Message posted on 15/09/2019
OZSW/4TU Ethics PhD course: Philosophy of Risk, Oct 28-Nov 1 2019
The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and the 4TU Center for <br>Ethics and Technology invite PhD students/ ReMa students in philosophy to <br>the course “*Philosophy of Risk*”. <br> <br> <br> <br>*Dates*: Monday Oct 28- Friday Nov 1, 2019 <br> <br> <br> <br>*Topic*: we will explore the ethics of risk. On a basic level, we will <br>discuss the topics of (a) what risks are and (b) what sorts of evils and <br>harms people are exposed to when they are subject to risks or when others <br>impose risks upon them. We will also concern ourselves with the issue of <br>what the proper response to risk is. To make this set of questions more <br>concrete, we will explore a number of issues in practical <br>ethics: risks related to robots and automated technologies (e.g. weapons <br>systems and autonomous driving), the future of human flourishing, <br>algorithms and recommender systems, risks and uncertainty in medical <br>contexts, and much more. We will explore the extent and limits to which <br>traditional normative theories can be applied to these issues. And we will <br>investigate what methodology to use when dealing with the ethics <br>of risk (and related topics within practical ethics). The course also <br>features a professional development component, focused on how to write <br>papers for peer-reviewed journals. <br> <br> <br> <br>*Aims of the course*: to enable students to incorporate the theme <br>of risk into their own research in ethics and philosophy, and to teach <br>students about the most current work on the philosophy and ethics <br>of risk and the methodology used in that philosophical literature. A <br>further aim is to help participants improve as professional academics by <br>improving their writing-skills and their understanding of academic <br>publishing. The ethics and philosophy of risk is a flourishing and growing <br>area of philosophical research. It is an overarching aim of the course to <br>inspire and enable participants to contribute to this important field, both <br>at the level of basic ethical theory and at the level of applied ethics. <br> <br> <br> <br>*Practical info*: the course will feature a number of seminars and lectures <br>with various guest lecturers from the 4TU Center for Ethics and Technology <br>and from colleagues collaborating with 4TU Ethics. Students will give a <br>presentation towards the end of the week, and will also write a paper <br>(1500-2000 words) based on their presentation. The presentations and papers <br>will either be about the course-material or, if the participant works on <br>a risk-related topic in their PhD, it can also be on the topic of the <br>participant’s PhD-project. The course will take place at the campus of the <br>Eindhoven University of Technology. <br> <br> <br> <br>*Registration Deadline*: October 6, 2019 <br> <br> <br> <br>*Coordinator*: Sven Nyholm, Assistant professor, Eindhoven University of <br>Technology, *https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/sven-nyholm/ <br>* <br> <br> <br> <br>*Lectures by*: Sven Nyholm (TU/e), Sabine Roeser (Delft), Neelke Doorn <br>(Delft), John Danaher (NUI Galway), Philip Nickel (TU/e), Wybo Houkes <br>(TU/e), Owen King (Twente), Kritika Maheshwari (Groningen), Jilles Smids <br>(TU/e) <br> <br> <br> <br>For more info, and to register for the course, go to: <br> <br>https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/philosophy-of-risk-2019/ <br> <br> <br> (or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!) <br> <br> <br>Best wishes, Sven <br> <br> <br> <br>Sven Nyholm <br> <br> <br> <br>https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/sven-nyholm/ <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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