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Research interests

De Bruin's current work is on ethical and legal aspects of business, sustainability, and climate change. (See, e.g., a contribution to the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Business Ethics on climate change, business and human rights.) De Bruin has also worked on the ethical, political, and legal aspects of information (epistemic injustice, ethics of belief, virtue epistemology, stereotypes, etc.), with applications in finance, health care, ICT, among others. (See, e.g., The Business of Liberty: Freedom and Information in Ethics, Politics, and Law  (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Epistemic vice predicts acceptance of Covid-19 misinformation  (with Mark Alfano and Marco Meyer), Episteme, 2021). He has also worked on ethics management in organizations (e.g. banker’s oath, bankierseed), and the foundations of liberalism and republicanism, with applications to privacy, marketing regulation, media violence, etc.

Publications

Climate change and reflexive law: The EU sustainable finance action plan

Demand for financial advice: Evidence from a randomized choice experiment

Epistemic vice predicts acceptance of Covid-19 misinformation

Kennis en ervaring met het recht maakt burger realistischer

The Development and Validation of the Epistemic Vice Scale

Philosophy of Money and Finance

Pitting Virtue Ethics Against Situationism: An Empirical Argument for Virtue

Ranking philosophy journals: a meta-ranking and a new survey ranking

Against Nationalism: Climate Change, Human Rights, and International Law

Ethics at the Centre of Global and Local Challenges: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics

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Press/media

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