Pieter E Vermaas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1047144 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pieter E Vermaas |
| PRENOMES | Pieter E |
| SOBRENOME | Vermaas |
| ASSINATURA | VERMAAS P E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8175-9179 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Ethical playgrounds
In this article, we present the TechEthos Game: Ages of Technology Impacts , a serious game rooted in the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project TechEthos. This game is built to support public reflection and perspectives on the social and ethical issues of new and emerging technologies, and to surface and collect participants’ awareness, attitudes, and values towards specific technology families. The TechEthos Game offers an immersive exploration of the …
Quantum Security Threat Discovery
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers
In this study, we explore the complexities and implications of connecting quantum computers. This connection is in the literature seen as an obvious and fast way forward to arrive at a large quantum computer that can deliver the promises of quantum computing. We explore this option by understanding the conditions and contexts under which different scenarios of connecting these computers are most beneficial for quantum computer owners, be it for p…
Toward a code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners
This paper explores possibilities for creating a code of conduct for practitioners working in technology ethics. The number of technology ethics practitioners is growing when including ethicists embedded in research projects on technology, members of research ethics committees who assess the consequences of technological research, ethicists advising companies, and facilitators in moral/societal exploration through workshops, games, and brainstorm…
From speculation to reality
Various approaches have emerged over the last several decades to meet the challenges and complexities of anticipating and responding to the potential impacts of emerging technologies. Although many of the existing approaches share similarities, they each have shortfalls. This paper takes as the object of its study Anticipatory Ethics for Emerging Technologies (ATE) to technology assessment, given that it was formatted to address many of the priva…
Evaluation, Validation, and Management in Design
This contribution discusses the efficacy of design to realize the aims for which it is employed. Engineering design may be taken as effective in this sense, yet for design thinking as it is emerging in innovative design, social design, nudging, and design for values, this efficacy is not yet established. This contribution surveys the means available for evaluating the designs created by engineering and design thinking methods respectively, and ex…
Quantum Technologies and Society
Due primarily to technological advances over the last decade, quantum research has become a key priority area for science and technology policy all over the world. With this manifesto, we wish to prevent quantum technology from running into fiascos of implementation at the interface of science and society. To this end, we identify key stumbling blocks and propose recommendations
Safe by Design Regulation for Academic Experimentation and Value Conflicts
In this paper, we explore solution directions for the implementation of Safe by Design (SbD) in safety regimes for academic experimentation. SbD is a dynamic and anticipatory strategy for safety regulation in academic research. In this strategy, safety is taken in a broader sense including not only issues of technical precaution of avoiding risks of experimentation but also the societal responsibility of researchers and research institutes of ide…
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas
Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicke…
Artefact Kinds
The ICE-theory of technical functions
The Conceptual Elusiveness of Engineering Functions
The design stance and its artefacts
In this paper we disambiguate the design stance as proposed by Daniel C. Dennett, focusing on its application to technical artefacts. Analysing Dennett’s work and developing his approach towards interpreting entities, we show that there are two ways of spelling out the design stance, one that presuppose also adopting Dennett’s intentional stance for describing a designing agent, and a second that does not. We argue against taking one of these way…
A Philosophy of Technology
A functional abc for biotechnology and the dissemination of its progeny
Dual-Nature and collectivist frameworks for technical artefacts
Technical Artefacts
The fine-grained metaphysics of artifactual and biological functional kinds
In this paper we consider the emerging position in metaphysics that artifact functions characterize real kinds of artifacts. We analyze how it can circumvent an objection by David Wiggins ( Sameness and substance renewed , 2001, 87) and then argue that this position, in comparison to expert judgments, amounts to an interesting fine-grained metaphysics: taking artifact functions as (part of the) essences of artifacts leads to distinctions between …
Philosophy and Design
Philosophy and design
Technical functions
The physical connection
Technology and the Conditions on Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
In this paper I consider the problem of interpreting quantum mechanics. I argue that this problem has evolved in part into the problem of selecting tenable interpretations from a set of available interpretations. We lack the means to make this selection. There is consensus that interpretations should be consistent and empirically adequate. But these conditions are not particularly discriminative. Other conditions may be discriminative but are not…
Ascribing Functions to Technical Artefacts
The aim of this paper is to evaluate etiological accounts of functions for the domain of technical artefacts. Etiological theories ascribe functions to items on the basis of the causal histories of those items; they apply relatively straightforwardly to the biological domain, in which neo‐Darwinian evolutionary theory provides a well‐developed and generally accepted background for describing the causal histories of biological items. Yet there is …
Technological innovation as an unusual and non-biological evolutionary process
Ascribing Functions to Technical Artefacts
The aim of this paper is to evaluate etiological accounts of functions for the domain of technical artefacts. Etiological theories ascribe functions to items on the basis of the causal histories of those items; they apply relatively straightforwardly to the biological domain, in which neo‐Darwinian evolutionary theory provides a well‐developed and generally accepted background for describing the causal histories of biological items. Yet there is …
Technical functions
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas
Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicke…
Quantum Technologies and Society
Due primarily to technological advances over the last decade, quantum research has become a key priority area for science and technology policy all over the world. With this manifesto, we wish to prevent quantum technology from running into fiascos of implementation at the interface of science and society. To this end, we identify key stumbling blocks and propose recommendations
The physical connection
From speculation to reality
Various approaches have emerged over the last several decades to meet the challenges and complexities of anticipating and responding to the potential impacts of emerging technologies. Although many of the existing approaches share similarities, they each have shortfalls. This paper takes as the object of its study Anticipatory Ethics for Emerging Technologies (ATE) to technology assessment, given that it was formatted to address many of the priva…
The fine-grained metaphysics of artifactual and biological functional kinds
In this paper we consider the emerging position in metaphysics that artifact functions characterize real kinds of artifacts. We analyze how it can circumvent an objection by David Wiggins ( Sameness and substance renewed , 2001, 87) and then argue that this position, in comparison to expert judgments, amounts to an interesting fine-grained metaphysics: taking artifact functions as (part of the) essences of artifacts leads to distinctions between …
The design stance and its artefacts
In this paper we disambiguate the design stance as proposed by Daniel C. Dennett, focusing on its application to technical artefacts. Analysing Dennett’s work and developing his approach towards interpreting entities, we show that there are two ways of spelling out the design stance, one that presuppose also adopting Dennett’s intentional stance for describing a designing agent, and a second that does not. We argue against taking one of these way…
A functional abc for biotechnology and the dissemination of its progeny
Dual-Nature and collectivist frameworks for technical artefacts
Technology and the Conditions on Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
In this paper I consider the problem of interpreting quantum mechanics. I argue that this problem has evolved in part into the problem of selecting tenable interpretations from a set of available interpretations. We lack the means to make this selection. There is consensus that interpretations should be consistent and empirically adequate. But these conditions are not particularly discriminative. Other conditions may be discriminative but are not…
Unique transition probabilities in the modal interpretation
Two No-Go Theorems for Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
Technological innovation as an unusual and non-biological evolutionary process
Ascribing Functions to Technical Artefacts
The aim of this paper is to evaluate etiological accounts of functions for the domain of technical artefacts. Etiological theories ascribe functions to items on the basis of the causal histories of those items; they apply relatively straightforwardly to the biological domain, in which neo‐Darwinian evolutionary theory provides a well‐developed and generally accepted background for describing the causal histories of biological items. Yet there is …
Technology and the Conditions on Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
In this paper I consider the problem of interpreting quantum mechanics. I argue that this problem has evolved in part into the problem of selecting tenable interpretations from a set of available interpretations. We lack the means to make this selection. There is consensus that interpretations should be consistent and empirically adequate. But these conditions are not particularly discriminative. Other conditions may be discriminative but are not…
Technical functions
The physical connection
Philosophy and Design
Philosophy and design
The fine-grained metaphysics of artifactual and biological functional kinds
In this paper we consider the emerging position in metaphysics that artifact functions characterize real kinds of artifacts. We analyze how it can circumvent an objection by David Wiggins ( Sameness and substance renewed , 2001, 87) and then argue that this position, in comparison to expert judgments, amounts to an interesting fine-grained metaphysics: taking artifact functions as (part of the) essences of artifacts leads to distinctions between …
A Philosophy of Technology
A functional abc for biotechnology and the dissemination of its progeny
Dual-Nature and collectivist frameworks for technical artefacts
Technical Artefacts
The ICE-theory of technical functions
The Conceptual Elusiveness of Engineering Functions
The design stance and its artefacts
In this paper we disambiguate the design stance as proposed by Daniel C. Dennett, focusing on its application to technical artefacts. Analysing Dennett’s work and developing his approach towards interpreting entities, we show that there are two ways of spelling out the design stance, one that presuppose also adopting Dennett’s intentional stance for describing a designing agent, and a second that does not. We argue against taking one of these way…
Artefact Kinds
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas
Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicke…
Safe by Design Regulation for Academic Experimentation and Value Conflicts
In this paper, we explore solution directions for the implementation of Safe by Design (SbD) in safety regimes for academic experimentation. SbD is a dynamic and anticipatory strategy for safety regulation in academic research. In this strategy, safety is taken in a broader sense including not only issues of technical precaution of avoiding risks of experimentation but also the societal responsibility of researchers and research institutes of ide…
Evaluation, Validation, and Management in Design
This contribution discusses the efficacy of design to realize the aims for which it is employed. Engineering design may be taken as effective in this sense, yet for design thinking as it is emerging in innovative design, social design, nudging, and design for values, this efficacy is not yet established. This contribution surveys the means available for evaluating the designs created by engineering and design thinking methods respectively, and ex…
Quantum Technologies and Society
Due primarily to technological advances over the last decade, quantum research has become a key priority area for science and technology policy all over the world. With this manifesto, we wish to prevent quantum technology from running into fiascos of implementation at the interface of science and society. To this end, we identify key stumbling blocks and propose recommendations
From speculation to reality
Various approaches have emerged over the last several decades to meet the challenges and complexities of anticipating and responding to the potential impacts of emerging technologies. Although many of the existing approaches share similarities, they each have shortfalls. This paper takes as the object of its study Anticipatory Ethics for Emerging Technologies (ATE) to technology assessment, given that it was formatted to address many of the priva…
Toward a code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners
This paper explores possibilities for creating a code of conduct for practitioners working in technology ethics. The number of technology ethics practitioners is growing when including ethicists embedded in research projects on technology, members of research ethics committees who assess the consequences of technological research, ethicists advising companies, and facilitators in moral/societal exploration through workshops, games, and brainstorm…
Quantum Security Threat Discovery
Computer Science (20 obras) · Epistemology (18 obras) · Philosophy (17 obras) · Engineering (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Design Education and Practice (8 obras) · Cognitive science (7 obras) · Philosophy and History of Science (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Engineering ethics (6 obras)