Research Areas

• ethics of technology

• philosophy of the city

• environmental ethics

• urban lighting

Academic Employment

• 2021-Present: Researcher, Institute of Science and Ethics, University of Bonn

• 2019-21: Postdoc & Lecturer, Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Delft University of Technology

• 2018-19: Postdoc, Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology

• 2014-18: PhD Candidate, Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Delft University of Technology

Degrees and Certificates

• 2021: University Teaching Qualification (UTQ), 4TU.Federation

• 2019: PhD in Ethics of Technology, Delft University of Technology

• 2011: Master in Environmental Studies, York University

• 2008: Honours Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction), University of Toronto

Selected Awards

• 2020: Best Short Paper Award, European Society for Engineering Education (with L. Marin, J. van Grunsven)

• 2019: Award for Research, Professional Lighting Design Recognition Award

• 2017: Graduate Student Paper Award, The Society for Philosophy and Technology

Publications

Edited Volumes

• Nagenborg, M., Stone, T., González Woge, M., & Vermaas, P. (2021). Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-52313-8

Journal Articles

• Stone, T. The Streetlights are Watching You: A Historical Perspective on Value Change and Public Lighting. Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation. Forthcoming.

• Stone, T., Dijkstra, I., & Danielse, T. (2021). Dark Acupuncture: A Design Strategy for Sustainable Lighting. International Journal of Sustainable Lighting, 23(2): 70-87. https://lightingjournal.org/index.php/path/article/view/112/114

• Stone, T. (2021). Design for Values and the City. Journal of Responsible Innovation. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23299460.2021.1909813

• van Grunsven, J., Marin, L., Stone, T., Roeser, S., & Doorn, N. (2021). How to Teach Engineering Ethics? A Retrospective and Prospective Sketch of the TU Delft Approach. Advances in Engineering Education, 9(3): 1-11. https://advances.asee.org/how-to-teach-engineering-ethics-a-retrospective-and-prospective-sketch-of-tu-delfts-approach-to-engineering-ethics-education/

• Stone, T. (2021). Re-envisioning the Nocturnal Sublime: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Nighttime Lighting. Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 40(2): 481-491. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-018-9562-4

• Robbins, H., Stone, T., Bolte, J., & van den Hoven, J. (2021). Legibility as a Design Principle: Surfacing Values in Sensing Technologies. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 45(5): 1104-1135. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162243920975488

• Stone, T., Santoni de Sio, F. & Vermaas, P. (2020). Driving in the Dark: Designing Autonomous Vehicles for Reducing Light Pollution. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26(1): 387-403. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-019-00101-7

• Stone, T. (2018). The Value of Darkness: A Moral Framework for Urban Nighttime Lighting. Science and Engineering Ethics, 24(2): 607-628. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-017-9924-0

• Stone, T. (2017). Light Pollution: A Case Study in Framing an Environmental Problem. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 20(3): 279-293. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21550085.2017.1374010

Book Chapters

• Stone, T. (2021). Towards a Darker Future? Designing Environmental Values into the Next Generation of Streetlights. In Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies, 201-223.

• Nagenborg, M, Stone, T., & Vermaas, P. (2021). Introduction. In Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies, 1-9.

• Doorn, N., Michelfelder, D., et al. (2021). Reimagining the Future of Engineering. In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering, 736-744. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Philosophy-of-Engineering/Michelfelder-Doorn/p/book/9781138244955

• Janssens, E., Stone, T., Yu, X. & Bombaerts, G. (2020). LED Lighting Across Borders. In Energy Justice Across Borders, 195-216. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-24021-9_10

Conference Papers

• Stone, T., Marin, L., & van Grunsven, J. (2020). Before Responsible Innovation: Teaching Anticipation as an Intellectual Virtue for Engineers. In Engaging Engineering Education: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the European Society or Engineering Education, 1401-1408. https://www.4tu.nl/cee/publications/408-sefi2020-stone.pdf

• Vermaas, P. & Stone, T. (2020). Normative Design for Society and Anticipatory Technology Development: A Double Challenge for Design Research. In DS 101: Proceedings of NordDesign 2020. https://www.designsociety.org/publication/42539/Normative+Design+for+Society+and+Anticipatory+Technology+Development%3A+A+Double+Challenge+for+Design+Research

Book Reviews

• Stone, T. (2019). The Medium of Modernity [Review of Electric Light: An Architectural History by S. Isenstadt]. Issues in Science and Technology, 35(3): 89-91. https://issues.org/the-medium-of-modernity/

Dissertation

• Stone, T. (2019). Designing for Darkness: Urban Nighttime Lighting and Environmental Values. Simon Stevin Series in the Ethics of Technology, Vol.16. http://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/48122404/Stone_DesigningforDarkness.pdf

Recent Talks (Selected)

• Find Values in the Dark. International Dark-Sky Association Global Conference, 2021.

• The Value of Darkness. Guest lecture at Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, 2021.

• Designing for Darkness. Guest lecture at School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm, 2021.

• Panellist: Rethinking Darkness. Royal Geography Society, 2021.

• The Value of Darkness. Webinar ‘Erlebe die Finsternis’ (Wadden Sea Trilateral Forum), 2021.

• Dark Acupuncture: A Design Strategy for Responsible Urban Park Lighting. International Conference on Artificial Light at Night, 2021

• Education’s Imaginaries: The Role of Anticipation in Engineering Ethics Education. The Society for Philosophy and Technology, 2021. (With L. Marin & J. van Grunsven)

• Before Responsible Innovation: Teaching Anticipation as an Intellectual Virtue for Engineers. SEFI 2020, 2020.  (With L. Marin & J. van Grunsven)

• Designing for Darkness. Highlight Festival, 2020.