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                The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and the 4TU Center for

Ethics and Technology invite PhD students/ ReMa students in philosophy to

the course “*Philosophy of Risk*”.







*Dates*: Monday Oct 28- Friday Nov 1, 2019







*Topic*: we will explore the ethics of risk. On a basic level, we will

discuss the topics of (a) what risks are and (b) what sorts of evils and

harms people are exposed to when they are subject to risks or when others

impose risks upon them. We will also concern ourselves with the issue of

what the proper response to risk is. To make this set of questions more

concrete, we will explore a number of issues in practical

ethics: risks related to robots and automated technologies (e.g. weapons

systems and autonomous driving), the future of human flourishing,

algorithms and recommender systems, risks and uncertainty in medical

contexts, and much more. We will explore the extent and limits to which

traditional normative theories can be applied to these issues. And we will

investigate what methodology to use when dealing with the ethics

of risk (and related topics within practical ethics). The course also

features a professional development component, focused on how to write

papers for peer-reviewed journals.







*Aims of the course*: to enable students to incorporate the theme

of risk into their own research in ethics and philosophy, and to teach

students about the most current work on the philosophy and ethics

of risk and the methodology used in that philosophical literature. A

further aim is to help participants improve as professional academics by

improving their writing-skills and their understanding of academic

publishing. The ethics and philosophy of risk is a flourishing and growing

area of philosophical research. It is an overarching aim of the course to

inspire and enable participants to contribute to this important field, both

at the level of basic ethical theory and at the level of applied ethics.







*Practical info*: the course will feature a number of seminars and lectures

with various guest lecturers from the 4TU Center for Ethics and Technology

and from colleagues collaborating with 4TU Ethics. Students will give a

presentation towards the end of the week, and will also write a paper

(1500-2000 words) based on their presentation. The presentations and papers

will either be about the course-material or, if the participant works on

a risk-related topic in their PhD, it can also be on the topic of the

participant’s PhD-project. The course will take place at the campus of the

Eindhoven University of Technology.







*Registration Deadline*: October 6, 2019







*Coordinator*: Sven Nyholm, Assistant professor, Eindhoven University of

Technology, *https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/sven-nyholm/

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*Lectures by*: Sven Nyholm (TU/e), Sabine Roeser (Delft), Neelke Doorn

(Delft), John Danaher (NUI Galway), Philip Nickel (TU/e), Wybo Houkes

(TU/e), Owen King (Twente), Kritika Maheshwari (Groningen), Jilles Smids

(TU/e)







For more info, and to register for the course, go to:



https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/philosophy-of-risk-2019/





 (or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!)





Best wishes, Sven







Sven Nyholm







https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/sven-nyholm/

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