Emotions, Ethics and Technology
HUMAINE Workshop and Summer School at The University of Manchester on 29-30 August 2007, organised by Peter Goldie and Sabine Döring.
HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion) is a four-year Network of Excellence in the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme. It involves 33 partners from 14 countries. Although most of the participating members are scientists, the project has a very strong theoretical and ethical basis, with two of the project’s six ‘work packages’ dedicated to these topics. The aim of the summer school is to focus on these two aspects of emotion research, but with particular emphasis on emotions, ethics and technology—thus the title of the workshop. We do not intend to focus on emotion-related technology only; the idea rather is to look more widely across disciplines and technologies, at how we respond to various kinds of scientific developments, ranging from genetics to nanotechnology. We hope that the project will reach out to the wider community, on a subject matter which is of interest to us all, far beyond the boundaries of our academic lives.
Keynote speakers:
- Aaron Ben-Ze’ev (University of Haifa)
- Dieter Birnbacher (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
- Roddy Cowie (Queen’s University, Belfast)
- John Harris (The University of Manchester)
- Henrik Walter (Universität Bonn)
Speakers:
- Otto Bruun (Université de Genève)
- Julien Deonna (Université de Genève)
- Marco Guerini (ITC-irst)
- Felicitas Krämer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
- Cathrin Misselhorn (Universität Tübingen)
- Ian Sneddon (Queen’s University, Belfast)
- Bernd-Carsten Stahl (De Montfort University)
- Fabrice Teroni (Université de Genève)