This should actually have been posted yesterday, but Blogger cheated me (luckily I hade made a copy-paste before):
Charles Ess, an American Philospher, with a special interest in Internet Ethics, has been visiting the IT University today. He is moving on to Trondheim in Norway, and coming from a French conference, so apparently doing the big European tour, poor man...(he also gave lecture at another Danish University yesterday, so understandably seemed a bit tired). He gave a good lecture on the relation between philosofical traditions of thinking mind/body, continued in the tradition of embodiment/disembodiment thinking in cyberstudies literature, and finally connected it all in a perspective on how to think or not think about ethics on the internet. I like philosophers for the ridigity in the way they make arguments - other humanists (and my students!) could learn a lot from that!
- I also had a chance to speak with Ess eye to eye and got some interesting references to recent works on internet ethics that I want to look into. And talking to him after the lecture in a small group learned more about the difficulties of being an interdisciplinary researcher in the US. So good day all in all; I'm currently supervising a student who is writing about philosophy and the concept of cyberspace and now am able to give him some more qualified feedback. Also, btw, Italked to another group I'm supervising: they are doing a project on "faction" games on the internet (like A.I and Majestic) and they have found out a lot about these games. So even if I havent gotten around to READING or WRITING one word myself, I have gotten a lot of valuable input - stuff to think with. [Tuesday]
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:17