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Format sessions and presentations

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.

Wednesday 4 November 2026

9:00-10:00RegistrationRegistration desk/foyer
10:00-10:15Conference openingPodiumzaal
10:15-11:15Keynote lecture 1 by Soraj HongladaromPodiumzaal
11:15-11:45BreakFoyer

Parallel session 1: 11:45-13:15

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

Deepfake Front Incursions and Harming the Apparatus of Self-Presentation
Simon Kiorgaard
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:15-12:45
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1
Who Calls Whom? Fichte and the Relational Turn of AI Moral Status
Chang Ming-Jung
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:45-13:15
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1

Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2

Understanding Relational Value: Discourse, bias, and technologies
Alyssa Delarosa
Single paper
Wednesday, 11:45-12:15
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2
Broadening the scope: Nine dimensions of Sustainability and AI development
Lorina Buhr
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:15-12:45
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2
New grounding for relational values
Hugh Desmond
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:45-13:15
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2

Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4

Technology and Solidarity
Juri Viehoff, Aliah Yacoub, Uğur Aytaç
Panel
Wednesday, 11:45-13:15
Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4

Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1

The Material Conditions of a Decolonised Philosophy of Technology
Kristy Claassen
Single paper
Wednesday, 11:45-12:15
Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1
African Relational Ethics as a Tool for Inclusive AI Governance: A Critical Appraisal
Beatrice Okyere-Manu
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:15-12:45
Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1

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

Categorizing realist, critical, and pragmatist perspectives on innovation ecosystems: A research agenda and an initial application to artificial intelligence
Mareike Smolka
Single paper
Wednesday, 11:45-12:15
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
Outsourcing: Technical Code across Economic, Institutional, and Cognitive Life
Yizhou Sun
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:15-12:45
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
Public Reason for AI-Alignment: A nuanced account
Michael W. Schmidt
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:45-13:15
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2

Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3

More-than-human energy justice in Dutch wind energy cases: What can we learn from stakeholders?
Linde Franken
Single paper
Wednesday, 11:45-12:15
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3
“Forget about Distributive Justice”: The challenges of translating values into norms in an empirical transdisciplinary case
Emma McAteer
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:15-12:45
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3
Schwartz Value Theory as a practical tool: exploring friction in personal goals and public values.
Linda Hofman, Afra Willems
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:45-13:15
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3

Track 8: Other
Subtheme: AI & Social responsibility
Room: Quantum 3

Authorship gap, meaningful human control, and the future of creative work
Filippo Santoni de Sio, Giulio Mecacci
Single paper
Wednesday, 11:45-12:15
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: AI & Social responsibility
Room: Quantum 3
Moral Sensitivity Across Domains: Toward Measurement in AI Ethics Practice
Adrian Gavornik
Single paper
Wednesday, 12:45-13:15
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: AI & Social responsibility
Room: Quantum 3
13:15-14:15LunchFoyer

Parallel session 2: 14:15-15:45

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

On Moral Conceptual Disruption: From articulation to moral orientation
Robin Hillenbrink
Single paper
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1
Wednesday, 14:15-14:45
The Architecture of Moral Responsibility: Re-Structuring Moral Blame to fill in the Responsibility Gap
Vipra Chopra
Single paper
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1
Wednesday, 14:45-15:15
The Politics of Conceptual Adaptation: An Inferentialist Account
Suzanne Kappé
Single paper
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1
Wednesday, 15:15-15:45

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

Metabolic Legitimacy in Turbulent Times: Unmasking Capitalism’s Heavenly Mandate
Elias König
Single paper
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Green political theory in turbulent time
Room: Quantum 2
Wednesday, 14:15-14:45
Land Ethics and Challenges of Electronic (Drone-Driven) War
Tetiana Gardashuk
Single paper
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Green political theory in turbulent time
Room: Quantum 2
Wednesday, 14:45-15:15

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

Disruptive Technology and Relational Agency: Therapy, Intimacy, Memory, Trust, and Individualization - part 1
Anna van Oosterzee, Lily Frank, Oscar Piedrahita
Panel
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3
Wednesday, 14:15-15:45

Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4

Technology and the Basic Structure of Society: Exploring the Four-Stage Sequence for a Rawlsian Philosophy of Technology
Michael W. Schmidt
Single paper
Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4
Wednesday, 14:15-14:45
Counter Disruptive Practices and Affirmative Ethics of Technology
Kaush Kalidindi
Single paper
Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4
Wednesday, 14:45-15:15
Disruptive Irony, Idealist Ethics, a Technologically Mediated Society
Roel Wolters
Single paper
Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4
Wednesday, 15:15-15:45

Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1

AI and the Challenge of Being Human: Kant, Aristotle, and Zen Buddhism
Gerard Kuperus
Single paper
Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1
Wednesday, 14:15-14:45
Intercultural Dialogue on AI Governance: Preserving Meaningful Work and Core Identity in the Age of Algorithmic Opacity
Shiqi Wang
Single paper
Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1
Wednesday, 14:45-15:15
Beyond Free and Easy Wandering: A Daoist-Informed Perspective on (Super)Longevity
Emma Kopeinigg
Single paper
Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1
Wednesday, 15:15-15:45

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

The Inherent Politics of AI as a Matter of Justice
Laila Wegner
Single paper
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
Wednesday, 14:15-14:45
Avoiding Unreasonable Research–Industry Collaborations: An Act Contractualist Framework for Data-Collection Technologies
Marco Innocenti
Single paper
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
Wednesday, 14:45-15:15
Toward a Political Engineering Education: Structural Injustice, Moral Responsibility, and Collective Action
Alex Nikolaidis
Single paper
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
Wednesday, 15:15-15:45

Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3

Interpreting Prediction Models in Clinical Practice: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Ethics, Design, and Modelling
Laura Hartman, Maartje Schermer
Single paper
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3
Wednesday, 14:15-14:45
Algorithmic Fairness unfolded: an embedded interdisciplinary collaboration within a medical imaging AI lab
Michel Vitale
Single paper
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3
Wednesday, 14:45-15:15
Ethically Guiding Healthcare Technology Innovation – A Qualitative Study Investigating Impact
Rosa Wijnen
Single paper
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3
Wednesday, 15:15-15:45

Track 8: Other
Subtheme: AI & Social responsibility
Room: Podiumzaal

Against the Current Debate on Digital Suffering
Raffaele Giovanni Caravella
Single paper
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: AI & Social responsibility
Room: Podiumzaal
Wednesday, 14:15-14:45
Bubbles, crises, and harms: assessing GenAI promises
Y. J. Erden
Single paper
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: AI & Social responsibility
Room: Podiumzaal
Wednesday, 14:45-15:15
Echo Chambers as Affective Technologies: Rethinking Digital Mediation in Turbulent Times
Loulou Malaeb
Single paper
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: AI & Social responsibility
Room: Podiumzaal
Wednesday, 15:15-15:45
15:45-16:15BreakFoyer

Parallel session 3: 16:15-17:45

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

Taxonomically Transformative Technologies: AI, Conceptual Engineering, and Hermeneutical Impoverishment
Lena Wang
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:15-16:45
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1
Socially disruptive technologies and cross-cultural conceptual pluralism
Hin Sing Yuen, Suzanne Kappé
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:45-17:15
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1
Public reason and value change
Ibo van de Poel
Single paper
Wednesday, 17:15-17:45
Track 1: Conceptual Disruption: Theoretical Issues and Practical Approaches
Room: Quantum 1

Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2

Climate Engineering as Liminal Mediation and Disruption. Exploring Adaptation Futures on the Brink
Benjamin Hofbauer
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:45-17:15
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2
Stored Nature and Charged Relations: Batteries as Hidden Architects of Experience
Yunxuan Miao
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:45-17:15
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2
The synergy between conservation biotechnology and AI: from analytical to generative uses.
Bernice Bovenkerk
Single paper
Wednesday, 17:15-17:45
Track 2: Environmental Philosophy and Technology in Turbulent Times
Subtheme: Technologies and the Environment
Room: Quantum 2

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

Disruptive Technology and Relational Agency: Therapy, Intimacy, Memory, Trust, and Individualization - part 2
Joel Anderson, Ludger van Dijk
Panel
Wednesday, 16:15-17:45
Track 3: Health, Well-Being and Emotions in an Age of Socially Disruptive Technologies
Room: Quantum 3

Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4

Disrupting Otherness: AI Companions Through a Phenomenological Lens
Adrienne de Ruiter
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:15-16:45
Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4
Trust without Object-Phenomenology and Trust in Phantom of AI correlate
Omkar Chattar
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:45-17:15
Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4
Are the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies a Harmony Ideology?
Maren Behrensen
Single paper
Wednesday, 17:15-17:45
Track 4: Technology and Solidarity
Room: Quantum 4

Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1

Reading the Zhongyong in Times of Climate Crisis: Four Theses
Elias König
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:15-16:45
Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1
Limits of Confucian Rituals for Multiculturalism in Philosophy of Technology
Lorenzo Maria Ratto Vaquer
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:45-17:15
Track 5: Towards a Hybrid Ethics of Technology; Bridging Ethics of Technology and Intercultural-Comparative Ethics
Room: Momentum 1

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

The Political Economy of the Collective Brain
Charlie Blunden, Marko-Luka Zubčić
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:45-17:15
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2
What is evaluated when an AI system is assessed? From the behavioural to the mechanistic approach
Michela Ghezzi
Single paper
Wednesday, 17:15-17:45
Track 6: Ethics at Scale: Systems, Infrastructures, and Societal Impact
Room: Momentum 2

Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3

The limits and opportunities of collaboration: finding our role as SSH researchers in transdisciplinary consortia
Marthe Smedinga, Juan David López Taborda, Dario Perfigli, Miriam Prior, Nynke Boiten
Panel
Wednesday, 16:15-17:45
Track 7: Transdisciplinarity: Value, Challenges, Methods and Tools
Room: Momentum 3

Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Biotech and animal relations
Room: Podiumzaal

How Far Should Ethics Run Ahead of Technology? A Critique of Speculative Bioethics
Petr Jost
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:15-16:45
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Biotech and animal relations
Room: Podiumzaal
The Impact of Virtual Fences on Human-Animal Relationship in Livestock Farming
Mariska Thalitha Bosschaert
Single paper
Wednesday, 16:45-17:15
Track 8: Other
Subtheme: Biotech and animal relations
Room: Podiumzaal
18:00-20:00Walking dinnerFoyer