Due to COVID-19’s emergency, the face-to-face conference originally programed to be held in Valparaíso (Chile) in May 2020 was postponed to 2022. Unfortunately, due to circumstances fPET 2022 also cannot take place. Authors of accepted papers for the cancelled fPET2020 can save their submissions for fPET2023.

About fPET2023

fPET 2023 will again bring together engineers and philosophers to address the challenges of engineering in a changing world. We are currently witnessing disruptive changes due to climate change, pandemics and war. Technological developments in, for example, geo-engineering, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and neurotechnology may contribute to such disruptions but also help to better deal with them.

fPET 2023 will provide the opportunity to meet like-minded researchers and present and discuss research on the intersection of engineering and philosophy, addressing the theme of technology and engineering in a changing world, broadly understood. We will soon open the possibility to submit abstracts and panel proposals.

The conference will feature a special track on Changing Values, Changing Technologies. This track will introduce a novel perspective on value change. We will discuss the nature of value change and illuminate the implications for the practice of, research on and teaching in engineering. More information on this track, including a call for papers, will be published soon. For this track, we are cooperating with the research project Designing for Changing Values, that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 788321.

fPET 2023 will be a daring attempt to provide a forum to discuss engineering & philosophy in general, to meet and mingle, and to ignite the debate on a novel research perspective which draws from fields hitherto (largely) unconnected to the philosophy & engineering debate. It will also try out a new format and attempts to spur interdisciplinary collaboration.