FINAL CALL FOR
PAPERS
14th meeting
of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
July 20-22,
2005
Delft
University of Technology
Delft, The
Netherlands
Conference
Theme:
"Technology
and Designing"
The Society
for Philosophy and Technology has sponsored conferences on
philosophical
aspects of technology since the late 1970s. Current
conferences
are held every
other year, rotating between North America and Europe. The
Society
welcomes a broad range of papers from various philosophical
perspectives
and schools. This year, the programme committee especially
invites
submissions on the conference theme of technology and designing,
but
submissions on
all aspects of philosophy and technology are welcome,
including
work on
biotechnology, genetics and philosophy, information technology,
a
philosophy of
the technical sciences, and logical aspects of technology.
The
conference
theme may be interpreted broadly, inclusive of:
"Philosophy
and engineering design"
"Philosophy
and architectural design"
"Methodological
and epistemic issues in designing"
"Ethical,
anthropological or political issues in designing"
Plenary
speakers:
Paul Thompson,
Michigan State University, USA.
Alfred
Nordmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Plenary
debate:
Carl Mitcham,
Colorado School of Mines, USA.
Arie
Rip, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands.
SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions to
the conference may be made with an abstract of between 200
and
400 words.
Proposals for full sessions are also welcome; please include
abstracts for
all papers to be included in sessions. Electronic submissions
are preferred.
They may be forwarded as a Word (.doc), Rich Text Format
(.rtf)
or Portable
Document Format (.pdf) attachment to:
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FINAL
PAPERS:
Most accepted
papers will be assigned a commentator, for which a final
paper
of not more
that 12 pages, double-spaced, is required. A period of 20
minutes
is planned for
the presentation of a paper.
COMMENTATORS:
If you would
like to serve as a commentator, please contact the organisers
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TIME
SCHEDULE:
The final
deadline for submissions of abstracts and sessions is November
30,
2004.
Notification of acceptance will be made by February 15, 2005.
Final
papers should
be submitted by May 1, 2005, in order to provide commentators
with ample
time for preparing remarks.
PUBLICATION:
Techné, the
peer reviewed journal of the Society for Philosophy and
Technology,
welcomes accepted papers to be submitted for publication. Also
a
volume with a
selection of accepted papers on the conference theme of
technology and
designing is envisaged.
The city of
Delft has a population of some 100.000 and is located in the
West
of the
Netherlands, in between Rotterdam and The Hague. It has a nice
historic
city centre
with its canals, pubs and restaurants. The vault of the Dutch
Royal Family
is in Delft. And Delft is of course well-known for its blue
earthenware
and for the 17th century painter Johannes Vermeer.
The conference
site for the 2005 SPT meeting will be at the Faculty of
Technology,
Policy and Management building located at the campus of Delft
University of
Technology. The building is within walking distance (15
minutes)
of the city
centre of Delft and of the Delft railway station. Delft can
be
reached by
train (40 minutes; one change of trains) from Amsterdam
Airport
Schiphol,
which offers many direct European and intercontinental
connections.
Check the
conference website (http://www.sptdelft2005.tbm.tudelft.nl/)
for
further
information and conference updates. Further inquiries may be made
at
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The 2005 SPT
meeting will take place in conjunction with the Sixth
International
Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE
2005), which
will be held at July 17-19, 2005, at the University of
Twente,
Enschede, The
Netherlands.
Programme
committee:
Peter Kroes
(chair and SPT vice president)
Delft
University of Technology, the Netherlands
Paul Thompson
(SPT president)
Michigan State
University, USA.
Wiebe
Bijker
Universiteit
Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Klaus
Kornwachs
Brandenburg
University of Technology Cottbus, Germany
Andrew Light
(SPT immediate past president)
New York
University, USA.
José Antonio
López Cerezo
Universidad de
Oviedo, Spain.
Steven
Moore
University of
Texas, USA.
Michela
Nacci
University of
L'Aquila, Italy
Pieter Vermaas
(conference coordinator)
Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands
This
conference is sponsored by the Faculty of Technology, Policy
and
Management of
Delft University of Technology.