UT philosophy professors in the news

“Why is it that we as women need to close the gender health gap by buying all kinds of expensive commercial-health applications?” asked Naomi Jacobs, an assistant professor in bioethics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and co-author of a 2023 critique. “Even if they’re not that expensive, because they’re apps, we’re paying with our most intimate data.”

Senior lecturer in philosophy at UT, Nolen Gertz, talks about how he views the situation in America. Gertz is from the United States and came to Twente in 2015 to teach at UT. He sees that Trump's administration is doing its best to drive away international students. UT students were already increasingly reluctant to go to the U.S., Gertz says. “It's also currently my colleagues who are discussing if they would go to a conference in the United States.” Gertz heard from American students at UT that they would rather not return to their home country and stay in the Netherlands. “But due to cuts in education funding and an anti-immigration policy by the Dutch government, they also feel less and less welcome here.”