MARK COECKELBERGH
Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University
of Birmingham, 2003
M.A. in Social Philosophy, University of East Anglia, 1999
Master in Political Sciences (Licentiaat), University of Leuven, 1997
Teacher qualification (Aggregaat), University of Leuven, 1997
Employment
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, 2007-... (tenured) [see staff page]
Lecturer in Philosophy, Maastricht University, 2003-2006
Researcher, Université de Liège/SCK-CEN, 2003
Research Officer, University
of Bath, 2001-2002
Postgraduate Tutor, University
of Birmingham, 1999
Publications
Books (author)
Coeckelbergh, M. Growing
Moral Relations: Critique of Moral Status Ascription. Basingstoke/New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (forthcoming) [announcement
from the publisher]
Coeckelbergh, M. Imagination and Principles: An Essay on the Role of
Imagination in Moral Reasoning Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 [sample from the publisher]
Coeckelbergh, M. The Metaphysics of Autonomy: The Reconciliation of
Ancient and Modern Ideals of the Person Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 [sample from the publisher]
Coeckelbergh, M. Liberation
and Passion: Reconstructing the Passion Perspective on Human Being and
Freedom Alfter/Bonn: DenkMal Verlag, 2002 [sample from the publisher]
Book (co-editor)
Eggermont, G., M. Coeckelbergh, and A. Verledens (eds.) Ethical Choices in
Radiation Protection: in Search of Precaution Mol/Brussels: SCK-CEN Scientific Report, 2003 [pdf]
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Technology as Skill and Activity' in: Techne 16(1), Winter
2012 (forthcoming)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Pervasion of What? Techno-Human Ecologies and their
Ubiquitous Spirits' in: AI
& Society (25the anniversary issue), 2012 (forthcoming)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Environmental Virtue: Motivation, Skill, and (In)formation
Technology' in: Journal
of Environmental Philosophy 8(2), Fall 2011, 141-170 [journal issue table
of content]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Is Ethics of Robotics about Robots? Philosophy of Robotics
Beyond Realism and Individualism' in: Law,
Innovation and Technology 3(2), December 2011, 241-250 [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Vulnerable Cyborgs: Learning to Live with our Dragons' in:
Journal of Evolution and
Technology 22 (1), November 2011, 1-9 [htm] [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Can we trust robots?' in: Ethics and Information Technology first on-line
September 2011 [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Are emotional robots deceptive?' in: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2(3), August
2011 [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'What Are We Doing? Microblogging, the Ordinary Private,
and the Primacy of the Present' in: Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in
Society 9(2), June 2011, 127-136 [abstract, including link to pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'From killer machines to doctrines and swarms, or Why
ethics of military robotics is not (necessarily) about robots.' in: Philosophy & Technology 24(3), August 2011,
269-278 (also published on-line 5 April 2011) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Artificial Companions: Empathy and Vulnerability Mirroring
in Human-Robot Relations' 'in: Studies
in Ethics, Law, and Technology 4(3), December 2010 [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'The Spirit in the Network: Models for Spirituality in a
Technological Culture' in: Zygon:
Journal of Religion & Science 45(4), December 2010, 957-978
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Moral Responsibility, Technology, and Experiences of the
Tragic: From Kierkegaard to Offshore Engineering' in: Science and Engineering Ethics 18(1), February 2011,
35-48 (also published on-line 24 September 2010) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Humans, Animals, and Robots: A Phenomenological Approach
to Human-Robot Relations' in: International Journal of Social Robotics 3(2), March
2011, 197-204 (also published on-line 4 September 2010) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'You, Robot: On the Linguistic Construction of Artificial
Others' in: AI
& Society 26(1), January 2011, 61-69 (also published on-line 10
August 2010) [abstract] [pdf]
[open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Human Development or Human Enhancement? A Methodlogical
Reflection on Capabilities and the Evaluation of Information Technologies'
in: Ethics and Information Technology 13(2), May 2011,
81-92 (also published on-line 6 June 2010) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Robot Rights? Towards a Social-Relational Justification of
Moral Consideration' in: Ethics and Information Technology 12(3), September 2010,
209-221 (also published on-line 27 June 2010) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Moral Appearances: Emotions, Robots, and Human Morality'
in: Ethics
and Information Technology 12(3), September 2010, 235-241 (also
published on-line 17 March 2010) [abstract] [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Criminals or Patients? Towards a Tragic Conception of
Moral and Legal Responsibility' in: Criminal Law and Philosophy 4(2), June 2010, 233-244
(also published on-line 7 March 2010) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Health Care, Capabilities, and AI Assistive Technologies'
in: Ethical
Theory and Moral Practice 13(2), April 2010, 181-190 (also published
on-line 17 July 2009) [abstract] [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Engineering Good: How Engineering Metaphors Help Us to
Understand the Moral Life and Change Society' in: Science and Engineering Ethics 16(2), June 2010, 371-385
(also published on-line 1 September 2009) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'The Public Thing: On the Idea of a Politics of Artefacts'
in: Techne
13(3), Fall 2009 [table
of contents] [pdf for subscribers]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Virtual Moral Agency, Virtual Moral Responsibility' in: AI &
Society 24(2), September 2009, 181-189 (also published on-line 6 May
2009) [link
to Springer publication details] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Personal Robots, Appearance, and Human Good: A
Methodological Reflection on Roboethics' in: International Journal of Social Robotics 1(3), August
2009, 217-221 (also published on-line 5 June 2009) [abstract] [pdf] [open access]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Distributive Justice and Cooperation in a World of Humans
and Non-Humans: A Contractarian Argument for Drawing Non-Humans into the
Sphere of Justice' in: Res Publica
15(1), February 2009, 67-84 (also published on-line 28 March 2009) [abstract]
[pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Violent Computer Games, Empathy, and Cosmopolitanism' in:
Ethics and Information Technology
9 (3), July 2007, 219-231 [abstract] [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Principles or Imagination? Two Approaches to Global
Justice’ in: Journal of Global Ethics 3(2), August 2007, 203-221 [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. and G. Wackers ‘Imagination, Distributed Responsibility,
and Vulnerable Technological Systems: The Case of Snorre A’ in: Science & Engineering Ethics
13 (2), June 2007, 235-248 (also published online 26 April 2007) [abstract] [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Who Needs Empathy? A Response to Goldie’s Arguments
Against Empathy and Suggestions for an Account of Mutual
Perspective-Shifting in Contexts of Help and Care’ in: Ethics and Education
2 (1), March 2007, 61-72 [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. and J. Mesman ‘With Hope and Imagination: Imaginative Moral
Decision-Making in Neonatal Intensive Care Units’ in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (1), February
2007, 3-21 (also published on-line December 2006) [abstract] [pdf] (NVBe Prize 2007)
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Regulation or Responsibility? Autonomy, Moral Imagination,
and Engineering’ in: Science, Technology, & Human Values 31(3), May
2006, 1-24 [abstract]
Busby, J.S. and M. Coeckelbergh ‘The Social Ascription of Obligations to
Engineers’ in: Science and Engineering Ethics 9(3), July 2003, 363-376 [abstract]
[pdf]
Journal articles (other)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Robotica en het goede leven' in: Bio-Wetenschappen en Maatschappij, kwartaal 4, December
2011, Cahier Mens 2.0: Homo sapiens verbeterd, 2011, 35-39
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Als kunst groeit: Van moderne biotechnologie naar
niet-moderne levenskunst' in: Kunst
en Wetenschap 19 (4), 2010, 29-30
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Zoeken naar balans - Workshop Ethiek en ethische toetsing'
in: NVBe Nieuwsbrief 16(1),
April 2009 [pdf available on NVBe
website]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Mogelijkheid van een eiland: Houellebecq's heimwee naar de
mens' in: Wijsgerig
Perspectief
48 (1), 2008, 38-49
Wackers, G. and M. Coeckelbergh 'Vulnerability and imagination in the Snorre
A gas blowout and recovery' in: WorldOil
229 (1), January 2008 [also available on-line]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Empathisch wereldburgerschap als moreel ideaal' in: Filosofie 17
(5), October/November 2007, 14-17
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Risico en publieke verbeelding: Van perceptie tot moreel
oordeel ’ in: Filosofie
17 (3), June 2007, 39-44
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Grenzen en mogelijkheden van een personalistische
bedrijfsethiek’ in: Ethische Perspectieven 11(1-2), European Centre for
Ethics, K.U.Leuven, 2001, 69-72 [abstract] [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Rousseau’s Idea(s) of Freedom’ in: UEA Papers in Philosophy Vol. 9, UEA, October 1999
Articles in books
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Care robots, Virtual Virtue, and the Best Possible Life'
in Brey, P., Briggle, A, Spence, E. (eds) The Good Life in a Technological
Age, Routledge (forthcoming)
Coeckelbergh, M. ' "How I learned to Love the Robot": Capabilities,
Information Technologies, and Elderly Care' in: Oosterlaken, I. and van den
Hoven, J (eds.) The
Capability Approach, Technology and Design. Dordrecht: Springer,
77-86, 2012 (ISBN 9789400738782)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Virtue, Empathy, and Vulnerability: Evaluating Violence in
Digital Games' in: Poels, K. and Malliet, S. (eds.) Vice City Virtue: Moral Issues in Digital Game
Play. Leuven/Den Haag: Acco Academic, 89-105, 2011. (ISBN
9789033484681)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'The Spider and the Web: Emotions, Evolution, and Ethics of
Technological Risk'' in: Lavino J G and Neumann, R B (eds) Psychology of Risk Perception. New York: Nova Science
Publishers, 133-143, 2010
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Computer Games, Education, and the Good Life' in:
Edvardsen, F and Kulle, H (eds) Educational Games: Design, Learning, and Applications. New
York: Nova Science Publishers, 223-229, 2010
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Risk Emotions and Risk Judgments: Passive Bodily
Experience and Active Moral Reasoning in Judgmental Constellations' in:
Roeser, S. (ed.) Emotions and Risky Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, 213-230 [table of contents]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Imagining Worlds: Responsible Engineering Under Conditions
of Epistemic Opacity’ in: van de Poel, I., Goldberg, D.E. (eds) Philosophy
& Engineering: An Emerging Agenda. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010 [table of contents]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Risk and Public Imagination: Mediated Risk Perception as
Imaginative Moral Judgment’ in: Asveld, L. and Roeser, S. (eds) The Ethics
of Technological Risk. London/Sterling, VA: Earthscan Publishers, 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Can We Choose Evil? A Discussion of the Problem of Radical
Evil as a Modern and Ancient Problem of Freedom’ in: Keen, D.E. and P.Rossi
Keen (eds.) Considering Evil and Human Wickedness. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2004 (e-book) [pdf]
Conference proceedings (selection)
full papers
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Information Technology, Moral Anxiety, and the Implosion
of the Public Sphere: A Preliminary Discussion of the McLuhanian Problem of
Responsibility' in: ... (forthcoming)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Can We Trust Robots?' in: Mauger, J. (ed.) CEPE 2011:
Crossing Boundaries: Ethics in Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Relations
(pp. 46-54). INSEIT, 2011. [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Living in the Eye of the Artificial Other' in: Bottis, M.,
Grodzinsky F., Tavani, H. and Vlamos, P. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth
International Conference of Computer Ethics (CEPE 2009), Corfu: Ionian
University and INSEIT/ Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Maar een spel? Over de morele beoordeling van nieuwe media
en oude boodschappen' in: VU-DARE/Wijsbegeerte,
http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl//handle/1871/11538, December 2007 (electronic
publication) [pdf]
abstracts
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Trust, Power, and Information Technology', in: Ess, C. and
Hagengruber, R. (eds) Proceedings IACAP 2011: The Computational Turn: Past,
Presents, Futures? (pp. 296-299) Münster: MV-Verlag, 2011
Coeckelbergh, M. 'You, robot: Ontology, appearance, and the linguistic
construction of robots and human-robot relations' in: Mainzer, K. and
Bengez, R.Z. (eds) Proceedings of ECAP10: VIII European Conference on
Computing and Philosophy. (pp. 358-359) München: Verlag Dr. Hut, 2010
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Enhancement of What? A Capabilities Approach to Ethics of
Human Enhancement' in: Proceedings of SPT 2009: Converging Technologies,
Changing Societies. Enschede: University of Twente (CEPTES) and Society for Philosophy and Technology, 2009, 17-18 [pdf]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Living with Robots: A Social-Philosophical Approach to
Robot Ethics' in: Proceedings of SPT 2009: Converging Technologies, Changing
Societies. Enschede: University of Twente (CEPTES) and Society for Philosophy and Technology, 2009, 148 [pdf]
Review articles
Coeckelbergh, M. Review of Hildebrandt, Mireille and Rouvroy, Antoinette.
(2011) Law,
Human Agency, and Autonomic Computing. Abingdon/New York: Routledge,
in: Rechtsfilosofie & Rechtstheorie (forthcoming)
Coeckelbergh, M. Review of Feenberg, Andrew (2010) Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and
Modernity Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in: symploke, a comparative literature and theory
journal (forthcoming)
Coeckelbergh, M. Review of Sie, Marueen (2005) Justifying Blame: Why Free Will Matters and Why it
Does Not Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, in: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 98(1),
February 2006
Opinion articles and blogs
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Humans and robots' in: 3TU.Centre for Ethics and
Technology: On the Blog
6 August 2010 [on-line]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Nationalisme en wraak niet neutraal' in: Nrc.next 14 July 2010 [in print]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'We're all to blame for the oil spill' in: the Guardian 9 June 2010 [on-line]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Verkiezing president EU is een gemiste kans' in: De Volkskrant 23 November 2009 [in print + on-line]
Presentations
Conference papers and invited talks
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Disaster Ethics and Moral Imagination', workshop Disaster
Ethics, Delft University of Technology, 16 March 2012 (invited talk)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Ethiek van militaire robotica', invited talk for the
Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (Royal Institute of Engineers) KIVI
NIRIA, Utrecht, 14 March 2012
Coeckelbergh, M. invited presentation on mHealth and ethics at the Vision Scenario Workshop, European Commision, Brussels,
27 January 2012
Coeckelbergh, M., invited contribution to panel on disparities at the eHealth and Equity in the Global Health Communities
workshop, European Commision (eHealth Unit, DG INFSO), Brussels, 15 December
2011
Funk, M. and Coeckelbergh, M. 'Inner and outer movement: A
phenomenological-hermeneutical approach to the epistemology of aesthetical
gestures', Inner
Movement: The Motor Dimension of Imagination international conference,
University College Ghent, 1-3 December 2011 [abstracts]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Trust, Expectations, and Emotions in Human-Robot
Relations', 4th
Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, University of Twente, 8-9
November 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Mogen robots voor ons zorgen?', Filosofisch Café Nijmegen,
1 November 2011 [aankondiging]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Information Technology, Moral Anxiety, and the Implosion
of the Public Sphere: A Preliminary Discussion of the McLuhanian Problem of
Responsibility', McLuhan's
Philosophy of Media Centennial Conference, Brussels, 26-28 October
2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Evaluating Ethical (Energy) Scenarios: Empathy, tragic
choice, and disagreement about the good', Energy Futures workshop, Uppsala,
14-15 October 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Capability, nature, and technology: How to make the
Capability Approach into an environmental ethics', HDCA 2011 (Human Development and Capabilities Association 2011)
conference, Sustainability session, The Hague, 5-8 September 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Coping with Technological Risk: Skill, Imagination,
Meaning', Symposium
on Ethics of Environmental Health, Prague, 24-27 August 2011. (invited
keynote speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Can Robots Trust Humans?', Bridging the Robotics Gap conference, University of
Twente, Enschede, 11-12 July 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Trust, Power, and Information Technology', IACAP 2011 conference, The Computational Turn:
Past, Present, Futures?, First International Conference of the International
Association of Computing and Philosophy, Aarhus University, 4-6 July 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Walking ethics: Environment, Technology, and the
Phenomenology of Wayfinding in 'Nature' ', Old World and New World Perspectives on Environmental
Philosophy ISEE 2011, 8th Annual Meeting of the Inernational Society
for Environmental Ethics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 14-17 June 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Driving Robot: On the phenomenology of GPS assisted
navigation and its implications for identity', Webinar 'Interacting with a
Digital ‘Person: what impact(s) and implication(s) for identity?',
University of Turku, Finland, and University Paris 8 and Maison Sciences de
l'Homme Paris Nord, France, 20 June 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Can we trust robots?', CEPE 2011 Crossing Boundaries: Ethics in
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Relations, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 31 May -
3 June 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Technology as Skill and Activity: A Reply to Verbeek and
Borgmann', Society for Philosophy and Technology SPT 2011 Technology and Security conference, Denton,
Texas, USA, 26-29 May 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Social Transformation and the Right to Communication' and
'Freedom, Security, Privacy', UNESCO World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS
Forum 2011), Geneva, 16-20 May 2011.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Is Ethics of Robotics about Robots? Philosophy of Robotics
Beyond Realism and Individualism', TILTing Perspectives 2011 conference 'Technologies
on the stand: Legal and ethical questions in neuroscience and robotics",
University of Tilburg, 11-12 April 2011 (invited keynote speaker) [programme]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Lost in Appearance? Reputation management, narrative
identity, and trust in on-line social network environments’, Workshop on Trust, Paris Descartes University, Paris,
14-15 December.
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Robotic Appearances and Forms of Life', workshop Future of Robotics in Germany and Japan: Intercultural
Perspectives and Technical Opportunities, TU Dresden, 11-12 November
2010 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Moral Robots? Robot Morality and Human Morality', Phibot10 Philosophy Meets Robotics workshop, TU
München, 6-7 October 2010 [program] (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'You, robot: Ontology, appearance, and the linguistic
construction of robots and human-robot relations', E-CAP 2010 (ecap10), TU München, 4-6 October 2010 [program]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Environmental Virtue: Motivation, Imagination, and
Information Technology', First Dutch-German Workshop on Challenges for
Philosophy of Technology in the 21st Century, University of
Stuttgart/Berlin, 26-27 August 2010
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Talking to robots: On the linguistic construction of
personal human-robot relations', Human-Robot Personal Relationships
conference (HRPR 2010), Leiden, 23 June 2010
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Hypocriete robots? Over kunstmatigheid, schijn en moraal
in het sociale leven', Symposium 'Evolutie van bedrog', USCKI Incognito (Studievereniging voor
Kunstmatige Intelligentie, Philosophy Department, Utrecht University),
Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht, 2 June 2010 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. Comments on Moral Machines (Wendell Wallach & Colin
Allen), International Association for Computing and Philosophy session
(Friday 2 April), American Philosophical Association (APA) 2010 Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco
(US), 31 March - 4 April 2010 [program]
(invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. ''Do zombie robots have rights? Towards a social-relational
justification of moral consideration', Life and Mind seminar, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
(CCNR), University of Sussex, Brighton (UK), 27 January 2010 (invited
speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'What is it like to be a robot? Natural empathy, artificial
companions, and vulnerability mirroring', COGS seminar, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS),
University of Sussex, Brighton (UK), 26 January 2010 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Techno-anthropologies: How robots shape our
self-understanding as humans', séminaire Phiteco (Philosophie, Technologie,
Cognition), Groupe de Recherche C.R.E.D. (Cognitive Research and Enaction Design), Université de
Technologie de Compiègne (France), 21 January 2010 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Artificial Companions? Empathy and Vulnerability Mirroring
in Human-Robot Relations', ICT that makes the difference: The future of Ambient
Intelligence and ICT for Security, Brussels (Belgium), 22-25 November
2009
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Joint Human-Robot Action: Virtual Intentionality and
Hybrid Human-Robot Cultures', workshop The Challenge of Social Cognition, EUCogII Member's Conference 2009 'Challenges for
Artificial Cognitive Systems', Hamburg (Germany), 10-11 October 2009
[workshop talks]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Moral Responsibility,Technology, and Experiences of the
Tragic', conference 'Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization &
Engineering', Delft University of Technology, 24 - 27 August 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Enhancement of What? A Capabilities Approach to Ethics of
Human Enhancement', SPT
conference 2009 (human enhancement track), Society for Philosophy and Technology,Twente University,
10 July 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Living with Robots: A Social-Philosophical Approach to
Robot Ethics', SPT
conference 2009 (robotics track), Society for Philosophy and Technology,Twente University,
9 July 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Robot Anthropology: Robots as Hermeneutic Devices for
Defining the Human', European
Conference on Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP 2009), Universitat
Autonoma De Barcelona (Spain), 3 July 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Living in the Eye of the Artificial Other', Eighth International Conference of Computer Ethics (CEPE
2009), Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 26-28 June 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Humans, Animals, and Robots: A Phenomenological Approach
to Human-Robot relations', 2nd
International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships, Leiden
University, Tilburg University/Leiden University, 11 June 2009
Coeckelbergh, M. 'The Spider and the Web: Emotions, Evolution, and the
Ethics of Technological Risk', Philosopher's Rally, Twente University, 13 May 2009
(invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Heath Care, Capabilities, and AI Assistive Technologies',
research seminar Philosophy section, Delft University of Technology, 19
January 2009 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Robots, Elderly Care, and Capabilities', International Applied Ethics Conference, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Japan, 21-23 November 2008
Coeckelbergh, M. 'De late Foucault: vrijheid als zorg voor jezelf', Studium Generale, University of Twente (NL), 4 November
2008 (invited speaker) [aankondiging]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Robots and Elderly Care: Philosophical Questions and
Method', Expert Meeting on Assistive Technology and Robotics, SENIOR project (funded by the European Commission),
Brussels (Belgium), 20 October 2008
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Buitenaards leven en denken’, studievereniging Amsterdamse
Filosofen Binding (University of Amsterdam), Crea1, Amsterdam, 1 October
2008 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Opvoeden tot democratie' (over de filosofie van Martha
Nussbaum), Filosofisch
Café Zwolle, Bibliotheek Zwolle, 15 September 2008 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Human Enhancement Scenarios and the Problem of Moral
Change', Expert Seminar on Techo-ethical Scenarios: Exploring the Mutual
Interaction of Technology and Morality, University of Twente, August 2008
(invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Personal Robots, Appearance, and the Good: A
Methodological Reflection on Roboethics', 1st International Conference on Human-Robot Personal
Relationships, Maastricht University, 13 June 2008
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Technology and the Appearance of the Good: Carebots,
Virtual Virtue, and the Best Possible Life', workshop The Good Life in a Technological Age, University of
Twente, 12 June 2008
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Ethics and Personal Robots', Symposium Wandel des Internets - Wandel der
Informationsethik?, International
Center for Information Ethics (ICIE), Universität Karlsruhe (Germany),
4 April 2008 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Moral Imagination', workshop Genen in beeld, Centre for Society and Genomics, Nijmegen, 30
November 2007 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Maar een spel? Over de morele beoordeling van nieuwe media
en oude boodschappen’, Nederlands-Vlaamse Filosofiedag, Free University
Amsterdam, 23 November 2007 [pdf with abstracts]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Imagining worlds: Responsible engineering under conditions
of epistemic opacity', WPE-2007 (Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering),
Delft University of Technology, 29-31 October 2007
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Verbeelding en principes: Enkele implicaties van Dewey’s
moraalfilosofie voor een vernieuwing van de hedendaagse ethiek’, NSWP-pragmatismedag conference, University of Tilburg,
25 May 2007 (invited
speaker) [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Risk Emotions and Risk Judgments: Passive Bodily
Experience and Active Moral Reasoning in Judgmental Constellations', 'Moral Emotions about Risky Technologies' conference,
Delft University of Technology, 3-4 May 2007 (invited speaker + chair of a session) [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Tragedy, Ethics, and Technological Risk: Responsibility
between Freedom and Fate’, The Locus of Tragedy conference, Antwerp (Belgium),
23-25 November 2006
Coeckelbergh, M. and J. Mesman ‘With Hope and Imagination: Imaginative Moral
Decision-Making in Neonatal Intensive Care Units’, Ethics Research School
methodology workshop, Utrecht University, 6 October 2006 (invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Risk and Public Imagination’, EthicsRisk conference, Delft University of
Technology, June 2006
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Principles or Imagination? Two Approaches to Global
Justice’, Global
Ethics conference, Ghent University (Belgium), April 2006 (+ chair of
a session) [pdf with abstracts, see page 4]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Who Needs Empathy? A Response to Goldie’s Arguments
Against Empathy’, Society for Analytic Philosophy (VAF), Free University
Amsterdam, March 2006 (+ chair of a session)
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Imagination, Morality, and World Citizenship: A Critique
of Nussbaum’ ACLA
2006 conference, Princeton University (US), March 2006
Coeckelbergh, M. 'Moral Imagination’, Health Sciences research seminar,
Maastricht University/ Academic Hospital Maastricht, 14 December 2005
(invited speaker)
Coeckelbergh, M. 'The Role of Imagination in Moral Reasoning’ at Studium
Generale’s Ethics
Lecture Series, Glass Palace Heerlen, 1 December 2005 (invited
speaker, public lecture)
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Imagination, Moral Development, and Public Morality’,
Nederlands-Vlaamse Filosofiedag, UvH Utrecht, November 2004
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Making Up Your Mind: Decision-Making, Moral Knowledge, and
Imagination’, Knowledge and Imagination conference, VU Amsterdam, June 2004
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Can We Choose Evil? A Discussion of the Problem of Radical
Evil’, 4th Global Conference ‘Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness’, Prague
(CZ) 21-26 March 2003
Coeckelbergh, M. en J. Busby ‘External control versus internalised
responsibility in the design of hazardous installations’, European Association for the Study of Science &
Technology (EASST) conference, University of York (UK), July/ August
2002
Busby, J. en M. Coeckelbergh ‘The responsibility for taking precautions
against the risks of engineering design’, Research in Ethics and Engineering conference, T.U.Delft,
April 2002 [abstract]
Coeckelbergh, M. ‘Freedom, the Self, and the Political’, Graduate Conference
on Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Reading (UK), December 1998
Other conference contributions and talks
participation in the
First EUCogIII members conference 'Do Robots Need Cognition? - Does
Cognition Need Robots', TU Vienna, 23-24 February 2012
invited talk about the Enlightenment and liberalism, Saxion Hogeschool, 30
November 2011
contribution to international workshop on tele-care, University of Twente,
23 November 2011
co-organizer (with Aimee van Wynsberghe) of the Bridging the Robotics Gap conference, University of
Twente, Enschede, 11-12 July 2011.
co-organizer (with John Sullins) of the Information Ethics / Robot Ethics
track at the IACAP
2011 conference, The Computational Turn: Past, Present, Futures?,
First International Conference of the International Association of Computing
and Philosophy, Aarhus University,
member of the organizing
committee of the Symposium
on Ethics of Environmental Health, Prague, 24-27 August 2011 (with
Sven Ove Hansson, Deborah H. Oughton, Sabine Roeser, Kristin
Shrader-Frechette and others)
chair of the ESLA discussion group (Ethical Socio-economic and Legal
Aspects) at the
ICT that makes the difference: The future of Ambient Intelligence and ICT
for Security conference ( Brussels (B), 22-25 November 2009), which
was one of the three groups that contributed to recommendations to the
European Commission (Framework Programmes)
chair of the 'Ethics and Technological Risk' session at the First Annual
Dutch Conference in Practical Philosophy, Netherlands
School for Research in Practical Philosophy, Doorn, The Netherlands,
2-3 October 2009
member scientific committee and organiser panel on 'Robots, Cyborgs, and
Artificial Life' (with Gianmarco Veruggio and Fiorella Operto), Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) conference 2009, Twente University, 8-10 July
2009
speaker and invited participant in debate on fashionable technology with artists Aram
Bartholl (Germany) and Sabine Seymour (New York). Organised by Rotterdams Denkcafé in collaboration with V2, Institute for the Unstable Media and Studium Generale,
Rotterdam, 20 May 2009
invited speaker and participant in panel discussion at the symposium
'Freedom' organised by JOVD, Media
Art Café Berlijn, Enschede, 4 April 2009 [persbericht]
report on the workshop 'Ethiek en ethische toetsing' which was part of the
symposium 'The art of ethics: Over ethici en ethische expertise', NVBe-jubileum symposium, 27 januari 2009 (see also
publications)
chair-commentator at the Society for Applied Philosophy International Congress
2005, St Anne’s College Oxford (UK), 1-3 July 2005
contribution to the organisation of, and reporting on, the workshop Risk
Perception and Assessment in Design, Bristol University (UK), 1-2 March 2002
Memberships
Society for Philosophy
& Technology
European
Network for Environmental Ethics
International Society for
Ethics and Information Technology
International Association
for Computing and Philosophy
2nd European
Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction
and Robotics
Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology
Netherlands School for Research
in Practical Philosophy
Prizes/Awards
NVBe prijs 2007 - Prijs van de Nederlandse
Vereniging voor Bio-ethiek (Prize of the Dutch Society for Bio-Ethics)
(with Jessica Mesman) [persbericht UT]
Press/Media
interview by ePractice TV, eHealth & Equity in the Global Health
Communities, 15 December 2011 [ePractice.eu] [youtube]
interview about health care in Tubantia,
24 December 2010 [print]
radio interview with funx on
the future of robotics, October 2010 [info with link 'download show']
interview in Second
Sight, 8 October 2009 (in Dutch) [on-line]
'Robotica vanuit een filosofisch perspectief', on-line article on visit to
Japan, PSTS site of the University of Twente [pdf in Dutch] and 3TU.Ethics site
'Filosoof, Schilder, Dichter en Musicus' by Jannie Benedictus: article in
UT-Nieuws 13 December 2007, weekly journal of the University of Twente (in
Dutch) [on-line
version]
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