Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

All sessions take place in the Moore Institute, University College, Galway

Wednesday, June 27 ^th:

1:30-2:15           Registration and Tea/Coffee

2:15-2:30           Official Welcome: President Dr Iognáid G. Ó Muircheartaigh, University College Galway.

2:30-4:00           1 ^st Panel:   Technology and rationality: technical and social factors

1.       Adam Briggle, (University of Twente, The Netherlands), ’The Embedded and the Networked: Reflections on Technology-Society Relations’

2.       Richard Gunn, (University of Leeds), Marx’s Philosophy of Technology in Capital: Alienation, Estrangement and the Role of the Machine

3.       David Roden (Open University, England) ’Autonomy, Self-Augmentation and Iteration’

4:00-4:30           Tea/Coffee

4:30-6:00           2 ^nd Panel: The metaphysics, epistemology, and ontology of technology

1.       James Harrington, (Loyola University, Chicago), ’Making Things Real: Technology, Creation and Some Lessons from Tolkien’

2.       Richard Hamilton (Trinity College, Dublin) ’Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology: What kind of Pointlessness?’

3.       Mark Sinclair, (Manchester Metropolitan University), ’Some remarks on the significance of Heidegger’s early thinking of technology’

6:00-7:00           Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University, Canada), ’From Critical Theory of Technology to the Rational Critique of Rationality’

8:00                  Dinner: O’ Grady’s Restaurant, Barna, Galway.

Thursday, June 28 ^th:

9:15-9:45           Tea/Coffee

9:45-11:15         3 ^rd Panel: Science and Technology

1.       Annamaria Carusi, (Oxford University), ’Scientific visualisations and aesthetic grounds for trust’

2.       Pierre-Yves Fioraso, (University College, Galway), ’The Politique of the Automation’

3.       Krist Vasen (Eindhoven University of Technology), ’Why a Spoon is not  a Wing – An Epistemology for Function Ascriptions’          

11:15-11:30       Tea/Coffee

11:30-1:00         4 ^th Panel: Philosophy of emerging technologies

1.       Luna Dolezal, (University College, Dublin), ’The Remote Body Phenomenology of Telepresence and the Possibility  of Re-embodiment’

2.      Edward Spence, (University of Twente, The Netherlands), ’Meta Ethic for the Metaverse: The Ethics of Virtual Worlds’

1:00-2:30           Lunch

2:30-3:30           Don Ihde, (Stony Brook University, New York), ’Imaging Technologies’

3:30-4:00           Tea/Coffee

4:00-5:00           Pascal O’ Gorman, (National University, Galway), ’Complexity Theory, Mathematics and Technology’

5:00-5:30           Official Closing: Dr Felix O'Murchadha, Department of Philosophy, NUI Galway

8:00                  Dinner:  KCBlakes, Quay Street. Galway City

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