News & Media
News from the ESDIT programme + media appearances by our researchers
#ESDiTPodcast S1 – Dina Babushkina on “Disruption, Technology and the question of (Artificial) Identity”
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”
#ESDiTPodcast S1 – Ben Hofbauer on “Geo-engineering & Techno-moral Change”
Ben Hofbauer is a PhD Candidate at University of Delft. Kristy Claassen interviews him about his research on Geo-engineer and techno-moral change
#ESDiTPodcast S1 – Steven Kraaijeveld on “Experimental Philosophy of Technology”
Steven Kraaijeveld is a PhD Candidate at Wageningen University & Research. Sven Nyholm interviews him about his paper ‘Experimental Philosophy of Technology’
Conceptual Engineering: Why do we need it? How do we do it?
On 31 March and 1 April 2022 Jeroen Hopster and Guido Löhr, postdocs in the Foundations and Synthesis line, organized the workshop “Conceptual Engineering and Socially Disruptive Technologies”. Some of the workshop presentations were recorded, including this lecture by Amie Thomasson.
#ESDiTPodcast S0 – Behnam Taebi on “Climate Risk and Normative Uncertainties”
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)
Radical Philosophy podcast interview with Julia Hermann
Dr. Julia Hermann discusses the ethical issues of how an artificial womb could be used in the future, If an artificial womb would change the concept of personhood and how it would effect the debate about abortion and reproductive rights.
#ESDiTPodcast S0 – Matthew Dennis on “Digital wellbeing”
Matthew Dennis is a 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.
#ESDiTPodcast S0 – Patricia Reyes on climate technoactivism
Patricia Reyes is PhD fellow at the University of Twente. Ben Hofbauer interviews her about a political philosophy for climate technoactivism.
#ESDiTPodcast S0 – Emily Sullivan on “Social Epistemic Networks”
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”
#ESDiTPodcast S0 – Bernice Bovenkerk on “Ethics of Animal Modification”
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”.