Thomas M. Powers

Biography

Thomas M. Powers, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. He is also the director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy at UD. 

Current Work

Powers' current research focuses on the ethics of information technology and the philosophy of technology. He contributes to scholarship on rule-based conceptions of machine ethics, computer agency, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and other philosophical issues involving emerging technologies, including human-robot interaction. ​​

Sample of Publications

"Powers, TM (2024). Artificial Moral Dispositions in Humans and Computers, in Artificial Dispositions: Investigating Ethical and Metaphysical I​​​ssues, eds. A Marmadoro and WA Bauer, Bloomsbury Publishing, London.

Powers, TM, and Ganascia, JG, (2020). The Ethics of the Ethi​cs of Artificial Intelligence, in Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, eds. M Dubber, F Pasquale, and S Das, Oxford University Press.

Tolmeijer, S, A Weiss, M Hanheide, F Lindner, TM Powers, C Dixon, and M Tielman (2020).  Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategie​​s, in Proceedings of Human Robot Interaction 2020 (HRI ’20), ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Powers, TM, editor (2017). Philosophy and Com​​puting: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics, Springer Publishing.

Powers, TM (2016). Prospects for a Kantian Machine, in Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics, eds.  W. Wallach and P. Asaro, Ashgate Publishing/Routledge 2017 pape​rback [republication of Powers TM (2006)]​​​.