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Harming others : universal subjectivism and the expanding moral circle Berg, F. van den Citation Berg, F. van den. (2011, April 14). Harming others : universal subjectivism and the expanding moral circle. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/16719 Version: Corrected Publisher’s Version Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the License: Institutional Repository of the University of Leiden Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/16719 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). Curriculum Vitae Floris van den Berg (1973) studied Japanese Studies in Leiden and Japan. He graduated on a thesis on the reception of western philosophy in Japan. He also studied philosophy at Leiden University and Utrecht University. He graduated in applied philosophy at Utrecht University on the subject of utopianism and political philosophy. He worked for five years as staff member at the department of General Studies (Studium Generale) at Utrecht University and for two years at Delft University of Technology. Since 2009 he works as university lecturer at the department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences at Utrecht University where he teaches (environmental) ethics and philosophy of science. He published several books, including Hoe komen we van religie af? Een ongemakkelijke liberale paradox, the Bildungsnovel Geleefde brieven I: Prometheus [‘Lived Letters I: Prometheus’] and Filosofie voor een betere wereld. This last book is a popular version of the theory of universal subjectivism. An English translation – Philosophy for a Better World – will be published in 2011 by Prometheus Books. Floris is involved with humanism and freethought organizations; he is vice-president of the Dutch freethought organization De Vrije Gedachte and director of the secular humanist think tank Center for Inquiry Low Countries. He regularly publishes articles on applied ethics in numerous international magazines and journals. Some of his publications can be found on his blog: http://verlichtingshumanisten.web-log.nl/ [email protected] 247 .

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