Posted on Mar 9, 2018
Call for Papers: The Conference on Philosophy of Technology for the 24th World Congress of Philosophy & The 17th National Conference on Philosophy of Technology The 24th World Congress of Philosophy will be held in Peking University China，from August 13 to August 20, 2018.“The Conference on Philosophy of Technology for The 24th World Congress of...
Posted on Feb 21, 2018
9th International Colloquium on the Philosophy of Technology: “Algorithmic dystopias: Technologies, the human and power” 20-23 of November 2018 Venue: Open Interamerican University, San Juan 951. Buenos Aires, Argentina. CALL FOR PAPERS Technology has earned a central role in debates about the future of modern societies. As a subdiscipline of philosophy, the philosophy of technology...
Posted on Jan 3, 2018
Envisioning Robots in Society —Politics, Power, and Public Space Vienna, Austria, February 14-17, 2018 Automation is the new key strategy for productivity gain—many countries are well on their way towards the production model of “industry 4.0″ where software bot and robots will appear in all industrial sectors including service industries. The core driver of this...
Posted on Jan 2, 2018
The conference intends to bring together philosophers, scholars, artists, designers, and engineers in order to foster dialogue and creative collaborations around the interactions between humans, technologies, and society. As has been emphasized by several authors (e.g. Ihde, Haraway, Feenberg, Vallor, Latour, Verbeek), we cannot uphold strict distinctions between humans and technologies. As human beings, we...
Posted on Dec 28, 2017
fPET2018 – Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology May 30 – June 1, 2018, at University of Maryland, College Park, in the Greater Washington, DC area, USA Deadline: January 14, 2018 The 2018 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology (fPET) welcomes abstract submissions. The mission of fPET is to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and...
Posted on Nov 20, 2017
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Social Robots, Emotions, and Social Cognition: Conceptual, Empirical, and Ethical Perspectives Special Issue in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (Expected: Volume 23, Issue 2, 2019) Guest Editors: Johanna Seibt Raffaele Rodogno Research Unit for Robophilosophy School for Culture and Society Aarhus University, Denmark SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st,...
Posted on Oct 19, 2017
Social Robots and Recognition Socio-Ontological, (Machine-)Ethical, and Socio-Political Trajectories GUEST EDITORS: – Marco Nørskov (Aarhus University & Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories) – Sladjana Nørskov (Aarhus University) INTRODUCTION: Social robotic solutions are currently being developed and tested on a large scale. From workspace collaborators to caretakers of our children and elderly to intimate companions—social robots are imagined to...
Posted on Oct 5, 2017
From: http://portal.mytum.de/jobs/professuren/NewsArticle_20170926_141845 The Technical University of Munich (TUM) invites applications for the position of Associate Professor or Full Professor in »Philosophy of Science and Technology« to begin in summer semester 2018. The position is a tenured W3 position. Scientific environment The professorship belongs to the TUM School of Governance (GOV) and will be affiliated with...
Posted on Sep 29, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Seventh Biennial Conference 29 June – 2 July 2018 University of Ghent, Ghent, BELGIUM Keynote speakers: William Bechtel, University of California at San Diego Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter Maarten van Dyck, University of Ghent Alison Wylie, University of British Columbia ...
Posted on Sep 4, 2017
SPT would like to share a call for papers for the PT-AI 2017 Conference “Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence”, November 4-5, 2017, University of Leeds, Weetwood Hall conference centre http://www.pt-ai.org/2017/ Organisation: Vincent C. Müller, University of Leeds & Anatolia College/ACT (This is the 3rd PT-AI conference, see http://www.pt-ai.org) ========================================= ABSTRACTS We request anonymous abstracts...
Posted on Jul 5, 2017
Dear SPT members, I hope you also had a great conference in Darmstadt, with so many excellent people and talks. Let me thank again Shannon Vallor and Alfred Nordmann for making this happen. As for my role, I’m very honored and excited to start my term as President of SPT. In the coming years, I see it as...
Posted on Jun 30, 2017
Robophilosophy 2018 – Envisioning Robots In Society: Politics, Power, And Public Space (February 14-17, 2018 @University of Vienna, Austria) is the third event in the biennial Robophilosophy Conference Series which facilitates robophilosophy, a new area of interdisciplinary applied research in philosophy, robotics, and other disciplines in the humanities, social and human sciences. The event with gather...
