Jeroen van den Hoven

Professor Jeroen van den Hoven (born Rotterdam, 1957) 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

• Van den Hoven, MJ (2005). Moral values, design and ICT. Tijdschrift voor Humanistiek, 23(oktober),52-58. (TUD)
• Van den Hoven, MJ (2005). Design for values and values for design. Informationage, 7(2), 4-7. (TUD)
• Wiegel, V., Van den Hoven M.J., Lokhorst G.J. ( 2005). Privacy, deontic epistemic action logic and software agents, an executable approach to modeling moral constraints in complex informational relationships. Ethics Inf Technol 7(4):251–264.
• Van den Hoven, J. (2008). Moral Methodology and Information Technology. In: Kennet E. Himma, Herman T. Tavani (Eds.): The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Wiley, 2008, pp. 49–68.
• Van den Hoven, M.j., Manders, N.L.J.L. (2009). Value-sensitive design. In JK Berg Olsen, SA Pedersen&V Hendricks (Eds.), A companion to the philosophy of technology (pp. 477–480). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. (TUD)
• Van den Hoven, J. (2010). The use of normative theories in computer ethics. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, Cambridge University Press.
• Hoven, Jeroen van den, and John Weckert, eds. 2008. Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. E-Democracy, E-Contestation and the Monitoral Citizen. Ethics and Information Technology, 51-59.
• van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. Privacy. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, edited by C. Mitcham. New York: Macmillan Reference.

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