Hub Zwart

Hub Zwart (1960) studied philosophy (cum laude) and psychology (cum laude) at Radboud University Nijmegen. He worked as research associate at the Centre for Bioethics (Maastricht, 1988-1992) and defended his thesis on consensus formation in a pluralistic society in 1993 (cum laude). He was appointed as research director of the Centre for Ethics (Nijmegen, 1992-2000) and acted as editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde en Ethiek. In 2000 he became full professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Science. He was European lead of the EU Canada exchange program Coastal Values (1999-2003). In 2004 he became director of the Centre for Society & Genomics, funded by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative and established at his department. The focus of his research is on epistemological and ethical issues in the life sciences: biomedicine (1988-1996), research with animals (1996-2003), environmental research (1998-2003) and genomics (2003-present). His current research concerns: the epistemological profile of genomics; philosophical implications of the Human Genome Project; epistemological profile of ecogenomics; challenges of macro-ethics (the ethics of bio-information); scientific authorship and comparative epistemology (literary imagination as a research tool). Hub Zwart teaches Introduction to philosophy and ethics of life sciences; Introduction to philosophy and ethics of science; Visible Scientists; and Science and literature.

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