Delft University of Technology offers three positions for PhD students working as part of a new €2.5 million European Research Council (ERC) grant funded project ‘Design for Changing Values: a theory of value change in sociotechnical systems’. The entire Advanced ERC funded project consists of 3 PhD positions and 2 postdoc positions and will...
On Friday 16th November 2018 Prof. dr. mr. ir. Neelke Doorn will hold her inaugural address in acceptance of the chair in the ‘Ethics of water engineering’. This is the first chair specifically concerning ethical questions in water management and water technology. The title of the inaugural address is ‘Values in water’. During her address Prof....
Lecturer in Philosophy of Technology (2 year teaching position), with a focus on critical thinking and methodology for engineers, TU Delft Faculty/department Technology, Policy and Management Level PhD degree Maximum employment 38 hours per week (1,0 FTE) Duration of contract 2 years Salary scale Min € 2.588,- max € 4.757,- per month gross Technology, Policy and Management The...
Postdoc: Responsible Collection and Analysis of Personal Data for Justice and Security Faculty/department Technology, Policy and Management Level PhD degree Maximum employment 32 hours per week (0,8 FTE) Duration of contract 23 months Salary scale: maximum 4084 euros per month gross (scale 10) depending on (work) experience Technology, Policy and Management The Faculty of Technology, Policy...
On 16 November 2018, Neelke Doorn will deliver her inaugural address upon accepting the chair “Ethics of Water Engineering” at Delft University of Technology. The ceremony starts at 15:00hr in the Aula of the TU Delft. All 4TU.Ethics members are cordially invited to attend the ceremony....
Faculty/department Technology, Policy and Management Level PhD degree Maximum employment 38 hours per week (1 FTE) Duration of contract Tenure track Salary scale €3,427 to €5330 per month gross Intended starting date: mid April 2018 Technology, Policy and Management The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the...
Technology, Policy and Management The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the insights from engineering with the humanities and the social sciences. The Department of Values, Technology and Innovation (VTI) focuses on the value dimension of comprehensive engineering, the overarching research theme of...
Job Description The PhD candidate will perform research as part of the research project T-TRIPP: Tools for Translation of Risk research into Policies and Practices. The project is a collaboration with the Rathenau Instituut and the serious gaming department of Delft University of Technology. The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Ibo van...
On Friday September 22, 2017, The Dutch newspaper FD published an op-ed written by 4TU.Ethics member Neelke Doorn about the proposal to introduce a system of flood insurances in the Netherlands. In this piece, Neelke argues that the Dutch flood risk management system is based on solidarity and that any system for financial compensation...
On Monday May 15, 2017, The Dutch newspaper FD published an op-ed written by Dr. Neelke Doorn and two colleagues. In this piece, Neelke and colleagues argue that there should be more attention in climate policy for how costs and benefits are distributed in measures that are taken to encourage transition to a sustainable...
The Digital Humanities & Experimental Philosophy CollaborATive (DHEPCAT — http://www.alfanophilosophy.com/lab-home/) will host a workshop and masterclass December 14-15 in Amsterdam at De Waag Society, located at Nieuwmarkt 4 in Amsterdam. On December 14, talks will be given on the topic of digital humanities, social epistemology, and virtue theory in a post-truth society. The keynote...
To be held at EACL 2017 in Valencia on April 3 or 4, 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/ethicsinnlp/ Submission deadline: Jan 16, 2017 Overview: NLP is a rapidly maturing field. NLP technologies now play a role in business applications and decision processes that affect billions of people on a daily basis. However, increasing amounts of data and...
