Dutch-Japanese Workshop in Philosophy of Technology 2018

Wednesday July 4, 2018 - Saturday July 7, 2018

Program

(See below for the information about the access to venues)

Wednesday July 4, 2018

Venu: Sendai International Center, Sendai, Meeting Room 8

13:30-13:45 opening Kiyotaka Naoe and Pieter Vermaas

13:45-15:15 Session 1: Robot and Mind

    • Pieter Vermaas: "Robots, design for values and Dennett's stances"
    • Minao Kukita, Makoto Kureha: “AI and Science”
    • Tora Koyama: “Human-Robot Interaction(HRI) and Philosophy of Mind”

15:45-17:45 Session 2: Value and Human-Robot-Relation (1)

    • Peter-Paul Verbeek: “Robots in the flesh: towards a phenomenology of human-robot relations”
    • Saskia Nagel: “What is in a human-robot-relation?”
    • Shigeru Wesugi: "Designing "Tools" for the Extension of the Human Capabilities Without the "Enhancement""
    • Yu Inutsuka: “A Moral Ground for Technology: Heidegger, Postphenomenology, and Watsuji”
      • discussant: Atsushi Fujiki, Clinton Godart

18:00- 19:00 Dinner (Sendai International Center)

19:00-20:00 Round table: How to think of Values in Design

Thursday July 5, 2018

Venue: Aoba Memorial Hall in Tohoku Uiversity, Sendai, Main Conference Room

9:00-10:00 Session 3: Value and Human-Robot-Relation (2)

    • Maxence Gaillard: "The usefulness of useless robots."
    • Jonne Hoek: “The robot as a technocypher of transcendence: making what we cannot make”

10:20-11:30 Session 4: Sustainability and Participation

    • Toshihiro Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Teramoto: “Environment, agriculture, and technology. -how should we evaluate new technologies in agriculture?”
    • Shuji Yamada: “Reconstruction of the affected areas and environmental value”

11:30-12:30 Lunch (Restaurant Shikisai)

12:30-17:30 Excursion (the reconstruction of the affected areas and citizen participation)

18:00-19:30 Dinner (Restaurant Shikisai)

19:30-20:00 Lecture on Disaster Science (Sebastien Penmellen Boret, the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University)

Friday July 6, 2018

Venue: Aoba Memorial Hall in Tohoku Uiversity, Sendai, Main Conference Room

9:00-10:30 Session 5: Robotics and Body

    • Hidekazu Kanemitsu:The robot as others: A Case Study in Japan and Philosophical Inquiry
    • Jan Peter Bergen: “To-do is to Be: alterity, ethics and subjectivation in technological mediation”
    • Kojiro Honda: “Cultural Inheritance mediated by Social Robotics?”

11:00-12:30 Session 6: Robotics and Human-machine-Relation

    • Aimee Robbins van Wynsberghe: “Displacing the human in humanitarian aid”
    • Tetsuya Kono: “Hidden bullying by SNS at school”
    • Shinichiro Inaba: “Parallelism and intersection between space ethics and robot ethics”

12:00-13:00 Lunch (Restaurant Shikisai)

13:00-15:00 Session 7: Robotics and Ethics(1)

    • Nicola Liberati: "Robotic temptations. Mediation theory and sex with robots”
    • Reina Saijo: “Ethical Arguments on Sexrobots as Artifacts with Gender”
    • Keiko Fukuhara: “Human connection and Information Communication Technology”

15:30-17:30 Session 8: Robotics and Ethics(2)

    • Michael Nagenborg: “May we forgive the robot?”
    • Kiyotaka Naoe: “How can we Relate to Things that Relate to us”

18:00- Banquet (Shokeikaku)

Saturday July 7, 2018

Venue: Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Main Building1, 2F Room1201

15:00-16:40 Open session: Robotics and Philosophy

    • Shoji Nagataki, “Vulnerability, Risk and Humanity”
    • Masashi Kasaki, “What is it (like) to trust a machine?”
    • Peter-Paul Verbeek, Pieter Vermaas: “Analytic and post-phenomenological approach to the philosophy of robotics”
      • Discussant: Kojiro Honda

17:10-18:00 Roundtable: “Philosophy of Technology in Netherlands and Japan”

18:30 Banquet (“EN": a Japanese Restaurant in Ikebukuro) (voluntary)


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