Interrogating the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, entangles, or alters our experience of our lived worlds
About the Workshop
The Digital Worlds Workshop is a research coordination network focused on emerging digital technologies and their effects on the world we live in. This is a place to share ideas, meet people working in related areas, and spark new collaborations and projects. Emerging digital technologies are likely to have profound effects on all of us, but how those changes play out is still yet to be determined. Now is the time to think through potential perils and possibilities, for the benefit of designers, engineers, users, policy makers, and activists.
About the Organizers
Mike Butler
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota. My main research interests are in phenomenology, 20th Century continental philosophy, and philosophy of cognitive science (especially embodied cognition). I also teach in social & political philosophy, environmental philosophy, and ancient philosophy. I apply these conceptual resources to investigate the appearance of the self in digital environments. I focus especially on the way our sense of agency and identity over time are mediated by the digital devices that permeate our world.
Ian Werkheiser
I am a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). My research is currently focused on applying tools from environmental philosophy and especially environmental justice to emerging technology. Digitally altered environments, more than the technology itself, are what most people experience and interact with, and these new augmented environments have a host of philosophical implications.
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