Faculty Member, Technology Assessment
Utrecht University, Philosophy
Head of department Technology Assessment, Rathenau Instituut & Chair in Ethics of Technology Assessment, Utrecht University
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Academic publications of Frans W.A. Brom, Rathenau Institute
Frans Brom (1963) is Head of the Department of Technology Assessment at the Rathenau Instituut (of the Royal Netherlands Academia of Arts and Sciences) in The Hague since 2007. Since April 2010 he is professor in 'Ethics of Technology Assessment' at department of Philosophy/Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. Frans is Co-founder of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, EurSafe and was its secretary-general from 1999-2007. He is the chair of the subcommittee on ethical and social aspects of the Commission on Genetic Modification (since 2002), and member of the Central Ethical Compliance Group of Unilever (since 2006; chair since 2009).
His research focuses on the ethical and societal impact of science and technology and the interaction between ethics and political theory. He has a special interest in the status of public morality and the role of trust in pluralistic democratic societies.
The uploaded papers concern ethics and technology assessment, food ethics, animal ethics and consumer concerns.
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