Jeroen van den Hoven (born 1957 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch ethicist and a philosophy professor at Delft University of Technology.^[1] He specializes in ethics of information technology.

Work

Van den Hoven has written and worked with a range of scholars including Seumas Miller, Thomas Pogge, Martha Nussbaum and John Weckert.^[2]

Currently he is Scientific Director of the Delft Design for Values Institute,^[3] editor in chief of Ethics and Information Technology,^[4] and the founding Scientific Director of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology (2007-2013).^[5][6] Van den Hoven is also founding Chair of the CEPE conference (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry),^[7] a permanent member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE) to the European Commission.^[8]

Awards

• In 2009, he won the World Technology Award for Ethics as well as the IFIP prize for ICT and Society for his work in Ethics and ICT.^[9]
• In 2017 he was knighted in the Order of the Netherlands Lion^[10]

Selected publications

• Van den Hoven, MJ (2005). Moral values, design and ICT. Tijdschrift voor Humanistiek, 23(oktober),52-58. (TUD)
• Van den Hoven, MJ (2005). Design for values and values for design. Informationage, 7(2), 4-7. (TUD)
• Wiegel, V., Van den Hoven M.J., Lokhorst G.J. ( 2005). Privacy, deontic epistemic action logic and software agents, an executable approach to modeling moral constraints in complex informational relationships. Ethics Inf Technol 7(4):251–264.
• Van den Hoven, J. (2008). Moral Methodology and Information Technology. In: Kennet E. Himma, Herman T. Tavani (Eds.): The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Wiley, 2008, pp. 49–68.
• Van den Hoven, M.j., Manders, N.L.J.L. (2009). Value-sensitive design. In JK Berg Olsen, SA Pedersen&V Hendricks (Eds.), A companion to the philosophy of technology (pp. 477–480). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. (TUD)
• Van den Hoven, J. (2010). The use of normative theories in computer ethics. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, Cambridge University Press.
• Hoven, Jeroen van den, and John Weckert, eds. 2008. Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. E-Democracy, E-Contestation and the Monitoral Citizen. Ethics and Information Technology, 51-59.
• van den Hoven, M.J. 2005. Privacy. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, edited by C. Mitcham. New York: Macmillan Reference.
• Van den Hoven, Miller & Pogge (eds.) 2017. Designing in Ethics, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511844317
• van den Hoven, M.J., Cocking Dean. 2018. Evil Online, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405154369