https://www.uu.nl/en en Sat, 04 May 2024 07:18:56 +0200 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.uu.nl/en/news/freedom-to-refuse-vaccination-is-not-unlimited How can and should the government respond to the current low participation in the vaccination programme? Ethicists Marcel Verweij and Roland Pierik (Maastricht) offer advice in their new book. 139550 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/what-is-limitarianism-professor-ingrid-robeyns-explains “Extreme wealth is disastrous for society, democracy, and climate”, Professor of Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns pleads. 131389 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/climate-displacement Jamie Draper draws together debates in different fields to provide a unified view on the topic of climate displacement. 135916 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:27:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/ethics-of-socially-disruptive-technologies-an-introduction Jeroen Hopster, Lorina Buhr, Cindy Friedman, Arthur Gwagwa, and Björn Lundgren contributed to this book on the disruptive potential of technologies. 133667 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:07:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/the-balearic-islands-have-a-new-climate-law-there-are-however-foundational-challenges In The Conversation, lecturer Morten Byskov, Assistant Professor Jeroen Hopster and Júlia Isern Bennassar write about the recently passed climate law on the Balearic Islands. 133049 Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/having-too-much-philosophical-essays-on-limitarianism Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. 132704 Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:09:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/moraal-goed-en-kwaad-van-prehistorie-tot-polarisatie In his book 'Moral', philosopher Hanno Sauer describes the main changes and developments in our moral thinking from 5 million years ago to today. 132613 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:10:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/a-manifesto-for-african-digital-sovereignty In the world of AI regulation, power is not evenly distributed. PhD candidate Arthur Gwagwa writes in Global Policy about Africa’s position in this world. 131198 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/what-hannah-arendt-can-teach-us-about-the-war-in-ukraine In Philosophy Now, Assistant Professor Maurits de Jongh discusses the insights of philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) to help understand the threat of nuclear annihilation. 130483 Wed, 10 May 2023 11:28:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/i-want-to-bring-philosophical-reflection-into-policy-choices-and-social-debates Marcel Verweij has been appointed professor of Philosophical Ethics. He investigates what philosophical issues of today can mean for ethical theory and vice versa. 130007 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:46:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/mirko-schafer-member-of-new-advisory-committee-for-governmental-institutions The Analytics Advisory Committee will provide solicited and unsolicited advice to the Ministry of Finance, the Tax Administration, Customs and Service Surcharges. 129684 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:01:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/will-billionaires-be-immortal-their-wealth-and-power-will-keep-growing The world’s richest will be the first to have access to life-extending treatments. This poses social risks, ethicist Chris Wareham observes. 128852 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/focus-on-more-than-the-material-damage-in-recovery-of-the-allowance-affair At the request of the Dutch Ministry of Finance, Professors Ingrid Robeyns and Rutger Claassen wrote an ethical analysis and advice on the compensations of the childcare benefits affair. 127939 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:47:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/deleuze-and-guattari-and-fascism Edited by Rick Dolphijn and Rosi Braidotti, a series of contributions places the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari in the context of contemporary fascism. 127228 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:42:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/the-four-technological-revolutions-that-fuelled-a-moral-revolution Over the years, human morality has gone through some major changes. Jeroen Hopster explains which ones in the podcast Philosophical Disquisitions. 126944 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:51:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/kvs-preadviezen-2023-have-been-handed-over-to-the-ministry-of-economic-affairs-and-climate-policy The KVS Preadviezen, compiled by Rutger Claassen and Dirk Schoenmaker, state, among other things, that companies should help solve societal challenges. 125719 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:45:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/wealth-and-power-philosophical-perspectives The new book Wealth & Power by Professor of Political Philosophy and Economic Ethics Rutger Claassen, among others, explores the link between wealth and politics. 125174 Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:34:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/how-does-the-recent-hollywood-film-archive-look-at-artificial-intelligence Associate Professor of Philosophical Ethics Sven Nyholm, specialised in ethics of technology, discusses artificial intelligence in the film Archive. 120827 Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:40:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/the-vicious-cycle-of-ignorance-and-exclusion-in-philosophy-needs-to-be-broken In an article for Crooked Timber Professor in the Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns writes about a problem she had long been aware of: geo-academic inequality. 115736 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:59:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/nwo-vici-grants-for-ingrid-robeyns-and-thijs-weststeijn Robeyns will develop a framework to analyse visions for the future, Weststeijn will introduce a global perspective on Dutch seventeenth-century art. 114686 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0100 Nieuws