You can't do that!
Description
The board of the Philosophy and Engineering Department has the pleasure of inviting you to Jonne Hoek's lecture on 18 April next on the topic:
You can't make that!
Social engineering is always at the centre of thinking and proposing what will be realised. But what can't actually be made, and why can't it be made?
The lecture discusses three dimensions of this question. The first dimension views the question objectively: how far do our faculties extend, and what is actually unmakeable according to the laws of nature? The second dimension considers this question subjectively, along the lines of values: what should not be made, should be subject to limits? The third dimension considerably complicates the previous two: it is about enabling that technology does. Through technology, the boundaries of what is makeable shift, both objectively and subjectively. So does anything remain unmakeable?
Just as thought finds its limit and passion in that which it cannot grasp - the paradox (Kierkegaard) - so perhaps technology finds offence, and redemption, in that which it cannot make. Drawing on Karl Jaspers' idea of the boundary situation, I will therefore try to confront technology with an impossible task.
The lecture starts at 7pm. From 6.30 pm walk-in with coffee.
We hope to see you on 18 April!
Speaker(s)
Jonne hoek is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Twente and an affiliate member of the 4TU.Ethics federation. The theme of his dissertation is Technology and Transcendence. Doctoral students are Prof Peter-Paul Verbeek and Prof Ciano Aydin. Previously, Jonne studied at Radboud University in Nijmegen and at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and worked as an Academy Assistant in the KNAW's Rede and Religion project
Location
Vredenburg 19, 3511 BB Utrecht
Organiser
Philosophy & Technology
Name and contact details for information
Johan Hengst