Arie Rip

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Arie Rip is a Dutch social scientist. During 1988-1989 he was the President of the international Society for Social Studies of Science. From 2000 till 2005 he was the head of WTMC, the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. The WTMC is a formal collaboration of Dutch researchers studying the development of science, technology and modern culture. In 2006 Rip formally retired as the Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Twente, a position he held since 1987. On 21 January 2008 Johan van Schagen was the last student to graduate under his supervision. He has published extensively on various topics concerning the philosophy and sociology of scientific and technological developments. Rip has for example introduced the widely used method of ´Constructive Technology Assesment´, CTA. Currently he is among others a Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.