Interaction between technology and morality
Description
This is also the seventh meeting of the annual theme "Are Devices Taking Over?"
The idea of an autonomously choosing human being is too simple. Devices shape our lives in all sorts of unexpected ways. Technology not only serves our demands, but makes its own demands on them. It does not passively serve morality, but actively shapes it. This is an important insight for the discussion about new technologies. How will new techniques challenge and perhaps change our morality? We need not fear that the devices will take over, but we do need to school our moral imagination so that we are not constantly surprised by the way new techniques challenge existing moral routines. This interaction between technology and morality will be elaborated on using examples from medical technology, such as Deep Brain Stimulation, preventive medicine by means of a so-called Lab on a Chip.
ATTENDANCE
The hall will be open from 18:30 for free coffee or tea and a social chat.
Given the interest in the topic, potential interested parties other than from the Department of Philosophy & Technology are also invited. However, the room capacity is limited to 30 places.
Due to this limited room capacity, I would ask you to pass on registrations of participation until Tuesday 10 November at the latest.
Make the effort to attend an evening of the Philosophy and Engineering Department, or bring an interested person along!
We hope to see you there!
ROUTE DESCRIPTION
From Utrecht CS station hall, walk the entire passage through Hoog Catharijne towards the city centre. When you arrive at the square, the Vredenburg 19 meeting centre is on your left, above C & A. When you get down, walk diagonally left along the walls of the building site, the square and the street (Vredenburg) have to be crossed. On the ground floor, there is only an entrance hall with lifts and a notice board with the hall number, to the left of the C & A windows, next to the shoe shop Breugel.
Parking facilities include NH hotels.
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Speaker(s)
Tsjalling Swierstra studied philosophy and political science. He obtained his PhD in Groningen in 1998 with a thesis on the relationship between ethics, politics, science and technology. Since 1996, he has worked at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Twente, where he now heads the research line 'Ethics and Politics of Emerging Technologies'. He publishes mainly on public opinion on developments within biomedical technology and nanotechnology. He was also recently appointed Socrates Professor in 'Philosophy and ethics of life sciences, from a humanistic perspective' at the University of Amsterdam.
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Location
Utrecht
Organiser
Philosophy & Technology
Name and contact details for information
Further information from drs.ing. Henk Uijttenhout (vz), tel: 070 - 3875293 / 06 - 42505844 or via the e-mail address below. .