OZSW & 4TU PhD Course: Philosophy of Risk (Oct 29-Nov 2, 2018): updated list of guest lecturers
Dear all,
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 29- Friday Nov 2, 2018
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 automated technologies (e.g. weapons systems and autonomous
driving), risks related to nuclear waste, 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, 2018
Coordinator: Sven Nyholm, Assistant professor, Eindhoven University of
Technology, http://ethicsandtechnology.eu/member/nyholm-s-r-sven/
Lectures by: Sven Nyholm (TU/e), Sabine Roeser (Delft), Neelke Doorn
(Delft), John Danaher (NUI Galway), Philip Nickel (TU/e), Wybo Houkes
(TU/e), Marcel Verweij (Wageningen), Behnam Taebi (Delft), Michał
Klincewicz (Krakow), and Alan Rubel (Wisconsin)
For more info, and to apply for the course, go to:
https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/philosophy-of-risk-2018/
Best wishes, Sven Nyholm
https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/sven-nyholm/
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