A Time for Inclusion
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Brey Philip
Professor of philosophy of technologyUniversity of Twente, Netherlands
Paper: The fit between information technology and cultural values
BACKGROUND
Philip Brey (PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1995) is professor of philosophy of technology and chair of the department of philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands. He is also director of the Centre for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science (CEPTES) of the University of Twente and a member of the management team of the Centre of Excellence for Ethics and Technology of the Universities of Twente, Delft and Eindhoven. He is a member of the executive board of the Society for Philosophy of Technology and of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, and director of the European division of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Ethics and Information Technology, the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, and Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale, and is vice editor of the Society for Philosophy and Technology Newsletter. He is also a member of the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture, the Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology and the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente, for which he also coordinates the research of the department of philosophy that is embedded in it. He recently (co)directed the conferences E-CAP 2007, CEPE 2007 and (co)directed CEPE2005, SPT 1999 and international workshops on Modernity and Technology, Ethics of Technology and Nanoethics. He was formerly also programme director of the international master programme Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (2003-2006). He previously taught at Delft University of Technology and the University of California, San Diego.
RESEARCH
Brey’s Ph.D. thesis focused on the cognitive turn in epistemology and the philosophy of science. Since then, his attention has shifted to the philosophy of technology. He has published in the areas of general philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, philosophy of biomedical technology, philosophy of sustainable technology and philosophy of information and communication technology (ICT). In general philosophy of technology, he has published on the relation between technology, society, culture and the body; the relation between technology and science; the nature of engineering design; and the status of philosophy of technology as a field. In the philosophy and ethics of biomedical technology, his research has focused on ethics of bioengineering, prosthetics, neuromodulation and human enhancement. Much of his current research is directed to the philosophy and ethics of ICT, where he has published on the ethical and political aspects of computer systems design, the limits of artificial intelligence, the ethics and ontology of virtuality, the role of ICT in mobility and surveillance, the implications of ICT for globalization, geographical organization and the quality of life. He is co-editor, with Thomas Misa and Andrew Feenberg, of Modernity and Technology (MIT Press, 2003) and (co)editor of two special issues of the journal Ethics and Information Technology. He currently manages a five-year Vici project in the philosophy of technology that involves six researchers and focuses on the social and cultural quality of new media.
URL: https://www.utwente.nl/bms/wijsb/organization/brey/
Paper: The fit between information technology and cultural values
Cornelius Steve
Head of the Department Private LawUniversity of Johannesburg, South Africa
Paper: Legal aspects of information as corporate asset
Position, academic & professional qualifications
Professor Steve Cornelius is Head of the Department Private Law since 1 October 2015 and holds the degrees BIuris LLB (Unisa) LLD (Pret). The title of his LLD thesis is “The Interpretation of Contracts In South African Law". He is admitted as Advocate of the High Court of South Africa.
Academic & professional experience
He joined the Department of Private Law as Professor in 2010 after serving for eleven years in the Department of Private Law at the University of Johannesburg, where he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in 1999, promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and to Professor in 2007. He was also Head of the Department of Private Law at UJ. Before that, he served for eleven years in the Department of Justice, briefly as a Public Prosecutor and mostly as a Legal Officer in the Branch: Legislation Research, where he played an important part in the drafting of regulations required for the functioning of the Human Rights Commission, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Special Investigating Unit.
Teaching activities
He teaches Law of Contract (KTR210, KTR220) and Capita Selecta Private Law (PCS410) (an elective in the LLB program).
Representative publications
Principles of the Interpretation of Contracts in South Africa 2002 Butterworths Durban (ISBN 0-409-00343-3) (reprint 2007), second edition 2007 LexisNexis Durban.Co-author of Cloete et al Introduction to Sports Law in South Africa 2005 Lexis-Nexis Butterworths, Durban (ISBN 0 409 05006 7)• Blackshaw, Cornelius and Siekmann TV Rights and Sport – Legal Issues 2009 TMC Asser Press, The Hague (ISBN 978 90 6704 281 9)\"Section 5 (1) (h) of the Credit Agreements Act 75 of 1980 - A Veritable Babel of Tongues" 2001 South African Mercantile Law Journal 198.• "How Final is the Final Whistle? Review of and Liability for Decisions taken by Officials at Sport Events" 2002 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg/Journal for South African Law 628."European Imperialism in Sport" 2003/2 International Sports Law Journal 28.• "South African Perspectives on HIV/Aids in the Workplace" 2005 (36) Cambrian Law Review 73 (co-authored with Prof Nicola Smit)."The Unexpressed Terms of a Contract" 2006 (3) Stellenbosch LR 494.• Cornelius "A Comparative Analysis of Sports Image Rights in South Africa" 2008 International Sports Law Review Pandektis 424."Background Circumstances, Surrounding Circumstances and the Interpretation of Contracts" 2009 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg/Journal for South African Law 767.Areas of specialisation
His main areas of interest are Law of Contract and Sports Law.
Appointments
Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, England. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Sports Law Journal which is published by the TMC Asser Institute in The Hague, Netherlands. National Rapporteur for the International Sports Law Review Pandektis, which is the official journal of the International Association of Sports Law.
Paper: Legal aspects of information as corporate asset
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