Philosophy, Engineering and Technology

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”

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”

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”