Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies

In this episode, Jeroen Hopster speaks with Ben Hofbauer about his dissertation.

Caroline Bollen is a Postdoc at Technical University of Eindhoven, and she was a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology (Ethics & Philosophy of Technology). She has an interdisciplinary background in medical biology, neuroscience, and science in society. In this episode, she is interviewed by Bouke van Balen about her PhD project, that centred around the question: what does it mean to be empathetic in a diverse and digital world?

Check out the papers that she published as part of her dissertation:

A reflective guide on the meaning of empathy in autism research, published in Methods in Psychology, 2023

Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy, published in Social Epistemology, 2023

A Conceptual and Ethical framework for Empathy and Communication Technologies, published in Technology and Society, 2023

Janna van Grunsven is assistant professor in TU Delft’s ethics and philosophy of technology section. With the support of a Veni personal grant from the Dutch Research Council, she conducts research at the intersection of embodied cognition, philosophy and ethics of technology, and disability studies. In this episode, she is interviewed by Bouke van Balen about moral visibility and technology.

Check out these papers if you want to read more about Janna's work:

Enactivism and the Paradox of Moral Perception. Published in Topoi, 2021.

Technosocial disruption, enactivism, & social media: On the overlooked risks of teenage cancel culture. Published in Technology in Society, 2024.

Disabled Body-Minds in Hostile Environments: Disrupting our Cartesian Sociotechnical Imagination with Enactive Embodied Cognition and Critical Disability Studies. Published in Topoi, 2024.

Alessio Gerola is a doctoral researcher at Wageningen University. His research is about the ethical and philosophical implications of biomimicry.

In this episode, Patricia Reyes interviews Alessio about his work. If you want to know more, you can find a paper of Alessio here.