Tuesday, July 7, 2009

15.00-17.00	Registration Lobby Drienerburght

17.00-17.15 Agora Vrijhof	Opening speeches
17.15-18.15 Agora vrijhof	Opening plenary panel: Intersections Between Philosophy of Technology and Environmental Philosophy. Chair: Bob Frodeman. Participants: Adam Briggle, Evan Selinger, Robert Frodeman and Helena Jeronimo

18.30 - …	Cocktail event (with bites) and poster presentations Lobby Drienerburght

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

8.00-8.45	Registration and coffee: Lobby Drienerburght

8.45-9.15 Agora Vrijhof	Opening speeches
9.15-10.00 Agora Vrijhof	Presidential address by Diane Michelfelder
10.00-11.00 Agora Vrijhof	Plenary panel: Converging Technologies and the Future. Chair: Philip Brey. Participants: Nick Bostrom, Ellen Moors, Maarten IJzerman, Dave Blank and Peter Apers

11.00-11.30	Coffee: Lobby Drienerburght

11.30-13.00	Session 1: Agora Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek Spec. section: phil. anthro. and techno	Session 2: Room A Track 3. Chairs: S. O. Hansson & S. Roeser	Session 3: Room E/F Track 12. Chairs: C. Ess & E. Selinger	Session 4: Room B Track 7. Chairs: A. Briggle & L. Introna	Session 5: Room C Track 9. Chair: P. Vermaas	Session 6: Room D Track 15. Chair: D. Farber
11.30	Don Ihde – Variation and Convergence with Scientific Instruments	Sven Ove Hansson – The philosophy of safety engineering	Jonathan Pfeiffer – Solidarity and Technology	Louise Collins – Are Close Friendships Possible On-line?	Wybo Houkes – Intentions in Artefact Evolution
12.00	Pieter Lemmens – Not all in the Brain	Sabine Roeser – Emotions and the Risks of Converging Technologies	Erin Moore – Metrics of Sustainable Architecture in Frameworks of Environmental Ethics	Maurice Liebregt – CMC and Friendship: A Valuable Addition or Inferior Surrogate?	Sabine Ammon – Making Construction Knowledge Explicit	Andrew Chilvers – Ove Arup: The Reflections of a Philosopher-Engineer
12.30	David M. Kaplan – The ”Who?” and the “What”? of Technology	Hendrik Carlsen – Analyzing Future Risks?	Geoffrey Nwaka – Tradition as a Modern Strategy	Marcello guarini (by Ryan Tonkens) – Robotic Target Selection and engagement in automated warfare	Urjan Jacobs – Making Ethically Relevant Design Decisions	David Goldberg – Is Engineering Philosophically Weak?

13.00-14.30	Lunch Faculty Club	(board meeting)

14.30-16.00	Session 1: Agora Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek Spec. section: phil. anthro. and techno	Session 2: Room A Track 3. Chairs: S. O. Hansson & S. Roeser	Session 3: Room E/F Track 12. Chairs: C. Ess & E. Selinger	Session 4: Room B Track 7. Chairs: A. Briggle & L. Introna	Session 5: Room C Track 9. Chair: P. Vermaas	Session 6: Room D Track 15. Chair: D. Farber
14.30	Micheal Puech – Is Human Enhancement a Sustainable Agenda?	Kojiro Honda – Risks of Technology and Market Systems	Charalampos Kokkinos – Questioning the Cultural and the Technological Realm	Jessica Heesen – Questions of Technological Determinism in the Reflection of Engineering Ethics	Luca Del Frate – Malfunction in Manufacturing and Beyond	David Goldberg – Engineering Rigor and its Discontents
15.00	Søren Riis – On How to Shortcircuit a Cyborg	Wolter Pieters – Converging Technologies and De-perimeterisation	Qian Wang – Dao and Phronesis: Comparing Approaches to Ethics and Technology	Krist Vaesen – Enhancing Cognition, Upgrading Epistemology	Fernando Birman – Rational Decision Making in Engineering Design	Esa Saarinen – Systems Intelligence in Engineering Ethics
15.30	Evan Selinger – A Precautionary Principle for Philosophers of Technology	Ulrich Fiedeler – Preliminary Considerations on a Risk Assessment of Converging Technologies	Malik Aleem Ahmed - Three Perspectives on Cultural Variations	Simon Mills – Concrete Software	Eric T. Kerr – Technical Artefacts as Artificial Kinds	Raffaella Ocone - Bolted on or Systematic: How Engineering Ethics Differs from Philosophical and Medical Ethics

16.00-16.30	Drinks Lobby Drienerburght

16.30-18.00	Session 1: Agora Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek Spec. section: phil. anthro. and techno	Session 2: Room A Track 3. Chairs: S. O. Hansson & S. Roeser	Session 3: Room E/F Track 12. Chairs: C. Ess & E. Selinger	Session 4: Room B Track 7. Chairs: A. Briggle & L. Introna	Session 5: Room C Track 9. Chair: P. Vermaas	Session 6: Room D Track 15. Chair: D. Farber
16.30	Peter-Paul Verbeek – Anthropology beyond Humanity: understanding the posthuman body-subject	Zahra Meghani – Converging Technologies and Tailored Democratisation of Risks Assessment	Chipo Kanjo – The Reality of Virtual Reality in Develping Countries	Ilse Oosterlaken – ICT and the Capability Approach	Pieter E. Vermaas – A Functional Analysis of Biotechnology	Viola Schiaffonati – Future Reflective Practitioners: The Contribution of Philosophy
17.00	Dennis Weiss – Failures of Convergence	Celine Kermisch – The Specificity of Risk Perception Associated with Converging Technologies	Brian Lake – TBA.	Phillip J. Nickel – Computers in Health Care: A Trust Based Approach	Maarten Franssen – From Nutcracking to Assisted Driving	Dennis Gedge – Reflective Engineering Philosophy
17.30	Petran Kockelkoren & Harm Lammers – Mediating Mediapolis	Noemi Manders-Huits – Digital Profiling’s Silent Attack	Evan Selinger – Globalisation and the Innovation University	Bernd Carsten Stahl – Ethical Issues in Emerging ICT Application in Europe	Dingmar van Eck – On the Prospects of Establishing a Framework for the Modeling of Functions in Engineering	Darryl Farber – Using Scenario Planning

18.00-18.30	Drinks Lobby Drienerburght

18.30-19.30 Agora	Nick Bostrom: A Big-Picture Look at Humanity's Past and Future

20.00	Conference dinner Faculty Club

Thursday, July 9, 2009

8.30-10.00	Session 1: Audio Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek	Session 2: Room A Track 3. Chairs: S. O. Hansson & S. Roeser Track 4. Chair: A. Grunwald	Session 3: Room E/F Track 14. Chair: A. Meijers	Session 4: Room B Track 8. Chair: A. Light	Session 5: Room C Track 10. Chairs: M. Coeckelbergh & G. Veruggio	Session 6: Room D Track 11. Chair: K. Waelbers
8.30	Inmaculada de Melo-Martin – Defending Human Enhancement Technologies	Bart Walhout – Conditions of Engagement; Learning from the Dutch Debate on Nanotechnology	Edward Hamilton – Genealogies of Technology: Foucault, Feenberg and Critical Historiography	Cornelis Dekker – Normativity in the Discursive Assessment of Climate Change Technologies	Mark Coeckelbergh – Living with Robots: A Socio-Philosophical Approach to Robot Ethics	Neelke Doorn – Forward-Looking Responsibilities in R&D Networks
9.00	Reinhard Heil – Predecessors of the Discourse on Human Enhancement	Alexandra Valadas – Risk Assessment and Risk Society: Winners and Losers in Genetic Discourse	Pieter Vermaas – An Intentionalist Design Stance and its Objects	Bernard den Ouden – Switching to Swithgrass	Aimee van Wynsberghe – What Care Robots say about Care	Jessica Nihlen Fahlquist – Technological Devices and Responsibility Distributions
9.30	Carlos Melendez – Looking Forward to Enhancement	Philip Brey – Converging Technologies and Ethics of the Good Life	Olle Blomberg – From Extended Cognition to Socio-technical Agency	Andrew Light – Nanotechnology and Climate Justice	Susana Nascimento – Self-operating Machines and (Dis)engagement in Human Technical Actions	James Crombie – Human Values at the Intersection of Technoscience and Democracy

10.00-10.30	Coffee Lobby Drienerburght

10.30-12.00	Session 1: Audio Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek	Session 2: Room A Track 4. Chair: A. Grunwald	Session 3: Room E/F Track 14. Chair: A. Meijers	Session 4: Room B Track 8. Chair: A. Light	Session 5: Room C Track 10. Chairs: M. Coeckelbergh & G. Veruggio	Session 6: Room D Track 13. Chair: P. Brey
10.30	Glenn Parsons – Personhood, Imagination, and Aesthetic Enhancement	Vitaly Gorokhov – Nanosystems as Hybrid Nanobiomachines	Anne Lefebvre – The Technical Operation and “Individuation” in of Nature in Gilbert’ Simondon’s works	Anumakonda Jagadeesh – Environmental Philosophy and Sustainable Technology through Biomass	Allan Hanson--Beyond the Skin Bag: On the Moral Responsibility of Extended Agencies	John Braught- Enhanced but unhappy
11.00	Martijntje Smits – Human Enhancement in Public Space	Clemens Bluemel – Institutional and cognitive aspects of interdisciplinary cooperation	Hans Raddar – Have we just Moved into the age of Technoscience?	Christopher Stevens – Cities, Environmentalism, and the Build Environment as a Sustainable Technology	Scott Sehon – Robots and Free will	Edward Spence – Is Technology Good for Us?
11.30	Shannon Vallor – Enhancement Technologies and Human Dignity	Albrecht Fritzsche – The Role of Ubiquity and Intransparency for Technology	Joseph Pitt – Instruments and Scientific Change	Behnam Taebi – Sustainability as Preserving Intergenerational Equity	Peter Asaro – The Convergence of Video Games & Military Robotics	Anat Itay – Technology and Social Progress

12.00-13.15	Lunch Faculty Club	(journal meeting)

13.15-14.45	Session 1: Audio Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek	Session 2: Room A Track 4. Chair: A. Grunwald	Session 3: Room E/F Track 14. Chair: A. Meijers	Session 4: Room B Track 8. Chair: A. Light	Session 5: Room C Track 10. Chairs: M. Coeckelbergh & G. Veruggio	Session 6: Room D Track 13. Chair: P. Brey
13.15	Felicitas Kraemer – Healthier, Happier, Witter People?	Christian Buescher – Converging technologies and NBIC as Examples for “Knowledge Politics”	Marieke van Holland – Hybrid Cognitive Systems and Etiological Theories of Functions	EJ Wensing– A Transition to sustainable Development for Pakistan	Martijntje Smits – Social Robots: How to Bridge the Gap Between Fantasies and Practices?	Brent M. Graber – The Good Enough Life
13.45	Marli Huijer – Converging Technologies, Diverging Religions	Norbert Malanowski – Converging Applications for the Ageing Societies	Wha-Chul Son – Did Ellul and Heidegger Reify Technology?	Sanna Joronen – Geoengineering, Ethics and Emergency	Helena De Preester – The (Im)possibilities of Re-embodiment	Armando Menendez Viso – Social Technologies in the Making of the Good Life
14.15	Katrien Devolder – Procreative Morality	Jaochim Schummer – The Rhetoric of Converging Technologies	Paul B. Thompson -- Agrifood Nanotechnology: Is This Anything New?	Rosemary Lowry – Reasons for Discounting	Guido Nicolosi – Restless Creatures	Fiona K. O’Neill – ‘Love-Hate’ Relations and Somatechnics

14.45-15.15	Drinks Lobby Drienerburght

15.15-16.45	Session 1: Audio Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek	Session 2: Room A Track 4. Chair: A. Grunwald	Session 3: Room E/F Track 5. Chair: Tsj. Swierstra	Session 4: Room B Track 8. Chair: A. Light	Session 5: Room C Track 10. Chairs: M. Coeckelbergh & G. Veruggio	Session 6: Room D Track 13. Chair: P. Brey
15.15	Steven Dorrestijn – Utopian Striving for Social Change by Technical Means	Karen Kastenhofer – Do we Need a Specific Kind of Technoscience Assesment?	Hanneke Miedema – Reflective Engineering in Animal Husbandry	Panel on Paul T. Durbin’s book – Convergent Technologies and Real World Issues Participants: Carl Mitcham, Andrew light, Joseph Pitt	Gianmarco Veruggio – Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues in the Strategic Research Agenda for Robotics in Europe	Arianna Ferrari – A Good Nanotechnologized Life?
15.45	Richard Heersmink – Ghost in the Machine	Marian Deblonde – Assessing NanoSoc’s TA-experiment from a Perspective of Sustainable Development	Antonio Calleja Lopez – Dialogues from the Lab: Contemporary Maieutics for Socio-Technical Inquiry		Corry Shores – Do Posthumanists Dream of Pixilated Sheep?	Johnny Hartz Søraker – Virtually good: what can we learn from the argument of false pleasures?
16.15	Ciano Aydin – On the Relation Between Human Beings and Technology: A Peircean Perspective	Brian Crist – Methodological Convergence and Integration in Cross-Disciplinary Research	Jose M. De Cozar-Escalante – Nanomedical Technology Assesment		Sandro Gaycken – Technological Knowledge as a Guide to Technological Action	Darryl Cressman – Technology and Listening to Music: From the Concert Hall to MP3

16.45-17.15	Drinks Lobby Drienerburght

17.15-18.15 Audio Vrijhof	Andrew Feenberg. Ten Paradoxes of Technology and the Politics of Development
18.15-19.00	Plenary business meeting: Audio Vrijhof

19.15	Buses to town: Parking Drienerburght – train station Enschede

Friday, July 10, 2009

9.00-10.00 Agora Vrijhof		Plenary panel: Philosophy of technology and engineering sciences. Chair: Anthonie Meijers Participants: David Goldberg, Martin Peterson, Hans Radder, Peter Kroes, Ibo van de Poel, Sjoerd Zwart, Sven Ove Hansson, Wybo Houkes

	10.00-10.30		Coffee Lobby Drienerburght

	10.30-12.00		Session 1: Agora Panel track 13. Chair: P. Brey	Session 2: Room A Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek	Session 3: Room E/F Track 5. Chair: Tsj. Swierstra	Session 4: Room B Track 11. Chair: K. Waelbers	Session 5: Room C Track 9. Chair: P. Vermaas	Session 6: Room D Track 2. Chair: M. Boon
	10.30		Towards Sustainable ICT? Chair: Roni Aviram. Michel Puech Langdon Winner Don Ihde	Annamaria Carusi – Scientific Visualisations as Cognitive Enhancement I	Clemens Driessen – Technologies as Disclosing Moral Worlds	Floris Tomasini – Between Personal Acceptance and Public Acceptance	Robert Mackey – Is there a Problem about Proper Function?	Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis – The Sciences and Technology
	11.00			Aud Sissel Hoel – Scientific Visualisations as Cognitive Enhancement II	Sean A. Hays – Context Mapping and the End of Historical Theories of Competition	Atsushi Fujiki – The Difference of Professional Responsibilities in Engineering	Auke Pols – Acting on Affordances	Jan De Winter – Explanations in Software Engineering
	11.30			Mark Coeckelbergh – Enhancement of What?: A Capabilities Approach to Ethics of Human Enhancement	Adam Henschke – The Argument of Emergence: Converging Technologies And Emergent Ethical Concerns	Katarina Lindblad-Gidlund – The Reflective Designer	Marc Steen – Co-design and Pragmatism	Mieke Boon – Characterizing the Engineering Sciences as Science.

	12.00-13.15		Lunch Faculty Club

	13.15-14.45		Session 1: Agora Panel Synthetic Biology	Session 2: Room A Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek	Session 3: Room E/F Track 5. Chair: Tsj. Swierstra	Session 4: Room B Track 11. Chair: K. Waelbers	Session 5: Room C Track 13. Chair: P. Brey.	Session 6: Room D Track 2. Chair: M. Boon Track 6. Chairs: B. Gordijn & J. Schummer
	13.15		Synthetic Biology: historical roots and future implications. Chair: Dirk Stemerding Luis Campos Henk van den Belt David Koepsell Rinie van Est	Matthias Fritsch – Human Enhancement and Responsible Agency	Ike Kamphof – Webcams to save nature. Technospace as affective and ethical space	Jan Christoph Bublitz – Undermining Authenticity or Increasing Autonomy?	Omar Rosas – Technologies that make us Happy?	Anna Schleisiek – Knowledge and Technology Transfer as a Challenge for Scientific Practice
	13.45			Robert Arnautu – Two Models of Human Enhancement and the Good Life	Federica Lucivero – Improving expectations: Between technology assessment and ethics of pro	Katinka Waelbers – Material role responsibility.	Andrea Rota – Co-Production of Good Life	Rob de Vries – Tissue Engineering and the Reduction and Replacement of Laboratory Animals
	14.15			Sylvia Blad – Reconstructing the Human ‘Coming to be’: An Anthropo-technological view on Human Evolution	Martin Peterson – Emerging Technologies, Mid-level Moral Principles and Deontic Indeterminacy	Andreas Spahn – ‘.. And lead us not into persuasion?’ Ethical Issues of Persuasive Technology	Ulrike Bechtold – Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) as a Promoter of the Good Life	Marriane Boenink – Concepts of Disease in Molecular Medicine

	14.45-15.15		Drinks Lobby Drienerburght

	15.15-16.45		Session 1: Agora Panel Thinking About Innovation	Session 2: Room A Panel	Session 3: Room E/F Track 5. Chair: Tsj. Swierstra	Session 4: Room B Track 11. Chair: K. Waelbers Track 1. Chair: P.P. Verbeek	Session 5: Room C Track 13. Chair: P. Brey.	Session 6: Room D Track 6. Chairs: B. Gordijn & J. Schummer
	15.15		Thinking About Innovation. Chair: Bob Darrow.	The Handbook of Interdisciplinarity Chairs: Bob Frodeman and Carl Mitcham	Tsjalling Swierstra – Techno-Moral Change: An Analytical Approach	Tom Douglas – Scientific Isolationism	Pak Hang Wong – Modernity, The Good Life and Technology	George Agich -- Drug Eluting Stents as a Paradigm for the Application of Nanotechnology in Medicine
	15.45				Alexandra Valadas – Bioart, Biotechnology and Social Responsibility	Topi Heikkero – Responsibility and the Grounding of Morals	Adam Briggle – Technology, The Good Life and Liberalism	res
	16.15				Lotte Krabbenburg – New Initiatives - Old Patterns	Tamar Sharon – Reterritorialized Nature and Renaturalized Selves	Harro van Lente – The Needs of Technology

	16.45-17.15		Drinks Lobby Drienerburght

	17.15-18.15 Agora Vrijhof		Jean-Pierre Dupuy: “In search of an ethics for the technological age: towards an ethics of the future”
	18.15-19.15 Agora Vrijhof		Plenary panel: Closing the gap: innovation, ethics and policy making. Chair: Frans Brom. Participants: TBA.

	19.30		Buses to town: Parking Drienerburght – train station Enschede