The Ethics group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is an international, dynamic research group dedicated to cutting-edge and impactful research in applied ethics. 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.
Research projects the group is currently working on:
- neurotechniques (Meynen, Tesink, Dore-Horgan)
- intra vs. interpersonal dilemmas (Supèr, Costella, Wieland)
- taking responsibility (Boll, Robichaud)
- cooperation and rationality (Dunne, De Boer, Bastian)
- commercial DNA databases (De Groot)
- cancel culture (Bastian)
- infectious disease (Bernstein)
- persistent minorities in democracies (Visser)
- corporate responsibility for climate change (Wieland)
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“.