Interpreting Technology: Ricoeur on Questions Concerning Ethics and Philosophy of Technology (Philosophy, Technology and Society)

Wessel Reijers is a postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. His research focuses on the philosophy and ethics of technology, notably on the development of a critical hermeneutical approach to technology and the investigation of the role of emerging technologies in the shaping of citizenship in the 21st century. He completed his PhD at the Dublin City University with a Dissertation entitled "Practising Narrative Virtue Ethics of Technology in Research and Innovation". He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Philosophy and Technology, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Organization on the topics of blockchain technology and social contract theory, an approach to technology based on Ricœur's narrative theory, and a philosophical investigation of the digital commons. Furthermore, he has co-edited a special issue for the journal Philosophy and Technology on financial technologies.

Alberto Romele is associate professor in philosophy of technology at the ETHICS Lab of the Lille Catholic University. He is also lecturing at the University of Paris Nanterre. He has been assistant professor at the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France), postdoctoral researcher of the Portuguese National Research Foundation at the University of Porto, and "Oratoire-Ricœur" fellow at the Fonds Ricœur in Paris. He is currently co-principal investigator of the research project "From Data to Wisdom" funded by the research program FCT-Portugal2020 and of the research project ArTeC (Paris Saint-Denis and Paris Nanterre) "The Technological Imaginaries of the Self". He has published articles on hermeneutics, technologies, and theories of the digital in international journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Surveillance & Society, AI & Society, Policy & Internet, and Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. He has recently edited the volume Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). His book Digital Hermeneutics will appear in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series in autumn 2019.