Ravelijn

dr. S.O.M. de Boer (Bas)

Assistant Professor
BMS-TPS-PHIL
Ravelijn 4210
s.o.m.deboer@utwente.nl
+31534896693
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I am an assistant professor in the philosophy section. My research focuses on how technologies shape our understanding and experience of our selves and the world we live in, with a specific focus on technologies in healthcare.  My research interests are in philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, and (post)phenomenology of technology

Expertise

  • Psychology

    • Humans
    • Disgust
    • Health
    • Attention

  • Social Sciences

    • Technology
    • Diagnosis
    • Machines
    • Scientific Equipment

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Publications

2025

The necessity of objectification: Sartre and Lacan on online body shaming (2025)Philosophical Psychology (E-pub ahead of print/First online). de Boer, B. & Aydin, C.https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2601722Animal Technics: A Tribute to Don Ihde (2025)Philosophy & technology, 38(4). Article 176. Wellner, G., Rosenberger, R., de Boer, B., Botin, L., Forss, A., Hasse, C., Irwin, S. O., Friis, J. K. B., Lally, R., Lewis, R., Michelfelder, D., Nagataki, S., Nizzi, M.-C., Riis, S. & Verbeek, P.-P.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-01002-3Large language models, politics, and the functionalization of language (2025)AI and Ethics, 5, 2367-2379. Kudina, O. & de Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00564-wHealthy Embodiment: Philosophical Reflections on the Experience of Health (2025)[Book/Report › Book]. Taylor and Francis A.S.. de Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003602385

2024

The combination of brain stimulation and brain imaging technologies in the cognitive neurosciences: Problematizing the "Convergence Hypothesis" (2024)In The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods (pp. 353-363). Taylor and Francis A.S.. de Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003528937-39Introduction: Articulating the phenomenological legacy of the philosophy of technology (2024)In Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology (pp. 1-24). Open Book Publishers. Zwier, J. & de Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0421.00Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology (2024)[Book/Report › Book]. OpenBook Publishers. de Boer, B. S. O. M. & Zwier, J.https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0421Insect consumption and aesthetic disgust: Using design fiction to imagine novel food experiences (2024)International Journal of Food Design, 9(2), 245-265. Boer, B. d. & Lemke, M.https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfd_00065_1Disrupted self, therapy, and the limits of conversational AI (2024)Philosophical Psychology, 39(2), 318-344 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Babushkina, D. & de Boer, B. S. O. M.https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2397004Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models (2024)Ethics and information technology, 26(3). Article 42. Fischer, S. W. S. & Boer, B. d.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09783-5

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University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4210
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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