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Converging new technologies, human being and education

01 November 2023, 5:30 pm–7:15 pm

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Join this event to hear Vasco d’Agnese discuss the intersection of bio and tech and how this challenges our understanding of human being, life and education.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Yuxin Su

Location

Room 828
UCL IOE
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL

Converging new technologies (especially biotechnology and ICT) have reshaped the interplay between human beings and technics, blurring the lines between organic/inorganic, exterior/ interior and organism/machine.

What human figure is taking shape with this neuro-bio-technology? What education will emerge from this rupture? Vasco will draw on Heidegger and Stiegler to consider the conception of life and human being such transformations imply, and its potential impact on education.


This in-person event will be particularly useful for those interested in the philosophy of education, Heideggerian philosophy and the relationship between technology and human being.


PESGB seminar series

This event is part of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with the Centre for Philosophy of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.

All are welcome to attend.


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About the Speaker

Vasco d’Agnese

Full Professor of Education at the Department of Psychology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

His principal research interests are in Heidegger, Dewey and Postmodernism.