Martin Vinzenz Baldur Paul Maria van Hees is a Dutch philosopher.
Education
After receiving degrees in political science and philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Van Hees obtained his Doctor of Philosophy 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.
Career
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 (New World Order) 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.
Politics
After receiving degrees in political science and philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Van Hees obtained his Doctor of Philosophy 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. Rights, liberalism and social choice: a logical and game-theoretical analysis of individual and collective rights. Rights and decisions: formal models of law and liberalism.
American Political Science Review (Cambridge Journals) 97 (2): 281–293.
Views
Legal reductionism and freedom.