The First Dutch-German Workshop on Challenges for the Philosophy of Technology in the 21th Century

Program
Day One – 26.8.2010

Room H 2035

9.00 – 9.15h    Welcome – Peter Kroes & Sandro Gaycken

9.15h-10.45h    Hans Poser – “An Engineers Ignorance and How He Knows It” – Commentator Henk Zandvoort

10.45h-12.15h    Martin Gessmann – “What Things Do” – Commentator Peter Kroes

12.15h-13.30h    Lunch Break

13.30h-15.00h    Werner Rammert – “How to do words with things – Comparing the pragmatics and grammars of language and technology” – Commentator Wybo Houkes

15.00h-16.30h    Mirko Schäfer –  “Information and Knowledge in a Codified World” – Commentator Hans Radder

16.30h-18.00h    Wolfgang König – „Philosophie und Logik bei Franz Releaux“ – Commentator Pieter Vermaas


Room H 2037

9.15h-10.45h    Maarten Franssen – „Functions and roles: towards a unified theory of function“ – Commentator Juan Duran

10.45h-12.15h    Philip Brey – “Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn” – Commentator Hans Poser

12.15h-13.30h    Lunch Break

13.30h-15.00h    David Koepsell – „Abstract Technical Artifacts? Resoving Confusion about Ideas, Expressions, Types, and Tokens“ – Commentator Marianna Richter

15.00h-16.30h    Anthonie Meijers – “Editor of Handbook of Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Science meets critics” – Commentators Sandro Gaycken

16.30h-18.00h    Martin Peterson and Krist Vaesen – “Experimental Philosophy and the Epistemic Significance of Technological Artefacts” – Commentator Sabine Ammon

19.30h    Conference Dinner at Julchen Joppe, Rathausstraße 25, 10178 Berlin-Mitte.

Dinner speech by Wolfgang König (sponsored by acatech)


Day Two – 27.8.2010

Room H 2035

9.00h-10.30h     Eckart Arnold - "Positivistic Fetishism of Method: How the Technization of the Social Sciences reduces our Understanding of Social Phenomena." – Commentator Marianne Boenink

10.30h-12.00h    Klaus Wiegerling – „Imaginäre Lebenswelten und das Problem der Medialität” –  Commentator Felicitas Kraemer

12.00h-13.00h    Lunch Break

13.00h-14.30h    Andreas Kaminski – „Trust and Security“ – Commentator Philip Nickel

14.30h-16.00h    Gerhard Banse – „Darlegungen zur Allgemeinen Technologie“  - Commentator Peter Kroes
 
Room H 2037

9.00h-10.30h    Mark Coeckelbergh – “Environmental Virtue: Motivation, Imagination, and Information Technology” – Commentator Michael Nagenborg

10.30h-12.00h    Bart Gremmen – “No users allowed: The Collingridge dilemma as an exlusion tool in innovation” – Commentator Armin Grunwald

12.00h-13.00h    Lunch Break

13.00-14.30h    Andreas Spahn – “And lead us (not) into persuasion...? Persuasive Technology and the Ethics of Communication” – Commentator Jessica Heesen

Ort:

Konferenz: Hauptgebäude (main building) of the TU-Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Berlin-Charlottenburg, rooms H 2035 & H 2037
 
Mittagessen: In close proximity (Marchstraße 6-8, on the campus), you will find the Cafe Campus http://www.cafe-campus.de/

Abendessen: Restaurant Julchen Joppe, Rathausstraße 25, 10178 Berlin-Mitte

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