DIS-TRUST team attends SPT2025
On June 25-28, 2025 the DIS-TRUST research team attended the SPT2025 conference in Eindhoven. Hosted by the Philosophy and Ethics Group of the Faculty Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences of the Eindhoven University of Technology, the biennal conference explored the theme of “The Intimate Technological Revolution”. The Society for Philosophy of Technology gathered researchers from all over the world to discuss how new technologies are permeating every aspect of our lives, nestling within and between, knowing more and more about us and behaving increasingly like humans. The conference called not only for for philosophers, but also engineers, policy makers and other society stakeholders to reflect on the opportunities, vulnerabilities, and risks that the development and use of these technologies present.
The four-day conference included keynotes by four prominent figures in the field of philosophy of technology. tt备用网址 Sabina Leonelli, Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Munich presented her ongoing work on environmental intelligence, where she develops new philosophical premises for artificial intelligence. Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford tt备用网址 in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, and Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the University of Edingburgh discussed her reflections on intimate and immanent technologies. Jens Schlieter, tt备用网址 in Science of Religion at the University of Bern, explored Buddhist ethics of technology and personhood in Asia, discussing whether robots can have empathy. Robert Rosenberger, tt备用网址 in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, talked about the “hard problem” of the philosophy of technology, drawing on his work on technological mediation and hostile design.
The DIS-TRUST team brought the ongoing work of the project with two presentations. Ass. Prof. Esther Oluffa Pedersen, the project PI, discussed her work on the moral implications of data extraction practices with a presentation titled “A Foul Stain? Trust in digital data reconsidered with Zuboff and Kant”. Micol Mieli, Postdoc, presented the results of her empirical research on technologically mediated trust on peer-to-peer platforms, illustrating the panoramic view of trust through the case of Airbnb.