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enC.Basta@tudelft.nlCopyright 20122012-05-09T11:22:01+01:00Vacancy: Assistant Professor (full-time, tenure-track)
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/vacancy_assistant_professor_full_time_tenure_track/#When:11:22:01ZThe 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
The department of philosophy is internationally leading in the philosophy and ethics of technology. It currently includes seven tenured staff members, two postdocs, seven PhD students, and five part-time faculty. The department participates in the interuniversity 3TU.Center for Ethics and Technology and will house the directorship of the Center starting 2013. Both the department and the Center have a strong international orientation and include members from many different nationalities. The department is currently expanding with two tenure-track positions, one in philosophical anthropology, and one in the currently advertised area.
The Challenge
You teach ethics and political philosophy in the master program in Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (PSTS) and teach professional and applied ethics and other areas of philosophy for bachelor and master programs in engineering and social science. Optionally, you may participate in the new ATLAS university college, an interdisciplinary, highly selective bachelor program with a focus on engineering and social science. You are involved in the supervision of master’s theses in the PSTS program and will at some point supervise PhD students in the department’s PhD program in Ethics and Technology (the scope of which also includes social and political philosophy).
You perform research in the area of political philosophy and/or ethics, with a focus on the role of technology in society. We are particularly interested in candidates who will be working on one or more of the following areas: environmental philosophy and technology (especially energy); safety, security, and technological risks; technology and politics; technology and well-being; technology, culture, globalization and ethics/politics; ethics and engineering science / engineering design. However, other (future) specializations will be seriously considered as well. Your research will be embedded in the department’s research program as well as in the 3TU.Center of Excellence for Ethics and Technology (http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu), a joint center of the departments of philosophy of the University of Twente, Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology which currently counts sixty members, including twenty-two PhD students.
As part of your research activities, you are also expected to apply for external funding and to engage in international and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Offer
You are appointed as assistant professor (full-time). A Tenure Track contract enables you to direct your own career based on fixed performance agreements, in relation to which promotion from UD (assistant professor) to UHD (associate professor) and subsequently to full professor is possible. A definitive assessment will take place no later than five years after commencement of the employment, following which employment for an indefinite period and promotion to associate professor may be agreed upon.
Salary is competitive: initial assistant professor salary is € 44,590 – € 69,360 per year, depending on experience. Starting date is January 2013 (negotiable). The University of Twente has excellent terms of employment.
Your profile
You hold a Ph.D. in philosophy, preferably with a specialization in ethics or political philosophy. You have either had a focus on technology in your past research or you have a demonstrable interest in focusing on technology for your future research. You already have an excellent list of publications in peer-refereed journals, and have relevant international experience.
You also have experience in teaching at the university level, preferably including students in science & engineering, social science, or other nonphilosophical fields, and preferably including professional and/or applied ethics. You have demonstrable didactic skills in teaching, good teaching evaluations, and a passion for teaching. You are able and willing to teach in areas of philosophy outside your philosophical specialization, both in philosophy at large and in the philosophy and ethics of technology. You are willing and able to collaborate with researchers and teachers from nonphilosophical disciplines.
You have an excellent command of the English language. All master programs and many bachelor programs at the University of Twente are taught in English, and English is the official language at departmental meetings. If you do not master Dutch, we would like you to eventually learn Dutch as a second language. You are prepared to move to the Netherlands, to the region where the University of Twente is located.
About the university and region
The University of Twente (UT) is a research university with a strong international orientation and a focus on science & engineering and social and behavioral sciences. It includes more than 3,300 faculty and staff and 9,000 students. The UT is a campus university, located in the city of Enschede, in the east of the Netherlands. Enschede is a lively city of 150,000, located in beautiful countryside and near spectacular nature areas. It is only two hours away from major European cities like Amsterdam, Cologne and Düsseldorf, three hours from Brussels and less than six hours (by car or train) from London, Paris and Berlin.
Information and application
For more information, please contact Prof. dr. Philip Brey, full professor and chair (email: p.a.e.brey@utwente.nl; phone: +31-53-4894426).
Your application should reach us by September 24th, 2012, and should include a CV, a letter of application (including a summary of your teaching evaluations), a summary and table of contents of your dissertation (or your full dissertation), a research publication, and contact information for 3 or more references. Applications should be uploaded via http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en. News, Vacancy2012-05-09T11:22:01+01:003TU.Ethics Research Day 2012: Programme online
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/3tuethics_research_day_2012/#When:08:19:00Z3TU.Ethics Annual Research Day
April 18, 2012
Utrecht, Huize Molenaar
Korte Nieuwstraat 6, Utrecht
Keynote speaker: Professor Luciano Floridi
Organizer: Martijn Blaauw (m.j.blaauw@tudelft.nl)
On our annual Research Day, to be held April 18th, we will celebrate the 5th anniversary of 3TU.Ethics.
All 3TU.Ethics members are invited to attend. To confirm attendance, please send an email to the organizer of the event, Martijn Blaauw (m.j.blaauw@tudelft.nl), before April 15th.
We are happy to announce that Professor Luciano Floridi (University of Hertfortshire and University of Oxford) has agreed to give a keynote presentation.
You can download the full program here:
Programme_ANNUAL_RESEARCH_DAY_2012.pdfNews & Events, Events2012-04-18T08:19:00+01:00Van den Hoven speaks on responsible innovation at large EU Science conference in Dublin
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/van_den_hoven_speaks_on_responsible_innovation_at_large_eu_science_conferen/#When:09:19:00ZOn 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.
ESOF2012_Programme.pdfNews & Events, News2012-04-11T09:19:00+01:00Van de Poel and Roeser appointed Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at Delft
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/van_de_poel_and_roeser_appointed_antoni_van_leeuwenhoek_professor/#When:11:41:00ZIbo 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!News & Events, News2012-04-03T11:41:00+01:00Workshop Disaster ethics
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/workshop_disaster_ethics/#When:11:13:01ZOn March 16th a workshop on ‘Disaster ethics’ will be held at TU Delft. See here for more information. News & Events, Events2012-03-16T11:13:01+01:00Dual-Use Research and Biosecurity: Implications for Science, Governance and the Law
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/dual_use_research_and_biosecurity_implications_for_science_governance_and_t/#When:07:49:00ZThe workshop is co-organized by The Hague Institute for Global Justice and 3TU. Center for Ethics and Technology, in light of the recent debate surrounding the research done by Dutch and American scientists that effectively created a strain of H5N1 virus that is easily transmissible among ferrets (and therefore likely to be equally contagious and deadly among people). The implications of the publication alerted the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to recommend omission of research details in the publication. The potential benefits and inherent dangers this research poses lead to a need to think about the ethics, governance and the law surrounding dual-use research.
This workshop seeks to contribute to meeting this need by bringing together a wide range of international experience and expertise, including eminent scientists, public health experts, security experts, lawyers, ethicists and representatives from key national and international institutions such as the WHO, the NSABB, governmental ministries, and universities from around the world. Speakers will be Harvey Rubin, Mike Imperiale, Ron Fouchier, Andreas Reis, Edwin Bakker, Marianne Donker, and Koos van der Bruggen.
The workshop is invitation-only.
Biosecurity_and_Dual-Use_Research_Workshop_Program.pdfNews & Events, Events, Archive2012-03-12T07:49:00+01:00CFP S.NET 2012, October 22-25, University of Twente
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/cfp_snet_2012_october_22_25_university_of_twente/#When:11:14:00ZPlease 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), m.boenink@utwente.nl
Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung (Department of Legal and Economics Studies), b.r.dorbeck-jung@utwente.nl
Anne Dijkstra (Department of Science Communication), a.m.dijkstra@utwente.nl
Kornelia Konrad (Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies), k.e.konrad@utwente.nlNews & Events, News2012-02-16T11:14:00+01:00Newly published: Handbook of Risk Theory
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/newly_published_handbook_of_risk_theory/#When:13:49:00ZA 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.News & Events, News2012-02-15T13:49:00+01:00Handbook of Risk Theory
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/handbook_of_risk_theory/#When:13:38:00ZHandbook of Risk Theory
Editor-in-chief: Sabine Roeser
Publisher: Springer
Description
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. But the topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of risk? What does the human perception of risk mean for society? How should we judge whether a risk is morally acceptable or not? Over the last couple of decades questions like these have attracted interest from philosophers and other scholars into risk theory.
This handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research. It addresses a wide range of topics, ranging from decision theory, risk perception to ethics and social implications of risk, and it also addresses specific case studies. It aims to promote communication and information among all those who are interested in theoetical issues concerning risk and uncertainty.
This handbook brings together internationally leading philosophers and scholars from other disciplines who work on risk theory. The contributions are accessibly written and highly relevant to issues that are studied by risk scholars. We hope that the Handbook of Risk Theory will be a helpful starting point for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives.
Contents
1 Introduction to Risk Theory by Sabine Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson
Part 1: General Issues in Risk Theory: 2 A Panorama of the Philosophy of Risk by Sven Ove Hansson. 3 The Concepts of Risk and Safety by Niklas Möller. 4 Levels of Uncertainty by Hauke Riesch.
Part 2 Specific Risks: 5 The Economics of Risk: A (Partial) Survey by Louis Eeckhoudt, Henri Louberge. - 6 Interpretation of Forensic Evidence by Reinoud D. Stoel , Marjan Sjerps. - 7 Risks and Scientific Responsibilities in Nanotechnology by John Weckert. - 8 Risk and Risk-Benefit Evaluations in Biomedical Research by Annette Rid. - 9 Understanding and Governing Public Health Risks by Modeling by Erika Mansnerus. - 10 Management of the Risks of Transport by John Adams. - 11 Risk and Spatial Planning by Claudia Basta. - 12 Intergenerational Risks of Nuclear Energy by Behnam Taebi. 13 Climate Change as Risk? by Rafaela Hillerbrand - 14 Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Risk from Geophysical Hazards by Amy Donovan.
Part 3 Decision Theory and Risk: 15 A Rational Approach to Risk? Bayesian Decision Theory by Claus Beisbart. - 16 A Philosophical Assessment of Decision Theory by Karsten Klint Jensen. - 17 The Mismeasure of Risk by Peter R. Taylor. - 18 Unreliable Probabilities, Paradoxes, and Epistemic Risks by Nils-Eric Sahlin. - 19 Paradoxes of Rational Choice Theory by Till Gruene-Yanoff. - 20 Multi-Attribute Approaches to Risk by Paul Weirich. - 21 Real-Life Decisions and Decision Theory by John R. Welch. - 22 Social Influences on Risk Attitudes: Applications in Economics by Stefan T. Trautmann, Ferdinand M. Vieider.
Part 4 Risk Perception: 23 Risk Intelligence by Dylan Evans. 24 Risk Communication in Health by Nicolai Bodemer, Wolfgang Gaissmaier. - 25 Risk Perception and Societal Response by Lennart Sjöberg. - 26 The Role of Feelings in Perceived Risk by Melissa L. Finucane. -27 Emotions, Warnings, and the Ethics of Risk Communication by Ross Buck, Rebecca Ferrer. - 28 Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk by Dan M. Kahan. - 29 Tools for Risk Communication by Britt-Marie Drottz-Sjöberg.
Part 5 Risk Ethics: 30 Ethics and Risk by Douglas MacLean. 31 Toward a Pre-Market Approach to Risk Assessment to Protect Children by Carl F. Cranor. -32 Moral Emotions as Guide to Acceptable Risk by Sabine Roeser. -33 Risk and Virtue Ethics by Allison Ross, Nafsika Athanassoulis. -34 Risk and Trust by Philip J. Nickel , Krist Vaesen. -35 Risk and Responsibility by Ibo van de Poel, Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist. -36 What Is a Fair Distribution of Risk? by Madeleine Hayenhjelm - 37 Intergenerational Risks by Lauren Hartzell-Nichols. -38 The Precautionary Principle by Marko Ahteensuu, Per Sandin. - 39 The Capability Approach in Risk Analysis by Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni. -
Part 6 Risk in Society: 40 Sociology of Risk by Rolf Lidskog, Göran Sundqvist. - 41 Risk and Gender - Dare Devils and Eco-Angels by Misse Wester. - 42 Risk and Soft Impacts by Tsjalling Swierstra, Hedwig te Molder. - 43 Risk and Technology Assessment by Rinie van Est , Bart Walhout, Frans Brom. - 44 Risk Governance by Marijke A. Hermans , Tessa Fox, Marjolein B. A. van Asselt. - 45 EU Risk Regulation and the Uncertainty Challenge by Marjolein B. A. van Assel , Ellen Vos. - 46 Risk Management in Technocracy by Val Dusek.Publication2012-02-15T13:38:00+01:00Mieke Boon new professor Philosophy of Science in Practice at UT
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http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/3tu_news/comments/mieke_boon_new_professor_philosophy_at_ut/#When:11:51:00ZUniversitair docent Mieke Boon gaat vanaf 1 februari als hoogleraar door het leven. Zij neemt op de Universiteit Twente de leerstoel Filosofie van Wetenschap in Praktijk in. Boon (50) werkt sinds 2001 als universitair (hoofd)docent bij de vakgroep wijsbegeerte van de UT.
Boon is voornemens de wetenschapsfilosofie dichter bij de praktijk te brengen. “In de tweede helft van de vorige eeuw is de abstractie in mijn vakgebied toegenomen. Ik maak de wetenschapsfilosofie graag weer relevant voor iedereen die meer van wetenschap wil begrijpen. Mijn filosofische werk is een nieuwe loot aan de stam van de wetenschapsfilosofie omdat het gaat over wetenschappelijk onderzoek dat zich richt op toepassingen, bijvoorbeeld in de nanotechnologie.”
In 1987 voltooide Boon cum laude haar studie chemische technologie aan de UT. In Delft promoveerde zij, opnieuw cum laude, met haar veel geciteerde proefschrift Theoretical and experimental methods in the modelling of bio-oxidation of sulfide minerals. Filosofie studeerde Boon in Twente en in Leiden. In 2003 won zij een NWO Vidi beurs voor het onderzoek Using Science in Technology: Towards a Philosophy of the Engineering Sciences. In 2006 begon zij de Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice en zette zo dit thema internationaal op de kaart.
De combinatie van wetenschap, techniek, filosofie, ethiek en kunst vormt rode draad in haar carrière. In 1998 won zij de TUD Ethiek en Techniek Essayprijs voor het boek Filosofische beelden in wetenschap. Ze was 7 jaar lang voorzitter van de dierexperimentencommissie (DEC) van de VU. In 2004 was Boon oprichter van het Female Faculty Network Twente. Ze is voorzitter van de Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Wetenschap- en Techniekfilosofie. In 2009 publiceerde zij samen met Trouw filosofie redacteur Peter Henk Steenhuis het boek Filosofie van het Kijken – Kunst in ander Perspectief, dat in 2010 werd genomineerd voor de Socrates wisselbeker. In 2010 won zij de wetenschapscommunicatieprijs van de faculteit Gedragswetenschappen.News & Events, News2012-02-09T11:51:00+01:00