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
Organisations
Publications
2024
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models, Article 42. Fischer, S. W. S. & Boer, B. d.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09783-5
2023
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion, 301-311. de Boer, B. & Aydin, C.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-023-10145-zInsect consumption and aesthetic disgust: Using design fiction to imagine novel food experiences (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Boer, B. d. & Lemke, M.https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfd_00065_1Earth BecomesWorld? Scientific Objects, Nonmodern Worlds, and the Metaphysics of the Anthropocene, 64-86. Zwier, J. & De Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10216162
2022
‘Braining’ psychiatry: an investigation into how complexity is managed in the practice of neuropsychiatric research, 758-781. de Boer, B., Molder, H. t. & Verbeek, P. P.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00242-8Does an Ontic Whole Exist?: Conditions of Possibility and Technology Use, 1401-1407. de Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09751-4Setting the Stage: Disgust as an Aesthetic Food Experience, 20-33. Lemke, M. & de Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00689Living in the Flesh: Technologically Mediated Chiasmic Relationships (in Times of a Pandemic), 189-208. de Boer, B. & Verbeek, P. P.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-022-09625-7Imagining digital twins in healthcare: Designing for values as designing for technical milieus, 67-81. de Boer, B., Strasser, C. & Mulder, S.https://doi.org/10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0067Attending to your lifestyle: Self-tracking technologies and relevanceIn Access and Mediation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Attention (pp. 217-237). Walter de Gruyter. de Boer, B.https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110647242-010
Research profiles
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2023/2024
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
- 191612550 - Phil. Anthropology and Technology
- 201300088 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201300089 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201900007 - Perspectives on Engineering Design
- 202000369 - Professional Ethics for Psychologists
- 202000370 - History of Psychology
- 202000371 - Philosophy of Psychology
- 202000445 - History of Psychology DSM TP
- 202200262 - History of Psychology DSM TP
- 202300166 - Philosophy of Science and Technology
- 202300270 - M7 Health Technology in Society
Courses academic year 2022/2023
- 191612550 - Phil. Anthropology and Technology
- 201300088 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201900007 - Perspectives on Engineering Design
- 202000369 - Professional Ethics for Psychologists
- 202000371 - Philosophy of Psychology
- 202000873 - M7 Health Technology in Society
- 202001423 - Philosophy of Science and Technology
- 202200284 - M11 Biomaterials
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University of Twente
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4210
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Ravelijn 4210
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands