Mike Butler
butlerintheworld.bsky.social
Mike Butler
@butlerintheworld.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of philosophy and ethics at the University of North Dakota. Director of Human-Technology Interaction Program. Generally affable dude.
Here's a CFP for this year's Digital Worlds Workshop. It's a great conference for trying out new ideas and a pretty friendly group.
Digitalworldsworkshop.com/virtual-workshop
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Virtual Workshop
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can also sign up here for updates:
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November 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This Monday, Sep. 29, Dr. Ian Werkheiser delivers the inaugural talk in UND's Human-Technology Interaction Speaker Series on Environmental Justice in Augmented Reality. Join in online at the link below!
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Human - Technology Interaction Speaker Series: Ian Werkheiser
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September 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
You know how using Google maps can be annoying because you never really know where you are or where you're going? I have a new paper about that in Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology. #philsky #philosophy #philoftech #phenomenology. www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
The City, The Highway and the Spatial Level: Navigation Apps and Disorientation - published on March 27, 2025
I argue that mobile navigation apps, like Google Maps, alienate us from our lived environments. I phenomenologically contrast the experience of moving through an unfamiliar city on foot with driving t...
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April 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
So, I'm teaching a graduate class on the philosophical and ethical implications of AI in the fall. It is for interdisciplinary masters students, some without much philosophy background. Generally phenomenological approach. suggestions for readings? What you got #philsky? #philtech #philosophy
March 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Mike Butler
The mega-consultancies are all pushing AI in education like you would totally believe. A short thread if you can cope...
Deloitte may be getting AI to generate its HE proposals too

"Our multidisciplinary approach allows us to harness the diverse capabilities of AI technologies to develop innovative solutions to help empower and transform AI strategy for higher education institutions" www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/...
January 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Using my inaugural Blue sky post to call attention to this CFP for the fifth annual Digital Worlds Workshop - a great community of international scholars working on the philosophy of all things related to digital tech. Abstracts due FEB 3rd

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digitalworldsworkshop.com/virtual-work...
Virtual Workshop
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digitalworldsworkshop.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM