Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies

In this episode, Jeroen Hopster speaks with Ben Hofbauer about his dissertation.

Caroline Bollen is a Postdoc at Technical University of Eindhoven, and she was a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology (Ethics & Philosophy of Technology). She has an interdisciplinary background in medical biology, neuroscience, and science in society. In this episode, she is interviewed by Bouke van Balen about her PhD project, that centred around the question: what

Janna van Grunsven is assistant professor in TU Delft’s ethics and philosophy of technology section. With the support of a Veni personal grant from the Dutch Research Council, she conducts research at the intersection of embodied cognition, philosophy and ethics of technology, and disability studies. In this episode, she is interviewed by Bouke van Balen about moral visibility an

Alessio Gerola is a doctoral researcher at Wageningen University. His research is about the ethical and philosophical implications of biomimicry. In this episode, Patricia Reyes interviews Alessio about his work. If you want to know more, you can find a paper of Alessio here.

Recent enhancements such as brain stimulation technologies pose new possibilities to enhance soldiers. But what happens when these “enhanced” soldiers need therapy? Our guest for this episode is Dr. Adam Henschke from the University of Twente. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Henschke’s article “When Enhancements need Therapy: Disenhancements, Iatrogenesis, and the Responsi

Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In this episode, Elena shares some insights into how Confucianism can shape our thinking about Social Media Technologies. We also discuss the article “Living Well Together Online: Digital Wellbeing from a Confucian Perspective” which she co-wrote with Matthe

Philip Brey is a professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente and the current programme leader of the ESDiT consortium. His research includes a wide variety of topics, including the ethical assessment of emerging technologies, the ethics of AI and robotics, innovative approaches to research ethics, and the ethics of the (future) internet. He is the former presi

Guido Löhr is a postdoctoral researcher at Technical University Eindhoven. Their research focuses on the notions like meaning, concept, and commitment and their roles in neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. The past two years they have also been working on philosophy of technology and AI.  In this episode, Bouke van Balen speaks with Guido about conceptual d

Sven Nyholm is an associate professor at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. His main areas of research are applied ethics (especially the ethics of technology), ethical theory, and the history of ethics. Nyholm’s research covers a wide range of topics in ethics, including well-being and meaning in life, the philosophy of love and sex, agency and moral responsibility, the