Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives. It is a major factor in media and communication, technological interaction, economic production, and simulation. Recently, David Chalmers

HOST:  The Conversational School of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Nigeria. In collaboration with Transhumanists Africa, Inc., New York, USA.

Keynotes:

The goal of the conference is to bring together various phenomenological perspectives on technology, focusing on historical analyses on the essence and critique of technology within phenomenological tradition; on the debates whether technology should be analyzed as a whole or through individual artifacts; on methodological discussions exploring the role of phenomenological methods analyzing human-technology relationship; and on addressing the current phenomenological research (both theoretical and empirical) on the individual’s use of various new technologies. Interdisciplinary research, combining phenomenology with other fields of studies, is also welcome.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
    • Historical and theoretical perspectives on the essence of technology: Contributions from the history of phenomenology (i.e., Heidegger, Dreyfus, Waldenfels) as well as the analysis of the post-phenomenological movement (i.e., Ihde, Verbeek).
    • Human-technology interaction: Concrete analysis of how technology alters our experience of the world an our interactions within it.
    • Phenomenology and medical technologies: Theoretical and empirical investigations into the lived experience of various medical technologies (i.e., organ transplantation, prosthesis, gene editing).
    • Phenomenology of digital environments: Investigations into the lived experiences of digital spaces and virtual realities.
    • Embodiment and technology: How do technological enhancements (i.e., self-tracking technologies, prosthetic limbs, exoskeletons) transform our sense of embodiment?
    • Artificial intelligence (AI) and phenomenology: What are the phenomenological implications of AI in daily life and decision-making processes?
    • Ethics and technology: Phenomenological perspectives on the ethical challenges posed by contemporary technologies.
    • Eco-phenomenology and technology: The impact of technology on the environment and ecological perspectives within phenomenology.
    • Technology in art and aesthetics: How does technology influence artistic practices and aesthetic experiences?
    • Methodological discussions: What is the role of phenomenological methods analyzing the use of modern technologies?

Call for Abstracts – Planned Volume on Call for Interferences: Science, Medicine and Technology

Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) seeks to find ways to promote peaceful, nonviolent transitions in all arenas of common life, and this year’s conference focused primarily on emerging military technologies and their effect on the prospects for peace. Based on discussions at the CPP conference, there are many questions that concern the threat to peace from the proliferation of new technologies around the world. We invite authors to discuss how the advent of high-tech precision weapons, armed autonomous drones and robots, and cyber-weapons have raised concerns about the risks to civilians and the incentives to wage and continue wars. We welcome essays that promote diverse and decolonized ideas of peace and peace studies, including ideas on how technologycan serve peacebuilding and peacekeeping instead of war.

Special Issue of the journal Studium (ISSN 0039-4130), Issue 3/2025, edited by Simona Langella and Marco Damonte

Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyter.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophical Health," edited by Dr Luis de Miranda (University of Turku, Finland).

Journal: Philosophical Education (University of Warsaw)

Organisers: Wanja Wiese & Albert Newen (Ruhr University Bochum) https://philevents.org/event/show/131314

The organisers are pleased to announce the University of East Anglia’s School of Politics, Philosophy, and Area Studies and School of Media, Languages and Communication PGR Conference. Taking place in person on the 6th of June 2025, our theme this year is ‘Reimagined Futures: Humanities in Flux’.

Position: Research Fellow (Moral and/or Social Philosophy)

Department of History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics, Centre for Ethics and Humanism, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Etterbeek, Belgium

Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 22 & 23 May 2025

The Department of Philosophy  invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin as early as July 1, 2025. Review of applications will begin March 24, 2025, with in-person interviews to be held shortly thereafter. All applications must be submitted online. For those who are interested, more information can be found here, please read the ad carefully: University of Lethbridge Applicant Portal | Faculty of Arts & Science - Assistant Professor (Philosophy Department)

Since the connectionist revolution of artificial neural nets, genetic algorithms, and deep learning, AI companies like OpenAI and DeepMind are taking seriously the prospect of constructing machines with humanlike intelligence. Although the literature on artificial general intelligence (AGI) is enormous, the two most sophisticated schools are united in their belief that intelligent systems do not have any intrinsic norms, values, or final goals hardwired into them simply by virtue of being intelligent. The school of “orthogonalists” or orthogs (like Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky) holds that, even if AGI can be programmed to pursue a static end for all time, that end can nonetheless be anything no matter how preposterous or incomprehensible it might seem to us. The school of “neorationalists” or neorats (like Reza Negarestani, Ray Brassier, and Peter Wolfendale) agrees that intelligence can pursue any value or norm, albeit without the orthogs’ caveat that intelligence could ever be locked into perpetually pursuing just one value or set of values.

Arthur, Maja, and Mike are enthusiastic to welcome Blake Francis (UMBC) as their keynote,  who will present "Remember Wildness: The Role of Memory in Environmental Ethics and Activism." Please consider applying and distribute as appropriate! 

Modern technologies like social media and LLMs are a major philosophical concern, but most conversations have taken a cautionary tone. Services like Twitter or ChatGPT, such discussions have it, must be safeguarded against by philosophical considerations. Yet especially in the current political climate, one might hope that emerging technologies—in particular, technologies of communication—might have something uniquely positive to contribute to goals such as interpersonal connection, self-reflection, and coalition-building. This conference aims to bring together philosophers exploring the good technology can do by helping us to overcome the conflicts that threaten to fracture communities and isolate individuals. Our keynote speaker is C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah). 

This year’s graduate conference is devoted to the increasingly relevant phenomena of socio-epistemic structures in which the access to relevant sources of information is “filtered”, i.e., systematically modified, so as to channel certain contents to the exclusion of others. As a result, the epistemic attitudes of participants in such structures and their conferral of epistemic credentials on others are manipulated. Epistemic bubbles and echo-chambers are varieties of such socio-epistemic structures. Philosophical reflection on the topic aims to conceptualize information filters and related phenomena in order to explore their normative dimensions. 

We invite graduate students and postgraduates to submit papers to this year’s Philosophy Graduate Student Group Conference taking place in person on May 3rd & 4th 2025, at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will host a joint conference in July 2025. Please see below for joint CFA.

The Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics (DAPE) and the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague (CETE-P) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences seek to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher (with no teaching duties) specializing in the cross-section of AI and communication / AI and democracy.

The organisers are pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Social Contexts of Science, hosted by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland,  on May 12-13, 2025. 

There will be a 1,5 day workshop Philosophy of Societal Transformations, to be held on 8–9 May 2025 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 

The organisers are excited to invite you to the following Metamedica event, which will be held online (via Teams) and at Ghent University on March 11th from 4 pm to 6 pm.

Whose Knowledge Counts? Exploring Epistemic Injustice in Medical AI
Who is the most credible source of personal medical information—the patient sharing their personal experience or the medical AI system fed with digital metrics and parameters? And whose advice should a patient follow—that of the physician who knows them personally or that of an automated AI system trained on more data than their doctor? Could AI systems in medical decision-making undermine the credibility of both patients and physicians? Do such systems impair understanding and fundamental communication practices between patients and physicians?

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Philosophy to join our esteemed School of Historical Studies, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the intellectual future of our students.

Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague (CETE-P) led by the ERA Chair prof. Mark Coeckelbergh is looking for experienced postdoctoral researchers interested in applying for a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) in the area of environmental and/or technology ethics hosted at CETE-P.

The Bonn Sustainable AI Lab is organizing their third bi-annual Sustainable AI Conference, taking place on September 16th-18th, with this year’s focus being Shaping Sustainable AI and its Futures.