ESDiT2022: International Conference Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies Oegstgeest, Netherlands, October 6-7, 2022 |
Conference website | https://www.esdit.nl/conferences/Esdit2022/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esdit2022 |
Submission deadline | May 29, 2022 |
Notification of acceptance | June 15, 2022 |
Registration open | July 1, 2022 |
The aim of the conference is to study and ethically assess the transformative consequences of emerging technologies, of social institutions, the environment, human relations, personal identities, thought and language. There will be a particular focus on challenges of disruptive technologies to key concepts and values, like “truth”, “agency”, “democracy”, “human nature” and “life”.
This is the first major conference of the research programme Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (Esdit), funded by the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in The Netherlands, and by matching funds from the participating institutions. ESDiT runs from 2020 to 2029. Its management board consists of Philip Brey (programme leader), Sabine Roeser (programme vice leader), Peter-Paul Verbeek, Ibo van der Poel, Ingrid Robeyns, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Joel Anderson, Marcel Verweij and Vincent Müller.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
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Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist (Uppsala University)
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Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
Submission Guidelines
We invite abstracts (max 500 words including notes and references) per track for research presentations. Presentations will be held in parallel sessions. Abstracts will be subjected to double-blind peer review.
We particularly welcome submissions addressing new or underexplored topics, submissions from a variety of philosophical traditions, and submissions of an interdisciplinary nature. We especially encourage submissions from women and members of underrepresented groups.
Conference tracks
- Ethics of human-like robots (rights, moral considerations)
- Fundamental issues in AI ( Agency of AI, human-AI hybrids, intellectural history and evolution of the concept of AI, etc.)
- Technology and changing self-understanding
- Democracy and technology
- Social Justice and technology
- Control and technology
- The conceptual disruption of nature by SDTs
- The technical mimesis of nature (e.g. biomimicry, synthetic biology, Digital Twins)
- The role of SDT’s in Climate change and Climate recovery
- Criteria for Conceptual Engineering
- Moral Change and Technology
- New approaches in Ethics of Technology
- At the Intersection of ethics and STEM
Track desriptions can be found at our website.
Programme Committee
- Philip Brey (University of Twente)
- Sven Nyholm (Utrecht University)
- Elena Ziliotti (Delft University of Technology)
- Michael Klenk (Delft University of Technology)
- Vincent Blok (Wageningen University & Research)
Organizing committee
- Patrik Hummel (Eindhoven University of Technology), track coordinator
- Melanie Braamhaar (University of Twente), programme manager ESDiT
- Seeta Autar (University of Twente), secretariat
- Ben Hofbauer (Delft University of Technology)
- Julia Rijssenbeek (Wageningen University & Research)
Venue
We are planning to have the conference in person. The conference venue is CORPUS/Oegstgeest (near Leiden).
Registration and conference fee
Upon acceptance of your abstract we will inform will you about the registration procedure and other practicalities.
The standard conference fee is €125, €75 for Postdoctoral Students and free of charge for members of the ESDiT consortium.
Contact
Please direct any scientific related questions to this call to Patrik Hummel (p.a.hummel@tue.nl). Other questions can be sent to the conference secretariat (esdit2022-bms@utwente.nl)