ESDiT Research Track

STEM Track

The ESDiT approach is based on close cooperation with the engineering sciences (STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

The overall aim of the ESDiT research programme is to develop a comprehensive philosophical understanding of the socially disruptive technologies (SDTs) of the 21st century, and in particular their challenge to the very concepts and values that we normally appeal to in our moral thinking about technologies.

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Cutting across the four research lines we started two research tracks, each of which emphasizes an aspect that we especially value in this consortium:

Art Track

STEM Track

Intercultural Track

Description of This Research Track

The ESDiT approach is based on close cooperation with the engineering sciences (STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

First and foremost, STEM is important in determining and understanding current and future challenges posed by Socially Disruptive Technologies (SDTs).

Secondly, the ESDiT consortium wishes to interact with STEM areas in order to contribute to improved and more responsible ethical guidance of SDTs.

The STEM track within ESDiT, coordinated by prof. Wijnand IJsselsteijn, is intended to bring together and discuss our joint interests in STEM, and establish and support fruitful and mutually beneficial links between relevant partners involved in STEM innovations and people within ESDiT.

To an extent, our project embodies STEM through the STEM representatives present within the consortium, and affiliated to the project. In addition, we are reaching out to other STEM-oriented Gravitation research consortia (e.g., Hybrid Intelligence – with a focus on AI), in order to connect to scholars in the STEM field.

To help shape our thinking about collaboration and outreach with regards to STEM fields, we have three main, and partly overlapping, lines of thinking:

creating spaces for conversation and learning with regard to STEM;
ensuring a fruitful, open, bi-directional exchange;
sharing results and insights.

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The objective of the conference is to study and ethically assess the transformative consequences of these 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”.

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