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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.
Publications
 | Explaining Games: The Epistemic Programme in Game Theory. Synthese Library, Vol. 346. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. springer.com amazon.com summary, advance praise, etc. |
 | New Waves in Political Philosophy. Ed. with Christopher F. Zurn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. palgrave.com amazon.com |
"The Liberal Value of Privacy." Law and Philosophy 29.5 (2010): 505-534. full text abstract
"Over de wetenschappelijkheid van de rechtswetenschap." Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie 3 (2009). abstract
"Doxastische en epistemische vrijheid." Tijdschrift voor filosofie 71.3 (2009): 529-552. full text abstract
"Liberal and Republican Freedom." Journal of Political Philosophy 17.4 (2009): 418-439. full text abstract
"We and the Plural Subject." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39.2 (2009): 235-259. full text abstract
"Overmathematisation in Game Theory: Pitting the Nash Equilibrium Refinement Programme against the Epistemic Programme." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 40.3 (2009): 290-300. full text abstract
"The Logic of Valuing." Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy. Ed. Thomas Boylan and Ruvin Gekker. London: Routledge, 2009. 164-172. full text abstract
"On the Narrow Epistemology of Game Theoretic Agents." Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy. Ed. Ondrej Majer, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Tero Tulenheimo. Berlin: Springer, 2009. 27-36. full text abstract
"On Glazer and Rubinstein on Persuasion." New Perspectives on Games and Interactions. Ed. Krzysztof R. Apt and Robert van Rooij. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2008. 141-150. full text abstract
"Media Violence and Freedom of Speech: How To Use Empirical Data." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 11.5 (2008): 493-505. full text abstract
"Wittgenstein on Circularity in the Frege-Russell Definition of Cardinal Number."Philosophia Mathematica 16.3 (2008): 354-373. full text abstract
"Common Knowledge of Rationality in Extensive Games." Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 49.3 (2008): 261-280. full text abstract
"Common Knowledge of Payoff Uncertainty in Games." Synthese 163.1 (2008): 79-97. full text abstract
"Bijsturen, of herzien?" Openbaar bestuur 18.3 (2008): 36.
"A Note on List's Modal Logic of Republican Freedom." Politics, Philosophy and Economics 7.3 (2008): 341-349. full text abstract
"Reducible and Nonsensical Uses of Game Theory." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38.2 (2008): 247-266. full text abstract
"Epistemic Logic and Epistemology." New Waves in Epistemology. Ed. Vincent F. Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 106-136. full text abstract
"Popper's Conception of the Rationality Principle in the Social Sciences." Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment: Selected Papers from Karl Popper 2002: Volume III: Science. Ed. Ian Jarvie, Karl Milford and David Miller. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 207-215. full text abstract
"Game Theory in Philosophy." Topoi 24.2 (2005):197-208. full text abstract
Handelingen van de 24ste Nederlands-Vlaamse Filosofiedag, 2 november 2002: Filosofie en Empirie Ed. with Renate Bartsch et al. Amsterdam: U of Amsterdam, 2002.
"Afscheid van een Spinozaproject." Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 94 (2002): 159-161.
"Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." Proceedings of the International Wittgenstein Symposium 2001. Kirchberg/Wechsel, 2001. 184-189. full text abstract
"Game Transformations and Game Equivalence." ILLC Technical Note X-1999-01, 1999. full text abstract
"Wittgenstein's Objections Against the Frege-Russell Definition of Number." Proceedings of the International Wittgenstein Symposium 1999. Kirchberg/Wechsel, 1999. 109-113.full text abstract