Jeroen van den Hoven

Professor Jeroen van den Hoven (born 1957, Rotterdam) is a Dutch ethicist and a philosophy professor at Delft University of Technology.[1] He specializes in ethics of information technology.

Van den Hoven has written and worked with a range of scholars including Seumas Miller, Thomas Pogge, Martha Nussbaum and John Weckert.[2]

Currently he is Scientific Director at the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology[3] and editor in chief of Ethics and Information Technology .[4] Van den Hoven is also founding Chair of the CEPE conference (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry).[5]

Prizes

The World Technology Network (WTN) granted him the World Technology Award 2009 in the category ‘ethics’ for his promotion of value-sensitive design. He received the 2009 Namur Award granted by the International Federation for Information Processing for “an outstanding contribution with international impact to the awareness of social implications of information technology”.[6]

Selected publications

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