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Thomas M. Powers, Ph.D.

Department of
PhilosophyUniversity of Delaware
24 Kent Way
Newark, DE 19716
Harker Interdisciplinary Science
& Engineering LaboratoryUniversity of Delaware
221 Academy Street, Room 471
Newark, DE 19716

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Areas of Expertise

I work in several areas of the ethics of information technology, especially AI and machine ethics, and contribute to scholarship in philosophy and in engineering. More generally, my interests lie in the ethical, social, legal, and political impacts of emerging technologies.

Education

University of Texas, Austin — Ph.D. in Philosophy.  Dissertation: “Formalism in Kant’s Ethics”
1995
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich — DAAD dissertation-year fellow
1993-1994
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg — B.A. in Philosophy (with high honors)
1987

Academic Appointments

University of Delaware — Associate Professor of Philosophy (2013-), Assistant Professor (2006-13), Temporary Assistant Professor 2005-06; Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Resident Faculty (2006-17), Affiliate (2017-); Secondary Faculty Appointment: Biden School of Public Policy and Administration (2012-)
Universitat de les Illes Balears — Visiting Research Professor (summer 2018)
Sorbonne University — Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire d’Informatique (UPMC) – Équipe: Agents Cognitifs et Apprentissage Symbolique Automatique, (Fall 2015, Winter 2018, Summer 2019, Winter 2019)
University of Virginia — NSF Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Science (2003-05)
Santa Clara University — Lecturer in Philosophy (1997-2003); Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering (2000-03)
Central Michigan University — Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1996-97)
College of William & Mary — Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1995-96)

Service: Delaware

Director, UD Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy
2011-
Director, UD Program in Science, Ethics & Public Policy
2007-11
UD Faculty Affiliations: Delaware Environmental Institute (2013-); Data Science Institute (2018-); Center for Autonomous and Robotic Systems (2019-); Master of Science in Robotics (2019-); Sociotechnical Systems Center (2020-); Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (2022-); Master of Science program in Data Science (2024-); Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2024-); Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Biomedical Data Science Predoctoral Training Program (NIH-NIGMS T32) (2025-); AI & Society Certificate (2025-)
Siegfried Institute Director Search Committee
2026-
UD Middle States Accreditation Reaffirmation Self-Study Committee
2026-
UD Department Chair Search Committee for Languages, Literatures, and Culture
2026
UD Workshop on Ethics, Epistemology, and Engineering co-organizer
2026
UD Presidential Academic Leadership Program
2025-26
First State AI Institute, Ethics Working Group Lead
2025-
UD Faculty Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on AI
2025-
Master of Science in Data Science Executive Committee
2025-
UD Organizing Committee, Data Science and DARWIN Computing Symposium
2025
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory “First Look” Panel Moderator
2025
AiM Higher East Coast AI Conference, “From Disruption to Dialogue: Ethical and Practical Perspectives About AI in Education” panel organizer and moderator
2025
UD Graduate College Convocation speaker
2025
UD Organizing Committee, Synthetic Biology Symposia
2024-25
Delaware Humanities, Board of Directors
2023-25
UD Summer Opportunities for Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) ethics lecturer
2022-25
UD Provost’s Working Group on AI for Teaching and Learning
2023-25
UD Graduate College Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence Review Committee
2023
UD Philosophy Department Chair Reappointment Committee
2023
UD Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation Search (Research Panel)
2022-23
UD Data Science Institute Faculty Council and Training Working Group member
2022-26
UD Dissertation Fellowship Review Committee
2021-22
UD Strategic Planning Committee on Expanding Interdisciplinary and Global Opportunities
2021
UD Provost Search Committee
2021
UD Political Science and International Relations Department Chair Reappointment Committee
2021
UD Faculty Senate Committee On Committees And Nominations
2020-22
UD Academic Committee on Sustainability
2020
UD Graduate College Council (2019-21) alternate
UD Provost Search Committee
2017
UD Council of Community Engagement and Public Service Centers, UD
2016-
UD Respect Committee
2015-17
CEPE-IACAP Joint Conference organizer, University of Delaware
2015
State of Delaware, Health and Social Services Human Subjects Review Board
2013-
UD Institutional Review Board alternate (2011-14) and voting member (2013)
UD Conference on Free Will and the Scientific Worldview co-organizer
2013
UD Conference on Convergent Sustainability in Delaware co-organizer
2013
UD Research Office RCR Conference research ethics lecturer
2012-
UD Inaugural Symposium, Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy organizer
2012
UD Workshop on Ethics in Nanoscience co-organizer
2011
Science Café Organizer
2009-
UD Conference on Ethics and Climate Change: Intergenerational Justice and the Global Challenge co-organizer
2009
UD Conference on Environmental Nanoparticles: Science, Ethics, and Policy co-organizer
2008
UD Conference on Environment Energy, and Ethics co-organizer
2007

Service: National and International

Program Committee, AAAI-27 Workshop “Intelligence Symbiosis: Emergent Ethics and Infrastructure for Human–AI Co-existence” (IntelliSym 2027)
2027
International Workshop on Verifying Law and Ethics, and Legal Auto-formalization (at JURIX’26) Co-organizer, Toulouse
2026
Program Committee, AAAI Workshop on Machine Ethics: from formal methods to emergent machine ethics, Singapore
2026
Program Committee, Biannual Conference on the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (PhAI), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2025
NIH Workshop “Exploring the Applications of Knowledge Networks in Biomedical and Behavioral Research,” co-chair for “Ethics and Trustworthy Constructs” panel
2025
New York State Education Department, Reviewer for NYU Masters in Technology Ethics Program
2025
Oakland University Research Committee proposal review
2025
Chair of the AI & Data Ethics Advisory Board for NSF Proto-OKN Projects
2024-25
Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Proposal Reviewer
2024-25
NIH Workshop “Toward an Ethical Framework for AI in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Transparency for Data and Model Reuse” Participant
2024
Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press
2024-
Awards Committee Chair, International Association of Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
2024-
GPPC “Ethics of Big Data” panel host and organizer (with Noel Swanson), Drexel University
2023
Dagstuhl Seminar invited participant: “Roadmap for Responsible Robotics” Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany, September 11 -15
2023
International Jury, Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI), France
2023-
IACAP Special Track, Minds & Machines SIG, “Generative AI and Machine Thinking”, Prague 2023
National Science Foundation Grant Proposal Review Panels: STS, AI & Society, and Graduate Research Fellowship Programs, 2014-16, 2019, 2021, 2022; Ad hoc reviewer for STS and Law & Science Programs, 2025
Switzerland National Science Foundation Grant Proposal Reviewer
2020 & 2026
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Grant Proposal Reviewer
2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
Dagstuhl Seminar invited participant: “Ethics and Trust: Principles, Verification and Validation” Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany, April 22 -26
2019
Editorial Board, International Journal of Technoethics
2020-
IACAP Executive Board and Director of Minds & Machines SIG
2016-24
Program Committee, Ethics in the Design of Intelligent Agents, European Conference on AI
2016
Philosophy & Technology Associate Editor, Springer
2014-2023
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Editorial Board, Subject Editor for “Ethics and Information Technology” 2010-
American Philosophical Association, Committee on Philosophy & Computers Chair, 2013-16, Associate Chair, 2012-13
Online Ethics Center, National Academy of Engineering and UVa, International Perspectives Editor
2015-
Editorial Advisory Board, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
2016-
Reviewer for the journals Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, IEEE Technology & Society, Science and Engineering Ethics, Minds & Machines, Idealistic Studies, mBio, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Ethics and Information Technology, Journal of Business Ethics, Accountability in Research, Techne, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, AI & Society, Kriterion-Journal of Philosophy, Assessing Writing
Advisory Board, The Nanoethics Group
2008-
Ethics Advisory Board, The Lifeboat Foundation
2008-
Board of Management, Consortium for Socially-Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering (SRPoiSE)
2014-
AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition, Ethics and Human Rights Working Group
2012
Committee on Bioethics and Ethics in Science of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP)
2009-
American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy, Member 2009-2012
Faculty Scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
1997-2003

Publications

Edited Books 2

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

Powers, TM, and Kamolnick, P, editors (1999). From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory, Krieger Publishing

Articles, Chapters, and Proceedings 40

Brockmeier, A., Artemiadis, P., Boukari, H., Callison-Burch, C., Eaton, E., Harley, J., Powers, T., Principe, J. C., Reisman, D., & Wu, C. (2026). Human-AI cooperation in healthcare and rehabilitation, Delaware Journal of Public Health 12 (1).

Wu, C., Liu, H., Flannick, J., Musen, M., Su, A. I., Hunter, L., Powers, T. M., & Wu, C. (2026). Desiderata for a biomedical knowledge network: opportunities, challenges and future directions, Bioinformatics Advances 6 (1).

Chen, C., Piya, F., Rolnick, J., Milbourne, S., Wu, C., Powers, T., Aggarwal, V., Garcia, J., Zhang, A., Beheshti, R. (2025). Leveraging Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Knowledge Graphs to Identify Latent Patterns in Veteran Suicide Risk, IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)

Araiza-Illan, D, Baum, K, Beebee, H, Chatila, R, Christensen, S, Coghlan, S, Collins, E, Cunha, A, Devitt, K, Dobrosovestnova, A, Duijf, H, Evers, V, Fisher, M, Hochgeschwender, M, Kokciyan, M, Lemaignan, S, Ljungblad, S, Magnusson, M, Mansouri, M, Milford, M, Moon, A, Powers, T, Vanegas, D, Lera, F, Salvini, P, Scantamburlo, T, Schuster, N, Slavkovik, M, Topcu, U, Wasowski, A, and Yang, Y (2025). Roadmap for Responsible Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation 32 (4).

Powers, TM (2025). Deontology in AI, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI, eds. M Hähnel and R Müller, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Berlin

Powers, TM (2025). Understanding Sociotechnical Systems, Computer Ethics Across the Disciplines, eds. M Verdicchio and M Noorman, Springer Philosophy of Engineering and Technology book series, New York

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

Dubljević, V, G List, J Milojevich, N Ajmeri, WA Bauer, MP Singh, E Bardaka, TA Birkland, CHW Edwards, RC Mayer, I Muntean, TM Powers, HA Rakha, VA Ricks, and MS Samanda (2021). Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis, PLoS ONE

Robinson, P, A Sun, H Furey, R Jenkins, CR Phillips, TM Powers, R Ritterson, Y Xie, R Casagrande, and N.G. Evans (2021). Modelling Ethical Algorithms in Autonomous Vehicles Using Crash Data, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 23 (7).

Powers, TM, and Ganascia, JG, (2020). The Ethics of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, 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 Strategies, Proceedings of Human Robot Interaction 2020 (HRI ’20), ACM, New York, NY, USA

Ganascia, JG, C Tessier, and TM Powers, (2018). On the autonomy and threat of “killer robots” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 17 (2)

Powers, TM (2017). Intersecting Traditions in the Philosophy of Computing, in Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics, ed. TM Powers, Springer Publishing

Powers, TM and Shah, SI (2017). Technological Ethics in Context: The Case of Nanotechnology, in Philosophy: Technology, ed. AF Beavers, Gale Cengage: Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks

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

Shah, SI and Powers, TM (2015). Nanotechnology: A Path Forward for Developing Nations, Institute of Physics Conference Series 92

Powers, TM (2014). Consequentialism, in Ethics, Science, Technology and Engineering: A Global Resource, 2nd Edition, ed. JB Holbrook, Macmillan Reference USA [revision of Powers, TM (2005)]

Powers, TM (2014). Deontology, in Ethics, Science, Technology and Engineering: A Global Resource, 2nd Edition, ed. JB Holbrook, Macmillan Reference USA [revision of Powers, TM (2005)]

Powers, TM (2014). Models for Machine Ethics, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 14 (1)

Powers, TM (2014). Orientation in Philosophical Research, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 13 (2)

Johnson, DG and Powers, TM (2014). Ethics and Technology: A Program for Future Research in Society, Ethics, and Technology, 5th edition, eds. M Winston and R Edelbach, Wadsworth Publishing, Boston Mass. [republication of Johnson & Powers (2005)]

Powers, TM and Shah, SI (2013). Teaching a Course on Ethics in Nanoscience, Journal of Nano Education 5, 1-6

Powers, TM (2013). On the Moral Agency of Computers, Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy 32 (2)

Powers, TM (2011). Prospects for a Kantian Machine, in Machine Ethics, eds. M Anderson and S Anderson, Cambridge University Press [republication of Powers TM (2006)]

Powers, TM (2011). Incremental Machine Ethics, IEEE Robotics and Automation 18 (1)

Powers, TM (2009). Machines and Moral Reasoning, Philosophy Now 72

Powers, TM (2009). Preface, in Creating a Global Dialogue on Value Inquiry, J Yan & D Schrader (eds.), Edwin Mellen Press

Powers, TM (2008). Environmental Holism and Nanotechnology, in Nanotechnology and Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues, eds. F Allhoff and P Lin, Springer Publishing

Johnson, DG, and Powers, TM (2008). Computers as Surrogate Agents, in Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, eds. MJ van den Hoven and J Weckert, Cambridge University Press

Powers, TM (2006). Prospects for a Kantian Machine, IEEE Intelligent Systems 21 (4)

Johnson, DG, and Powers, TM (2005). Computer Systems and Responsibility: A Normative Look at Technological Complexity, Ethics and Information Technology 7(2), Kluwer Publishing

Johnson, DG, and Powers, TM (2005). Ethics and Technology: A Program for Future Research, in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. C Mitcham, Gale Publishing

Powers, TM (2005). Consequentialism, in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. C Mitcham, Gale Publishing

Powers, TM (2005). Deontology, in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. C Mitcham, Gale Publishing

Powers, TM (2005). Deontological Machine Ethics, Technical Report, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Palo Alto, 2005

Powers, TM (2004). Ideas, Expressions, Universals, and Particulars: Metaphysics in the Realm of Software Copyright Law, in Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World, H Tavani and R Spinello, Idea Group Publishing

Powers, TM (2004). Real Wrongs in Virtual Communities, Ethics and Information Technology 5 (4), Kluwer Publishing

Powers, TM (2002). Responsibility in Software Engineering: Uncovering an Ethical Model, in The Transformation of Organizations in the Information Age: Proceedings of the Sixth International ETHICOMP Conference, Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa

Powers, TM (1999). The Legacy of Kantian Rationalism for Social Theory, in From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory, eds. TM Powers and P Kamolnick, Krieger Publishing

Powers, TM (1999). The Integrity of Body: Kantian Moral Constraints on the Physical Self, in Philosophy and Medicine 60, Kluwer Publishing.

Book Reviews 2

Powers, TM (2019). Review of Living with Robots by Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, in Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, pp. 211-14.

Powers, TM (2014). Review of Emerging Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies: Ethical Challenges, Opportunities, and Safeguards, ed. KD Pimple, 2014, in Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law 14, pp. 1-5.

Research Funding

  1. NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation (HAIC), University of Delaware, 2026-31, Key Personnel$21.5 million
  2. DARPA ASIMOV (Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Standards), 2024-25, Consultant, with CoVar, Inc.
  3. NSF OKN: A Dynamically-Updated Open Knowledge Network for Health: Integrating Biomedical Insights with Social Determinants of Health, University of Delaware (with UVa & Univ. Iowa), 2023-25, Key Personnel$1.5 million
  4. DARPA AI Forward Workshop, Summer 2023, Travel Scholarship recipient, Boston
  5. UNIDEL Foundation: Communications Training for UD Researchers, University of Delaware, 2023-24, Faculty Collaborator$167,608
  6. NSF HDR: Delaware and Mid-Atlantic Data Science Corps, University of Delaware, 2021-26, Key Personnel$1.5 million
  7. Herman & Charlotte Glotzer Scholarship for the Study of Ideas: The Dilemma of Artificial Autonomy, University of Delaware, 2019-20, Principal Investigator$4,000
  8. NSF REU SITE: Interfacing Sustainable Energy and Materials, 2015-18, Senior Personnel$360,577
  9. NSF SES: Becoming the Online Resource Center for Ethics Education in Engineering and Science (Supplement, with the National Academy of Engineering, PI R. Hollander), 2014-2019, Delaware Lead Investigator$209,239
  10. NSF IGERT: Systems Biology in Engineered Environments, 2012-17, Faculty Personnel$3 million
  11. USDA NIFA: Agriculture’s Global Challenges: Food Security, Bioenergy, and Biodiversity--Building Educational and Research Partnerships with Brazil, 2011-14, Co-PI$150,000
  12. NSF OISE: U.S.-Pakistan Workshop on Environmental Nanotechnology & Ethics, 2011, Co-PI$60,000
  13. NSF & DE EPSCoR: Research Infrastructure Improvement Grant (RII-2), 2008-2013, Co-PI$20.5 million
  14. NSF NUE: Connecting Nanotechnology and Alternative Energy Approaches through Undergraduate Education in Engineering, 2009-13, Co-PI$199,190
  15. Delaware Humanities Forum Grant: The Ethics of Climate Change, 2009, Principal Investigator$13,000
  16. American Philosophical Association: Conference Grant for “The Ethics of Climate Change” 2009, Principal Investigator, with Fred Schueler$5,000
  17. NSF REU: Nature InSpired Engineering, University of Delaware, 2009-2012, Faculty Personnel
  18. UD Graduate Improvement and Innovation Grant, RAISE-2, 2008-2009, Principal Investigator$67,000
  19. NSF EESE: RAISE--Research And Integrity in Science and Engineering, 2007-2009, Principal Investigator$99,800
  20. NSF New England Workshop on Science and Social Change “Collaborative Generation of Environmental Knowledge and Inquiry” Woods Hole, Mass., April 2007, Participant
  21. NSF & DE EPSCoR: Research Infrastructure Improvement Grant (RII-1), 2006-2008, Senior Personnel$6.67 million
  22. NSF REU: Creating Computer Applications for Medicine, University of Virginia, Summers 2005 and 2006, Ethics faculty personnel
  23. NSF CCLI-DUE: Developing On/Off-line Computer Ethics (DOLCE), Golden, Co., May 2002, Participant
  24. Center for Science, Technology, and Society Summer Faculty Research Grant, “Defining the Parameters of Undergraduate Web-based Research” Santa Clara University June 2000, Principal Investigator
  25. Center for Science, Technology, and Society Summer Faculty Research Grant, “Developing a Text for the Philosophy Course: Science, Technology, and Ethics” Santa Clara University June 1999, Principal Investigator
  26. School of Engineering Grant for Engineering Ethics, Santa Clara University, Summer 1999, Principal Investigator
  27. University Curriculum Development Grant “Developing a New Graduate Course in Software Engineering Ethics” Santa Clara University 1998-99, Co-PI
  28. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Grant, Faculty Seminar on Affirmative Action, Santa Clara University 1998-99, Participant
  29. NEH Summer Seminar on German Social Theory, University of Chicago, 1995, Participant

Invited Talks and Presentations

  1. “What is ‘meaningful human control’ in autonomous weapons systems?” IACAP 2026, University of Kansas, July 2026
  2. “A Roadmap for Responsible Robotics” IEEE-Int’l Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vienna, June 2026
  3. “AI in Healthcare: Promise, Risk, and Reality” Panel, Brandywine Hundred Library, Wilmington, May 2026
  4. “Thinking with AI or through AI?” Panel, First State AI Institute, Newark, May 2026
  5. “Data Science & Artificial Intelligence to Support Healthy Communities” Panel, Christiana Care ACCEL- Center for Translational Research Community Research Exchange Conference, Newark, Delaware, October 2025
  6. “To AI Responsibly: In search of the Human Compass for AI and Business,” Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance, New Castle County Chamber of Commerce, Wilmington, Delaware, October 2025
  7. “Data Science Collaboration in the Era of AI” Panel, Delaware Data Science Symposium, Newark, Delaware, October 2025
  8. “U.S. Academic Research: A History and Status Report” IACAP/AISB 2025, University of Twente, July 2025
  9. “Knowledge Graphs as Trustworthy and Safe AI” IACAP/AISB 2025, University of Twente, July 2025
  10. “Deontological Ethics in AI” IACAP 2024, University of Oregon, July 2024
  11. “The Ethics of AI in the Classroom and in the Lab” University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, April 2024
  12. “Rethinking Research Ethics in the Age of Generative AI” AI for Teaching and Learning Seminar, University of Delaware, October 2023
  13. “Trust” Dagstuhl Seminar Tutorial, Roadmap for Responsible Robotics, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Germany, September 2023
  14. “The Ethics of Data Science and AI” North East Regional IDeA Conference, Wilmington Delaware, August 2023
  15. “Can AIs Behave Themselves? Towards a Genuine Machine Ethics” European and North American Workshop on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Rome, October 2022
  16. “Corporate Robotic Responsibility” International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), Santa Clara, July 2022
  17. “‘The Right’ and ‘The Good’ in STEM Ethics” UD Materials Research Society, March 2021
  18. “What are the Ethics of Data Science and AI?” UD Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, March 2021
  19. “The Predicament of the Ethics of AI” North Carolina State University, February 2021
  20. “A Data Ethics Ontology” UD Computational Social Science Symposium, October 2020
  21. “Considerations of the Ethics of AI” IEEE Delaware Bay Section, October 2020
  22. “Machine Ethics: Philosophical Approaches” Dagstuhl seminar on “Ethics and Trust: Principles, Verification and Validation,” Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Germany, April 2019
  23. “Computational Data Science: Epistemological and Ethical Challenges” Keynote Address, International Association for Computing and Philosophy, Warsaw, June 2018
  24. “Answering CP Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’: Doing Philosophy with Science” Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, June 2018
  25. “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Autonomy” Workshop on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, University of Surrey School of Law, Surrey, England, March 2018
  26. “Globalizing Science and Engineering Ethics: Convergence or Equilibrium?” Society for Philosophy and Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2017
  27. “The Ambivalent Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles” Transport Futures: Mobility Pricing and Automated Vehicles Conference, Toronto, November 2016
  28. “Perspicuous Normative Language” Automated Vehicles Symposium, San Francisco July 2016
  29. “Understanding International Perspectives in Science and Engineering Ethics” American Society for Engineering Education, New Orleans, June 2016
  30. “Towards a Prescriptive Deontological Non-Monotonic Machine Ethics” (with Jean-Gabriel Ganascia), IACAP, Ferrara Italy, June 2016
  31. “Robots: Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues” Osher Institute, Wilmington, Delaware, April 2016
  32. “Nanotechnology: A Path Forward for Developing Nations” (with Ismat Shah), Science in the Developing World, University of Waterloo, Canada, September 2015
  33. “Top-down Machine Ethics” Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver, April 2015
  34. “Science and Ethics: A Shifting Relationship” Delaware Environmental Institute, Wilmington, February 2015
  35. “Can There Be an Ethics of Design?” SRPoiSE Group Meeting, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 2014
  36. “Information Justice” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 2014
  37. “The Ethics of High-Tech Warfare” Pennsylvania Alliance for STEM Education, West Chester Pennsylvania, November 2014
  38. “The Promise and Peril of Principles in Research Ethics” (with Mark Greene) 9th Annual Nursing Research Conference, Newark Delaware, November 2014
  39. “Safety, Privacy, and Meta-Data” (with Eric Best) Computer Ethics--Philosophical Enquiry, Paris France, June 2014
  40. “Parameters and Information Sources for an Autonomous Robot” (Panel on Ethics and Autonomous Agents) Computer Ethics--Philosophical Enquiry, Paris, June 2014
  41. “The Ethics of the Bioenergy Market” Brazil Symposium: Global Challenges in Agriculture, Environment, and Energy, Newark Delaware, May 2014
  42. “The Public Computer System and Accountability” Northeast Conference on Public Administration, Newark Delaware, November 2013
  43. “Prospects for a Smithian Machine” International Association for Computing and Philosophy, College Park, Maryland, July 2013
  44. “Environmental Ethics and Nanotechnology” Joint International Workshop on Nanotechnology: Policy, Ethics and Science, Islamabad, Pakistan March 2013
  45. “A New Naturalism for Environmental Ethics” University of Genoa, Italy, January 2013
  46. “Teaching Ethics to Scientists: Why Rules and Consequences Matter” University of Miami, September 2012
  47. “Teaching a Course in Ethics in Nanoscience” AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting, Washington D.C., July 2012
  48. “Explaining Technological Action” Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, July 2012
  49. “Aggregation and Future Individuals” International Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, July 2012
  50. “Science-related Ethics and Public Policy Research” Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil, April 2012
  51. “Cases and Methods in Research Ethics” Medical Society of Delaware Spring CME Symposium, Newark DE, April 2012
  52. “Decision Procedures for Nanotechnology Development” 3rd Int’l Conference on Nanotechnology (Al Ain, U.A.E.), December 2011
  53. “Decision Procedures for Nanotechnology Development” ISESCO-COMSATS-NSF Int’l Conference on Nanomaterials & Nanoethics (Lahore, Pakistan), December 2011
  54. “Fabrics of Science: Quine and the Possibility of Collaboration” Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego, April 2011
  55. “The Machines are Here and Driving Us: Allen and Wallach’s Moral Machines“ Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, April 2010
  56. “Kantian Humanism and Human Enhancement” Oxford University, December 2009
  57. “Author Meets Critics” for Jerry Gaus (Kavka Prize in Political Philosophy), Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver, April 2009
  58. “Ethics and Biofuels: Distributive and Intergenerational Justice” Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, March 2009
  59. “Author Meets Critics” session for Moral Machines by C. Allen and W. Wallach, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, March 2009
  60. “Virtual Action Theory” Conference on Virtual Worlds and Interpretive Communities, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February 2009
  61. “Getting ‘Good Science’ Right: Research Ethics and the America COMPETES Act” California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, February 2009
  62. “AI and Eldercare” (invited ethics symposium speaker) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium, November 2008
  63. “Bioethics in a Time of Changing Technologies” Nemours Center for Pediatric Research, Delaware, September 2008
  64. “The Ethics of Biofuels: Starving Peter to Drive Paul?” Plants & Soils: Montreal ’08 (invited plenary symposium speaker) July 2008
  65. “Neuroimaging and Philosophical Moral Psychology” Institute for Clinical Research, Montreal, July 2008
  66. “Is Ethics Computable?” (invited plenary session panelist) North American Computing and Philosophy Conference (NA-CAP), Indiana, July 2008
  67. “Smith and Kant on Moral Psychology” University of Delaware, April 2008
  68. “Discovering Engineering Ethics in the Silicon Valley” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, July 2007
  69. “Design and Action: A Framework for the Philosophy of Engineering” University of North Carolina-Charlotte, February 2007
  70. “Can There Be a Science of Ethics?” Delaware Biotechnology Institute, October 2006
  71. “Distributive Justice and Information Technology” Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, January 2006
  72. “Deontological Machine Ethics” Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium, November 2005
  73. “An Account of the Moral Agency of Technology” University of North Texas, February 2005
  74. “Towards a Kantian Critique of Technology (the Long Route)” Drexel University, January 2005
  75. “On De George’s The Ethics of Information Technology and Business” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 2004
  76. “Normative Arguments and the Apparent Conflict of Values” University of Delaware General Education Institute, June 2004
  77. “Intentionality and Moral Agency in Computers” European Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP), Pavia, Italy, June 2004
  78. “Computers as Surrogate Agents” (with Deborah Johnson) ETHICOMP-Syros, Greece, April 2004
  79. “How Much Theory: Towards a Meta-Applied Ethics” 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, February 2004
  80. “A Kantian Critique of Technology” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, October 2003
  81. “The World According to Kant” Philosophical Forum, Linköping, Sweden, September 2003
  82. “The Moral Agency of Technology” University of Linköping, Sweden, September 2003
  83. “Real Wrongs in Virtual Communities,” Fifth International Conference of Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE), Boston College, June 2003
  84. “Ideas, Expressions, Universals, and Particulars,” Sixth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, Boston College, June 2003
  85. “The Computer Layer in Pedagogy” Pacific Division Meeting American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Technology, San Francisco, April 2003
  86. “Responsible Computing: Towards a Policy for University Computer Use,” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, April 2003
  87. “An Idiosyncratic Philosophy of Technology,” TCC Colloquium, University of Virginia, January 2003
  88. “Responsibility in Software Engineering: Uncovering an Ethical Model,” ETHICOMP-Lisbon, November 2002
  89. “Kantian Freedom and the Defeasible Conception of Dignity,” Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2002
  90. “A Kantian Account of Dignity,” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, January 2001
  91. “The Kantian Critique of Technology,” San Jose Intercollegiate Philosophy Forum, November 2000
  92. “Consistency and the Categorical Imperative,” University of California at Santa Cruz, November 1997
  93. “Some Problems with Kantian Ethical Formalism,” Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pittsburgh, May 1997
  94. “Georg Simmel as a Neo-Kantian,” Simmel Conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 1996
  95. “The ‘Object of Experience’ in Kant’s Critical Metaphysics,” St. Joseph’s University, February 1996
  96. “Kantian Reflections on Bodies and Body-Parts,” Northern Arizona University, January 1996