Dr.ir. B. (Behnam) Taebi
Profile
Behnam Taebi is Associate Professor in ethics of technology and Scientific Director of the Safety & Security Institute at Delft University of Technology. He is also affiliated with Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University (2014-2020). Taebi studied Material Science and Engineering (2006) and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Technology (2010). His research interests are in energy ethics, risk governance, responsible research and innovation (RRI) and engineering ethics.
Taebi is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Science and Engineering Ethics. He has further guest edited (and co-edited) several special issues of a number of leading journal, and a volume on The Ethics of Nuclear Energy, published with Cambridge University Press (2015). He is currently writing a monograph on Ethics and Engineering (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
Taebi is a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (in Dutch: DJA-KNAW) and a member of the OECD Expert Group on ‘Transdisciplinary Research for Addressing Global Challenges’.
Research
His research interests are in energy ethics, nuclear ethics, responsible innovation and engineering ethics.
- Taebi, B. 2017. Bridging the gap between social acceptance and ethical acceptability. Risk Analysis 37 (10): 1817-1827. available online
- Doorn, N, and B. Taebi. 2018. “Rawls’ Wide Reflective Equilibrium as a Method for Engaged Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Potentials and Limitations for the Context of Technological Risks.” Science, Technology and Human Values 43 (3): 487–5
- Taebi, B. and S. Roeser, eds. 2015. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. available online
- Taebi, B. and I. R. Van de Poel. 2015. Socio-technical challenges of nuclear power production and waste disposal in the post-Fukushima Era. Editors' overview. Journal of Risk Research 18 (3): 267-272. available online
- Taebi, B. and J. L. Kloosterman. 2015. Design for values in nuclear technology. In Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design: Sources, Theory, Values and Application Domains, edited by J. van den Hoven, P. Vermaas and I. Van de Poel. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media: 805-829 available online
- Taebi, B., A. Correljé, E. Cuppen, M. Dignum and U. Pesch. 2014. Responsible innovation and an endorsement of public values: the need for interdisciplinary research. Journal of Responsible Innovation 1 (1): 118-124. available online
- Taebi, B. 2012. Multinational nuclear waste repositories and their complex issues of justice. Ethics, Policy & Environment 15 (1): 57-62. available online
- Taebi, B., S. Roeser and I. Van de Poel. 2012. The ethics of nuclear power: social experiments, intergenerational justice, and emotions. Energy Policy (51): 202-206. available online
- Taebi, B. 2011. The Morally Desirable Option for Nuclear Power Production. Philosophy & Technology 24 (2): 169-192. available online
- Taebi, B. and A.C. Kadak. 2010. Intergenerational Considerations Affecting the Future of Nuclear Power: Equity as a Framework for Assessing Fuel Cycles. Risk Analysis 30 (9):1341-1362. available online
- Ethics and Governance of Multinational Nuclear Waste Repositories, Personal Veni grant funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
- Responsible innovation: linking formal and informal assessment in decision-making on Energy projects, Joint Interdisciplinary Project (see the link below for the project team), funded in the Responsible Innovation Scheme, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
He teaches a philosophy courses on ‘Climate Ethics’ (WM0535TU) and co-teaches several interdisciplinary courses, including ‘Ethics and Impact of Global Interventions’ (EPA1133) and ‘Climate Change: Science and Ethics’ (CIE4510).
- Member of the Young Academy, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Member the OECD Global Science Forum Expert Group on ‘Transdisciplinary Research'
- Taebi, B. and S. Roeser, eds. 2015. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. available online
- Podcast: Geo-engineering de noodrem voor klimaatverandering
- Dutch) Interview met het radioprogramma De kennis van nu over de gevaren van kernenergie.
- http://www.dekennisvannu.nl/site/media/Podcast---Kernenergie/6074
- Doorn, N. and B. Taebi. Volkswagen Scandal Reveals Design Flaws: The Need for Value Conscious Design. The Huffington Post, October 13, 2015
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/behnam-taebi/volkswagen-scandal-reveal_b_8280708.html
- Taebi, B. Dutch Court Breaks Political Stalemate Over Climate Action. The Huffington Post, July 7, 2015.
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/behnam-taebi/dutch-court-breaks-politi_b_7742622.html
- Taebi, B. and M. Mayer. The Russian Nuclear Energy Proposal: An Offer You Can't Refuse. The Huffington Post, June 5, 2015.
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/behnam-taebi/the-russian-nuclear-energ_b_7519564.html
- Taebi, B. and E. Cuppen. 2015. Innovation to Tackle Climate Change Must Be Socially Responsible. Thomson Reuters Foundation, April 20, 2015.
- http://news.trust.org//item/20150420120307-djt7u/?source=jtBlogs
- Araújo, K. and B. Taebi. 2015. Where Should Nuclear Waste be Dumped? The National Interest, May 26, 2015.
- http://nationalinterest.org/feature/where-should-nuclear-waste-be-dumped-12961
- B. Taebi. 2014. The Intergenerational and International Justice Dilemmas of Multinational Nuclear Waste Repositories. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 7 June 2014.
- http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/ethics_online/0094
- B. Taebi. 2014. The Missing Debate About Nuclear Security. Reuters.com, 24 March 2014.
- http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2014/03/24/the-missing-debate-about-nuclear-security/
- B. Taebi. 2013. Multinational repositories can address nuclear waste stockpile,Reuters.com, 25 November 2013.
- http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2013/11/25/multinational-repositories-can-address-nuclear-waste-stockpile/
- Reprinted in The Bangkok Post, The Daily News Egypt and The Jerusalem Post.
- B. Taebi. 2010. The Burden of Nuclear Waste. The New York Times (International Herald Tribune), August 30 2010
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opinion/30iht-edtaebi.html

Behnam Taebi
Associate Professor
- +31 15 27 87511
- B.Taebi@tudelft.nl
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Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Building 31
Room number: B4.190
Department:
Values, Technology and Innovation
Section:
Ethics/Philosophy of Technology
Research interests:
Design for values
Management of responsible innovation
Responsible risk management
Energy ethics
Nuclear ethics
Responsible innovation and engineering ethics
Additional information
Dr.ir. B. Taebi
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- 2007 - Ethics and Engineering
- 2007 - Ethics and Engineering
- 2009 - Milieufilosofie
- 2008 - Milieufilosofie
- 2009 - Project Construeren en Sterkte 2
- 2008 - Milieufilosofie
- 2008 - Project Construeren en Sterkte 2
- 2010 - Project Construeren en Sterkte 2
- 2010 - Milieufilosofie
- 2010 - Debates and Highlights in Climate Change
- 2010 - Climate Ethics
- 2010 - Climate Ethics (Advanced)
- 2010 - Introduction Values and Technology
- 2011 - Climate Ethics
- 2011 - Ethics and Engineering for Aerospace Engineering
- 2011 - Societal Perspectives on Urban Climate Change
- 2011 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2011 - Technology Development and Impact Assessment
- 2011 - Shaping our Energy Future(s): Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Future of Energy
- 2014 - Technology Development and Impact Assessment
- 2014 - Renewable Energy
- 2013 - Climate change: science and ethics
- 2013 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2013 - Climate Ethics
- 2012 - Climate change: science and ethics
- 2013 - Ethics and Engineering for Aerospace Engineering
- 2013 - Technology Development and Impact Assessment
- 2012 - Ethics and Engineering for Aerospace Engineering
- 2015 - Climate Ethics
- 2015 - Technology Development and Impact Assessment
- 2013 - Renewable Energy
- 2013 - Renewable Energy
- 2012 - Climate Ethics
- 2011 - Shaping our Energy Future(s): Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Future of Energy
- 2012 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2012 - Technology Development and Impact Assessment
- 2017 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2017 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2015 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2017 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2017 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2017 - Climate Ethics
- 2015 - Renewable Energy
- 2016 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2016 - Climate Ethics
- 2016 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2018 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2018 - Climate Ethics
- 2018 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2018 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2018 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2015 - Renewable Energy
- 2015 - Climate change: science and ethics
- 2020 - Verantwoord omgaan met risico en veiligheid
- 2019 - Verantwoord omgaan met risico en veiligheid
- 2020 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2019 - Ethics and Impacts of Global Interventions
- 2020 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2020 - Climate Change: Science and Ethics
- 2019 - Climate Change: Science & Ethics
- 2020 - Climate Ethics
- 2019 - Climate Ethics
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