The Ethics group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is an international, dynamic research group dedicated to cutting-edge and impactful research. The group is chaired by Gerben Meynen.
The group consists of two professors (Meynen, Van Hees), two associate professors (Robichaud, Wieland ), two assistant professors (Bastian, Bernstein), and their postdocs and PhDs.
Our fields of specialization:
- Philosophy, politics and economics (Van Hees, Robichaud, Bastian)
- Bioethics (Meynen, Bernstein)
- Ethics of sustainability (Wieland)
Projects that the group is currently working on:
- neurotechniques (Meynen, Tesink, Dore-Horgan)
- commercial DNA databases (De Groot)
- collective action (Supèr, Wieland, Bernstein)
- taking responsibility (Boll, Robichaud)
- normativity and rationality (Bastian)
- political responsiveness (Visser)
Teaching
The group is responsible for moral and political philosophy courses in a wide variety of philosophy and non-philosophy programs, and coordinates the Bachelor “Philosophy, Politics and Economics” and the Master “Philosophy, Bioethics and Health”.