On-line Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology

November 17-19, 2020

The mission of fPET is to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology; and to build bridges between existing organizations of philosophers, engineers and scholars in related fields.

Due to COVID-19’s emergency, the face-to-face conference originally programed to be held in Valparaíso in May 2020 has been postponed to year 2022. A virtual conference will be held on November 17-19, 2020.

NEW: Some helpful information to read on our keynote speakers can be found here.

Video-notices on fPET2020

What to expect from fPET2020

Getting engaged in the community

Inspirations for your video presentations

Some remarks on on-line fPET2020 experience

The organizing team is working towards guaranteeing that this will not just be yet another virtual conference event, but that - in the spirit of fPET - we will put a strong focus on networking and community development. The conference will be hosted on a digital platform that supports video streaming of presentations (to make up for time-zone differences), live Q&A, matchmaking according to similar interests and chats between all members.

Among the opportunities opened by an online experience, we want to highlight:
  • All co-authors have the chance to attend the conference and to be involved in their presentation
  • “Excursion format”: people from industry or others with access to industry can stream directly from an environment where technology is actually at work, so that we can get to the heart of the matter
We will also have an interactive session on international collaboration, project development and research opportunities. More workshops and panels will be announced soon.

Registration Fee

The registration fee is USD $20. In case of multiple author’s papers, it will be allowed to pay one single fee, to encourage the participation of the whole teams. The fee includes access to the conference through the web/mobile application Whova.

To register, please click on the registration button

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If you are the only author of your paper, please use the option “Paper first author”.

In case of multiple-author’s papers, the author that will pay the conference fee will have to use the option “Paper first author”. The other authors can use the option “Paper second author(s).

If you are attending the conference, but you will not present a paper, please use the option “Listener”.

Once you are registered, you can sign-in to Whova. We recommend you to use this “Whova attendee user guide”.

The registration deadline for authors is October 20.

fPET2020 Key-note speakers

Featured
Minoru Asada
Minoru Asada

Research Leader for the Specially Promoted Research Project (Tokusui) on Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding the Process From Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction. Director of the division of cognitive neuroscience robotics, the Institute for Academic Initiatives (IAI), Osaka University, Japan.

Keynote title: “Robot sense of agency: self, autonomy, pain, and ethics”

Donna Riley
Donna Riley

Chemical engineer, Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Keynote title: “Engineering Principles: Public Values in Professional Life”

Ibo van de Poel
Ibo van de Poel

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology and head of the Department Values, Technology & Innovation of the School of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Keynote title: “Worlds apart? What philosophy and engineering can learn from each other”

fPET2020 Organizing Committee

Conference co-chairs
  • Andrés Santa-María (Dept. of Humanistic Studies, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
  • Albrecht Fritzsche (Institute of Technology and Process Management, Ulm University, Germany)
Program committe
  • Marcos Alonso (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
  • Luciano Andreatta Carvalho da Costa (Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul)
  • José A. Aravena-Reyes (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)
  • Philip Chmielewski (Loyola Marymount University)
  • Shannon Conley (James Madison University)
  • Rockwell F. Clancy (TU Delft)
  • Michael Davis (Illinois Institute of Technology)
  • Neelke Doorn (TU Delft)
  • Claudia Eckert (The Open University)
  • Matthew Harsh (California Polytechnic State University)
  • Deborah Johnson (University of Virginia)
  • Yanna Lambrinidou (Virginia Tech)
  • Diego Lawler (CONICET, Argentina)
  • Glenn Miller (Texas A&M)
  • Édison Renato Pereira da Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
  • Patricio Quintana Gallo (Universidad de Valparaíso)
  • Sabine Thuermel (TU München)
  • Steven Umbrello (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies)
  • Carlos Verdugo Serna (Universidad de Valparaíso)
  • Pieter Vermaas (TU Delft)

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