Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies

Adam Henschke on "When Enhancements need Therapy"

June 23, 2023 05:54 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MB

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 re...

Elena Ziliotti on “Confucianism and Social Media Technologies”

March 09, 2023 09:49 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MB

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 on "The Ethics of the Metaverse"

February 28, 2023 13:02 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MB

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 Philosop...

Guido Löhr on "Do socially disruptive technologies really change our concepts or just our conceptions?"

February 06, 2023 10:29 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB

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 ...

Sven Nyholm on "A new control problem? Humanoid robots, artificial intelligence, and the value of control"

January 16, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MB

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 Sve...

Lucie White on "Were Lockdowns Justified?"

July 11, 2022 08:29 - 40 minutes - 34.4 MB

Lucie White is an assistant professor at Utrecht University. Kristy Claassen interviews her on this episode: Were Lockdowns Justified?

Sabine Roeser on "Technological Risk, Emotions and Art"

July 04, 2022 08:17 - 35 minutes - 26.9 MB

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 and Sabine Roeser. 2017. Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions. Routledge. https://www....

Dina Babushkina on "Disruption, technology and the question of (artificial) identity"

June 27, 2022 07:27 - 24 minutes - 23.1 MB

Dina Babushkina is 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 on "Geo-engineering & techno-moral change"

June 20, 2022 07:12 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

Ben Hofbauer is a PhD Candidate at University of Delft. Kristy Claassen interviews him about his research on Geo-engineer and techno-moral change

ESDiT Podcast - Geo-engineering & techno-moral change

June 20, 2022 07:12 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

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 on "Experimental Philosophy of Technology"

June 13, 2022 15:23 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB

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 on “Climate Risk and Normative Uncertainties”

March 28, 2022 12:27 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MB

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 on "digital wellbeing"

January 16, 2022 17:26 - 33 minutes - 77.2 MB

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 on "Climate Technoactivism"

November 10, 2021 15:31 - 25 minutes - 29.6 MB

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 on "Social Epistemic Networks"

November 03, 2021 18:04 - 25 minutes - 44.8 MB

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 on "Ethics of Animal Modification"

November 01, 2021 08:44 - 30 minutes - 10.8 MB

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 on "Social Robots"

November 01, 2021 08:38 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MB

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 on "Capability Sensitive Design"

November 01, 2021 08:32 - 37 minutes - 85.4 MB

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 on "The Artificial Womb"

October 29, 2021 13:59 - 22 minutes - 7.85 MB

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 on "The Nature of Socially Disruptive Technologies"

October 29, 2021 13:39 - 25 minutes - 9.05 MB

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

Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies

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