RECENT AWARDS/HONORS:
2017 Public Intellectual Award, Santa Clara University, College of Arts and Sciences
2017 President's Special Recognition Award, Santa Clara University
World Technology Award 2015, Ethics Category, World Technology Network
2015 Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Past President, Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT)
Advisory Board Member, Capita Social
Faculty Scholar and Steering Committee Member, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @ SCU
Member, Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems, IEEE Standards Association
Member, ETNSI Research Group (Emerging Technologies of National Security and Intelligence), John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values @ University of Notre Dame
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. Oxford University Press, 2016. Hardcover and e-book, Paperback edition forthcoming in 2018. ORDER HERE
“AI and the Automation of Wisdom.” In Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics, Thomas Powers, ed. (Cham: Springer, 2017)
“AI and the Ethics of Self-Learning Robots,” (co-authored with George Bekey). In Robot Ethics 2.0, Patrick Lin, Keith Abney and Ryan Jenkins, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
"Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine Age: Reflections on the Ambiguous Future of Character," Philosophy and Technology. 28: (2015), 107-124.
"Armed Robots and Military Virtue," in The Ethics of Information Warfare, eds. Floridi and Taddeo (Springer, 2014)
"Flourishing on Facebook: Virtue Friendship and New Social Media," Ethics and Information Technology 14:3 (2012), 185-199.
"Social Networking and Ethics," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2012; Revised 2015)
"Carebots and Caregivers: Sustaining the Ethical Ideal of Care in the 21st Century," Philosophy and Technology 24:3 (2011), 251-268.
"Knowing What to Wish For: Human Enhancement Technology, Dignity and Virtue," Techne 15:2 (2011), 82-100.
"Social Networking Technology and the Virtues," Ethics and Information Technology 12:2 (2010), 157-170.
TEACHING:
At SCU my regular courses include Ethics in a Digital Age (PHIL 22) , Science, Technology and Society (PHIL 40), Philosophy of Science (PHIL 153), and a graduate engineering course on Sustainable Energy, Engineering and Ethics (ENGR 273). With Arvind Narayanan of Princeton University, I have also created a downloadable teaching module, "An Introduction to Software Engineering Ethics," available for free from SCU's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. The module has been featured in Slate magazine and has been requested for use by over 100 instructors on 5 continents. Two new teaching modules were published in 2018: "An Introduction to Data Ethics" and "An Introduction to Cybersecurity Ethics."
CURRICULUM VITAE
2017 Public Intellectual Award, Santa Clara University, College of Arts and Sciences
2017 President's Special Recognition Award, Santa Clara University
World Technology Award 2015, Ethics Category, World Technology Network
2015 Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Past President, Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT)
Advisory Board Member, Capita Social
Faculty Scholar and Steering Committee Member, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @ SCU
Member, Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems, IEEE Standards Association
Member, ETNSI Research Group (Emerging Technologies of National Security and Intelligence), John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values @ University of Notre Dame
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. Oxford University Press, 2016. Hardcover and e-book, Paperback edition forthcoming in 2018. ORDER HERE
“AI and the Automation of Wisdom.” In Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics, Thomas Powers, ed. (Cham: Springer, 2017)
“AI and the Ethics of Self-Learning Robots,” (co-authored with George Bekey). In Robot Ethics 2.0, Patrick Lin, Keith Abney and Ryan Jenkins, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
"Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine Age: Reflections on the Ambiguous Future of Character," Philosophy and Technology. 28: (2015), 107-124.
"Armed Robots and Military Virtue," in The Ethics of Information Warfare, eds. Floridi and Taddeo (Springer, 2014)
"Flourishing on Facebook: Virtue Friendship and New Social Media," Ethics and Information Technology 14:3 (2012), 185-199.
"Social Networking and Ethics," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2012; Revised 2015)
"Carebots and Caregivers: Sustaining the Ethical Ideal of Care in the 21st Century," Philosophy and Technology 24:3 (2011), 251-268.
"Knowing What to Wish For: Human Enhancement Technology, Dignity and Virtue," Techne 15:2 (2011), 82-100.
"Social Networking Technology and the Virtues," Ethics and Information Technology 12:2 (2010), 157-170.
TEACHING:
At SCU my regular courses include Ethics in a Digital Age (PHIL 22) , Science, Technology and Society (PHIL 40), Philosophy of Science (PHIL 153), and a graduate engineering course on Sustainable Energy, Engineering and Ethics (ENGR 273). With Arvind Narayanan of Princeton University, I have also created a downloadable teaching module, "An Introduction to Software Engineering Ethics," available for free from SCU's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. The module has been featured in Slate magazine and has been requested for use by over 100 instructors on 5 continents. Two new teaching modules were published in 2018: "An Introduction to Data Ethics" and "An Introduction to Cybersecurity Ethics."
CURRICULUM VITAE