Adrienne de Ruiter

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Adrienne de Ruiter is an ethicist and political philosopher and theorist. She studied Liberal Arts and Sciences and Philosophy at Utrecht University and completed master degrees in Middle East Studies at Leiden University, Conflict Studies and Human Rights at Utrecht University, and Contemporary Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. She conducted doctoral research at the European University Institute in Florence on the issue of dehumanisation of refugees and asylum seekers. After her PhD she taught on global justice, human rights, and ethics of war at the University of Newcastle and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Humanistic Studies. As Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Humanism, she teaches and conducts research on ethics, philosophy, and the meaning of humanity.

Adrienne de Ruiter is an expert in ethics and political philosophy. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and draws predominantly from analytical and continental philosophy, political theory, social psychology and sociology. The focus of her research is on what it means to recognise and treat others as human. After studying the phenomenon of dehumanisation for many years, her current work considers the ethical and philosophical implications of emerging technologies, such as deepfakes and social AI. She is now working on the NWO-funded project Meet My Virtual Better Half: Exploring the meaning of ‘significant others’ on Replika.