- Associate Department Head
- Professor of Philosophy and the Sue and Harry Bovay Chair of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-7133
- Email: martinpeterson@tamu.edu
- Office: YMCA 402B
- Document: CV
- Website: Personal Website
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Biography
Martin Peterson is the Sue and Harry Bovay Professor of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, he taught at Eindhoven University of Technology, and prior to that he was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University. He is the author of several books including, The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles (OUP 2017), The Dimensions of Consequentialism (CUP 2013) and An Introduction to Decision Theory (CUP 2009).
Scholarly Achievements
- Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- Ethics for Engineers (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- The Dimensions of Consequentialism (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2009. 2nd ed. 2017)
- Non-Bayesian Decision Theory (Springer, 2008)
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Educational Background
- Ph.D., Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2003
Research Areas
- Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
- Value Theory and Applied Ethics