JH Monthly Meeting – Ethics In Engineering

Amelia von Gemmingen earned a B.A. in psychology with a minor in German from Illinois Wesleyan University. Subsequently, she spent two years in Austria with the Fulbright Austria program, working as an English-language teaching assistant and American ambassador. Amelia returned to the U.S. to complete her M.A. in philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. While at CMU, Amelia worked on ethics of technology and presented two papers at conferences. Amelia’s work in the ethics of technology focuses on the interaction with technological interventions and feminist epistemology: how power dynamics affect how individuals come to know, especially socially. She is especially interested in how using technological artifacts to solve localized problems may have negative widespread effects systematically. While at CMU, Amelia taught and aided courses on political philosophy, intro to ethics, engineering ethics, and ethics of computation. Join the Jefferson Humanists on June 27th for Amelia’s presentation. This program is hosted by Jefferson Humanists, a chapter of the American Humanist Association.

Since we are unable to meet in-person for our normal Monthly Chapter Meetings, we are doing virtual meetings on Zoom. Please RSVP on Meetup or by email to [masked] to join this meeting. Those who RSVP on Meetup will see the link to join the presentation, but you must RSVP before the meeting start time. Those who email for the link will be sent it a few days before the meeting. For smart devices, get the free Meetup app and RSVP for the link. Attendance is limited to the first 50 people who RSVP. We hope that you will join us! “Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.” – Langdon Winnerntent goes here