Martin van Hees

Martin Vinzenz Baldur Paul Maria (Martin) van Hees (born 26 July 1964, Beilen) is a Dutch philosopher.
Van Hees was professor of ethics at the University of Groningen and since April 2013 professor of political theory at the University of Amsterdam. He received a VICI-grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to further research and develop the program Modelling Freedom: Formal Analysis and Normative Philosophy. Van Hees is a vegetarian.
In August 2014, Van Hees will start a professorship of Ethics at VU University Amsterdam. He is also a senior editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy.

After receiving degrees in political science and philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Van Hees obtained his PhD in social sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1994 with the dissertation: Rights, liberalism and social choice: a logical and game-theoretical analysis of individual and collective rights.

Van Hees became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

Books

• Van Hees, Martin (1994). Rights, liberalism and social choice: a logical and game-theoretical analysis of individual and collective rights. Amsterdam: Nijmegen. ISBN 9789090075914. 
• van Hees, Martin (1995). Rights and decisions: formal models of law and liberalism. Dordrecht Boston: Kluwer Academic. ISBN 9780792337546. 
• Van Hees, Martin (2000). Legal reductionism and freedom. Dordrecht Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 9780792364917. 
• Van Hees, Martin; Robeyns, Ingrid; Nys, Thomas (2014). Basisboek ethiek. Amsterdam, Holland: Uitgeverij Boom. ISBN 9789461059321. 

Chapters in books

• Van Hees, Martin; Roy, Olivier (2008), "Intentions and plans in decision and game theory", in Verbeek, Bruno, Reasons and intentions, Aldershot, England Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 207–226, ISBN 9780754660040 
• Van Hees, Martin (2010), "Some general results on responsibility for outcomes", in van Deemen, Adrian; Rusinowska, Agnieszka, Collective decision making views from social choice and game theory, Berlin London: Springer, pp. 99–110, ISBN 9783642028656 

Journal articles

• Van Hees, Martin; Dowding, Keith (May 2003). "The construction of rights". American Political Science Review. Cambridge Journals. 97 (2): 281–293. 
• Van Hees, Martin; Anand, Paul (April 2006). "Capabilities and achievements: an empirical study". The Journal of Socio-Economics: special section - The Socio-Economics of Happiness. Elsevier: Science Direct. 35 (2): 268–284. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.003. 
• Van Hees, Martin; Dowding, Keith (July 2007). "Counterfactual success and negative freedom". Economics and Philosophy. Cambridge Journals. 23 (2): 141–162. doi:10.1017/S0266267107001344. 

• Response article by Ian Carter and Matthew H. Kramer Ian, Carter; Kramer, Matthew H (March 2008). "How changes in one's preferences can affect one's freedom (and how they cannot): a reply to Dowding and Van Hees". Economics and Philosophy. Cambridge Journals. 24 (1): 81–96. doi:10.1017/S0266267108001685. 

• Van Hees, Martin; Dowding, Keith (March 2008). "Counterfactual success again: response to Carter and Kramer". Economics and Philosophy. Cambridge Journals. 24 (1): 97–103. doi:10.1017/S0266267108001697. 
• Van Hees, Martin; Dowding, Keith (January 2008). "In praise of manipulation". British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge Journals. 38 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1017/S000712340800001X. 
• Van Hees, Martin; Dowding, Keith; Anand, Paul; Hunter, Graham; Carter, Ian; Guala, Francesco (2009). "The development of capability indicators". Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Taylor and Francis. 10 (1): 125–152. doi:10.1080/14649880802675366.