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PhD programme in Ethics & Technology

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More than 10 PhD students - divided over the three philosophy departments participating in the the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology - are currently working on their doctoral thesis. A tailor-made program for supervision and training has been established for each of them. For more information on their projects, see the personal pages of our PhD-students. Since June 2008 theses of our PhD students are published in the Simon Stevin Series in the Ethics of Technology.

New PhD program in Ethics and Technology

3TU.Ethics has recently prepared a more extensive and uniformly structured joint PhD program in Ethics and Technology, that has started in the Fall of 2010 and for which 3TU.Ethics has obtained a prestigious grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO. The PhD-programme will address important and urgent ethical questions that the world faces as a consequence of (new) technologies. With the PhD program 3TU.Ethics intends to expand and build on its excellent and internationally acknowledged research work.The PhD program will be linked to the already existing master program on Philosophy of Science Technology and SocietyStudents 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 - 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 3TU.Ethics Study Guide on the newly designed PhD Programme is downloadable here. We received more than 100 applications from all over the world for the PhD Programme. Selection of the participating PhD students has taken place on basis of quality criteria and motivation. The selected students (information about them will follow soon) have started their work in our PhD Programme Fall 2011. If you have any questions, you can contact Martijn Blaauw, coordinator of 3TU.Ethics.