Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Marc de Vries is a leader in the field of technology education. His main research to date has focused on the epistemology of technology, the ethics of nanotechnology and Utopian thinking in technology. His impressive work has been instrumental in preparing educators to promote technological literacy in future generations.

In 1982, Dr. de Vries earned an M.Sc. in Physics from Free University in Amsterdam. He would then go on to earn a Ph.D. in Science Education from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Throughout his career, he has been a dedicated professor in Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology, an Affiliate Professor in Christian Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology, a current Professor of Science Education at the Delft University of Technology as well and an Affiliate Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogy of Technology and Engineering Education at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Prof. Dr. Marc de Vries’ holds a vested interest in ensuring insights from the philosophy of technology become integrated into the pedagogy of both technology and design. He has been instrumental in the examination of philosophical reflections and their relation to technological artifacts, technological knowledge and design processes that highlight the relation between technology and humans/society. Through his extensive research, he has examined a vital link between how technology and design can be both taught and learned.

Hi Dr. de Vries, we want to thank you for being here with us today. We appreciate your time and we know our viewers today are excited for you to lend your insight as you are the major contributor to our methodology study this semester.

Key Publications

Vries, M.J. de (2020), Wicked Problems in a Technological World. Philosophia Reformata85(2), 125-137.

M.J. de, en Vries, P. de (2020), Woord en Wetenschap. Goddelijke openbaring en menselijk inzicht. Barneveld: Labarum Academic

Vries, M.J. de (2019). Conclusion. In: Vries, M.J. de, and Jochemsen, H. (Eds.). The Normative Nature of Social Practices and Ethics in Professional Environments. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 295-301.

Nia, M.G., Harandi, M.F., and Vries, M.J. de (2019). Technology Development as a Normative Practice: A Meaning-Based Approach to Learning About Values in Engineering—Damming as a Case Study. Science and Engineering Ethics 25(1), 25, 55-82.

Cusveller, B. and Vries, M.J. de (2017), Cinemasofie. Grote vragen op het grote scherm. Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn.

Vries, M.J. de (2016), Teaching about Technology. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology for Non-philosophers. Second Edition. Dordrecht: Springer.

Verkerk, M.J., Hoogland, J., Stoep, J. van der and Vries, M.J. de (2016), Philosophy of Technology. An Introduction for Technology and Business Students. New York: Routledge.

Vries, M.J. de (2015), ‘Engineering as Normative Practice: Ethical Reflections on Tasks and Responsibilities’, in Sundar Sethy, S. (Ed.), Contemporary Ethical Issues in Engineering. Hersey, NY: IGI Global, 12-21.

Harandi, M.F., Nia, M.G. and Vries, M.J. de (2015), Water Management: Sacrificing Normative Practice Subverting the Traditions of Water Apportionment – ‘Whose Justice? Which Rationality?’, Science and Engineering Ethics Vol. 21(5), 1241-1269.

Vries, M.J. de (2013), Technologie, overal om je heen. Moderne ontwikkelingen in christelijk perspectief. Heerenveen: Groen.