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ESDiT Research Line

STEM

The ESDiT approach is based on close cooperation with the engineering sciences (STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

About ESDIT

In the ESDiT programme, we aim to innovate the ethics of technology so that we can critically evaluate and guide the development, introduction and use of current and future socially disruptive technologies. To pursue its aim, the ESDIT programme has nine research lines.

Description of This Research Track

The ESDiT approach is based on close cooperation with the engineering sciences (STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

First and foremost, STEM is important in determining and understanding current and future challenges posed by Socially Disruptive Technologies (SDTs).

Secondly, the ESDiT consortium wishes to interact with STEM areas in order to contribute to improved and more responsible ethical guidance of SDTs.

The STEM track within ESDiT, coordinated by prof. Wijnand IJsselsteijn, is intended to bring together and discuss our joint interests in STEM, and establish and support fruitful and mutually beneficial links between relevant partners involved in STEM innovations and people within ESDiT.

To an extent, our project embodies STEM through the STEM representatives present within the consortium, and affiliated to the project. In addition, we are reaching out to other STEM-oriented Gravitation research consortia (e.g., Hybrid Intelligence – with a focus on AI), in order to connect to scholars in the STEM field.

To help shape our thinking about collaboration and outreach with regards to STEM fields, we have three main, and partly overlapping, lines of thinking:

  1. creating spaces for conversation and learning with regard to STEM;
  2. ensuring a fruitful, open, bi-directional exchange;
  3. sharing results and insights.

Related Publications

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering

Michelfelder, Diane P.; Doorn, Neelke (Ed.)

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering Book

Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2022, ISBN: 9780367689919.

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Related Events

CEET Webinar Series: AI & Emotions

Date: January 24, 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Zoom
Academic event | STEM
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 The first session of the Winter 2024 Webinar Series organised by the Conceptual Engineering for Emerging Technologies (CEET) initiative took place on 24 January. Matthew McKeever (HKU) and Simon Goldstein (HKU) were the speakers of this session, focusing on the relationship (or lack of) between AI and emotions. The CEET initiative is a joint venture […]

People Involved

Coordination team

Prof. dr. Wijnand IJsselsteijn

Prof. dr. Wijnand IJsselsteijn

Professor of Cognition and Affect in Human-Technology Interaction
Eindhoven University of Technology
ESDIT role(s): Advisor research lineManagement boardResearch fellow
Research line(s): ArtSTEMWellbeing, Emotions & Health
Dr. Matthew Dennis

Dr. Matthew Dennis

Senior Researcher
Eindhoven University of Technology
ESDIT role(s): Coordinator research lineResearch fellow
Research line(s): ArtIntercultural PhilosophySTEMWellbeing, Emotions & Health

Participants

Dr. Dina Babushkina
Dr. Caroline Bollen
Dr. Matthew Dennis
Dr. Julia Hermann
Prof. dr. Wijnand IJsselsteijn
Sammie Jansen

 

All ESDiT Research Lines

Art

Art

Conceptual Disruption

Conceptual Disruption

Democracy, Justice & Solidarity

Democracy, Justice & Solidarity

Human Nature, Agency & Autonomy

Human Nature, Agency & Autonomy

Intercultural Philosophy

Intercultural Philosophy

Nature & Sustainability

Nature & Sustainability

New Methods for Ethics

New Methods for Ethics

STEM

STEM

Wellbeing, Emotions & Health

Wellbeing, Emotions & Health