PhD programme in Ethics & Technology
New PhD program in Ethics and Technology
Application is now possible.However, 3TU.Ethics is currently preparing for a more extensive and uniformly structured joint PhD program in Ethics and Technology, that will start in the fall of 2010. Considering the importance and urgency of the ethical questions that the world faces as a consequence of (new) technologies, it is somewhat surprising that such a program does not exist yet. With the PhD program 3TU.Ethics intends to expand and build on its excellent and internationally acknowledged research work.
Selection of the participating PhD students will take place on basis of quality criteria and motivation. The PhD program will - in addition to doctoral research - consist of three elements:
- Course work
- Stay for a couple of months at one of the participating international partners
- PhD graduation at one of the three 3TU universities in the Netherlands.
The following courses will be included in the first year of the PhD programme:
- ethics and politics of emerging technologies
- philosophy of risk
- ethics and engineering design
- environmental ethics
- technology and the good life
- technology and responsibility and
- human enhancement.
The PhD program will be linked to the already existing master program on Philosophy of Science Technology and Society, which will develop an additional research track on ethics and technology.
At this moment we are still busy setting up this new PhD program, for which in 2009 3TU.Ethics has obtained a specific grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO. The ambition of 3TU.Ethics is combining the last year of the PSTS Master program and the first year of the PhD trajectory in one research-year, during which selected talented students may access courses and seminars ranging from ethics to research skills while starting to draft their research proposals. In so doing students will be given the chance to choose the field of investigation they wish to develop in the following years rather than being called to apply for a pre-defined PhD research project.
The PhD-program will start in September 2010. We are now welcoming applications. You can find more information about this particularly innovative educational track and on how to apply for it on this page. If you have any questions, you can contact Claudia Basta, coordinator of 3TU.Ethics.
