Guest Editor: Prof. Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington, University of St Andrews)

CFP for the topical collection: Waiting for Robot: Toward a Philosophy of Technological Failure, Artificial Life (MIT Press)

Contemporary bioethics has developed sophisticated tools for ethical decision-making. Yet it often operates within assumptions that reduce life to physiological viability. Ethical questions are frequently treated as matters of procedure and consent. Meanwhile, patients and clinicians face questions that exceed these frameworks. What makes a life worth living? How does illness disrupt or reveal meaning? What forms of care support not just survival but existential coherence? These questions call for a deeper engagement between bioethics and the philosophy of existence.

AI raakt het leven van dieren. Maar wie bepaalt waar AI voor wordt ingezet en wie wordt daarbij over het hoofd gezien? Een dag voor iedereen die werkt aan, onderzoekt, of nadenkt over de plek van het dier in een gedigitaliseerde wereld.

CfP for the Topical Collection Untangling the Quantum Ecology: Charting the Impact of Quantum Theory and Quantum Technologies on Technoscience and the Digital Transformation, guest-edited by Dr Stefano Calzati (Joint Research Centre, Brussels) and Prof. Robert Braun (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) in the journal Digital Society.

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We welcome research articles (8000 words) or commentaries (3000 words), which can be sent until the 30th of September 2026 via Editorial Manager by selecting "TC-Quantum Ecology". Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis and, if accepted, published as soon as they are ready.

ISMAI: The Journal of the International Society of Medical AI invites submissions to a special issue on clinical judgment, accountability, and responsible medical AI. As AI systems increasingly reach patients before a clinician does, the issue examines who interprets, who decides, and who answers for the outcome, across clinical, ethical, legal, and policy perspectives.

EXPLAIN, JUSTIFY, DEFEND

This Call for Submissions is for a volume in the new Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence series to be published by Brill. Edited by Sara Bizarro (LSU New Orleans)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly embedded in nearly every part of our lives. While this widespread integration offers immense opportunities, it also raises a wide range of ethical, legal, and social aspects (ELSA) or implications (ELSI) that require serious attention. Recent theoretical and empirical research has shown that these aspects often manifest at multiple, interconnected levels (Wang & Blok, 2025; Ryan et al., 2024; Bolte & van Wynsberghe, 2024) — from ethical and legal concerns at the level of newly designed artefacts, such as biased or discriminatory outcomes, infringements on privacy, and lack of transparency, to structural socio-political issues related to the power of big tech companies (Ryan et al. 2024) and ontological issues related to the identification of human and artificial intelligence and its transferability (Blok 2025; Ryan 2025).

The University of Copenhagen seeks to appoint a visionary and team-oriented tenure-track assistant professor to commence 1 February, 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter.

We are pleased to announce an international hybrid conference on ethical uncertainty and epistemic injustice in the care of patients with disorders of consciousness, featuring keynote speakers Joseph J. Fins (Weill Cornell Medicine), Ralf J. Jox (University of Lausanne), Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Keith Harris (University of Vienna), and Michael J. Young (Harvard Medical School).

The conference will explore the intersection of neuroethics, epistemology, and clinical practice in the context of disorders of consciousness, addressing topics including epistemic injustice in doctor-family communication, the moral value of uncertainty, power dynamics in clinical decision-making, intellectual virtues and vices in medical contexts, and inference under uncertainty in disorders of consciousness.

How people change (or fail to) under pressure, false certainty and misinformation. Organized by the Institute for Ethics & Society Workshop

Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)

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