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ESDiT & 4TU Ethics Conference Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology

Start date: October 2, 2024
End date: October 4, 2024
All-day event
Location: University of Twente
Academic event | All research lines | Public ESDIT event
Join us at the Conference Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology on 2-4 October 2024 at the University of Twente! Co-organized by ESDiT and 4TU Ethics (Centre for Ethics and Technology), the Conference aims to investigate what philosophy and ethics of technology mean today. It will gather scholars working on the philosophy and ethics of technology […]

Value Experience, Value Change, and Design

Date: February 14, 2024
Time: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Social Impact Factory, Vredenburg 40, 3511 BD Utrecht
Academic event
The ERC-funded project Design for Changing Values is organising "Value Experience, Value Change, and Design" a one-day, in-person, conference on philosophy, moral psychology, and technology on 14 February at the Social Impact Factory in Utrecht. The Conference will focus on Value Experiences, their impact on design for values and their transformative effects into society. The […]

CEET Webinar Series: AI & Emotions

Date: January 24, 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Zoom
Academic event | STEM
 The first session of the Winter 2024 Webinar Series organised by the Conceptual Engineering for Emerging Technologies (CEET) initiative took place on 24 January. Matthew McKeever (HKU) and Simon Goldstein (HKU) were the speakers of this session, focusing on the relationship (or lack of) between AI and emotions. The CEET initiative is a joint venture […]

Workshop ‘Toward a systemic concept of attention for the attention economy, using Buddhist and Western ethics’

Start date: February 5, 2024
End date: February 7, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: TU/e campus and online
Academic event
To discuss how to adopt “Western” and Buddhist approaches to analyse what a broader systemic concept of attention could look like with a broader audience, the Workshop "Toward a systemic concept of attention for the attention economy, using Buddhist and Western ethics" was held on 5-7 February at the TU/e campus and online. On Day […]

Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

Date: October 31, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Online seminar
Academic event | Public ESDIT event | Wellbeing, Emotions & Health

The ESDiT working group on “Attention Economy” organizes an online seminar with Dr. Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) on her book 'Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity'. The seminar is part of the series  “Attending as practice in the attention economy”.