Name: Peter-Paul

Family Name: Verbeek

Affiliation: Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente

Personal web-site: http://www.utwente.nl/ceptes/research_staff/verbeek

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Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is associate professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente, and director of the international master program Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society. His research focuses on the social and cultural roles of technology and the ethical and anthropological aspects of human-technology relations. Currently he is working on a project about the ethical and anthropological aspects of biotechnology (NWO VIDI grant 2007), having just finished a project about the moral significance of technologies, and its implications for ethical theory and the ethics of design (NWO VENI grant 2003). He recently published the book What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design (Penn State University Press, 2005).

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Verbeek, P.P. (2008). ‘Cyborg Intentionality – Rethinking the Phenomenology of Human-Technology Relations’. In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7:3, pp. 387-395 (http://www.springerlink.com/content/r824681373231229/)

Verbeek, P.P. (2008), ‘Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality - A Postphenomenological Analysis’. In: Human Studies 2008 – 1,ISSN 0163-8548, pp. 11-26 (http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/q4356k6114706320/fulltext.pdf)

Verbeek, P.P. (2006), ‘Materializing Morality – design ethics and technological mediation’, in: Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 31 no. 3 (May 2006), ISSN 0162-2439, pp. 361-380 (http://sth.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/31/3/361)
 

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