Editors of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences are calling for submissions for a special issues titled “Grief in the Digital Age.” The Special Issue aims to explore the role of digital technologies for grief experiences.

Can and should philosophers employ large language models or other artificial intelligence tools in the course of doing ethics? Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in collaboration with the inter-university research consortium, "Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT)," seeks to hire a PhD student for a four-year project on whether (and if so, how) philosophers can use AI technologies to improve ethics methodology.

Rapid advances in sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) hold the promise of enhancing human capacities and prolonging well-being as we age. Philosophers are increasingly viewing human well-being as the exercise of various capacities, some of which significantly change during senescence. Cutting-edge augmentation technologies have the potential to replace or improve many deteriorating capabilities, enabling us to maintain physical abilities (e.g., exoskeletons) and cognitive health (e.g., brain-computer interfaces). Such technologies increase our ability to live independently for longer, while also boosting our overall quality of life. Nevertheless, technological advances of augmentation technologies simultaneously disrupt long-held normative notions about how human capabilities are connected to the good life (Nussbaum 2020, 2011) and how to view senescence (Sen 1993). This has direct implications for the design of technologies that seek to augment our capabilities, especially when such augmentation technologies aim to replace capabilities later in life.

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The open access journal Future of Science and Ethics hosts the Call for Papers – Artificial intelligence: bioethical, biolegal and social perspectives. 

The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:

The early bird registration for the conference on Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology, 2-4 October 2024, University of Twente, The Netherlands is almost closing. The deadline is 2 July!

Everyone interested in the ethics and philosophy of technology is welcome.