Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: Recent Episodes
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Interviews with, and by, scholars affiliated with the research consortium Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT, 2020-2029). The ESDiT podcast showcases ongoing research of various junior and senior scholars active in contemporary technology ethics.
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Recent enhancements such as brain stimulation technologies pose new possibilities to enhance soldiers. But what happens when these “enhanced” soldiers need therapy?
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Adam Henschke from the University of Twente. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Henschke’s article “When Enhancements need Therapy: Disenhancements, Iatrogenesis, and the Responsibility of Military Institutions”. The article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-022-00169-1
We also refer to the article “Can a Soldier Say No to an Enhancing Intervention?” co-written by Adam and Sahar Latheef. This article can be found at https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies5030013
We hope that you enjoy the episode!
Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In this episode, Elena shares some insights into how Confucianism can shape our thinking about Social Media Technologies. We also discuss the article “Living Well Together Online: Digital Wellbeing from a Confucian Perspective” which she co-wrote with Matthew Dennis.
Philip Brey is a professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente and the current programme leader of the ESDiT consortium. His research includes a wide variety of topics, including the ethical assessment of emerging technologies, the ethics of AI and robotics, innovative approaches to research ethics, and the ethics of the (future) internet. He is the former president of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT) and of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). He has coordinated European Union funded projects like SATORI and SIENNA, led NWO projects and was the former scientific director of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics of Technology. Professor Brey is also the most recent recipient of the prestigious Weizenbaum Award for his significant contribution to the field of information and computer ethics, to be awarded at the upcoming International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2023).
In this episode, Kristy Claassen interviews him about the “ethics of the Metaverse”. This episode also includes a discussion about the ESDiT consortium, how it came to be and the aims of the programme.
Guido Löhr is a postdoctoral researcher at Technical University Eindhoven. Their research focuses on the notions like meaning, concept, and commitment and their roles in neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. The past two years they have also been working on philosophy of technology and AI.
In this episode, Bouke van Balen speaks with Guido about conceptual disruption. The backbone of their discussion is a recent paper from Guido titles "Do socially disruptive technologies really change our concepts or just our conceptions?" You can find it here
Sven Nyholm is an associate professor at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. His main areas of research are applied ethics (especially the ethics of technology), ethical theory, and the history of ethics. Nyholm’s research covers a wide range of topics in ethics, including well-being and meaning in life, the philosophy of love and sex, agency and moral responsibility, the concept of the self, and the ethics of human-robot interaction.
In this episode, Bouke van Balen interviews Sven on the topic of robot-ethics. The backbone of their discussion is a paper Sven recently published: "A new control problem? Humanoid robots, artificial intelligence, and the value of control." You can find it here.
Lucie White is an assistant professor at Utrecht University. Kristy Claassen interviews her on this episode: Were Lockdowns Justified?
Sabine Roeser is Professor of Ethics at TU Delft. Jeroen Hopster interviews her about "Technological Risk, Emotions and Art".
To know more:
Sabine Roeser, Behnam Taebi & Neelke Doorn (2020) Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges: what we can learn from moral emotions and art, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 23:5, 641-658, DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2020.1694225
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Sabine Roeser. 2017. Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions. Routledge. https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/risk-technology-and-moral-emotions/9200000082164967
Dina Babushkinais an assistant professor in philosophy of technology & society at University of Twente. Cindy Friedman interviews her about her paper "Disruption, technology and the question of (artificial) identity"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00110-y
Ben Hofbauer is a PhD Candidate at University of Delft. Kristy Claassen interviews him about his research on Geo-engineer and techno-moral change
Steven Kraaijeveld is a PhD Candidate at Wageningen University & Research. Sven Nyholm interviews him about his paper 'Experimental Philosophy of Technology’. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-021-00447-6
Behnam Taebi is Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics at Delft University of Technology. Jeroen Hopster interviews him about his co-authored article “Governing climate risks in the face of normative uncertainties”, which has been published in WIREs Climate Change (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.666
Matthew Dennis is postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven Technical University. Sven Nyholm interviews him about his recent article 'Towards a Theory of Digital Well‑Being: Reimagining Online', published in Science and Engineering Ethics.
Patricia Reyes is PhD fellow at the University of Twente. Ben Hofbauer interviews her about a political philosophy for climate technoactivism.
https://people.utwente.nl/p.d.reyes
Emily Sullivan is Assistant Professor at Eindhoven Technical University. Jeroen Hopster interviews her about online epistemic vulnerability, on which she recently co-authored the article "Vulnerability in Social Epistemic Networks".
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09672559.2020.1782562
https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/emily-sullivan
Bernice Bovenkerk is associate professor at Wageningen University. In this episode Jeroen Hopster interviews her about arguments regarding animal modification, discussing her article "Ethical perspectives on modifying animals: beyond welfare arguments".
https://bernicebovenkerk.wordpress.com/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952862/
Cindy Friedman is PhD-researcher at Utrecht University. In this episode Sven Nyholm interviews her about the ethics of social robots, discussing her paper: “Human-Robot Moral Relations: Human Interactants as Moral Patients of Their Own Agential Moral Actions Towards Robots”
https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/human-robot-moral-relations-human-interactants-as-moral-patients/18702584
Naomi Jacobs is assistant professor in bioethics at the University of Twente. In this episode Sven Nyholm interviews her about a key topic of her doctoral research: capability sensitive design.
https://people.utwente.nl/n.jacobs
https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/183192842/20210929_Jacobs_hf.pdf
Julia Hermann is assistant professor at the University of Twente and researcher in the ESDiT programme. Her current research fouses on biomedical ethics, specifically on ethical issues raised by the artificial womb. In this episode Jeroen Hopster interviews her about the ethics of the artificial womb and the disruptions it provokes.
https://people.utwente.nl/j.s.hermann
Jeroen Hopster is postdoctoral researcher at Twente University and member of ESDiT. In October 2021 he published the paper "The nature of socially disruptive technologies" in Technology in Society. In this episode Julia Hermann interviews him about his research on technosocial disruption.
https://people.utwente.nl/j.k.g.hopster
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101750