October 17 2019, Bas de Boer will defend his dissertation on the mediating role of technological instruments in scientific practice, titled ‘How scientific instruments speak: a hermeneutics of technological mediations in (neuro)scientific practice’. More information: https://www.utwente.nl/nl/bms/agenda/2019/10/244419/promotie-bas-de-boer
PhD defence Bas de Boer

Published by Peter-Paul Verbeek
Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is full professor of Philosophy of Technology and co-director of the DesignLab of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is also honorary professor of Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Verbeek's research focuses on the philosophy of human-technology relations, and aims to contribute to philosophical theory, ethical reflection, and practices of design and innovation. His publications include Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design (Penn State University Press, 2005). View all posts by Peter-Paul Verbeek