Biography
My research and teaching aim to help people understand and navigate their social, technological, and ecological environments, drawing from philosophy and ethics of technology, ethics, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. I have co-edited two volumes, Thinking through Science and Technology: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde (Springer, 2020). I am an associate editor for the journal Science and Engineering Ethics and an executive editor for Philosophy & Technology.
My current research focuses on engineering ethics, cyberethics, and the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence. With colleagues from Texas A&M’s College of Engineering, I am studying the ethical development of engineering students, and working to improve interventions from K–12 coursework through university graduation. With colleagues from the University of Mississippi and Virginia Tech, I am researching the varieties of AI ethics interventions in place and planned, and faculty and administrator perceptions of these interventions, at United States colleges and universities. Both of these research projects are funded by the National Science Foundation. As part of a Responsible AI initiative funded by the National Humanities Center, I have created a course on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (PHIL 383).
I regularly teach Engineering Ethics (PHIL 482), Ethics in a Digital Age (PHIL 282), and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (PHIL 489 in Spring 2025, PHIL 383 thereafter), and advise undergraduate research and honors work in these and related areas. I have won a Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant and an internal grant to flip and hybridize our Engineering Ethics course. My efforts have been recognized with a Texas A&M Association of Former Students College Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching (2020) and a Texas A&M College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Excellence Award (2023)
Educational Background
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Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Texas, 2015
Fall 2024 Course Schedule
- Phil 282.500 - Ethics in a Digital Age. M, W - 4:10-5:25 p.m. - OMB 110
- Phil 282.501 - Ethics in a Digital Age. T, TH - 11:10 a.m.-12:25 p.m. - CHEM 2121
- Phil 482.503 - Ethics & Engineering. T - 8:00-9:15 a.m. - HECC 209, F - 12:40-2:30 p.m. - THOM 121
- Phil 482.505 - Ethics & Engineering. T - 8:00-9:15 a.m. - HECC 209, F - 8:00-9:50 a.m. - THOM 121
- Phil 482.509 - Ethics & Engineering. TH - 8:00-9:15 a.m. - HECC 209, F - 8:00-9:50 a.m. - THOM 121
- Phil 482.510 - Ethics & Engineering. TH - 8:00-9:15 a.m. - HECC 209, TH - 5:20-7:10 p.m. - RICH 302
- Phil 482.514 - Ethics & Engineering. T - 8:00-9:15 a.m. - HECC 209, F - 10:20 a.m.-12:10 p.m. - ETB 1037
- Phil 482.515 - Ethics & Engineering. TH - 8:00-9:15 a.m. - HECC 209, F - 12:40-2:30 p.m. - THOM 112D
- Phil 482.902 - Ethics & Engineering. T - 8:00-9:15 a.m. - HECC 209, TH - 5:20-7:10 p.m. - RICH 1009
Office Hours
- Monday 1:30-3:30 p.m.
- By Appointment