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

Guest Editors: Sonja Deppe (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen), Mark Schweda (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), Christopher Simon Wareham (Utrecht University), and Julia Zielke (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)

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 ETHICOMP 2027: ‘Tech Shaping Lives’ | 2–4 June 2027 |

The TU Eindhoven invites us on 5–6 November 2026 for The Future of Science: How Intellectual Virtues Guide AI-Accelerated Science.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Beyond technological innovation, AI raises profound philosophical, ethical, legal, social, economic, and educational questions that increasingly influence the way we live, work, communicate, and govern.