[PHILOS-L] University of Twente Philosophy Lecture - 16 April - Philip Brey
Gertz, Nolen (UT-BMS)
UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE PHILOSOPHY LECTURES 2025-2026
16 April 2026, 15:45-17:30, RA4336
(Reception to follow, hosted by Ideefiks, in LA 2507)
Philip Brey
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, University of Twente
"Ethical Assessment in the Context of Technological Disruption"
Abstract: Contemporary technologies such as AI systems, digital platforms, and data infrastructures are often evaluated in terms of their impacts on individuals and groups: harms, risks, rights, and distributive effects. But many of these technologies do something more fundamental. They reshape the structures that organize agency, responsibility, justification, coordination, and even the concepts through which we understand and evaluate the world. This talk argues that such transformations constitute a distinct and underexamined domain of ethical concern. To make sense of this, the talk introduces a typology of technological disruption, distinguishing institutional, relational, moral-normative, epistemic, and conceptual forms. Each type raises its own set of ethical questions, not reducible to familiar concerns about individual harms or group-level outcomes.
Bio:
Philip Brey is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the University of Twente. His most recent book is The Metaverse: A Critical Assessment (Springer). He has also co-edited books on modernity and technology (MIT Press), well-being and technology
(Routledge, Springer) and responsible innovation (Science Press, China).
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