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- Human Enhancement for the Common Good
The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) has accepted this essay by Anton Vedder and Laura Klaming. AJOB ranks among the international ethics journals with the highest impact factor. Over the last years it was nr. 1. - Databases for health care and public health
As from 2010, Anton Vedder will be a member of the Advisory Board of As from 2010, Anton Vedder will be a member of the Advisory Board of "Zorggegevens.nl", an ongoing research programme and a web portal meant to provide an information infrastructure for health care and public health in the Netherlands. - Social Dimensions of Privacy
On Chirstmas Eve, 2008, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research decided to fund a research programme, submitted and led by Anton Vedder and Beate Roessler on the social dimensions of the value(s) of privacy. The funding amounts to more than 500.000 euros.
Publications
Principal publications- Vedder, Anton & Laura Klaming (2010) Human Enhancement for the Common Good - Using Neurotechnologies to Improve Eyewitness Memory. AJOB Neuroscience 2010; 3, 22-33
- Vedder, Anton (2008) Responsibilities for Information on the Internet. In: Himma, K. and Tavani, H. (eds.), The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Hoboken NJ (etc.) John Wiley and Sons, pp. 339-359 ISBN 978-0-471-79959-7
- Vedder, Anton, et al., (2007) NGO Involvement in International Governance and Policy: Sources of Legitimacy. Leiden: Brill / Martinus Nijhoff, 2007.(Nijhoff Law Specials 72; Paperback, 245 pp, ISBN 978 90 04 15846 7)
- Vedder, Anton (2005), Expert knowledge for non-experts: Inherent and contextual risks of misinformation. ICES, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 2005; 3: 113-119
- Vedder, Anton (2000), Medical data, new information technologies and the need for normative principles other than privacy rules. In: M. Freeman and A. Lewis (ed.), Law and Medicine. (Series Current Legal Issues). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 441-459.
Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)
Education
Anton Vedder holds a doctorate from Utrecht University (1995). In his thesis, "The Values of Freedom", he analyzed conceptions of freedom put froward in recent philosophical theory and social and political debate. He holds further degrees in philosophy, history, theology, and German (Utrecht, Leuven, Groningen). For his studies in history in Leuven, he received scholarships from the Flemish Community and the board of the University of Leuven.
Career
Anton Vedder is affiliated to Tilburg University as from June, 1996. Previously, he was an assistant-professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1992-1996) and Utrecht University (1988-1992). After his graduation in philosophy in early 1985 and before his studies in Leuven in the fall of that same year, Utrecht University appointed him as a research assistant on a short-term project located at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. At Utrecht University, during his studies, he had had several appointments as a student-assistant.
Publications
Principal publications- Vedder, Anton & Laura Klaming (2010) Human Enhancement for the Common Good - Using Neurotechnologies to Improve Eyewitness Memory. AJOB Neuroscience 2010; 3, 22-33
- Vedder, Anton (2008) Responsibilities for Information on the Internet. In: Himma, K. and Tavani, H. (eds.), The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Hoboken NJ (etc.) John Wiley and Sons, pp. 339-359 ISBN 978-0-471-79959-7
- Vedder, Anton, et al., (2007) NGO Involvement in International Governance and Policy: Sources of Legitimacy. Leiden: Brill / Martinus Nijhoff, 2007.(Nijhoff Law Specials 72; Paperback, 245 pp, ISBN 978 90 04 15846 7)
- Vedder, Anton (2005), Expert knowledge for non-experts: Inherent and contextual risks of misinformation. ICES, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 2005; 3: 113-119
- Vedder, Anton (2000), Medical data, new information technologies and the need for normative principles other than privacy rules. In: M. Freeman and A. Lewis (ed.), Law and Medicine. (Series Current Legal Issues). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 441-459.
Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)
Direct and indirect funding
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO
"Social Dimensions of Privacy"
(2009-2013), appr. 2.5 fte (With Beate Roessler, UvA)
"Globalization and the legitimacy of power of non-governmental organizations"
(2004-2007), appr. 3.0 fte
"Ethical aspects of ultrafast communication"
(2004-2007), appr. 0.8 fte
"The reliability of medical information on the Internet: Ethical and legal aspects"
(2002-2005), appr. 1.1 fte
"The WTO and the impossibility of national policies regarding animal and agriculture ethics"
(1999-2001), appr. 1.2 fte
The Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology's Collaboration Unit, SOBU
"Group profiling through data mining in epidemiology: ethical and legal aspects"
PhD-project carried out by Bart Custers, M.Sc., (2000-2003), 1.0 fte
Other organizations (selection)
"Trusted Technology: Effects of the Use of Privacy Enhancing Technologies and Privacy by Design by Governmental Authorities on Trust and Acceptance by Citizens"
Netherlands Ministry of Economics, Ministry of Interior Affairs, and Ministry of Finance (AVB), 2010-2011, approximately 0.3 fte.
"Normative aspects of a regional data administration for health care."
Brainport Health Innovation, Eindhoven, 2009, approximately 0.2 fte.
"The Future of Converging Technologies: Impact Analysis."
Ministry of Justice/ Ministry of Interior Affairs, The Hague
2007, approximately 0.2 fte (in collaboration with Telematica Institute and others)
"The national personal service number and private organizations."
Ministry of Interior Affairs, The Hague, 2007, approximately 0.2 fte.
"The screening society, preliminary research on anti-terrorism measures and privacy"
Rathenau Institute, The Hague, 2006, approximately 0.4 fte.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Anton Vedder received grants for research from
a private health insurance company (1993-1994, 0.8 fte), the Dutch Ministry of Traffic Infrastructure and Environment (1993, 0.8 fte), Netherlands Federation of Insurance Companies (1992, 1 fte), the
Research supervision
- Wouter Steijn, M Phil (Tilburg University), Young adults perceptions of risks to privacy (2010-2013)
- Bart Custers, M Sc (Tilburg University), Data mining and group profiling for epidemiological purposes: ethical and legal issues (2000-2004)
- Peter Blok, LL M (Tilburg University), Privacy and Data Protection in Europe and the USA (1998-2002)
Teaching
A.H. Vedder teaches the following subjects:
- Patient Rights in 2020 (600295) Further information
- Innovative Technologies, Risks, and Regulation (620820) Further information
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Global Technology, Ethics and Law (620823)
Further information
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