Hoven, M.J. van den (Jeroen)
Research profile
Van den Hoven is Editor in Chief of Ethics and Information Technology (Springer) and Founding Chair of the CEPE conference (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry). He is member of the editorial board of Information, Computers and Society (Routledge), Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society and consulting editor of Episteme. He is also member of the board of the International Society for Information Ethics (INSEIT). He has published numerous articles on ethics and ICT. An edited volume Information Technology and Moral Philosophy will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.
He is Editor in Chief of the Springer On-line Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics TERP (The Ethics Reference Project) with Seumas Miller and Thomas Pogge. Van den Hoven has received several grants from the Dutch Research Council on Ethics and Information Technology and related subjects. Van den Hoven is member of IST Advisory Group to EU Commissioner Reding for ICT and New Media. He has been advisor to the Dutch Government in various roles. He was member of a commission that studied the re-design of the population registration system in the Netherlands (Modernisering GBA), he was member of an ICT C@tshuis think tank of the Cabinet Wim Kok II (2000-2002), is a permanent member of a research network of the Home Office on E-Government, and was a member of a commission that evaluated wiretapping in accordance with art 13 of the Telecom Law in The Netherlands (established by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 2004-2005). He has worked together with IT industry (a.o. SUN, IBM and Getronics).
3TU.Ethics Projects
Accountability for architectures for identity management systems in E-government
Biosecurity and dual use research
Communication Support & its Ethics to Improve Patient-Centred Health Care
Ethical issues in engineering design: safety and sustainabillity
Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications
Technology and Human Development; A Capability Approach
Scientific publications (selection)
Hoven, Jeroen van den, and John Weckert, eds. 2008. Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.available online
van den Hoven, M.J. 2007. Nanotechnology and Privacy: The Instructive Case of Rfid. In Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology, edited by F. Allhoff, P. Lin, J. Moor and J. Weckert. New York: Wiley.
van den Hoven, M.J. 2007. Privacy and Rfid. Free Inquiry, 50-51.
van den Hoven, M.J., and P.E. Vermaas. 2007. Nano-Technology and Privacy: On Continuous Surveillance Outside the Panopticon. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (3):283-297.available online
van den Hoven, M.J. 2006. Nanotechnology and Privacy: The Instructive Case of Rfid. International Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (2):215-228.
Manders-Huits, N.L.J.L. and Van den Hoven, M.J. 2006. Identiteitsmanagement en Morele Indentificatie. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 98 (2):111-127.
van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. Applying Our Common Morality: The Case of Privacy. Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 7 (1):38-43.available online
van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. Design for Values and Values for Design. Information Age +, Journal of the Australian Computer Society 7 (2):4-7.
van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. E-Democracy, E-Contestation and the Monitoral Citizen. Ethics and Information Technology, 51-59.available online
van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. Privacy. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, edited by C. Mitcham. New York: Macmillan Reference.
Wiegel, V., M.J. van den Hoven, and G.J.C. Lokhorst. 2005. Privacy, Deontic Epistemic Action Logic and Software Agents. Ethics and Information Technology, 251-264.available online
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
van den Hoven, M.J., and A.A. van den Bogaard. 2006. Waardengevoelig Ontwerp en de Automatiserende Overheid: Het Voorbeeld van Identiteitsinfrastructuur. Delft: Technische Universiteit Delft.
van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. Moral Values, Design and ICT. Tijdschrift voor Humanistiek, 52-58.
van der Ploeg, I., M.J. van den Hoven, and M.X. Berg. 2005. Elektronische Patiëntendossiers en de Patiënt: Een Onderzoek naar Ethische en Normatieve Implicaties van Elektronische Patiëntendossiers. Rotterdam-Den Haag: Erasmus MC / NWO.
