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Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Ethics and Information Technology on “Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering” GUEST EDITORS Herman Veluwenkamp, Sebastian Köhler, Guido Löhr, Jeroen Hopster INTRODUCTION Despite its “engineering” metaphor, little work on conceptual engineering has focused on the role of technology in changing and disrupting concepts. In the philosophy of technology, by contrast, increasing attention is given to the ways in which technologies challenge fundamental ethical and ontological concepts and prompt conceptual engineering. TOPICS The aim of this special issue of Ethics & Information Technology is to explore questions at the intersection of conceptual engineering and philosophy of technology. We encourage contributions from different philosophical backgrounds and intercultural traditions, as well as interdisciplinary approaches. Possible questions to address are, but not limited to: ● How do socially disruptive technologies affect foundational ontological and ethical concepts, such as NATURE, REALITY, AGENCY, etc.? ● What are the mechanisms by which technologies can change concepts? ● What implications does conceptual change have for engineering design? ● How do conceptual change, value change and technology relate? ● How, if at all, does work on conceptual engineering in the philosophy of technology affect foundational questions about conceptual engineering? ● Under what conditions should conceptual engineers intervene in a classificatory practice? ● When should we push back against conceptual changes induced by technologies? ● Is there something distinctive about the technological disruption of concepts, as opposed to other kinds of conceptual disruption? ● How do technologies mediate concepts? PRACTICAL INFORMATION We welcome original research papers (5000-9000 words). All contributions will be double blind peer reviewed. TIMETABLE January 31, 2023: Deadline for paper submissions March 31, 2023: Deadline for reviews April 30, 2023: Deadline for revised papers June, 2023: Publication of accepted papers SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions can be made through the Ethics and Information Technology website: https://www.springer.com/journal/10676 For any further information please contact the editorial team: SI.SDT.CE@gmail.com
Editors
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Guido Löhr
Guido Löhr received his Ph.D. in 2020 from Ruhr University Bochum and École Normale Supérieure, Paris (Institut Jean Nicod). Löhr also holds master's degrees in philosophy (HU Berlin, 2016) and cognitive science (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, 2017). Their research deals with central philosophical questions regarding thought and action from an interdisciplinary perspective. More recently Löhr has become interested in the relation between concepts and technology.
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Jeroen Hopster
Jeroen Hopster is Assistant Professor in Ethics at Utrecht University and researcher in the programme "Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies". His research centres on topics in the philosophy of technology, climate ethics, and evolutionary ethics. He has published several books and articles, most recently on the topics of moral revolutions, value change, anticipatory ethics, and socially disruptive technologies.
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Sebastian Köhler
Sebastian Köhler is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He works on meta-ethics and the ethics of information technology.
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Herman Veluwenkamp
Herman Veluwenkamp is a researcher in the Ethics and Philosophy or Technology section at the TU Delft. He did his PhD at the University of Groningen and has published on metaethics, epistemic dependence, conceptual engineering, metasemantics and non-monotonic logic.
