About fPET
The Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET) is an outgrowth of the Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2007 in Delft and WPE-2008 in London). The mission of fPET is (1) to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology by philosophers and engineers alike and (2) to build bridges between existing organizations of philosophers and of engineers. fPET-2010 held an intensive day and a half meeting in May 2010 at Colorado School of Mines. fPET-2012 will be held on 2-4 November 2012 by Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS) in Beijing, China.
fPET-2012 welcomes contributions on one of four tracks:
Track One: Philosophy of engineering and technology;
Track Two: Engineering ethics;
Track Three: Reflections of practitioners;
Track Four: Other interdisciplinary topics.
Forum Co-Chairs:
Bocong Li (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Byron Newberry (Baylor University)
Executive Committee:
Diane Michelfelder (Macalester College)
Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)
Mike Murphy (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Nan Wang (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Steering Committee:
Richard Evans (Cornell)
Josephy Pitt (Virginia Tech)
Kenneth R. Foster (University of Pennsylvania)
Ibo van de Poel (Delft University of Technology)
David E. Goldberg (ThreeJoy Associates, Inc.)
Jon A. Schmidt (Burns & McDonnell)
Domenico Grasso (University of Vermont)
Cherrice Traver (Union College)
Rachelle Hollander (U.S. National Academy of Engineering)
Ruiyu Yin (Central Iron & Steel Research Institute)
Program Committee:
Brock E. Barry (The US Military Academy at West Point) Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano)
Fan Chen (Northeastern University, China) John Sullins (Sonoma State University)
Russell Korte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Herman Tavani (Rivier College)
Peter Kroes (TU-Delft) Pieter Vermaas (TU-Delft)
William Lawson (Texas Tech University) Qian Wang (Dalian University of Technology)
Michael Loui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Jianjun Zhao (Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C)
Hans Poser (TU-Berlin)
Local Arrangement:
Xinhe Hu (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Dazhou Wang (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Web&Technology:
Zhang Tao (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)