of Ljubijana)
Is Leviathan a Machine or merely Machine-Like? Hobbes and the Techno-political |
Mariska Bosschaert (Wageningen University)
The Empirical Turn Revisited: Reintegrating Theories on Technology in General in the Philosophy of Technology |
Maaike van der Horst (University of Twente)
Jacques Lacan & Technology: The Case of the Sex Robot |
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| Michael Haiden (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt)
Kenneth Waltz & the Value Neutrality of Technology |
Empirical Philosophy Cluster (Olya Kudina, Aafke Fraaije, Nynke van Uffelen [TU Delft])
The Role of Data in the Empirical Philosophy of Technology |
Luca Tripaldelli (Radboud University)
Digital Discourses: A Derridean Perspective on Social Media, Religious Violence, and Democracy in the Digital Age |
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| Rosalie Waelen (University of Bonn)
Arendt & Technology |
Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, Julia Pelger, & Larissa Bolte (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Blinding Concreteness: Shedding Light on the Extractivist Blindspot of the Philosophy of Technology |
Ruben Freiherr von Moreau (KU Leuven)
Against the Techno-heroic: Unravelling Ursula Le Guin’s Techno-philosophical insights |
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| 15:00 | Break | ||
| 15:30 | Heidegger’s Influence
Attic (3.002) Chair: Darryl Cressman |
French Philosophy of Technology
Spiegelzaal, Chair: Massimiliano Simons |
Histories of AI
0.001, Chair: Robert Gianni |
| Manolis Simos (National and Kapodistrian University, Athens)
Remarks on Peter Sloterdijk’s Metaethics of Technology |
Emanuele Clarizio (Lille Catholic University)
The Question of Exteriorization an the Anthropological Problem in “Biological Philosophy of Technology |
Fabio Tollon (University of Edinburgh)
R-AI: Contested Bodies of Practice |
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| Thomas Sentis (École Polytechnique Paris)
Heidegger and Philosophy of Technology: A Historical Approach |
Stefano Pilotto (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Canguilhem reader of Leroi-Gourhan |
Diego Morales (TU Eindhoven)
Wittgenstein, Turing, and the Cognitive Mirage in AI: Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Problem |
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| Yuta Okada (Tohoku University)
Re-evaluating Heidegger in the Philosophy of Technology |
Kaush Kalidindi (TU Eindhoven)
Knowing the Machine by its Construction: Simondon’s project as extending modeling practices into instrumental realities |
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Tuesday 29 October |
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| 9:30 | Coffee | ||
| 10:00 | Keynote – Spiegelzaal
Federica Buongiorno (University of Florence) Phenomenology of Technology and the Question of Repression |
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| 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:30 | Histories of AI and Computation
Attic (3.002), Chair Tullio Viola |
Hidden Philosophies of Technology
Spiegelzaal, Chair Dani Shanley |
Critical Theories of Technology
Room 0.001, Chair: Robert Gianni |
| Ksenia Tatarchenko (Singapore Management University)
Translating Turing: From “Can Machines Think?” to “Can Humans?” |
Guilel Treiber (Radboud University) In the Shadow of Digitalization: Renewing the Analysis of Mass-Society | Tim Christiaens (Tilburg University)
Marx’s General Intellect in Italy: Towards a Labour Theory of Machines |
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| Joe Litobarski (Maastricht University)
The Electronic Agora in a Global Village: Towards a Transnational History of Teledemocracy |
Dominic Smith (University of Dundee)
Programme without Transmission: The Translatability of Benjamin’s Radio work as a Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education |
Lisann Penttilä (KU Leuven)
Critical Constructivism Between Past and Future: From Post-War Reflections on the Atom Bomb to Technology Regulation Today |
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| Simone Bernardi della Rosa (University of Molise)
Forecasting the Future: A Brief History of Predictive Technologies From Probability to Algorithms |
Dawid Kasprowicz (RTHW Aachen)
Technology as the world of non-legitimized objects: Hans Blumenberg’s idea of a Geistesgeschichte der Technik |
Antonio Oraldi (University of Lisbon)
Marcuse and Simondon: Notes on an Unlikely Connection |
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Histories of Post-Humanism & Trans-Humanism
Attic, Chair: Cassy Juharez |
Hidden Philosophies of Technology
Spiegelzaal: Chair: Sally Wyatt |
French Philosophy of Technology
0.001, Chair: Hannes van Engeland |
| Trijsje Franssen (TU Delft)
Prometheus: Performer or Transformer? |
Nolen Gertz (University of Twente)
Automating Away Ambiguity: Freedom and Technology in Beauvoir |
Riccardo Valenti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Embracing the Diachronic Way of Being |
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Massimiliano Simons (Maastricht University) Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience |
Alessandra Buccella (SUNY Albany) AI Systems and Ethical Decisions: Freedom, Flourishing, and the Future of “AI Ethics” |
Pietro Prunotto (University of Turin) A Quasi-Existential Analytic of Technology: Stiegler on Heidegger |
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| Ilaria Fornacciari (Masaryk University, Brno)
The apparatus and the view: Techniques and Technologies from Archaeological Analysis to Critical Posthumanism |
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| 15:30 | Break | ||
| 15:45 |
Historicizing Philosophies of Technology Attic, Chair: Antonio Oraldi |
Hidden Philosophies of Technology
Spiegelzaal, Chair: Sally Wyatt |
Arendt & the Politics of Technology
0.001, Chair: Rosalie Waelen |
| Moritz Pretzsch (University of Kassel)
Understanding and Criticising Technology in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Thinking |
Phillip H. Roth (RWTH Aachen)
Technology and Environment: Harold A. Innis as a Thinker of Infrastructure |
Jurgita Imbrasaite (University for Applied Sciences Europe, Hamburg)
Arendtian “Gestell” |
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| Agostino Cera (Università di Ferrara)
From Empirical Turn to Ontophobic Turn (A Critical Historicization of the Newest Philosophy of Technology) |
Brynn Catherine McNab (Concordia University, Montreal)
Recursive Epistemology and its Technological Lineage: An Examination of the Metaphysics of Gregory Bateson |
Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky)
Hannah Arendt, Technological Genocide, and the Banality of Evil |
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| Anthony Longo (University of Antwerp)
“Sich-abfinden mit dem Geschickten” Reading Arendt and Derrida into the Empirical Turn |
Tullio Viola (Maastricht University)
Between Platonism and Pragmatism: Media and Technology in Edgar Wind’s Art & Anarchy |
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| 18.00 | Arrive for conference dinner, Thiessen Maastricht, Grote Gracht 18 | ||
Wednesday 30 October |
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| 10:00 | Coffee | ||
| 10:30 | Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)
Fifty Years in Philosophy of Technology: Personal Reflections on the Origins and History of the Society for Philosophy and Technology |
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| 11:30 | French Philosophy of Technology
Attic, Chair: Massimiliano Simons |
Concepts & Imaginings of Technology
Spiegelzaal, Chair: Darryl Cressman |
German-French Connections
0.001, Chair |
| Hannes Van Engeland (Maastricht University)
Geometry, Finesse, and Technology: Bachelard’s Critique of Bergson Through Pascal’s Lens |
Aristotle Tympas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
A History of Philosophical Definitions of the Machine: The Althusserian and Latourian Moment |
Lufeng Xu (EHESS)
Leroi-Gourhan’s “Technical Milieu” and the Philosophical Anthropology of Technology at the crossroads of France and Germany |
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| Aldo Houterman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Technology in Sport: A Serresian Perspective |
David Nemenyi (Leuphana University)
The Question Concerning Machines |
Piero Carreras (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
Hans Blumenberg’s Philosophy of Technology |
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| Buenaventura Marco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
From Baboons to Modes of Existence: Putting Latour’s Philosophy on the (philosophy of technology) map |
Deepshikha Sharma (University of Twente)
Technological Imaginings in Modern Indian Thought |
Carlo Ierna (VU Amsterdam)
Husserl on the Ethics and Epistemology of Cognitive Tools |
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| 13:00 | Closing Remarks: Darryl Cressman (Spiegelzaal) | ||