In his talk, Professor Nolen Gertz will present various ethical issues surrounding the problem known as "dual-use" concerning technological design and engineering.

In order to investigate these issues, we will first turn to postphenomenology in order to better understand the nature of human-technology relations and what specifically arises in these relations such that the problem of "dual-use" can occur.

We will then turn to natural law theory in order to understand attempts to address the similar problem known as "double effect", as first identified by the medieval theological Saint Thomas Aquinas.

This will lead us to just war theory, where political philosopher Michael Walzer has attempted to bring the concerns of Aquinas to the modern era, which will finally help us to see how these insights can be brought to bear on contemporary concerns surrounding "dual-use" technologies.

With the patronage of META ↗

Speaker:

Nolen Gertz is Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, and the Coordinator of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology's Taskforce on Risk, Safety, and Security.

His research focuses primarily on the intersection of political philosophy, existential phenomenology, and philosophy of technology.

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19.01.2024