To deepen the cultivation of interdisciplinary innovative thinking, the eighth “Humanities x Technology” Thinkers’ Forum is to commence.

Theme：The Origin and Future Trends of Philosophy of Technology

Time: 19:00, June 19, 2025 (Thursday)

Venue: Room 354, Huiwen Building, Qingshuihe Campus

Keynote Speaker:

Carl Mitcham, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, is a world-renowned philosopher of technology. He served as the founding President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT, 1981–1983) and received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. He was Editor-in-Chief of Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology (SPT's journal) from 1990 to 2010, and was an Adjunct Professor (2001–2012) and Hans Jonas Chair (2009–2012) at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Mitcham has been honored with the World Technology Network (WTN) Ethics Award (2006) and the International Jacques Ellul Society Award for Distinguished Service (2012). He served on the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility (1994–2000) and as an expert panelist of European Commission (2009, 2012). With over 220 publications spanning philosophy of science, technology and engineering, science, technology and society (STS), and the history of technology (cited over 9,000 times), he has authored/co-edited more than 20 books. His monograph Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy (1994) is hailed as "a magnum opus synthesizing contemporary philosophy of technology."

Main Content:

An analytic account of the evolution of philosophy of technology discourse as manifested in the history of the international Society for philosophy and technology (SPT). The end of June SPT will be holding its biannual international conference in the Netherlands. lts next conference will talk place in 2027 at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. This talk will suggest opportunities for faculty from Chengdu to participate.