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Each paper presentation is allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for Q&A. Workshops and panels may be structured according to the organizers' preferences.

Friday 6 November 2026

10:00-11:00Keynote lecture 3 by Catriona McKinnonPodiumzaal
11:00-11:30BreakFoyer
11:30-13:00Side-event: Meet-The-EditorPodiumzaal

Parallel session 7: 11:30-13:00

Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Green political theory in turbulent time
Room: Quantum 2

Ethics Advice for EU environmental Policy: shifts in valuing nature revealed
Julia Rijssenbeek, Frieder Bögner
Single paper
Friday, 11:30-12:00
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Green political theory in turbulent time
Room: Quantum 2
How Environmental Philosophy Failed and Why Ecomodernism is a Better Green Political Theory
Adam Briggle
Single paper
Friday, 12:00-12:30
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Green political theory in turbulent time
Room: Quantum 2
The (im)possibility of inclusion: Ethical limits of invited participation in sustainability transitions
Nynke van Uffelen
Single paper
Friday, 12:30-13:00
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Green political theory in turbulent time
Room: Quantum 2

Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3

Is the Capability Approach Capable of Addressing Challenges to Designing Assistive Technology for Dementia Care?
Freek van der Weij
Single paper
Friday, 11:30-13:00
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3
Whose Health? Epistemic Injustice as a Challenge for Generative AI in Mental Healthcare
Flor Pasturino
Single paper
Friday, 12:00-12:30
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3
Shared Decision-Making and Clinical Decision Support Systems in Neurology: Autonomy, Trust, and Clinical Judgment
Miranda Boldrini
Single paper
Friday, 12:30-13:00
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3

Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2

Ethics at Scale: From Ethical Analysis to the Conditions of Ethical Judgment
Alexandru Mateescu
Single paper
Friday, 11:30-12:00
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
The Ethics of Technology-Induced Institutional Disruption
Philip Brey
Single paper
Friday, 12:00-12:30
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
Generative AI in Social Media: Epistemic Agency and Passive Nihilism
Mohammad Ali Ashouri Kisomi, Mohammad Mobin Saidi Naini
Single paper
Friday, 12:30-13:00
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2

Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Quantum 4

Values Taking Shape
Samantha Copeland
Workshop
Friday, 11:30-13:00
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Quantum 4

Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Quantum 1

Why NAMs are not disruptive
Philip Nickel
Single paper
Friday, 11:30-12:00
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Quantum 1
The archic paradigm of technology governance: Critique of three prejudices in responsible innovation to advance the discourse against structural complicity
Víctor Betriu Yáñez
Single paper
Friday, 12:00-12:30
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Quantum 1
The policy relevance of the ethics of technology
Udo Pesch
Single paper
Friday, 12:30-13:00
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Quantum 1

Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Philosophical approaches to AI
Room: Momentum 1

Adjudicating Fairness Trade-offs: A Contractualist Procedure for Sociotechnical Decision-Making
Hüseyin Kuyumcuoğlu
Single paper
Friday, 11:30-12:00
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Philosophical approaches to AI
Room: Momentum 1
Alien Values: Where might AI lead humanity?
Elizabeth O'Neill
Single paper
Friday, 12:00-12:30
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Philosophical approaches to AI
Room: Momentum 1
LLMs Are Not Moral Relata: A Wittgensteinian View of Morally Relevant Properties
Joris Graff
Single paper
Friday, 12:30-13:00
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Philosophical approaches to AI
Room: Momentum 1
13:00-14:00LunchFoyer

Parallel session 8: 14:00-15:30

Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1

AI Systems and Sentience Without Suffering:Can a Re-Engineered Concept of Sentience Keep Its Normative Force?
Jesse Jesus Pinho de de Pinhal
Single paper
Friday, 14:00-14:30
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1
AI-mediated identity: conceptual, ethical and philosophical considerations
Lino Trinchini
Single paper
Friday, 14:30-15:00
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1

Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Emotions and Global Environmental Changes
Room: Quantum 2

Climate Emotions and Moral Engagement: From Environmental Concern to Collective Action
Diana Paula Fuhr
Single paper
Friday, 14:00-14:30
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Emotions and Global Environmental Changes
Room: Quantum 2
Grieving Beyond Life? From Ecological to Technological Grief: Mourning Glaciers and Robots in Turbulent Times
Anna Puzio, Michel Bourban, Lorina Buhr
Single paper
Friday, 14:30-15:00
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Emotions and Global Environmental Changes
Room: Quantum 2
Are we our Brothers' Keepers? Mushrooming AI Data Centers amidst Water Scarcity in India
Badrinath Rao
Single paper
Friday, 15:00-15:30
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Emotions and Global Environmental Changes
Room: Quantum 2

Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3

From Treatability to Normative Editability: CRISPR and the Moral Reclassification of Human Vulnerability
Monika Nogel
Single paper
Friday, 14:00-14:30
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3
All Men Are Frightened: Reconsidering Military Human Enhancement Beyond Optimization
Josefine Ruppenthal
Single paper
Friday, 14:30-15:00
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3
From Open Futures to Authorable Futures: New Frontiers in the Ethics of Prospective Technologies
Lily Frank, Matthew Dennis
Single paper
Friday, 15:00-15:30
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3

Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 1

Doing good in turbulent times: is Effective Altruism really effective and altruistic?
Hin Sing Yuen, Sabine Roeser, Kritika Maheshwari
Workshop
Friday, 14:00-15:30
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 1

Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2

The patterns of normativity in large language models
Mykhaylo Bogachov
Single paper
Friday, 14:00-14:30
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
The need for ethics between micro and macro scales: an agenda for an ethics of continuity
Olya Kudina
Single paper
Friday, 14:30-15:00
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
Challenging the Moral Vacuum: Mapping Multi-Scalar Frictions and the Substantive Desirability of the Hydrogen Economy
Karen Moesker, Nynke van Uffelen
Single paper
Friday, 15:00-15:30
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2

Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Quantum 4

Philosophy of Technology meets Political Economy: Reflections in the context of the Technical University
Dmitry Muravyov, Jordi Viader Guerrero, Aarón Moreno Inglés, Marte Henningsen, Filippo Santoni de Sio
Panel
Friday, 14:00-15:30
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Quantum 4

Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Podiumzaal

Limitations of Computational Morality: Can we morally enhance ourselves via AI?
Florian Richter
Single paper
Friday, 14:00-14:30
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Podiumzaal
The Utility of Ontological Considerations in Technological Innovation: Reflections from Quantum Technology
Thijs Latten
Single paper
Friday, 14:30-15:00
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Podiumzaal
From Agent-Centred Responsibility to Relational Practice: Reconceptualising Moral Responsibility in the Age of AI
Yifan Li
Single paper
Friday, 15:00-15:30
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Responsible innovation
Room: Podiumzaal
15:45-16:00Closing conferencePodiumzaal
16:00-16:30BreakFoyer
16:30-18:00Side-event: Talk and Q&A with Prof. Barbara PrainsackOmnia building, room: TBD