On February 11-12, we’re hosting an informal workshop at WMU to go through a draft of my book manuscript, Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture (University of Chicago, forthcoming). The full schedule is now available. Registration is open to the public; please just send an email to the workshop organizer, Vishal Garg (vishal.k.garg@wmich.edu). Any graduate students [...]
For the past three years, I’ve been working on a grant from the National Science Foundation with my colleagues Pat Lin, John Weckert, and Jim Moor. The topic was ethical issues in nanotechnology and human enhancement, and we were trying to figure out how nanotechnology will come to bear on human enhancement and what the [...]
I just got a copy today of my new edited book, Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). This book started to develop at the same time I was working on Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) with my colleagues Tim McGrew and Marc Alspector-Kelly. In the collaborative book, I had the [...]
Our spring semester starts next week, and I have two courses being offered. The first is one that I teach most years, biomedical ethics; it’s being taught online. This one is a lot of fun, and the enrollment is strong, so I’m looking forward to it. The second course is a senior seminar, and I [...]