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Martin van Hees

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Nationality
  
Dutch

Role
  
Philosopher

Website
  
Official website

Areas of interest
  
Ethics

Main interests
  
Ethics

Name
  
Martin Hees



Full Name
  
Martin Vinzenz Baldur Paul Maria van Hees

Born
  
26 July 1964 (age 59) (
1964-07-26
)
Beilen, The Netherlands

Institutions
  
VU University Amsterdam

Alma mater
  
Radboud University Nijmegen

Books
  
Legal Reductionism and Freedom

Institution
  
VU University Amsterdam

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Martin Vinzenz Baldur Paul Maria (Martin) van Hees (born 26 July 1964, Beilen) is a Dutch philosopher.

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Van Hees was professor of ethics at the University of Groningen and since April 2013 professor of political theory at the University of Amsterdam. He received a VICI-grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to further research and develop the program Modelling Freedom: Formal Analysis and Normative Philosophy. Van Hees is a vegetarian.

In August 2014, Van Hees will start a professorship of Ethics at VU University Amsterdam. He is also a senior editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. Since 2016 Van Hees is serving as Dean of the John Stuart Mill College of the VU Amsterdam and programme director for the VU's recently established Philosophy, Politics & Economics Bachelor's programme.

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Education

After receiving degrees in political science and philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Van Hees obtained his PhD in social sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1994 with the dissertation: Rights, liberalism and social choice: a logical and game-theoretical analysis of individual and collective rights.

Van Hees became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

References

Martin van Hees Wikipedia