Asveld, L. (Lotte)
Research profile
LOTTE ASVELD FINISHED HER PHD IN DECEMBER 2007 AND IS NOW WORKING FOR THE RATHENAU INSTITUTE. SINCE SHE IS NO LONGER A MEMBER OF 3TU.ETHICS, THIS PERSONAL PAGE IS NO LONGER KEPT UP TO DATE.
Lotte Asveld is a PhD-researcher in ethics of technology since 2002. She obtained a masters degree from Maastricht University in Cultural Sciences, specialisation Social Studies of Technology. Her dissertation concerns the value of respect for autonomy in relation to technological risks. She studies how current decisionprocedures around public debates on the acceptability of technological risks can be adapted to improve the accommodation of autonomy. Besides pursuing an academic career she has been working as a free-lance journalist, in which capacity she regurlary produces columns in popular media.
3TU.Ethics Projects
Autonomy and technological risk
Scientific publications (selection)
Asveld, L. 2007. Autonomy and Risk: Criteria for International Trade Regimes. Journal of Global Ethics 3 (1):21-38.available online
Asveld, L. 2006. Informed Consent in Fields of Medical and Technological Practice: An Explorative Comparison. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Fall 2006, pp.18-34.
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Asveld, L. 2005. Critical Approaches to Technology. Easst Review 24 (2/3):14-14.available online
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
Asveld, L. 2006. Overheid Brengt Zichzelf in Diskrediet. Trouw, 06-01-2006, 13-13.
Asveld, L. 2005. Critical Approaches to Technology: Verslag van een Symposium van de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam, 10 Juni 2005. Filosofie, 37-37.
Teaching
Ethics for engineering students, various courses. http://www.tudelft.nl
