Peter-Paul Verbeek

Prof. dr. ir. Peter-Paul Verbeek

Department of Philosophy

University of Twente

P.O. Box 217

NL - 7500 AE Enschede

visiting address:

Cubicus, room B231
telephone: +31-53-4894460

p.p.c.c.verbeek@utwente.nl 

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Background

Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is professor of philosophy of technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, and director of the international master program Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society. He is also part-time extraordinary professor of philosophy at Delft University of Technology (Socrates chair). He is an editor of the journal Technè: Research in Philosophy and Technology and a member of the board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. As from 2009, Verbeek is a member of the ‘Young Academy’, which is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Verbeeks research focuses on the social and cultural roles of technology and the ethical and anthropological aspects of human-technology relations. He recently published the book What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design (Penn State University Press, 2005), in which he elaborates an analysis of how technologies mediate human actions and experiences, with applications to industrial design. He also co-edited the volume User Behavior and Technology Design – Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies (Springer, 2006) about the interaction between technology and behavior, and its relevance to technology design and environmental policy. He recently finished the project Technology and the Matter of Morality, about the moral significance of technologies, and its implications for ethical theory and the ethics of technology design (NWO VENI grant 2003).

Currently he is working on the project ‘Technology and the limits of humanity: the ethics and anthropology of posthumanism’, about human enhancement technology and its ethical and anthropological implications (NWO VIDI grant 2007). Beside this, he is co-applicant and –coordinator of the IOP project Design for Usability and the MVI project Telecare at Home.

Recent

Media

Newspaper article: Theo Krabbe, De grens van de mens. In: Twentsche Courant Tubantia, 17 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Newspaper article: Willem Bouwman, Ethici voeren de verkeerde discussie. In: Nederlands Dagblad 16 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Radio interview: Pieter van der Wielen, ‘Mens en techniek’. In: Noorderlicht, VPRO, 14 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Television interview: Wim Brands, ‘De maakbare mens’. In: Boeken, VPRO, 11 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Newpaper interview: Will Bax, ‘De moraal van een wasmachine’. In: Brabants Dagblad, 28 Feb 2009 (Dutch)

Interview Maaike Platvoet, ‘De techniek bepaalt wie we zijn’. In: UT Nieuws, 29 Jan 2009 (Dutch)

Radio discussion: Hoe?Zo! Radio: De toekomst van de evolutie (The future of evolution); Radio 1, 10 Jan 2009 (Dutch)

English

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Ambient Intelligence and Persuasive Technology: The Blurring Boundaries Between Human and Technology’. In: Nanoethics, Dec 2009, 1871-4757 (online version; print version follows)

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘The limits of humanity: on technology, ethics, and human nature’. University of Twente, 15 Oct 2009: inaugural address ( video impression)

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Let’s Make Things Better: A Reply to My Readers’. In: Human Studies 32:2, ISSN 0163-8548, pp. 251-261

Verbeek, P.P. and P. Vermaas (2009), ‘Technological Artifacts’. Lemma for the Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Technology (ed. Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Stig Andur Pedersen, and Vincent F. Hendricks). Blackwell, 2009, pp. 165-171

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘The Moral Relevance of Technological Artifacts’. In: M. Duwell e.a. (red.), Evaluating New Technologies. Springer, Dordrecht, ISBN 978-90-481-2228-8, pp. 63-77

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Cultivating Humanity: towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology’. In: Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger, Søren Riis (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Technology. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 241-266. ISBN 9780230220003

Verbeek, P.P. (2008). ‘Cyborg Intentionality – Rethinking the Phenomenology of Human-Technology Relations’. In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7:3, pp. 387-395

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality - A Postphenomenological Analysis’. In: Human Studies 31:1, pp. 11-26

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts’. In: Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: from Engineering to Architecture. Dordrecht: Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3, pp. 91-103

Dutch

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Techniek en de grens van de mens: over techniek, ethiek en de menselijke natuur’. Universiteit Twente, 15 oktober 2009: oratie ( video impressie)

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Knutselen aan de mens’. In: Trouw – Letter&Geest 17 oktober 2009.

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Ambient Intelligence en Persuasive Technology: de vervagende grens tussen mens en technologie’. In: Tsj. Swierstra et.al (eds.), Leven als Bouwpakket: Ethisch verkennen van een nieuwe technologische golf. Kampen: Klement, ISBN 978-90-8687-049, pp. 65-103.

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Een blik in de baarmoeder: de geboortepolitiek van de echoscopie’. In: F. Bolkestein e.a. (red.), De politiek der dingen’. Budel: Damon, ISBN 978 90 5573 966 0, pp. 152-166.

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Echoscopie en de veranderende beleving van de zwangerschap’. In: G. Alberts e.a. (red.), Gevoel voor Kennis. Jaarboek Kennissamenleving 2009, ISBN 978-90-5260-351-3, ISSN 1871-0034, pp. 159-171.

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Technologie voorbij de mens: naar een antropologie en ethiek van het posthumanisme’. In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 101:1, ISSN 0002-5275. pp. 56-64

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Ethiek moet ervoor zorgen dat de techniek ons “goed” doet’. Interview by Fenny Brandsma, in: Een verkenning van de grenzen: ethische overwegingen bij zorg op afstand. Utrecht: Provincie Utrecht (no ISBN), pp. 50-54

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘De Estafette’. In: Wijsgerig Perspectief 49:1 (March 2009), ISSN 0043-5414, pp. 46-47

Books

Publications

Books and edited volumes

monographs

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), What Things Do – Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design. Penn State: Penn State University Press, ISBN 0-271-02539-5 (264 pp.)

Reviews:

Verbeek, P.P. (2000), De daadkracht der dingen – over techniek, filosofie en vormgeving, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Boom, ISBN 90-5352-630-7, NUGI 611 (304 pp.) (dissertation, also available in commercial edition; 2nd print 2003)

edited volumes

Verbeek, P.P. and A. Slob (eds.) (2006), User Behavior and Technology Development – Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer, ISBN 1-4020-4433-X / 978-1-4020-4433-5 (412 pp.)

see review: Marc de Vries, International Journal of Technology and Design Education 18:2

special issues (edited)

Van de Poel, I.R. and P.P. Verbeek, eds. (2006), Special issue on Ethics and Engineering Design, Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 31 no. 3 (May 2006), pp. 223-380, ISSN 0162-2439 (158 pp.)

Harbers, H. and P.P. Verbeek (eds.) (2006), Themanummer over Posthumanisme, Krisis 2006-1, ISSN 0168-275X

Scientific articles

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Ambient Intelligence and Persuasive Technology: The Blurring Boundaries Between Human and Technology’. In: Nanoethics, Dec 2009, 1871-4757 (online version; print version follows)

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Let’s Make Things Better: A Reply to My Readers’. In: Human Studies 32:2, ISSN 0163-8548, pp. 251-261

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Technologie voorbij de mens: naar een antropologie en ethiek van het posthumanisme’. In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 101:1, ISSN 0002-5275. pp. 56-64

Verbeek, P.P. (2008). ‘Cyborg Intentionality – Rethinking the Phenomenology of Human-Technology Relations’. In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7:3, ISSN 1568-7759, pp. 387-395

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality - A Postphenomenological Analysis’. In: Human Studies 31:1,ISSN 0163-8548, pp. 11-26

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Materializing Morality – design ethics and technological mediation’, in: Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 31 no. 3 (May 2006), ISSN 0162-2439, pp. 361-380

Van de Poel, I.R. and P.P. Verbeek (2006), ‘Ethics and Engineering Design’, editorial for Special Issue ‘Ethics and Engineering Design’, Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 31 no. 3 (May 2006), ISSN 0162-2439, pp. 223-236

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Tecnopólis: a vida pública dos artefactos tecnológicos’ (Technopolis: on the public life of technological artifacts), in: Análise Social 2006-4, ISSN 0003-2573, pp. 1105-1125

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Ethiek en technologie: moreel actorschap en subjectiviteit in een technologische cultuur’, in: Ethische Perspectieven 16:3 (Sept. 2006), ISSN 0778-6069, pp. 267-289

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Moraliteit voorbij de mens – over de mogelijkheden van een posthumanistische ethiek’. In: Krisis 2006 – 1, ISSN 0168-275X, pp. 42-57

Harbers, H. and P.P. Verbeek. (2006), ‘Posthumanisme: ter inleiding’. In: Krisis 2006 – 1 (editorial in special issue on ‘Posthumanism’), ISSN ISSN 0168-275X, pp. 5-9

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘Verlichting’. In: Krisis 2005-4, ISSN 0168-275X, pp. 105-108

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘De materialiteit van de moraal’, in: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 2005 - 2, ISSN 0002-5275, pp. 139-145

Benschop, R. and P.P. Verbeek (2005), ‘De bemiddelde blik – Inleiding bij themanummer Andere ogen’, in: Krisis 2005-1, ISSN 0168-275X, pp. 3-4

Verbeek, P.P. (2002), ‘Devices of the Good Life - on Borgmann’s Philosophy of Information and Technology’, in: Technè, Vol. 6 nr. 1, ISSN 1091-8264, pp. 69-92

Verbeek, P.P. (2000), ‘The Thing about Technology’, in: C. Mitcham (ed.), Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 19, ISSN 0161-7249, ISBN 0-7623-0681-5, pp. 281-299

Verbeek, P.P. (1999), ‘Techniek in het geding’, in: K&M - tijdschrift voor empirische filosofie, 1999-1, ISSN 0167-2444, pp. 78-96

Verbeek, P.P. (1999), ‘De daadkracht der dingen’, in: De Gids, juni 1999, ISSN 0016-9730, pp. 401-413

Verbeek, P.P. and P. Kockelkoren (1998), ‘The Things that Matter’, in: Design Issues 14 – 3, ISSN 0747-9360, pp. 28-42

Tijmes, P. and P.P. Verbeek (1998), ‘The Place on the Map’, in: Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 17, ISSN 0161-7249, ISBN 0-7623-0414-6, pp. 3-8

Verbeek, P.P. and P. Kockelkoren (1997), ‘Voor altijd de jouwe? - over het platonisme in de industriële vormgeving’, in: K&M - tijdschrift voor empirische filosofie, 1997-4, ISSN 0165-1773, pp. 283-307

Verbeek, P.P. (1996), ‘De dingen doorzien - het technologisch ontsluiten van de natuur’, in: Filosofie en Praktijk 17 - 3, najaar 1996, ISSN 0167-2444, pp. 113-126

Scientific book contributions

refereed

Verbeek, P.P. and P. Vermaas (2009), ‘Technological Artifacts’. Lemma for the Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Technology (ed. Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Stig Andur Pedersen, and Vincent F. Hendricks). Blackwell, 2009, pp. 165-171

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘The Moral Relevance of Technological Artifacts’. In: M. Duwell e.a. (red.), Evaluating New Technologies. Springer, Dordrecht, ISBN 978-90-481-2228-8, pp. 63-77

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Echoscopie en de veranderende beleving van de zwangerschap’. In: G. Alberts e.a. (red.), Gevoel voor Kennis. Jaarboek Kennissamenleving 2009, ISBN 978-90-5260-351-3, ISSN 1871-0034, pp. 159-171.

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Cultivating Humanity: towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology’. In: Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger, Søren Riis (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Technology. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 241-266. ISBN 9780230220003

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts’. In: Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: from Engineering to Architecture. Dordrecht: Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3, pp. 91-103

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Acting Artifacts - the Technological Mediation of Action’, in: P.P. Verbeek and A. Slob (eds.), User Behavior and Technology Development – Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 53-60.

Verbeek, P.P. and A. Slob (2006), ‘Analyzing the Relations between Technologies and User Behavior: Toward a Conceptual Framework’, in: P.P. Verbeek and A. Slob (eds.), User Behavior and Technology Development – Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 385-399

Heijs, W. and P.P. Verbeek (2006), ‘Conceptual Frameworks for Analyzing Technology-Behavior Interactions’, in: P.P. Verbeek and A. Slob (eds.), User Behavior and Technology Development – Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 81-92

Slob, A. and P.P. Verbeek (2006), ‘Technology and User Behavior: an Introduction’, in: P.P. Verbeek and A. Slob (eds.), User Behavior and Technology Development – Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 3-12

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘The Morality of Things – A Postphenomenological Inquiry’. In: Evan Selinger (ed.), Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde. New York: State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-6787-2 / 0-7914-6788-0

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘Karl Jaspers’, in: C. Mitcham (ed.), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, ISBN 0-02-865991-0, pp. 1074-1076

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘Artifacts and Attachment – a Post-script Philosophy of Mediation’, in: H. Harbers (ed.), Inside the Politics of Technology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 90 5356 756 9, pp. 125-146

Verbeek, P.P. (2002), ‘Pragmatism and Pragmata - bioethics and the technological mediation of experience’, in: J. Keulartz e.a. (eds.), Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture, Dordrecht: Kluwer, ISBN 1-4020-1115-6, pp. 119-123

Verbeek, P.P. (2001), ‘Don Ihde: The Technological Lifeworld’, in: Hans Achterhuis (ed.), American Philosophy of Technology: the Empirical Turn, Bloomington/Minneapolis: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-33903-0, pp. 119-146

non-refereed

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Ambient Intelligence en Persuasive Technology: de vervagende grens tussen mens en technologie’. In: Tsj. Swierstra et.al (eds.), Leven als Bouwpakket: Ethisch verkennen van een nieuwe technologische golf. Kampen: Klement, ISBN 978-90-8687-049, pp. 65-103.

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Een blik in de baarmoeder: de geboortepolitiek van de echoscopie’. In: F. Bolkestein e.a. (red.), De politiek der dingen’. Budel: Damon, ISBN 978 90 5573 966 0, pp. 152-166.

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘De grens van de mens: Over de relatie tussen mens en techniek’. In: Luca Consoli and Rolf Hoekstra (red.), Technologie en Mensbeeld. Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers (reeks: Annalen van het Thijmgenootschap), pp. 14-37, ISBN 978 90 5625 277 9

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘De moraliteit van medische technologie’. In: M. Peijnenburg, C. Leget en Th. Wobbes (eds.), Chirurg en ethiek: Mensbeelden en dilemma’s onder het mes. Budel: Damon, ISBN 978 90 5573 894 6, pp. 74-88

Verbeek, P.P. (2007), ‘Beyond the Human Eye: Technological Mediation and Posthuman Visions’. In: P. Kockelkoren, Mediated Vision (English edition). Arnhem en Rotterdam: ArtEZ Press en Veenman Publishers, ISBN 978-90-8690-105-0, pp. 43-53

Verbeek, P.P. (2007), ‘Voorbij het menselijk oog: technische mediatie en posthumane visies’. In: P. Kockelkoren, Mediated Vision (Dutch edition). Arnhem en Rotterdam: ArtEZ Press en Veenman Publishers, ISBN 978-90-8690-088-6, pp. 43-53

Verbeek, P.P. (2007), ‘Integrating Visions of Technology: A Discussion Paper’. In: Integrating Visions of Technology. Proceedings of the 12th annual working conference of the Center for Philosophy, Technology, and Social Systems 2006. Maarssen: Center for Philosophy, Technology, and Social Systems, ISBN 90-807718-5-6, pp. 149-154.

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘Naar een moreel debat over techniek’. In: H. Zwart et.al., Ethiek van de wetenschapscommunicatie, Amsterdam: Boom, ISBN 90 8506 085 0, pp. 68-85

Verbeek, P.P. (2004), ‘Material Morality’. In: Ed van Hinte (ed.), Time in Design. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, ISBN 90 6450 549 7, pp. 198-210

Poel, I. van de, and P.P. Verbeek (2004), ‘Ethische vragen bij het ontwerpen van techniek’, in: L. Rooyakkers, I. van de Poel and A. Pieters. (eds.), Ethiek & Techniek, morele overwegingen in de ingenieurspraktijk. Baarn: HB Uitgevers, ISBN 90 5574 445 X, pp. 118-142

Verbeek, P.P. (2003), ‘De moraliteit van de dingen’, in: I. Devisch en G. Verschraegen (red.), De verleiding van de ethiek - Over de plaats van ethische argumenten in de huidige cultuur, Amsterdam: Boom, ISBN 90-5352-825-3

Verbeek, P.P. and P. Kockelkoren (1997), ‘Matter Matters’, in: Ed van Hinte (ed.), Eternally Yours: Visions on Product Endurance, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, ISBN 90-6450-313-3, pp. 101-119

Verbeek, P.P. (1997), ‘Don Ihde: de relatie tussen mensen en techniek’, in: H.J. Achterhuis (red), Van stoommachine tot cyborg - denken over techniek in de nieuwe wereld, Ambo, Baarn, ISBN 90-263-1496-5, pp. 139-158

Reviews

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Disclosing Visions of Technology’. Review of S. Strijbos and A. Basden (eds.), ‘In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology’. In: Technè 12:1 (Winter 2008), ISSN 1091-8264 , pp. 85-89

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘The Matter of Technology. Review of Don Ihde and Evan Selinger (Eds.), Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality’. In: Technè, Vol. 9 nr. 2 (Winter 2005), ISSN 1091-8264, pp. 123-127

Verbeek, P.P. (2004), ‘Review of Jos de Mul: Cyberspace Odyssee’. In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, ISSN 0002-5275, pp. 305-306

Verbeek, P.P. (2004), ‘Techniekfilosofie in fragmenten’. In: Filosofie 14 – 2, ISSN 0925-9449, pp. 57-58. (Review of C. Hubig e.a., Nachdenken über Technik: Die Klassiker der Technikphilosophie,. Berlin: Sigma, 2000)

Verbeek, P.P. (2003), ‘Material Hermeneutics’, in: Technè, Vol. 6 - 3, Spring 2003, ISSN 1091-8264, pp. 91-96 (review of Don Ihde, Expanding Hermeneutics, Evanston, Il.: Northwestern University Press, 1998)

Verbeek, P.P. (1999), ‘De technologische cultuur en het museum van de filosofie’, in: Filosofie en Praktijk 20-3, najaar 1999, ISSN 0167-2444, pp. 164-167 (review of Gerard de Vries, Zeppelins -- over filosofie, technologie en cultuur. Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1999)

Professional publications

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘In den beginne was techniek: Over de technologische bemiddeling van het religieuze’. In: Michiel D.J. van Well (ed.), Deus et Machina: De verwevenheid van technologie en religie. Den Haag: Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek. ISBN 978 90 809613 5 7

Verbeek, P.P. (2007), ‘Techniek en existentie’. In: Filosofie 17-3, pp. 21-16, ISSN 0925-9449

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Geschiedenis van de techniekfilosofie: geen canon maar zelfreflectie’. In: Filosofie 16-1, p. 45, ISSN 0925-9449

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘Techniek en de grens van de mens: de menselijke conditie in een technologische cultuur’. In: Wijsgerig Perspectief 45:3, pp. 6-17, ISSN 0043-5414

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘Beyond the Human Eye: Mediated Vision and Posthumanity’, in: P.J.H. Kockelkoren (ed.), Proceedings of AIAS Conference ‘Mediated Vision’.

Verbeek, P.P. (2005), ‘De zelfkant van techniek: de existentiële techniekfilosofie van Karl Jaspers’. In: Filosofie 15-4, pp. 46-50, ISSN 0925-9449

Verbeek, P.P. (2004), ‘Stimuleer gedragsbeïnvloedende technologie’. In: CDV, Herfst 2004 (‘Tussen Apocalyps en Utopie’), pp. 117-124, ISSN 0167-9155

Verbeek, P.P. (2004), ‘Inleiding’. In: P. Schilperoord, Techniek van de toekomst. Amsterdam: Veen, pp. iv-v, ISBN 9076988382

Verbeek, P.P. (2003), ‘Dingen hebben een morele lading’, in: De Ingenieur 115-17, pp 44-47, ISSN 0020-1146

Verbeek, P.P. (2003), ‘Wat dingen met ons doen’, in: Filosofie Magazine 2003-5.

Verbeek, P.P. (2002), De Macht der Materie - vormgeving voorbij functionaliteit en symboliek, Rotterdam: Stichting Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, sterrenwachtlezing nr. 4, 31 pp. (no ISBN; limited edition)

Verbeek, P.P. (2002), 'Think Big, Start Small', in: Krisis, Fall 2002, ISSN 0168-275X

Verbeek, P.P. (2002), 'Wil de echte Latour nu opstaan?', in: Filosofie 12-5, pp. 57-58, ISSN 0925-9449

Verbeek, P.P. (2001), ‘Voorbij de empirische wending’, in: Filosofie 11-2 (april/mei 2001), pp. 30-33, ISSN 0925-9449

Verbeek, P.P. (2001), 'Naar een materiële esthetica - design voorbij functionaliteit en stijl', Vormberichten 6, juni 2001, ISSN 0923-9111, pp. 14-16.

Verbeek, P.P. (2001), 'Wat dingen doen - over de invloed van producten op mensen', in: Product - tijdschrift voor productontwikkeling 9-6, ISSN 0929-7081, pp. 22-23.

Verbeek, P.P. (2000), ‘Naar een materiële techniekfilosofie’, in: Wetenschap, Technologie en Samenleving 2000-5, ISSN 1386-4289, pp. 188-193

Verbeek, P.P. (1996), ‘Eén knotserige boel - over de filosofie van Belcampo’, in: Bzzletin 234, maart 1996, ISBN 90-5501-252-1, pp. 43-46

Verbeek, P.P. (1996), ‘Spoorlijnen okee, maar niet in mijn denken - naar aanleiding van een debat over Marc van den Bossche’s “Kritiek van de technische rede”’, in: Filosofie 6 -3, juni-juli 1996, ISSN 0925-9449, pp. 37-38

Newspaper articles and popular publications

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Knutselen aan de mens’. In: Trouw – Letter&Geest 17 oktober 2009.

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Ethiek moet ervoor zorgen dat de techniek ons “goed” doet’. Interview by Fenny Brandsma, in: Een verkenning van de grenzen: ethische overwegingen bij zorg op afstand. Utrecht: Provincie Utrecht (no ISBN), pp. 50-54

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘De Estafette’. In: Wijsgerig Perspectief 49:1 (March 2009), ISSN 0043-5414, pp. 46-47

Verbeek, P.P. (2009), ‘Greep op de dingen / Grasping Reality’. In: Dave Blank and Martha Haveman, Qua Art Qua Science 2004-2008. Enschede: QAQS, pp. 56-59.

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Mopperen met schone handen’. Trouw – Letter&Geest, 9 februari 2008

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Geworpen en ontworpen: over de verwevenheid van technologie en religie’. In: Tussentijds Bericht Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek, januari 2008, pp. 4-6

Verbeek, P.P. (2007), ‘Verleid vaders tot zorgtaken’. In: NRC Handelsblad – Opinie, 17 augustus 2007 (Dutch national newspaper); also appeared in modified form as:

Verbeek, P.P. (2007), ‘Vergeet niet dat vaders ook kunnen moederen’. In: NRC.next – Opinie, 20 augustus 2007 (Dutch national newspaper)

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Vader wil meer achterlaten dan een glanzende carrière’. In: Dagblad Trouw – Podium, 9 maart 2006 (Dutch national newspaper)

Translations

Latour, B. (2005), ‘Van Realpolitik naar Dingpolitik. Over publieke dingen en de res publica’, in: Krisis 2005-2, ISSN 0168-275X, pp. 40-61 (translation of: Bruno Latour, ‘From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik – an Introduction to Making Things Public’; translation by Sebo Uithol and Peter-Paul Verbeek)

Papers and invited lectures

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things’. ECIS seminar, Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology (invited lecture)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘De grens van de mens: over techniek, ethiek en de menselijke natuur’. Enschede: Universiteit Twente, oratie (inaugural address)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Toward a post-humanist anthropology’. Washington DC: Annual conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, 29 Oct 2009 (accepted paper, in double panel ‘Postphenomenology meets STS, organized with Evan Selinger and Jack Post)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moralizing technology’. Enschede (University of Twente): biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, 10 Jul 2009

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Anthropology and technology’. Enschede (University of Twente): biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, 9 Jul 2009 (accepted paper in track ‘Technology and Human Enhancement’, chaired by P.P. Verbeek)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moralizing Technology: Toward a Non-modern Ethics of Things’. Oxford: Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, Saïd Business School, May 21 2009 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Anthropology beyond Humanity: Understanding the Post-Human Body-Subject’. Copenhagen: Conference ‘Shaping Knowledge’, May 14-15 2009 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Technology and the Future of Humanity: toward a posthuman anthropology’. Enschede: Philosopher’s Rally 2009, May 12 2009

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things’. Eindhoven: SIDeR conference 2009 ‘Flirting with the Future’, April 17 2009 (keynote, invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Governing the Mediated Self: Technological Morality and the Ethics of Information Technology’. Milan: Catholic University of Milan, 27 March 2009 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., public discussion with Richard Sennett on ‘Resilience in the World of New Capitalism’, Lolle Nauta Forum, Groningen, 19 March 2009 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Subject to Technology: Discussion of Antoinette Rouvroy’s paper Governmentality in an Age of Autonomic Computing’. Colloquium on The Impact of Autonomic Computing on Identity and Legal Subjectivity, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 16 Jan 2009 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things’. Two lectures at workshop Design Ethics and Software for Mobile Devices. Aalborg University, Denmark, 18 Nov 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., What Things Do: Understanding and Designing Human-Product Relations. Lecture at Designskolen Kolding, Denmark, 17 Nov 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Of Signs and Things - Some Reflections on Meaning, Mediation and Morality’. Opening lecture of DeSForM 2008 - the 4th European Workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement. Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 6 Nov 2008 (keynote, invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Posthuman Visions: on mediation, morality, and humanity’. Paper for conference of the Society for the Phenomenology of the Human Sciences. Pittsburgh, 18 October 2008 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Trusting ethics to technology: On Persuasive Technology and Moral Agency’. Lecture at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Philosophy, Templeton Lecture Series, 13 October 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moralizing Technology’. Lecture at Technoscience Seminar, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Philosophy, 13 October 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Technology and the Good Life: On morality, materiality, and mediation’. Lecture in Kolloquium Lebenswelt – Technik – Wissenschaft, XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie. September 17 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Let’s Make Things Better: Persuasive Technology and Material Morality’. Paper in session ‘Styles and Skills in the Culture of Design’, organized by the Netherlands Graduate School for Science, Technology, and Modern Culture; conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Rotterdam, August 2008 (invited paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Posthuman Perceptions: on hybrids and human-technology relations’. Paper for conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Rotterdam, August 2008 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Subject to Technology: The Mediated Subject and the Good Life’. Paper presented at workshop The Good Life in a Technological Age. Enschede: University of Twente, June 12-14 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Technologies of the Self: Information Technologies and Subject Creation’. Lecture at symposium Creative IT. Enschede: Center for Telematics and Information Technology, June 11 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moral Subjects and Smart Environments: Toward an Ethics of the Mediated Self’. Lecture at workshop Philosophy of Artificial Environments. Roskilde University, Denemarken, 5-6 juni 2008 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Waardigheid voorbij de mens?’. Lecture at symposium Betere mensen maken? Blaise Pascal Instituut, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Naar een posthumanistische ethiek’. Colloquium Praktische Filosofie, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Oct 24 2007 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Actor-Network Theory and Phenomenology: the Nonmodern Connection’. Paper presentation at 4S Conference (Society for the Social Studies of Science), Montreal, Canada, 12 Oct 2007 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘A postphenomenology of ultrasound’. Paper presentation at 4S Conference (Society for the Social Studies of Science), Montreal, Canada, 11 Oct 2007 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Wetenschap als technologische praktijk’ (Science as technological practice). Lecture at workshop Stijl & Habitus: disciplinespecifieke vormende waarden in het academisch onderwijs. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Wetenschap & Samenleving, 21 August 2007 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Technologie en het goede leven’ (Technology and the Good Life). Lecture at symposium Lof en troost van de wijsbegeerte (Praise and Consolation of Philosophy) – on the occasion of the retirement of prof.dr. Hans Achterhuis, University of Twente, 7 June 2007.

Verbeek, P.P., ‘The Technological Mediation of Morality - A Post-Phenomenological Approach to Moral Subjectivity and Moral Objectivity’. Lecture at workshop Moral agency and technical artifacts, NIAS, The Hague 10-12 May 2007 (closed workshop)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Toward a Posthumanist Ethics of Technology’. Lecture at Workshop in Philosophy of Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark, 1 March 2007 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., lecture ‘What Things Do: On the Philosophy of Technology and Design’, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Studium Generale, 21 Feb. 2007 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Technology and Democracy: the parliament of things’. Lecture at PhD workshop on Technology and Democracy, Netherlands Graduate School for Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC). Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein, Feb 7 2007 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Ethiek voorbij de mens - over techniekfilosofie, ethiek, en posthumanisme’. Colloquium at Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, Radboud University Nijmegen, Feb 6 2007 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Reply to critics’. Discussion of User Behavior and Technology Development (eds. Peter-Paul Verbeek & Adriaan Slob), Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC), Amsterdam, Nov. 16 2006 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P. and F. Olesen, ‘Taking Materiality into Account’. Introduction to workshop with the same title at Aarhus University, Denmark, organized with Finn Olesen (Centre for STS Studies), in cooperation with Johanna Seibt (Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas), Nov 9 2006.

Verbeek, P.P., two lectures as guest professor at the Centre for STS Studies, Institute for Information- and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark: ‘What Things Do: On the philosophy of technology and design’ (Oct 25 2006), ‘Moralizing Technology: on the moral relevance of technological artifacts’ (Nov 1 2006)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘The Technological Mediation of Morality’. Paper for session on Postphenomenology and the Contemporary Lifeworld, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, SPEP 2006, Philadelphia PA (hosted by Villanova University), October 13 2006 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Persuasive Technology and Moral Responsibility’. Paper for conference Persuasive Technology 2006, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, May 18 2006 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Morality and Technology’. One-day seminar in PhD course IT between Representation and Intervention, Aarhus University, Denmark, May 17 2006 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Integrative Visions of Technology: ontological and ethical perspectives’. Lecture at the 12th working conference of the Centre for Philosophy, Technology and Social Systems, Maarssen, April 27 2006 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Moralizing Technology: On the Morality of Technological Artifacts and Their Design’. Paper for workshop ‘Methodologies for the Moral Evaluation of Technology Development’. Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, March 24-25 2006 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Wetenschap en techniek: scheppers van een nieuwe mens?’. Lecture in university project Science and Ethics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, March 22 2006 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Technological Mediation and Morality’, ‘Diversions’ seminar, Eindhoven University of Technology, Section Philosophy, January 24 2006 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘What Things Do – Taking Mediation into Design’, lecture and seminar, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark, Sept. 29-30 2005 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘The Morality of Design’, SPT conference (Society for Philosophy and Technology) July 2005, Delft, The Netherlands (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P. opening lecture at conference ‘Onderzoeken en Ontwerpen in het Onderwijs’ (Research and Design in Education), ELAN – University of Twente, 28 June 2005 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘We Have Never Been Humans’, lecture at seminar Posthumanity and Technology, IT University, København, Denmark, 26 May 2004 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Beyond the Human Eye: Mediated Vision and Posthumanity’, lecture at seminar Mediated Vision, AKI Academy for Visual Arts and Design, Enschede, The Netherlands, 27 April 2004 (invited) [Dutch translation: Voorbij het menselijk oog: technische mediatie en de posthumane blik]

Verbeek, P.P., ‘The Acts of Artifacts’, lecture at seminar Tangible Interactions, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark, 17 June 2003 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Technopolis – the Public Life of Technological Artifacts’, paper presented at conference Technology, The City, and Public Life, University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-21 September 2002 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., 'Materializing Morality', paper presented at EASST conference (European Association for Studies of Science and Technology), York, UK, July 2002 (accepted paper; published on conference-CDROM)

Brey, P. and P.P. Verbeek, ‘New Media and the Quality of Life’, workshop Value Sensitive Design, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 10-12 September 2000 (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Het woord is aan de dingen - over communicatiekundig ontwerpen en techniekfilosofie’, conference Communicatiewetenschappen: de groeistuipen voorbij, Universiteit Twente, Enschede, March 2000 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Another Sense of Taste’, paper presented at workshop Configuring Use, Producing Taste, Performing Citizenship, organized by WTMC graduate school The Netherlands & CSI Paris, Maastricht, November 1999 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘To the things themselves - or: how to think about things?’, paper presented at conference Sociality/Materiality: the status of the object in social science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, September 1999 (accepted paper)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Philosophy from Things’, Universität für angewandte Kunst, June 1999, Vienna, Austria (invited)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Things of Good Taste’, paper for conference Beyond Taste, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK 10 April, 1999 (invited)

in preparation / in review

monograph:

P.P. Verbeek, Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Forthcoming 2010, University of Chicago Press (under full contract)

edited books:

D. Ihde, R. Rosenberger, and P.P. Verbeek (eds.), Postphenomenological Investigations (working title). Collection of postphenomenological casestudies (in progress)

P. Kroes and P.P. Verbeek (eds.), Moral Agency and Technological Artifacts (working title). Collection of articles about the moral relevance of technological artifacts (to be finished 2010)

Articles and book chapters:

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Ambient intelligence and persuasive technology: the blurring boundaries between human and technology’ (accepted; forthcoming in NanoEthics)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Persuasive Technology and Moral Responsibility’ (in review)

Verbeek, P.P., ‘Governing the Mediated Self: Ethics of Technology and the Internet’. In preparation for edited volume Internet Governance: Transparency, Trust and Tools (Philippe Goujon et.al.)

recent popular lectures

lecture ‘Technologies of choice and control’. Amsterdam, Rietveld Academy, 26 Oct 2009

lecture ‘De ingenieur van de toekomst’. Zwolle: Hogeschool Windesheim, 16 June 2009

lecture ‘De daadkracht der dingen: over de relaties tussen mens en techniek’. Enschede: Saxion Hogeschool, April 9 2009

lecture ‘De verbeelding van de ingenieur’. Lecture at congress ‘The future engineer’, organized by KIVI-NIRIA (Royal Dutch Institute of Engineers), as part of festival Vliegende Hollanders 2008.

lecture ‘De maakbare mens’ (Humanity in the making). IKB Hengelo, 30 Oct 2008

member of panel ‘Standup Philosophy’, activity for the ‘Month of Philosophy’ 2008. Hengelo: stadsbibliotheek, 24 April 2008

member of panel ‘Baby in zicht’ (Baby in Sight), festival Het Glazen Lichaam (organized by the Rathenau Institute and NRC Handelsblad), Rotterdam: 2 Feb 2008

lecture ‘Gattaca: de grens van de mens’ (Gattaca: the limits of humanity). Enschede: Volksuniversiteit en Concordia Cinema, cyclus Film & Filosofie, 7 Dec 2007.

lecture ‘De mens voorbij: over transhumanisme in de film’ (Beyond humanity: on transhumanism in cinema). Studium Generale Universiteit Twente, 27 March 2007.

lecture ‘Wat dingen doen’ (What Things Do), symposium Eeuwig de jouwe, AKI Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Enschede, 29 November 2006

presentation and panel discussion on ‘The ethics of persuasive technology’ at Science Cafe ‘Je computer als coach’, Eindhoven, 15 November 2006

lecture ‘Technologie en de grens van de mens: over humanisme in een technologische cultuur’ (Technology and the limits of the human: on humanism in a technological culture), Humanistisch Verbond Midden/Zuid Twente, 20 September 2006

lecture ‘Wetenschap en techniek: scheppers van een nieuwe mens?’ (for university project Science and Ethics), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 22 March 2006

Media

Newspaper article: Theo Krabbe, De grens van de mens. In: Twentsche Courant Tubantia, 17 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Newspaper article: Willem Bouwman, Ethici voeren de verkeerde discussie. In: Nederlands Dagblad 16 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Radio interview: Pieter van der Wielen, ‘Mens en techniek’. In: Noorderlicht, VPRO, 14 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Newpaper interview: Will Bax, ‘De moraal van een wasmachine’. In: Brabants Dagblad, 28 Feb 2009 (Dutch)

Television interview: Wim Brands, ‘De maakbare mens’. In: Boeken, VPRO, 11 oktober 2009 (Dutch)

Interview Maaike Platvoet, ‘De techniek bepaalt wie we zijn’. In: UT Nieuws, 29 Jan 2009 (Dutch)

Radio discussion: Hoe?Zo! Radio: De toekomst van de evolutie (The future of evolution); Radio 1, 10 Jan 2009 (Dutch)

Radio interview: Tros Nieuwsshow (Radio 1, 13 Sept 2008) (Dutch)

Newspaper article: Peter Giesen, ‘De chip is meer mens geworden’. In: De Volkskrant, Kennis, 30 Aug 2008 (Dutch).

Newspaper article: Marco Krijnsen, ‘Waarom de hazenlip zeldzaam wordt’. In: Twentsche Courant Tubantia, 31 Aug 2008 (Dutch).

Article: Robin Kawakami, Genetic Arms Race: How Perfect Do We Really Want To Be?. In: Amsterdam Weekly 5:19 (2008), pp. 4-5

Radio interview: Desmet Live (Radio 5), 18 March 2008 (Dutch; video registration)

Newspaper article: Irene de Pous, “Technologie verandert onze waarden”. In: Trouw, 17 Mar 2008 (Dutch)

Interview: Erica Meijers, “De moraal van de tomaat. Interview met techniekfilosoof Peter-Paul Verbeek”. In: De Helling 2007-3 (Dutch)

Newspaper article: Laura van Baars, “Van de vader moet je het niet hebben”. In: Trouw, 11 Oct 2007 (Dutch)

Newspaper article: Serge Mouthaan, “Mag de robot mijn oma verzorgen?”. In: De Volkskrant, 30 March 2007 (Dutch)

Radio interview: Scientific Magazine ‘HoeZo’ (747 AM, 9 March 2006) (Dutch)