Simon Stevin Series in the Ethics of Technology
The Simon Stevin Series in the Ethics of Technology is a joint publication series of the three partners within 3TU.Ethics, namely the philosophy departments of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente. Editors of the series are Philip Brey (UT), Peter Kroes (TUD) and Anthonie Meijers (TU/e). In the series the theses of PhD students of 3TU.Ethics are published, as well as other research reports in the ethics of technology. Volumes that have appeared so far are:
- Lotte Asveld – Respect for Autonomy and Technological Risks.
- Mechteld-Hanna Derksen – Engineering Flesh;Towards Professional Responsibility for ‘Lived Bodies’ in Tissue Engineering.
- Govert Valkenburg - Politics by All Means - An Enquiry into Technological Liberalism
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Simon Stevin Series in the Philosophy of Technology
The Simon Stevin Series in the Ethics of Technology only exists since June 2008. It was launched as a new variation on the existing Simon Stevin Series in the Philosophy of Technology. Since some publications about ethics topics previously appeared in this series, some of the volumes may be of interest to you:
- Anke van Gorp – Ethical Issues in Engineering Design: Safety and Sustainability. (volume 2)
- Vincent Wiegel – Sopholab. Experimental Computational Philosophy. (volume 3)
(see here for other volumes in the Simon Stevin Series in the Philosophy of Technology).
About Simon Stevin (1548-1620)
‘Wonder en is gheen Wonder’
This series in the ethics of technology is named after the Dutch / Flemish natural philosopher, scientist and engineer Simon Stevin. He was an extraordinary versatile person. He published, among other things, on arithmetic, accounting, geometry, mechanics, hydrostatics, astronomy, theory of measurement, civil engineering, the theory of music, and civil citizenship. He wrote the very first treatise on logic in Dutch, which he considered to be a superior language for scientific purposes. The relation between theory and practice is a main topic in his work. In addition to his theoretical publications, he held a large number of patents, and was actively involved as an engineer in the building of windmills, harbours, and fortifications for the Dutch prince Maurits. He is famous for having constructed large sailing carriages.
Little is known about his personal life. He was probably born in 1548 in Bruges (Flanders) and went to Leiden in 1581, where he took up his studies at the university two years later. His work was published between 1581 and 1617. He was an early defender of the Copernican worldview, which did not make him popular in religious circles. He died in 1620, but the exact date and the place of his burial are unknown. Philosophically he was a pragmatic rationalist for whom every phenomenon, however mysterious, ultimately had a scientific explanation. Hence his dictum ‘Wonder is no Wonder’, which he used on the cover of several of his own books.
