News
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Vacancy: Assistant Professor (full-time, tenure-track)
The Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente in the Netherlands is looking for an
Assistant Professor (full-time, tenure-track) in
Applied Ethics and/or Political Philosophy
with a (future) emphasis on technology
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Van den Hoven speaks on responsible innovation at large EU Science conference in Dublin
On Friday the 13th of July, Jeroen van den Hoven will speak on the topic of responsible innovation at the Euroscience Open Forum 2012 (ESOF). ESOF is a large, five day, EU Science conference hosted in Dublin, Ireland.
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Van de Poel and Roeser appointed Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at Delft
Ibo van de Poel en Sabine Roeser have been appointed to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at TU Delft.
Both the current Managing Director of 3TU.Ethics, Professor Sabine Roeser, and her predecessor, Professor Ibo van de Poel, have recently been appointed to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at TU Delft. These prestigious professorial positions have been created to promote young and excellent scientists early on in their careers to professor with limited management tasks.
Congratulations!
Thursday, February 16, 2012
CFP S.NET 2012, October 22-25, University of Twente
Please click here to download the call for papers for the 4th annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET), to be held at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, on October 22-25, 2012. The four-day conference will assemble scholars, practitioners and policy makers from around the world interested in the development and implications of emerging technologies. Contributions from ethics and philosophy are very welcome!
Deadline for submission of abstracts is April 2,2012.
For more information: http://www.utwente.nl/snet2012
On behalf of the local organizing committee:
- Marianne Boenink (Department of Philosophy),
- Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung (Department of Legal and Economics Studies),
- Anne Dijkstra (Department of Science Communication),
- Kornelia Konrad (Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies),
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Newly published: Handbook of Risk Theory
A new Springer book has been published, called ’Handbook of Risk Theory’. Editor-in-chief is Sabine Roeser, editors: Rafaela Hillerbrand Per Sandin and Martin Peterson.