Philip Brey

Prof. dr. Philip Brey

Department of Philosophy

University of Twente

Postbox 217

7500 AE Enschede

telephone: +31-53-4894426

p.a.e.brey@utwente.nl 

Background

Philip Brey (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995) is professor of philosophy of technology and chair of the department of philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands. He is also director of the Centre for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science (CEPTES) of the University of Twente and a member of the management team of the Centre of Excellence for Ethics and Technology of the Universities of Twente, Delft and Eindhoven. He is a member of the executive board of the Society for Philosophy of Technology and of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, and director of the European division of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Ethics and Information Technology, the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, and Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale, and is vice editor of the Society for Philosophy and Technology Newsletter. He is also a member of the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture, the Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology and the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente, for which he also coordinates the research of the department of philosophy that is embedded in it. He recently (co)directed the conferences E-CAP 2007, CEPE 2007 and (co)directed CEPE2005, SPT 1999 and international workshops on Modernity and Technology, Ethics of Technology and Nanoethics. He was formerly also programme director of the international master programme Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (2003-2006). He previously taught at Delft University of Technology and the University of California, San Diego.

Research

Brey’s Ph.D. thesis focused on the cognitive turn in epistemology and the philosophy of science. Since then, his attention has shifted to the philosophy of technology. He has published in the areas of general philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, philosophy of biomedical technology, philosophy of sustainable technology and philosophy of information and communication technology (ICT). In general philosophy of technology, he has published on the relation between technology, society, culture and the body; the relation between technology and science; the nature of engineering design; and the status of philosophy of technology as a field. In the philosophy and ethics of biomedical technology, his research has focused on ethics of bioengineering, prosthetics, neuromodulation and human enhancement. Much of his current research is directed to the philosophy and ethics of ICT, where he has published on the ethical and political aspects of computer systems design, the limits of artificial intelligence, the ethics and ontology of virtuality, the role of ICT in mobility and surveillance, the implications of ICT for globalization, geographical organization and the quality of life. He is co-editor, with Thomas Misa and Andrew Feenberg, of Modernity and Technology (MIT Press, 2003) and (co)editor of two special issues of the journal Ethics and Information Technology. He currently manages a five-year Vici project in the philosophy of technology that involves six researchers and focuses on the social and cultural quality of new media.

Courses

Filosofie van de Psychologie en Kennisleer

Within the Master Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (Master PSTS): Introduction to Philosophical Methods and Philosophy of ICT

Other recent courses: Medical ethics; Humans and Information Technology; The Makeable Human; Environmental Philosophy; Biological and Cultural Evolution; Analytic Philosophy, Logic and Epistemology; Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society; Knowledge, Information and Technology; The Information Society

Publications

Books and edited volumes

Brey, P., Briggle, A. and Spence, E. (eds.) (2012), The Good Life in a Technological Age, Routledge.

Brey, P. (2008a). Techniek en alles wat van waarde is / Technology and everyting of value (Inaugural Speech). University of Twente Inaugural Speech Series. (PDF)

Briggle, A., Waelbers, K. and Brey, P. (eds.) (2008b). Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy. IOS Press.

Hinman, L., Brey, P., Floridi, L., Grodzinsky, F. and Introna, L. (eds.) (2007). Proceedings of CEPE 2007. The 7th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. Enschede: Center for Telematics and Information Technology. ISSN 0929-0672.

Brey, P., Grodzinsky, F. and Introna, L. (eds.) (2006a). Ethics of New Information Technology. Selected Papers of CEPE2005. Special issue of the journal Ethics and Information Technology, 7(2) (Guest editors)

Brey, P. (ed.) (2006a). Privacy and Surveillance. Special issue of the journal Ethics and Information Technology, 7(3) (Guest editor)

Brey, P., Grodzinsky, F. and Introna, L. (eds.) (2005). Ethics of New Information Technology. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. Enschede: Center for Telematics and Information Technology and CEPTES. ISSN 1574-0846.

Misa, T., Brey, P. and Feenberg, A. (2003). Modernity and Technology. MIT Press. (Paperback ed. 2004)

Articles in Scientific Journals – Refereed

Brey, P. (2012), ‘Anticipatory Ethics for Emerging Technologies’, Nanoethics 6(1), 1-13.

Brey, P. (2012), ‘Anticipating Ethical Issues in Emerging IT’, Ethics and Information Technology (online edition), pp. 1-13, (paper edition is forthcoming).

Brey, P. (2010). ‘Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn’ Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14:1, 36-48. (PDF)

Brey, P. and Søraker, J. (2009a). ‘A Precis of “Philosophy of Computing and Information Technology”,’ APA Newsletter. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 8(2): 15-16. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2008c). ‘Do We Have Moral Duties Towards Information Objects?’ Ethics and Information Technology. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2007a). ‘Theorizing the Cultural Quality of New Media,’ Techné. Research in Philosophy and Technology 11 (1), 1-18. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2007b). ‘Is Information Ethics Culture-Relative?’ International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction. Special Issue Information Ethics: Global Issues, Local Perspectives. Guest ed. C. Ess. 3(3), 12-24. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2007c) ‘Nieuwe Media en het Goede Leven.’ Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 99(2), 132-39.

Brey, P. (2007d). ‘The Technological Construction of Social Power,’ Social Epistemology 22(1), 71-95. (PDF)

Søraker, J. and Brey, P. (2007). ‘Ambient Intelligence and Problems with Inferring Desires from Behaviour.’ International Review of Information Ethics (8), 7-12. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2006a). ‘Freedom and Privacy in Ambient Intelligence,’ Ethics and Information Technology 7(3), 157-166. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2006b). ‘Social and Ethical Dimensions of Computer-Mediated Education,’ Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society (2), 91-102. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2005a). ‘The Epistemology and Ontology of Human-Computer Interaction,’ Minds and Machines 15(3-4), 383-398.   ISSN: 0924-6495. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2004a). 'Ethical Aspects of Face Recognition Systems in Public Places,' Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 2:2, 97-109. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2003a). ‘Wetenschaps- en techniekfilosofie. Does it take two to tango?’ Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 95:3, 215-20. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2003b). ‘The Social Ontology of Virtual Environments,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 62:1, 269-282. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2000b). ‘Ethische aspecten van virtual reality,’ Filosofie en Praktijk, 20/1: 31-44. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1999a). ‘Worker Autonomy and the Drama of Digital Networks in Organizations,’ Journal of Business Ethics 22: 15-25. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1999b). ‘The Ethics of Representation and Action in Virtual Reality,’ Ethics and Information Technology 1/1, 5-14. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1999c). ‘Method in Computer Ethics: Towards a Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Approach,’ Ethics and Information Technology 2:3, 1-5. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1998a). 'New Media and the Quality of Life,’ Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology 3:1, 1-23. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1998b). 'Space-Shaping Technologies and the Geographical Disembedding of Place,' Philosophy & Geography vol. III: Philosophies of Place. (Annual journal.) Eds. Andrew Light & Jonathan B. Smith. New York and London: Rowman & Littlefield, p. 239-263. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1997a). 'Social Constructivism for Philosophers of Technology: A Shopper's Guide.' Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology 2:3-4, 56-78. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1997b). 'Sustainable Technology and the Limits of Ecological Modernization,’ Ludus Vitalis. Revista De Filosofia de Las Ciencias de la Vida / Journal of Philosophy of Life Sciences, 17-30. (PDF)

Articles in Scientific Journals - Nonrefereed

Brey, P. (2006c). ‘Evaluating the Social and Cultural Implications of the Internet,’ Computers and Society 36(3), 41-48. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2005b). ‘Techniekfilosofie. Verandert de techniek ook de filosofie?’ Wijsgerig Perspectief op Maatschappij en Wetenschap 45(3), 40-51. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2000a). 'Disclosive Computer Ethics: The Exposure and Evaluation of Embedded Normativity in Computer Technology,' Computers and Society, 30(4): 10-16. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1996). 'Philosophy of Technology: A Time for Maturation.' Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, 9: 91-104. (PDF)

Book Parts or Chapters

Brey, P. (forthcoming), ‘The Physical and Social Reality of Virtual Worlds’, in M. Grinshaw (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality, Oxford University Press.

Brey, P. (forthcoming), ‘From Moral Agents to Moral Factors: The Structural Ethics Approach’, in P. Kroes and P.P. Verbeek (eds.), Moral Agency and Technological Artifacts, Springer.

Brey, P. (2012), ‘Well-Being in Philosophy, Psychology and Economics’, in Brey, P., Briggle, A. and Spence, E. (eds.) (2012), The Good Life in a Technological Age, Routledge, p. 15-34.

Briggle, A. and Brey, P. and Spence, E. (2012), ‘Introduction’, in Brey, P., Briggle, A. and Spence, E. (eds.) (2012), The Good Life in a Technological Age, Routledge, p.1-11.

Brey, P. (2012), Preface to Information Overload: An International Challenge to Professor Engineers and Technical Communicators, J. Strother, J. Ulijn and Z. Fazal (eds.), Wiley-IEEE Press.

Brey, P. (2010), ‘Values in Technology and Disclosive Computer Ethics’, in: L. Floridi (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 97-805-21888-981, 41-58.

Brey, P. and Søraker, J. (2009b). ‘Philosophy of Computing and Information Technology’ Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences. Vol. 14 of the Handbook for Philosophy of Science. (ed. A. Meijers) (gen. ed. D. Gabbay, P. Thagard and J. Woods), Elsevier. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2009c). ‘Values in Technology and Disclosive Computer Ethics,’ A Philosophical Introduction to Computer Ethics, Ed. L. Floridi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2009d). ‘Is Information Ethics Culture-Relative?’ Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Human Computer Interaction. User Modelling, Social Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces, Ed. P. Zaphiris & C. Ang, Hershey/New York: Information Science Reference, p. 259-272.

Brey, P. (2008d) ‘Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process.’ Eds. Vermaas, P., Kroes, P., Light, A. and Moore, S. Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Springer. 22 pp. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2008e). ‘Extending Minds and Simulating Worlds: Functional and Phenomenal Roles of the Computer’. Eds. Briggle, A., Brey, P. and Waelbers, K. Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy. IOS Press. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2008f). ‘Human Enhancement and Personal Identity’, Ed. Berg Olsen, J., Selinger, E., Riis, S., New Waves in Philosophy of Technology. New Waves in Philosophy Series, Ashgate. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2008g). ‘Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation,’ Ed. Himma, K. and Tavani, H., Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, John Wiley & Sons. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2008h). ‘Is Information Ethics Culturally Relative?’ Social Implications of Data Mining and Information Privacy: Interdisciplinary Frameworks and Solutions (ed. E. Eyob), IGI-Global.

Brey, P. (2007e), “Ethical Aspects of Information Security and Privacy”, in: Security, Privacy, and Trust in Modern Data Management, M. Petković and W. Jonker (Eds.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 21-36. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2007f). ‘Method in Computer Ethics: Towards a Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Approach,’ J. Weckert, ed., Computer Ethics. International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics Series. Brookfield, USA: Ashgate, pp. 233-240.

Brey, P. (2007g). ‘Computer Ethics in (Higher) Education,’ in Ed. G. Dodig-Crnkovic and S. Stuart, Eds., Computation, Information, Cognition: The Nexus and the Liminal. Cambridge Scholars Press. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2006d). ‘The Social Agency of Technological Artifacts: A Typology,’ User Behavior and Technology Develoment (eds. P. P. Verbeek and A. Slob), Kluwer, pp. 71-81.

Brey, P. (2006e). ‘Ethical Aspects of Behavior Steering Technology,’ User Behavior and Technology Development (eds. P. P. Verbeek and A. Slob), Kluwer, pp. 357-364. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2005a). ‘Artifacts as Social Agents’ in Inside the Politics of Technology. Agency and Normativity in the Co-Production of Technology and Society (ed. H. Harbers), Amsterdam University Press, 61-84. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2005c). ‘The Importance of Privacy in the Workplace,’ Privacy in the Workplace (eds. S. O. Hansson and E. Palm), Fritz Lang, 97-118. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2004b). ‘Disclosive Computer Ethics,’ in R. Spinello & H. Tavani (eds.), Readings in Cyberethics, 2^nd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 55-66 [Reprint from Brey 2001a].

Brey, P. (2004c). 'Ethical Aspects of Face Recognition Systems in Public Places,' in R. Spinello & H. Tavani (eds.), Readings in Cyberethics, 2^nd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 585-600.

Brey, P. (2003c). ‘Theorizing Technology and Modernity,’ Modernity and Technology. Eds. Thomas Misa, Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg. MIT Press, 33-71. (PDF)

[Translation in Greek forthcoming in 2007 in a book edited by M. Asimakopoulos for Nissos publishers.]

Brey, P. (2003d). ‘The Social Ontology of Virtual Environments,” John Searle's Ideas About Social Reality: Extensions, Criticisms and Reconstructions. Eds. David Koepsell and Laurence Moss. Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 269-282. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2001a). ‘Disclosive Computer Ethics,’ Readings in Cyberethics, eds. R. Spinello & H. Tavani, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 51-62. Also included in 2^nd edition of Readings in Cyberethics, 2004, p. 55-66.

Brey, P. (2001b). ‘Hubert Dreyfus - Human versus Machine’. In: Achterhuis, H. (ed.), American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn, Indiana University Press, 37-63. (PDF)

Dym, C. and Brey, P. (2001). ‘Languages for Engineering Design: Empirical Constructs for Representing Objects and Articulating Processes’. In: P. Kroes and A. Meijers (eds.), The Empirical Turn in the Philosophy of Technology. Research in Philosophy and Technology 20. Londen: Elsevier/JAI Press, 119-148. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2000c). 'Technology as Extension of Human Faculties.' Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Technology. Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol 19. Ed. C. Mitcham. London: Elsevier/JAI Press. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2000d). 'Technology and Embodiment in Ihde and Merleau-Ponty.' Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Technology. Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol 19. ed. C. Mitcham. London: Elsevier/JAI Press. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1998c). 'The Politics of Computer Systems and the Ethics of Design.' In Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, ed. M.J. van den Hoven , Rotterdam University Press, p. 64-75. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1997c). 'Hubert Dreyfus - Mens versus Computer,' in Van Stoommachine tot Cyborg, Red. H. Achterhuis, Ambo, Baarn, 43-68. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1997d). 'Morele Eigenschappen van Computersystemen,' Vijandbeelden in de Filosofie. Akta van de 19^e Nederlands-Vlaamse filosofiedag. (ed. L. Pijnenburg), Wageningen: Landbouw Universiteit Wageningen, 217-224.

Scientific Reports

Brey, P. (2004d). Ethical Aspects of the Virtual European University. EuroPACE report WG9 for the cEVU-project (Collaborative Virtual European University) for the European Commission. 25 pp. (PDF)

Brey, P. (1997e). Artifacts as Social Agents. Design and the Social, Cultural and Political Consequences of Technology Use. 48 pp. Internal research report, University of Twente, distributed internationally.

Professional Publications (selection)

Brey, P. and Liebregt, M. (2009e). De politiek van het Internet: zoekmachines en net-neutraliteit. De Politiek der Dingen. Ed. F. Bolkestein et al. Damon. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2009f). ‘Biomedical Engineering Ethics.’ Eds. Berg-Olsen, J., Pedersen, S., Hendricks, V. (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Technology. Blackwell. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2009g). ‘Computer Ethics.’ Eds. Berg-Olsen, J., Pedersen, S., Hendricks, V. (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Technology. Blackwell. (PDF)

Uithol, S. & Brey, P. (2006). ‘Hubert Dreyfus,’ Kritisch Denkerslexicon 36, pp. 1-23. Ed. H. Achterhuis and J. Sperna Weiland. Veen. (PDF)

Brey, P., Grodzinsky, F. and Introna, L. (2006b). ‘Editorial Introduction - Ethics of New Information Technology,’ Ethics and Information Technology 7(3), 109.

Brey, P. (2006f). ‘Editorial Introduction - Privacy and Surveillance,’ Ethics and Information Technology 7(4), 183-184.

Brey, P. (2005d). ‘Prosthetics,’ MacMillan Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics (ed. C. Mitcham), MacMillan Press, 1527-1532. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2005e). ‘Virtual Reality,’ MacMillan Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics (ed. C. Mitcham), MacMillan Press, 2034-2036. (PDF)

Brey, P. (2004e). ‘The Role of Social and Ethical Studies of Information Technology in the University Curriculum,’ in Ethical, Psychological and Societal Problems of the Application of ICTs in Education. (ed. D. Johnson), Moscow: Unesco Institute for Information Technologies in Education, p. 42-48.

Brey, P. (1998) ‘Ethics and Democratized Technology,’ in Gelegenheidsfilosofie. Opstellen over techniek en verantwoordelijkheid bij het afscheid van Paul van Dijk, Eds. T. Swierstra and P. Bruulsema, University of Twente, p. 65-73. (PDF)

Short articles in other professional media like Automatisering Gids (periodical for professionals in automation), the Dutch journal Filosofie and the Newsletter of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.