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Animation explaining Technological Mediation 

June 13, 2017by Peter-Paul Verbeek 1 Comment

A five-minute animation explaining the basics of the approach of technological mediation.  (Animation created by Rachel Kremer)

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Job opening: 2-year postdoc position in philosophy and ethics of technology and design

June 11, 2017by Peter-Paul Verbeek

Technologies are increasingly designed to influence people’s behavior in directions that are seen as desirable, as approaches like ‘nudging’ and ‘persuasive technology’ show. At the same time, this development raises […]

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Next Generation Internet Summit: Brussels, June 6-7 2017

May 25, 2017by Peter-Paul Verbeek

July 6, I will give a talk at the Next Generation Internet Summit, which intends “to support the European Commission to build a strategy together with leading policy makers, renewed […]

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Mens en Machine: wie maakt wie?

May 16, 2017by Peter-Paul Verbeek

Op 16 mei geef ik een lezing op de conferentie ‘Mens en Machine: wie maakt wie?’: “Technologische ontwikkelingen gaan sneller dan wij kunnen bijbenen en dringen door in alle facetten […]

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Homo Technologicus: Paradisolezing 14 mei 2017

May 13, 2017by Peter-Paul Verbeek

In deze Paradisolezing belicht ik de manier waarop het menselijk bestaan is verweven met technologie, bezien vanuit de evolutie, vanuit de hedendaagse samenleving, en vanuit mogelijke toekomstige ontwikkelingen. “De mens […]

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Technologie en onbehagen (Dutch)

April 15, 2017by Peter-Paul Verbeek

NRC presenteert: Een avond met Bas Heijne. Het hedendaagse onbehagen – hoe ons mensbeeld door technologie en politieke verschuivingen onder druk komt te staan. 10 Mei 2017, Pakhuis De Zwijger, […]

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Grote denkers van bijzondere Nederlanders (Dutch)

April 15, 2017by Peter-Paul Verbeek

Twaalf bijzondere Nederlanders verzorgen een dag vol filosofie, humor, verdieping en persoonlijke betekenis op basis van de canon van The School of Life. Met: Louise Fresco, Joke Hermsen, Ad Verbrugge, […]

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Peter-Paul Verbeek

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short bio

Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is professor of Philosophy of Technology, co-director of the DesignLab of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and vice dean of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management, and Social Sciences.

His research focuses on the philosophy of human-technology relations, and aims to contribute to philosophical theory, ethical reflection, and practices of design and innovation. His publications include 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).

Verbeek is a member of UNESCO – COMEST (World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology); the Dutch Concil for the Humanities; the Supervisory Board of TNO (Dutch Organization for applied scientific research); the board of the Rathenau Institute; the program council for Responsible Innovation of NWO – Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; and the Center for Ethics and Health (Ministry of Health).

Verbeek is a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation and of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences. Between 2013 and 2015 he was President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology; between 2011 and 2013 he was chairperson of ‘The Young Academy’, an independent division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His work has received several awards, including a VENI award (2003), VIDI award (2007), VICI Award (2014), membership of The Young Academy (2009), the Borghgraef Prize in Biomedical Ethics 2012 (Leuven University) , and the World Technology Award in Ethics 2016 (World Technology Network).

events and talks

2017
- June 10: Grote Denkers van Bijzondere Nederlanders, DeLaMar Theater Amsterdam (HUMAN / School of Life
- May 14: 'Homo Technologicus'. Paradiso lezing, reeks 'Leven in ons heelal', Amsterdam.
- May 10: "Het hedendaagse onbehagen – hoe ons mensbeeld door technologie en politieke verschuivingen onder druk komt te staan". In discussie met Bas Heijne, Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam
- Apr 20: talk on moral mediation at symposium "How do life science technologies mediate moral understandings and responsibilities in food and health contexts?", Wageningen University
- Mar 30-31: extraordinary meeting of the UNESCO-COMEST working group on Robot Ethics, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
- Mar 28-29: Conference 'Robots and Society: What Transformations What Regulations?', Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
- Feb 18: keynote 'Technologies of Transcendence: On the technological mediation of the sacred'. Conference 'Seeking the Sacred in the Digital Age', Gonzaga University, Spokane, USA.
- Feb 17: Rukavina Lecture 'Moralizing Technology: on the morality of things and how to design it', Gonzaga University, Spokane, USA.
- Feb 4: lecture 'On the Origin of Androids', with Floris Kaayk and Koert van Mensvoort, Transmediale, Berlin.
- Jan 30: reviewer / advisor PhD defense Julia Grillmayr, Universität Wien
- Jan 27: 'On Populism and Disruptive Technologies: Academic Communication in the 21st Century'. Keynote at NACV 2017 conference (Netwerk Academische Communicatieve Vaardigheden).
- Jan 25: 'Towards an Ethics of Things: Design Ethics and Moral Mediation' Guest lecture, Design Academy Eindhoven
- Jan 23: reviewer PhD defense Robert Jan Geerts, Wageningen Agricultural University.

2016
- 17-19 Dec: Tel Aviv, keynote lecture at OH-MAN, OH-MACHINE conference on posthumanism
- 11 Nov: keynote lecture, conference "relation.Ships: Sociality and Sociability through Things", Bauhaus University, Weimar
- 28 Oct: lecture inaugural symposium Ron Wakkary
- 20-21 Oct: Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Salt Lake City, panel on postphenomenological research.
- 7 Oct: lecture at Impakt Festival, Utrecht
- 2 Oct: lecture Kinderuniversiteit, Museum HEIM, Hengelo
- 23 Sept: speaker and moderator at "ERROR 301: HUMAN_NOT_FOUND". Happy Chaos Festival, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
- 12-16 Sept: COMEST meeting, UNESCO Paris (Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology).
- 8 Sept: moderator Science Cafe Enschede (Theme: Overstijgt Techniek de Mens?), Theater Concordia, Enschede.
- Sept 1-3: 4S / EASST conference, Barcelona, panel on postphenomenological research
- 5 Jul: lecture ‘Mediated Morality’, round table session on the Chinese translation of Moralizing Technology. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 4 Jul: lecture ‘The Ethics of Drones and Self-Driving cars: unmanned systems and human-technology relations’. Shanghai University, School of Social Science.
- 22 Jun: lecture Dublin University, dept. of Ethics and Technology
- 16-18 Jun: keynote lecture CaTaC 2016 (Culture, Technology, Communication), London.
- 10 Jun: lecture 'Drones: Responsible Flying Robots?'. With Nico Nijenhus. NWO - Responsible Innovation conference, Amsterdam.
- 9 Jun: external reviewer PhD defence Joost van Driessche, RU Groningen
- 30 May: keynote lecture 'Designing Well-being at Work? The Ethics of Behavior-Influencing Technology'. Conference Wellbeing@ work, Amsterdam.
- 10 May: lecture 'The ethics of drones'. Studium Generale, Enschede.
- 26 Apr: external reviewer PhD defence Huub Ehlhardt.
- 21 Apr: ‘Tussen cyborg en robot: over mens en technologie’. Agora lezing, Academisch Genootschap Eindhoven.
- 15 Apr: lezing ‘Techniek als religie’. Nacht van de Filosofie, Amsterdam.
- 6 Apr: external reviewer at PhD defence Roisin Lally, NUI Galway.
- 30 Mar: lezing presymposium Veerstichting ‘Techniek (over)hoop’, Enschede.
- 15 Mar: lezing ‘De grens van de mens’. Vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte / KIvI, Den Haag
- 29 Feb: lecture ‘Moral mediation and the ethics of technology’, Tokyo.
- 26-27 Feb: lecture Japanese-Dutch workshop in philosophy of technology, Kanazawa, Japan.
- 4-5-6 Feb: lecture at workshop ‘Engineering for Society’, Kalamazoo, Michigan
- 22 Jan: lecture Compiegne, Phiteco conference
- 10 Jan: kindercollege ‘Hoe zag de wereld eruit voordat er internet was?’, Museum Jeugd Universiteit, Twentse Welle, Enschede.

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