University of Groningen

Faculty Member, Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Economics and Business

Professor of Financial Ethics

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Boudewijn de Bruin is Professor of Financial Ethics at the University of Groningen.

De Bruin joined the University of Groningen as a postdoctoral researcher in 2005 in Martin van Hees' NWO/Vici project on Modelling Freedom, and later as a lecturer in ethics, after obtaining his PhD in philosophy from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam where he held an NWO PhD grant. His doctoral dissertation, under supervision of Johan van Benthem and Martin Stokhof, was on game theory and epistemic logic, and was awarded a Research Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in 2005. De Bruin studied musical composition at Enschede (with David Rowland, one year), and mathematics and philosophy at Amsterdam, Berkeley and Harvard Business School.

De Bruin's research interests are financial ethics, moral and political philosophy, theory of knowledge, philosophy of mathematics and economics, game theory and philosophical logic. De Bruin is the author of a monograph on Explaining Games: The Epistemic Programme in Game Theory published in Springer's Synthese Library in 2010, and co-editor, with Christopher F. Zurn, of New Waves in Political Philosophy (Palgrave, 2008).

In 2008, De Bruin was awarded a prestigious NWO/Veni grant for a project on Recognition and Republicanism. He also obtained funding for a project on Ethics and Game Theory, as well as, with Martin van Hees, for a research project on Shared Commitments and Common Knowledge: The Epistemic Dimensions of Deliberative Democracy, with a large empirical study of neighbourhood safety.

De Bruin has taught courses on logic, Wittgenstein, philosophy of mathematics, game theory, computational philosophy, political and social philosophy, evolutionary ethics, introduction to ethics, applied ethics, philosophical logic, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of action and financial ethics, and he has been tutor in mathematical logic. De Bruin teaches in executive education and corporate ethics programmes and is a consultant for several professional organizations.

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