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Staff

Below is a listing of the current staff members of the section of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology. You can find more information about a person, such as contact details, publications and courses taught, by clicking on the name.

Academic staff

Extraordinary professors

ACQA project group

Support staff

Academic staff

Member

Name

Research interests

Full professors

prof. dr. ir. A.W.M. (Anthonie) Meijers

Philosophy of artefacts; epistemology of the technical sciences; collective intentionality and action

Associate professors

dr. W.N. (Wybo) Houkes

philosophy of artefact functions; philosophy of science, esp. evolution theory

dr. M.B. (Martin) Peterson

normative ethics; decision theory; philosophy of risk

 

 

mr. dr. ir. ir. L.M.M. (Lambčr) Royakkers

 

 

ethics of technology; deontic logic

Assistant professors

dr. J.K. (Joel) Katzav

metaphysics; philosophy of science and technology; practical reasoning

 

 

dr. F. (Felicitas) Kraemer

 

 

meta-ethics; emotion theory; applied ethics

 

 

dr. P.J. (Philip) Nickel

 

 

moral epistemology; ethics of belief; applied ethics

 

 

dr. A. (Andreas) Spahn

 

 

meta-ethics; applied ethics, esp. ecological ethics and sustainability

 

 

prof. dr. M.J. (Marc) de Vries

 

 

epistemology of technology; philosophy of engineering; technology education

 

 

dr. S.D. (Sjoerd) Zwart

 

 

ethics of modelling; ethics of engineering

Postdocs

dr. A.R. (Anya) Topolski

the relationship between ethics and politics; Hannah Arendt; Emmanuel Levinas; Jewish thought; Polit

 

 

dr. ir. K. (Krist) Vaesen

 

 

epistemology; (extended) cognition; (cognitive) artefacts; psychology of tool use

PhD students

C.S. (Cletus) Brauer, MA

philosophy & ethics of technology; social & organizational psychology and ethics; business ethics

ing. C.G. (Christine) van Burken, MA

philosophy of technology; military technology and ethics

 

 

Dipl.-Math. S. (Sven) Diekmann

 

 

applied ethics; philosophy of science, esp. ethics of modelling

 

 

M. (Marieke) van Holland, MA

 

 

philosophy of mind, esp. the extended mind hypothesis; philosophy of language

 

 

S.E. (Stefan) Mendritzki, MSc

 

 

evolutionary models, esp. agent-based models; mechanism validation

 

 

 

A.J.K. (Auke) Pols, MSc

 

 

philosophy of mind and action; philosophy of artefacts; neuro-ethics

J. (Jilles) Smids


Meta-ethics, esp. moral psychology; ethics of persuasive technology


L. (Litska) Strikwerda

applied ethics; criminal law; human rights law

  

Extraordinary professors

Extraordinary professors are appointed and sponsored by external institutions or organisations. 

Member

Name

Research interests

Chair

prof. dr. E.M. (Elselijn) Kingma

Philosophy of Medicine; Philosophy of Biology; Philosophical Bioethics; Epistemology of Evidence-Based Medicine

Socrates Professor

prof. dr. P.M.F. (Palmyre) Oomen

Philosophy of A.N. Whitehead; philosophy of nature; philosophical theology

Radboud Chair, Radboudstichting

prof. dr. M.J. Verkerk

Reformational philosophy; philosophy of technology

Reformational Philosophy, association for reformational philosophy

ACQA project group

Academic Competences and Quality Assurance (Dutch)

Member

Name

dr. V.A.J. (Tijn) Borghuis

dr. ir. C.W.A.M. (Kees) van Overveld

dr. drs. J.C. (Jacob) Perrenet

  

Support staff

Member

Name

 

 

 

M.J. (Rianne) Schaaf