Dr.Nyholm, S.R. (Sven)

Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy Utrecht University. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2012. His dissertation, on Kant’s ethics, was awarded the Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award. A revised version of it, with the title Revisiting Kant’s Universal Law and Humanity Formulas, was published in book form by De Gruyter in 2015. Before joining the faculty at TU/e in 2015, Nyholm was a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the University of Cologne in Germany during three years (2012-2015).

Nyholm’s main areas of research are applied ethics (especially the ethics of technology), ethical theory, and the history of ethics. More specifically, he has recently published on love-relationships and biomedical enhancements, motivation-enhancements, self-driving cars, sex robots, deep brain stimulation, happiness and well-being, meaning in life, and interpersonal respect and moral reasoning. His articles have appeared in general philosophy journals, ethics journals, and bioethics journals (including Journal of the American Philosophical Association, European Journal of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Applied Ethics, The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, etc.). Nyholm has also tried his hand at experimental philosophy, resulting in a co-authored article (on happiness) that appeared in the first volume of the Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. His second book, Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism (Rowman & Littlefield International), is about the ethics of human-robot interaction, and appeared in 2020. Currently, Nyholm is writing his third book, This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell), which is scheduled to appear in 2022.

For a complete (or nearly complete) list of Nyholm’s publications, see his PhilPapers profile, here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/sven-nyholm