Sytse Strijbos
Sytse Strijbos (born 1944) is a Dutch academic, former lecturer of Philosophy of technology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and at Potchefstroom University in South Africa, and chairman of the International Institute for Development and Ethics IIDE, known for his work on systems science. Biography. Born in Rotterdam, Strijbos graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology late 1960s. Later in his career he received his PhD in 1988 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Het technische wereldbeeld : een wijsgerig onderzoek van het systeemdenken" (The technological world-view: a philosophical study  of systems thinking) under supervision of Sander Griffioen and Egbert Schuurman. After his graduation in Delft, Strijbos worked as researcher at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium for ten years. On invitation of Hendrik van Riessen, his former Professor in Delft who had moved to Amsterdam, he then joined the Faculty of Philosophy of the Vrije Universiteit in the Department of Systematic Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture. In 1979 he edited the proceedings of the Congress on Systems thinking and social problems held at the Vrije Universiteit. In the 1980s he moved to the Department of Socio-cultural Philosophy and Philosophy of  History, where he worked on medical ethics In the 1990s he also lectured at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) In the new millennium he lectured philosophy in the Christian studies of Science and Society program. He was also Professor at the Philosophy Department of North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa. In 2003 he founded and became the first director of the International Institute for Development and Ethics IIDE. Selected publications. Books: Articles, a selection: