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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
+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. He is also holds the part-time Socrates chair at Delft University of Technology. Verbeek is chairman of the ‘Young Academy’, which is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Among his publications are Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things (University of Chicago Press 2011) and What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design (Penn State University Press 2005).

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News

·	21-23 Mar 2012: lecture at conference in celebration of Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, New York

·	23-24 Feb 2012: meeting EU working Group ‘Concept Engineering’

·	9 Feb 2012: prize-giving ceremony of ‘Professor Roger Borghgraef Prize in Biomedical Ethics’, KU Leuven

·	2 Feb 2012: lecture Brains@Work Academy Rotterdam

·	16 Jan 2012: opening Wagenings Jong College

·	9 Jan 2012: reviewer, PhD defence University of Glasgow; lecture ‘Media, Morality, and the Philosophy of Technology’

·	26 Dec 2011: panelist, National Science Quiz (Dutch Public TV)

·	14 Dec 2011: lecture ‘Technologie en de grens van de mens’. De Maakbare Mens, Antwerpen (Permeke bibliotheek)

·	23/24 Nov 2011: workshop ‘Questioning Telecare’, Universiteit Twente (organized with Finn Olesen)

·	17 Nov 2011: presentation at breakfast session ‘Science and Parliament’, Dutch Parliament, The Hague

·	10 Nov 2011: panelist in discussion ‘Nederland buiten kennis’, VPRO & KNAW, NEMO Amsterdam

·	7 Nov 2011: ‘Evening of Science and Society’, The Hague

·	1 Nov 2011: presentation of outcomes of ‘science relevance test’, Valorisatieparade, Utrecht (Rathenau Instituut)

·	27 Oct 2011: lecture ‘Of Things and Men: Mediation theory after McLuhan’. McLuhan Centennial Conference, Brussels

·	19 - 20 Oct 2011: lecture at conference ‘MATERIALITÄTEN: Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven’, Mainz

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