[spsp-members] Call for Submissions: fPET 2024 - Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology, September 17-19, 2024 in Karlsruhe, Germany

Wed Feb 21 15:49:23 UTC 2024

Dear Members of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice,

I am pleased to inform you that this year, ITAS at KIT is hosting the 
fPET 2024 conference. The fPET 2024 conference will take place from 
September 17th to 19th, 2024 at ZKM, located in Karlsruhe, Germany. 
Further details about the event, including the conference program, 
keynote speakers, and registration information, can be found on our 
website at [Website Link].

Attached to this email, you will find a PDF containing the full text of 
this invitation for your convenience.

We warmly invite you to join us at fPET 2024.

Thank you for your attention, and we look forward to welcoming you to 
fPET 2024.

Best regards,

Constantin Bühn

Call for Submissions for

*fPET 2024
*

*2024 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (17-19 September 
2024)*

*with a satellite workshop on Normative Energy Ethics (20 September 2024)*

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

www.fpet2024.org <http://www.fpet2024.org>

**

We are delighted to invite you to the 2024 Forum on Philosophy, 
Engineering, and Technology (fPET 2024) at *Karlsruhe Institute of 
Technology (KIT) *in *Karlsruhe, Germany.*
The fPET conference will take place from Tuesday 17^th until Thursday 
19^th September 2024.An optional satellite workshop on Normative Energy 
Ethics follows on Friday 20^th September 2024.

The conference will bring together researchers from the fields of 
engineering, philosophy, and neighboring disciplines such as technology 
assessment to address the theme of *Understanding, Assessing, and 
Designing Responsible Futures*. fPET 2024 will provide an opportunity to 
meet like-minded researchers, and to present and discuss issues on the 
intersection of engineering and philosophy.

The mission of fPET 
<https://philosophyengineering.com/the-fpet-community>is to encourage 
reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology; and to build 
bridges between existing organizations of philosophers, engineers and 
scholars in related fields.

    Topics

We invite *abstracts for paper presentations, posters, panels, and 
experimental sessions* on the following (broad) topics:

·Philosophy of engineering and technology

·Ethics, social philosophy, and political philosophy in engineering and 
technology

·Practitioners' reflections on engineering and technology

·Epistemology of engineering and technology

·Engineering and technologyeducation

·Interdisciplinary studies of engineering and technology, especially 
(but notlimited to) technology assessment (TA), responsible innovation 
(RI), value-sensitivedesign (VSD), and science and technology studies (STS)

We explicitly welcome proposals addressing new or underexplored topics, 
the reflective submissions of engineers or other technology 
practitioners, and abstracts of an interdisciplinary nature.

    Keynote speakers

The following keynote speakers have confirmed their presence:

·Mieke Boon (University of Twente, NL)

·Erik Fisher (Arizona State University)

·Astrid Linder (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute)

    Timeline

15 March, 2024: deadline for abstract submission (papers, posters, 
panels, experimental sessions)

1 June: notification of acceptance

15 July: registration deadline

17-19 September: fPET conference

20 September: satellite workshop

    Satellite workshop on Normative Energy Ethics on Friday 20 September

The day after the conference, there will be a satellite workshop on 
Normative Energy Ethics. During this one-day event, three invited 
experts will present ethical analyses of current energy policies in 
different geographical contexts. These three presentations will be 
followed by Q&A discussions and create opportunities for exploring 
further international research collaborations. This event will take 
place at the same venue as the fPET conference and all participants are 
welcome to join this workshop.

    Location

The conference will be held in Karlsruhe as an in-person event. 
Throughout the conference hybrid-participation will be possible in one 
parallel-session and the plenary sessions. The other parallel-sessions 
will be in-person. A limited number of online talks is possible.

The conference venue is the *ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe* 
(https://zkm.de/en <https://zkm.de/en>) and**the*Karlsruhe University of 
Arts and Design *(https://hfg-karlsruhe.de/en/). Both are located in a 
listed industrial building, a former munitions factory. The building 
houses under one roof: exhibition spaces, the Hertz Lab, and libraries, 
thus combining research and production, exhibitions and events, archive 
and collection. The ZKM operates at the interface of art and science, 
and addresses new knowledge in the area of new technologies.

    Submission Guidelines

Please submit your abstract for paper presentations or posters, panels, 
or experimental sessions until 15 March 2024 via our 
website:**www.fpet2024.org <http://www.fpet2024.org>**

We invite submissions for ...

·*Individual paper presentations*/or/*posters *that address the 
conference theme, the topics listed above, or related topics. Abstracts 
(including references) should not exceed 500 words. Abstracts will be 
anonymized and reviewed by the conference program committee

·*Panel sessions.*Panel proposals should include a description of the 
panel (400 words maximum) and all individual papers of the panel (each 
400 words maximum). Panels will be reviewed in their entirety by the 
conference organizers.

·*Experimental sessions*, e.g., workshops, roundtable discussions, art 
exhibitions, etc. The format of these sessions can be chosen by the 
organizers. Session proposals should include a clear description of the 
session's aim and approach and should be of maximum 500 words length. 
Experimental session proposals will be reviewed by the conference 
organizers.

We especially encourage sessions that bring together philosophers and 
engineers, as well as practitioners, in inter- and transdisciplinary 
discussions that are relevant for the conference themes or reflect on 
inter- and transdisciplinary practices.

*Contact
*

Please direct any queries related to the conference to 
fpet2024 at itas.kit.edu. <mailto:fpet2024 at itas.kit.edu>*
*

    Registration

Registration will be open in spring 2024. Diversity and inclusion are 
important for us. We encourage participants from low-income countries as 
well as all who lack the means to attend the conference to contact us 
for grants.

    Conference organizers

·Co-Chairs: Rafaela Hillerbrand (KIT) & Zachary Pirtle (George 
Washington University)

·Program Co-Chair: Christine Milchram, Michael Poznic, Michael W. 
Schmidt, and Giovanni Frigo (for the workshop on normative energy 
ethics) (all KIT)

·Further members of the local organizing committee: Nico Brähler, Meike 
Hebich (KIT)

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