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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Philosophy of Technology, Ethics & Policy of Science and Technology (emphasis on expertise), Phenomenology, Philosophy of Education and Interdisciplinary Research

AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Applied Ethics (emphasis on globalization, development, and sustainability), philosophy of mind (emphasis on embodied cognition), 20th Century Continental

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (after graduate school)
Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Fall 2009-Present
Graduate Program Faculty, Golisano Institute for Sustainability (RIT), Winter 2009-Present
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Fall 2003-Spring 2009

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (during graduate school)
Instructor, Stony Brook University, Fall 1998-Spring 2003
Instructor, Hofstra University, Fall 2000-Summer 2002
Instructor, Dowling College, Fall 1998-Spring 2000

VISITING AFFILIATIONS
Research Associate, Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science, University of Twente, Netherlands (2010-2012)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, 2009-2010 (sabbatical year).
Visiting Professor, Danish Research School in Philosophy, History of Ideas, and History of Science, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2007
Visiting Professor, Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2007

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2003
Dissertation, with Don Ihde as Director: “On Expertise: Descriptive and Normative Problems”
M.A. in Philosophy, distinction on comprehensive exam, The University of Memphis, 1998
B.A. in Philosophy, highest honors on thesis, Binghamton University, 1996

AWARDS AND GRANTS

  • Teaching Fellowship, Philosophy Department, University of Memphis, 1996-1998
  • Teaching Fellowship, Philosophy Department, Stony Brook University, 1998-2002
  • President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stony Brook University, 2001
  • Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2002
  • Morris Cohen Teaching Award, Stony Brook University, 2002
  • Curriculum Development Award for Collaborative Teaching, Stony Brook University, 2002
  • Teaching Fellowship. Learning Communities. Stony Brook University, 2002
  • Graduate Council Commendation to Distinguished Doctoral Students, Stony Brook University, 2003
  • Internal RIT funding from multiple departments and administrators to co-direct the conference, “Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imagining: Technology, Representation, and the Disciplines,” 2004 (approximately $7,000)
  • College of Liberal Arts Grants for Research and Faculty Development, RIT, 2004-2008, (9 awards, 2 collaborative, total: $17, 681.45)
  • Paul and Francena Miller Faculty Fellowship, RIT, 2007, ($12,000)
  • Northern Illinois University Interdisciplinary Healthcare Management Grant, 2009, ($30,000)
  • Internal RIT funding from multiple departments and administrators, plus support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mellon to co-direct the conference, “Sustainability Ethics,” 2009, (approximately $10,000)
  • Humanities/Science-Technology Cluster Grant (A Mellon Foundation Funded Consortium) to organize a workshop on translational research in medicine, (with Theodore Brown), 2009, ($32,000)
  • Co-PI on National Science Foundation project # 1037236, “An Experiential Pedagogy for Sustainability Ethics” (with PI Tom Seager and co-PI Braden Allenby), 2009-2012, ($399, 926)
  • Overhead Funding for University Growth, sustainability ethics project, RIT, (with Tom Seager and David Schwartz), 2009, ($22,000)
  • Co-PI on National Science Foundation project # 1024477, “Acquiring and Using Interactional Expertise: Psychological, Sociological, and Philosophical Perspectives” (with Greg Feist and David Stone), 2010, ($30,000)

EDITORIAL BOARDS

1. Book Series Editor of “Philosophy of Engineering and Technology” with Springer (2009-Present).

2. Editor of journal Philosophy and Technology with Springer (launching 2011).

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

1. Embodying Technoscience.  Automatic/VIP Press (forthcoming 2010, under full contract).

Edited Books

1. Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (co-edited with Don Ihde). Indiana University Press: 2003. [Chapters by Don Ihde, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Andy Pickering, Casper Bruun Jensen, and myself.]

(*) Reviews appear in: Philosophy of Science, This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, and Human Studies.

2. Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde. SUNY Press: 2006. [Chapters by Vivian Sobchack, Carl Mitcham, Lenore Langsdord, Trevor Pinch, Judith Lochhead, Paul Thompson, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Robert Scharff, Richard Cohen, Peter Galison, Donna Haraway, Andrew Feenberg, Donn Welton, Andrew Pickering, Robert Crease, Finn Olesen, Albert Borgmann, Hans Lenk, Don Ihde, and myself.]

(*) Reviews appear in: Janus Head, Metascience, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Human Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Symploke, Review of Metaphysics, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, and Argumentos De Razón Técnica.  The 2007 meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Technology featured a panel on the book.

3. The Philosophy of Expertise (co-edited with Robert Crease). Columbia University Press: 2006. [Chapters by Alvin Goldman, Harry Collins and Robert Evans, Scott Brewer, Stephen Turner, Peter Singer, Hubert Dreyfus, Helene Mialet, Julia Annas, John Hardwig, Steve Fuller, Paul Feyerabend, Edward Said, Robert Crease and myself, and John Mix and myself.]

(*) Reviews appear in: Ethics, Interdisciplinary Science Review, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, Philosophy of Science, Metapsychology, Public Understanding of Science, Quarterly Review of Biology, Isis, Social Studies of Science, Journal of Information Ethics, and American Journal of Sociology.

4. Five Questions in Philosophy of Technology (co-edited with Jan Olsen). Automatic/VIP Press (2007). [Chapters by Peter Singer, Joseph Agassi, Mario Bunge, Harry Collins, Albert Borgmann, Paul Durbin, Andrew Feenberg, Peter Galison, Allan Hanson, Bruno Latour, Don Ihde, Ian Jarvie, Joan Fujimura, Carl Mitcham, Daniel Sarewitz, Dan Seni, Susan Leigh Star, Andrew Pickering, Bill McKibben, Donna Haraway, Lucy Suchman, N. Katherine Hayles, Isabelle Stengers, and myself.]

(*) Reviews appear in: Choice and Science, Technology, and Human Values

5. New Waves in Philosophy of Technology (co-edited with Jan Olsen and Soren Riis).  Palgrave Macmillan (2009). [Chapters by Keekok Lee, Jan K. Berg Olsen, Robert Rosenberger, David Kaplan, Graham Harman, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Ian Thompson, Phillip Brey, Nick Bostrom, Ben Hale, Casper Bruun Jensen and Christopher Gad, and myself.]

(*) Reviews appear in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology.

6. Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging (co-edited with Timothy Engström) Palgrave McMillan (2009). [Chapters by Alfred Crosby, Alva Noë, Don Ihde, Patrick Grim, Megan Delehanty, Andy Clark, Vivian Sobchack, Chris Burnett, Cyril Reade, Thomas Keenan, Judy Illes, Simon Malpas, Andrew Feenberg, Timothy Engström, and myself.]

7. Five Questions in Sustainability Ethics (co-edited with Wade Robison and Ryne Raffelle)  Automatic/VIP Press (forthcoming Spring 2010). [Chapters byBraden Allenby, Richard Bawden, Donald A. Brown, John Baird Callicott, Randall Curren, Aidan Davison, Michael Gormann, Benjamin Hale, Dale Jamieson, Judith Layzer, Steven Moore, John Nolt, Bryan Norton, David Orr, Donald William Scherer, Chris Schlottmann, William Shutkin, Behnam Taebi, Paul Thompson, Michael Zimmerman.]

Editorial Contributions to Journals

1. Proof Editor, Southern Journal of Philosophy (June-August 1997).

2. Book Review Editor, Human Studies A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences (2003-2008).

3. Guest-Editor of special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, “Cyborg Embodiment: Affect, Agency, Intentionality, and Responsibility” vol. 7, no. 3 (2008). [Articles by Andy Clark, Harry Collins, Jeff Shrager, Don Ihde, Ronald Giere, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Casper Bruun Jensen, Allan Hanson, John Protevi, Eric Dietrich, Timothy Engström and myself.]

4. Guest-Editor of a special issue of Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, “Postphenomenology: Historical and Contemporary Horizons,” vol. 12, no.2 (Spring 2008). [Articles by Larry Hickman, Val Dusek, Dennis Weiss, Don Ihde, and myself.]

Professional Articles and Book Chapters

1. “Dreyfus on Expertise: The Limits of Phenomenological Analysis” (with Robert Crease). Continental Philosophy Review 35 (2002): 245-279.
1a. Reprinted in E. Selinger and R. Crease, eds., The Philosophy of Expertise.  Columbia University Press (2006): 213-245.

2. “Distance and Alignment: Haraway’s and Latour’s Nietzschean Legacies” (with Casper Bruun Jensen). In D. Ihde and E. Selinger, eds., Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality. Indiana University Press (2003): 195-212.

3. “Interdisciplinary Provocateurs: Philosophically Assessing Haraway and Pickering.” In D. Ihde and E. Selinger, eds., Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality. Indiana University Press (2003): 147-166.

4. “The Necessity of Embodiment: The Dreyfus-Collins Debate” Philosophy Today 47, no.3 (2003): 266-279.

5. “Expertise and Public Ignorance” Critical Review 15, nos. 3-4 (2003): 375-385.

6. “Feyerabend’s Democratic Argument Against Experts” Critical Review 15, nos. 3-4 (2003): 359-373.

7. “Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis” (with Patrick Grim, et al).  In J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami, and R. Watson, eds., Artificial Life IX.  MIT Press (2004): 244-249.

8. “On Interactional Expertise: Pragmatic and Ontological Considerations” (with John Mix)  Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3, no.2 (2004): 145-163.
8a. Reprinted in E. Selinger and R. Crease, eds., The Philosophy of Expertise.  Columbia University Press (2006): 302-321. {Harry Collins’s reply, “The Trouble with Madeleine: Response to E. Selinger and J. Mix,” appears in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3, no. 2 (2004): 165-170.}

9. “Merleau-Ponty and Epistemology Engines” (with Don Ihde). Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Human Sciences 27, no.4 (2004): 361-376.

10. “Modeling Prejudice Reduction” (with Patrick Grim, et al) Public Affairs Quarterly 19, no. 2 (2005): 95-125.

11. “Game-Theoretic Robustness in Cooperation and Prejudice Reduction: A Graphic Measure” (with Patrick Grim, et al). In L. Rocha, L. Yaeger, M. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani, eds., ALife X. MIT Press (2006): 445-451.

12. “Normative Technoscience: Reflections on Ihde’s Significant Nudging.” In E. Selinger, ed., Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde. SUNY Press (2006): 89-107.

13. “What Kind of Science is Simulation?” (with Robb Eason, Robert Rosenberger, Trina  Kokalis, and Patrick Grim).  The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 19, 1 (2007): 19-28.

14. “On Naturally Embodied Cyborgs: Identities, Metaphors, and Models” (with Tim Engström).  Janus Head 9, 2 (2007): 553-584. {Andy Clark’s reply, “Negotiating Embodiment: A Reply to Selinger and Engström,” appears in Janus Head 9, 2 (2007): 595-587.}

15. “Technology Transfer: What Can Philosophers Contribute?” Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 27, 1/2 (2007): 12-17.

16. “Interactional Expertise and Embodiment” (with Harry Collins and Hubert Dreyfus) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38 (2007): 722-740.
16a. Reprinted in David Kaplan, ed. Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, 2nd edition, Roman and Littlefield: (2009), pp. 391-416.

17. “Does Microcredit Empower? Reflections on the Grameen Bank Debate” Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Human Sciences 31 (2008): 27-41.

18. “Collins’s Incorrect Depiction of Dreyfus’s Critique of Artificial Intelligence”  Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7, 2 (2008): 301-308. {Harry Collins’s reply, “Response to Selinger on Dreyfus,” appears in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7, 2 (2008): 309-311).

19. “A Graphic Measure for Game-Theoretic Robustness” (with Patrick Grim, et. al.) Synthese 163, 2 (2008): 273-297.

20. “Normative Judgment and Technoscience: Nudging Ihde, Again” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 12, 2 (Spring 2008): 120-125.

21. “Chess-playing Computers and Embodied Grandmasters: In What Ways Does the Difference Matter?” In B. Hale, ed., Philosophy Looks at Chess. Open Court Press (2008): 65-87.

22. “Introduction-Cyborg Embodiment: Affect, agency, intentionality, and responsibility” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7, 3 (2008): 317-325.

23. “A Moratorium on Cyborgs: Computation, Cognition, and Commerce” (with Timothy Engström) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7, 3 (2008): 327-341.{Andy Clark’s reply, “The Frozen Cyborg: A Reply to Selinger and Engström” appears in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7, 3 (2008): 343-346. Eric Dietrich’s reply, “Some Strangeness in the Proportion, or How to stop worrying and learn to love the Mechanistic Forces of Darkness” appears in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7, 3 (2008): 349-352.}
23a. Reprinted in Robert Scharff and Val Dusek eds., Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition, An Anthology revised edition, Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming).

24. “Interactive Computation is Interaction with What?: A Reply to Clark” (with Timothy Engström) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7, 3 (2008): 347-348.

25. “Technology Transfer and Globalization: A New Wave for Philosophy of Technology?” In J. Olsen, E. Selinger, and S. Riis, eds., New Waves in Philosophy of Technology.  Palgrave McMillan, (2008): 267-291.
25a. Reprinted in David Kaplan, ed. Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, 2nd edition, Roman and Littlefield: (2009), pp. 321-339.

26. “Jagannath’s Saligram: On Bruno Latour and Literary Critique After Postcoloniality” (with Amit Ray) Postmodern Culture 18, 2 (2008): online.

27. “Towards a Reflexive Framework for Development: Technology Transfer After the Empirical Turn” Synthese 168, no. 3 (2009): 377-403.

28.  “Ethics and Poverty Tours” Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 29, 1/2  (2009): 2-7.
28a. Expanded version reprinted in Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., Culture and Civilization vol. 2, Transaction Publishers (2010): pp. 147-165.

29. “Reinventing Sight: Theories and Practices of Imaging” (with Timothy Engström) in T. Engström and E. Selinger, eds., Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging, Palgrave (2009): pp. 21-61.

310 “Six Questions About Translational Due Diligence,” Science Translational Medicine Vol.2, Issue 29 April 28 (2010).

31. “The Ethics of Poverty Tourism” (with Kevin Outterson), Environmental Philosophy (special issue, “Ecotourism and Environmental Justice” ed. Robert Melchior Figueroa) vol.7, no. 2 (forthcoming).

32. “Catastrophe Ethics and Activist Speech: Reflections on Moral Norms, Advocacy, and Technical Judgment” (with Harry Collins and Paul Thompson), Metaphilosophy (forthcoming).

33. “Poverty Tourism, Justice, and Policy” (with Kyle Whyte and Kevin Outterson) Public Integrity (forthcoming).

34. “Competence and Trust in Choice Architecture” (with Kyle Whyte) Knowledge, Technology, Policy (special issue on trust and technology ed. Mariarosaria Taddeo) (forthcoming). [Trevor Pinch's "Comment on Selinger and Whyte" and Luc Bovens's "Nudges and Cultural Variance: A Note on Selinger and Whyte" will be published in the same issue.]

Review Articles

1. “Embodying Technoscience” Journal of Applied Philosophy 20, no. 1 (2003): 101-107. [This is a critical discussion of Don Ihde's Bodies in Technology.  Ihde's reply is on pp. 108-111.]

2. “Architecture and Philosophy: Reflections on Arakawa and Gins” (with Jondi Keane) Footprint: The Journal of the Delft School of Design (Autumn 2008): 135-142.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. “Experiential Teaching Strategies for Ethical Reasoning Skills Relevant to Sustainability” (with Tom Seager) Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology: online http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=& arnumber=5156721&isnumber=5156678.

2. “Debunking the Fallacy of the Individual Decision-maker: An Experiential Pedagogy for Sustainability Ethics” (with Tom Seager, et al.) Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology: (forthcoming).

3. “Determining an Equitable Allocation of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions” (with Susan Spierre and Tom Seager). Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology: (forthcoming).

National Science Foundation White Papers

1. “Clarifying the Developmental and Psychological Dimensions of Interactional Expertise as a Function of Social and Psychological Relations Between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge” (with David Stone, Christopher Schunn, and Barbara Koslowski) (2010). [NSF award # 1024477]

Public Outreach Publications

1. “Human Genome Project: Public Perception and Expert Evaluation” Contexts: A Forum for Medical Humanities 9, no. 3 (2001): 9-13. [Contexts was a forum for multidisciplinary and public discussion of ethical healthcare issues associated with the Center for Medical Humanities at Stony Brook University.]

2. “An Innovation University,” Future Orientation, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies Magazine (special issue on “Knowledge Work”) January (2009): 45-47. [The Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is a international think tank devoted to "strengthening the basis for decision-making in public and private organizations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present."]

3. “Nudging Utopia” (with Soren Riis and Kyle Whyte), Future Orientation, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies Magazine (special issue on “Utopia”)  vol. 1 (2010): 29-33. (The article is published in English and Danish.)  [The Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is a international think tank devoted to "strengthening the basis for decision-making in public and private organizations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present."]

Reference Entries

1. “Don Ihde,” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemess Continuum, ed. John Shook (2005): 1206-1208.

2. “Bruno Latour,” Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, ed. John Protevi (2005).
2a. Reprinted in A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Yale University Press, ed. John Protevi (2006): 351-352.

3. “Actor Network Theory,” Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, ed. John Protevi (2005).
3a. Reprinted in A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Yale University Press, ed. John Protevi (2006): 6-7.

4. “Quasi-Object,” Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, ed. John Protevi (2005).
4a. Reprinted in A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Yale University Press, ed. John Protevi (2006): 478.

5. “Participation,” Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics vol. 3. Macmillan Reference, ed. C. Mitcham (2005): 1380-1384.

6. “Television,” Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics vol. 4. Macmillan Reference, ed. C. Mitcham (2005): 1920-1924.

7. “Expertise,” (with Robert Crease).  Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics vol. 2. Macmillan Reference, ed. C. Mitcham (2005): 731-739.

8. “Cyborg,” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, eds. S. Pederson, J. Olsen, and F. Hendricks (2009): 154-156.

9. “Simulation,” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, eds. S. Pederson, J. Olsen, and V. Hendricks (2009): 157-159.

10. “Technology Transfer,” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, eds. S. Pederson, J. Olsen, and V. Hendricks (2009): 329-332.

11. “Expertise,” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, eds S. Pederson, J. Olsen, and V. Hendricks (2009): 202-204.

12. “Politics and Technology,” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, eds S. Pederson, J. Olsen, and V. Hendricks (2009): 297-302.

13. “Philosophy of Technology,” (with Stig Andur Pederson, Jan Kyrre Berg Olson, and Soren Riis)  Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy (forthcoming).

Interviews and Translations

1. Interview with Bruno Latour. In D. Ihde and E. Selinger, eds., Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality. Indiana University Press (2003): 15-26.

2. Interview with Don Ihde. In D. Ihde and E. Selinger, eds., Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality. Indiana University Press (2003): 117-130.

3. Interview with Manuel De Landa, “1000 Years of War: Interview with Manuel De Landa.” Ctheory (2003): online.
3a. Reprint in Life in the Wires: The Ctheory Reader, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds., Ctheory Books (2004): 135-154.

4. Translation of Bernhard Waldenfels, “From Intentionality to Responsivity.” Revue Roumaine de Philosophie Vol. 47, No. 1 (2003): 15-27. Co-translator (from German) with Robb E. Eason and C. Edward Emmer (final version Waldenfels).

5. Interview with me in J. Olsen and E. Selinger, 5 Questions in Philosophy of Technology (VIP Press: 2007): 183-200.

Book Reviews

1. Review of Bertrand Russell’s Power. Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly 97 (1998): 16-19.

2. Review (in German) of Don Ihde’s Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science. Journal Phänomenologie 11 (1999): 67-70.

3. Review of Thomas Gieryn’s Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line. The Quarterly Review of Biology 75, no. 4 (2000): 439-440.

4. Review of Peter Singers’s A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation. The Quarterly Review of Biology 76, no. 3 (2001): 335.

5. Review of Kevin Davies’s Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA. The Quarterly Review of Biology 76, no.4 (2001): 492.

6. Review of Isabelle Stengers’s The Invention of Modern Science. The Quarterly Review of Biology 77, no.2 (2002): 182-184.

7. Review of Francis Fukuyama’s Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. The Quarterly Review of Biology 78, no.1 (2003): 76-77.

8. Review of Philip Kitcher’s Science, Truth, and Democracy. The Quarterly Review of Biology 78, no.1 (2003): 77-78.

9. Review of Leon Kass’s Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics. The Quarterly Review of Biology 78, no.3 (2003): 343-345.

10. “The Wonder of Phenomenology.” Review of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone’s The Primacy of Movement. Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Vol. 27, no.1 (2004): 107-112.

11. Review of Michael Fumento’s Bioevolution: How Biotechnology is Changing the World.  The Quarterly Review of Biology.  The Quarterly Review of Biology 79, no.3 (2004): 294-295.

12. Review of Todd May’s Reconsidering Difference: Derrida, Levinas, Nancy, Deleuze. International Studies in Philosophy 35, no. 4 (2004): 361-362.

13. Review of Robert Figueroa’s and Sandra Harding’s, eds., Science and Other Cultures. The Quarterly Review of Biology 80, no.1 (2005): 95-96.

14. “Towards a Postphenomenology of Artifacts.”  Review of Peter-Paul Verbeek’s What Things Do.  Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 9, no. 2 (2005): 128-134.

15.  Review of Michael Ruse’s The Evolution-Creation Struggle.  Quarterly Review of Biology 81, no.1 (2006): 53-54.

16. Review of Ronald Giere’s Scientific Perspectivism. Quarterly Review of Biology 82, 4 (2007): 407-409.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

1. Co-directed (with Timothy Engström) the conference “Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging: Technology, Representation, and the Disciplines.” Rochester Institute of Technology (2004).  Main speakers: Peter Galison, Vivian Sobchack, Patrick Grim, Kenneth Jolls, and Megan Delhantey.
(*) Chris Burnett’s review, “Image Trouble,” appears in After Image: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism vol. 32, no. 1 (2004): 10-11.

2. Co-organized (with Don Ihde) “New Directions Past the Science Wars: Themes from Haraway and Latour.”  Society for the Social Studies of Science, Paris, France (2004).

3. Organized panel on Postphenomenology for annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Technology (2007).  Participants include: Don Ihde, Larry Hickman, Val Dusek, Dennis Weiss, and myself.

4. Co-directed (with Wade Robison and Ryne Raffaelle) the conference “Sustainability Ethics.”  Rochester Institute of Technology (2009).  Main speakers: Bryan Norton, Paul Thompson, Braden Allenby, William Shutkin, and David Orr.

5. Co-directed the “Technology, Culture and Globalization” track (with Charles Ess) for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands (2009).

6. Reviewer for the “Converging Technologies and Human Enhancement” track for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands (2009).

7. Co-directed Mellon Foundation funded workshop on translational research with Theodore Brown, University of Rochester (2009).  Main speakers: Daniel Kevles, Arthur Caplan, Robert Martensen, and Susan Lindee.

8. Co-directed NSF funded workshop with Greg Feist and Davide Stone, “Acquiring and Using Interactional Expertise: Psychological, Sociological, and Philosophical Perspectives,” University of California at Berkeley (2010).

KEYNOTE & FEATURE PRESENTATIONS

1. “The (Post) Phenomenology of Technoscience: Praxis and Normativity After the Empirical Turn,” Copenhagen Conference on Philosophy of Technology, Carlsberg Academy, Denmark (2005).

2. “Embodiment, AI, and Expertise: The Problem of Extrapolation,” Copenhagen Conference on Philosophy of Technology, Carlsberg Academy, Denmark (2007).

3. “What Does Globalization Mean for the Philosophy of Technology?,” Danish Philosophical Society, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, Denmark (2007).

4. “Bodies at Risk: The Moral Debate Surrounding Poverty Tourism,” Shaping Bodies: Knowing Bodies in a Socio-Technical Culture, Carlsberg Academy, Denmark (2009).

5. “Philosophical Reflections on the Electric Car,” Values in Socio-Technical Systems workshop, Delft University, Netherlands (2010).

6. “Using the Externalities Game to Generate Moral Hypotheses about CO2 Emissions” (with Tom Seager & Susan Spierre), RUC Climate-Change-Communication Conference, Roskilde University, Denmark (2010).

CONFERENCES & INVITED TALKS

1. “Inessential Commonality and Community: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Interpretation of Mitsein.” Annual Crossing the Boundaries Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York (1996).

2. “Orpheus’s Optics: Blanchot and Irigaray on the Gaze.” Virginia Humanities Conference, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia (1997).

3. “Anarchic Geology: Derrida and Husserl on Nature.” 7th Annual PIC Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York (1997).

4. “The Conflict between Faith and Reason: Descartes, Hume, and Kant.” Judaic Studies Department. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee (1997).

5. “Plato’s Tragic Justice.” 22nd Annual International Utopian Studies Conference. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee (1997).

6. “Derrida’s Rhetoric of Blindness: Memory as the Ruin of Mourning.” 22nd annual Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia. Italy (1998).

7. “Derrida’s Extra Mundane Logic.” 22nd Annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee (1998).

8. “The Provocation of Eternal Return: Deleuze and Blanchot on Nietzsche.” 8th Annual PIC Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (1998).

9. “The Temporal Difference Between Andrew Pickering and Donna Haraway.” Philosophy Research Forum, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (1999).

10. “A Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Expert-Lay Divide.” 4S/EASST Conference, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (2000).

11. “Can ‘Values Experts’ Bridge the gap between Experts and the Public?” 6th International Conference on Public Communication of Science & Technology, CERN Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland (2001).

12. “Hubert Dreyfus and the Transparency of Expertise.” Organizing Visions: The Ambivalence of Transparency in Science, Technology, and Politics, Department of STS, Cornell University, New York (2002).

13. “Experts and Democracy.” Knowledge in Plural Context, Lausanne, Switzerland (2002).

14. “What is an Expert?” Long Island Philosophical Society, Department of Philosophy, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York (2002).

15. “Epistemology Engines: The Role of Embodiment in Science and Technology.” Book Symposia to Celebrate the Publication of Don Ihde’s Bodies in Technology, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (2002).

16. “Bruno Latour and Expertise.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois (2002).

17. “Expertise and the Question of Lay Ability.” Philosophical Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (2002).

18. “A Victory of Mind Over Machine: Can Phenomenology be a Normative Theory of Technology?” Philosophical Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (2002).

19. “Embodiment and Linguistic Socialization.” Philosophical Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (2003).

20. “Prejudice Reduction in Artificial Societies: A Computational Model for the Contact Hypothesis.” Society for Minds and Machines, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C. (2003).

21. “The Future of Humanity is the Humanities.” Henry and Mary Kearse Distinguished Lecture, Kearse Award Ceremony. Rochester Institute of Technology (2004).

22. “Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis.” Ninth Annual Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. Boston, Massachusetts (2004).

23. “Jagannath’s Move: Latour and the Dalit Unconscious.”  Society for the Social Studies of Science, Paris, France (2004).

24. “From Writing to Imaging: Technology, Agency, and the Reconfiguration of Social Experience” (with Timothy Engström). International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Berkeley, California (2005).

25. “Cyborg Technology and the Question of Agency” (with Timothy Engström). The Applied Philosophy Group, NYU, New York (2005).

26. “Just When You Thought You Knew What You Were Doing: Challenging Pedagogy & Your Discipline Through Team-Teaching” (with Timothy Engström). Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (2005).

27.  “From Textuality to Imaging: Technology, Agency, and the Reorganization of Experience” (with Timothy Engström).  6th Congress of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, Humanity at the Turning Point: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom, Helsinki, Finland (2005).

28.  “From Texts to Images: Technology, Philosophy, and the Reorganization of Experience” (with Timothy Engström).  Material Cultures and the Creation of Knowledge, Edinburgh, Scotland (2005).

29. “Cyborg Ethics and Cognition Enhancing Technologies,” Hale Series in Applied Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (2005).

30. “Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Language: An Introduction,” Honors Seminar in Experimental Writing, RIT (2005).

31. “On Interactional Expertise: Some Lingering Questions,” Towards a History and Philosophy of Expertise, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia (2006). [For a review of this conference, see Chemical Heritage 24, 3 (2006): 43.]

32. “Are we Really Human?” McMurray Lecture in Philosophy, Monroe Community College, New York (2006).

33. “Game-Theoretic Robustness in Cooperation and Prejudice Reduction: A Graphic Measure” (with Patrick Grim, et. al.) ALife X, Indiana University, Indiana (2006).

34. “Political and Existential Economies of Imaging: Technology, Identity, and Social Agency” (with Timothy Engström).  The Science and Democracy Network, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2006).

35. “What Kind of Science is Simulation?” (with Patrick Grim, et al).  North American Computing and Philosophy Conference, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2006).

36. “Does Globalization Empower?” Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Philadelphia (2006).

37. “Technology Transfer and Empowerment,” Hale Series in Applied Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (2007).

38. “Globalization and the Philosophy of Technology,” Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science, University of Twente, Netherlands (2007).

39. “Normative Judgment and Technoscience: Nudging Ihde, Again,” Society for Philosophy of Technology, Charleston, SC (2007).

40. “Side Effects: Participatory Medicine and Feigned Participation,” Studies of Expertise and Experience, Cardiff University, Wales (2007).

41. Commentator on “Politicizing Methodology: Standardization Debates in Behavioral Genetics” by invitation of The Interface of Humanities and Sciences / Technology Cluster of the Central New York Humanities Corridor (made possible by support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Syracuse University (2007).

42. “Digital Development and the Technological Configuration of Culture,” Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, Department of North Texas (2007).

43. “Poverty Tourism: An Ethical Assessment,” Honors Philosophy class, Department of North Texas (2007).

44. “On Animality, Landing Sites, and Embodied Transformation,” 2nd Annual Arakawa and Gins Philosophy and Architecture Conference, Slought Foundation and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2008).

45. “Human Exceptionalism: Reflections on Technology, Socialization, and Embodiment,” Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota (2008).

46. “Environmental Justice and the Green Revolution,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Allenspark, Colorado (2008).

47. “Expertise, Genetically Modified Food, and World Hunger” (with Paul Thompson and Harry Collins) 2nd Annual Conference of the Studies of Expertise and Experience, Cardiff, Wales (2008).

48. “Expertise and the GMO Debate: Normative Assessment” (with Paul Thompson and Harry Collins) Society for the Social Studies of Science, Rotterdam, Netherlands.  “Expertise and the GMO Debate: Normative Assessment” (with Paul Thompson and Harry Collins) Society for the Social Studies of Science, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2008).

49. “Innovation and Responsible Development,” Social Impact Speaker Series, Walden University (2008).  Archived online: http://www.waldenu.edu/c/media/14663.htm

50. “Interactional Expertise and Multidisciplinary Collaboration,” Northern Illinois University (2009).

51. “Rethinking Techno-fixes in the Context of the Geo-Engineering Debates,” Plenary Panel: Intersections Between Philosophy of Technology and Environmental Philosophy, Society for Philosophy of Technology, Twente University, Netherlands (2009).

52. “A Precautionary Principle for Philosophers of Technology: When Appeals to Human Nature Are Justified,” Society for Philosophy of Technology, Twente University, Netherlands (2009).

53. “Globalisation and the Innovation University,” Society for Philosophy of Technology, Twente University, Netherlands (2009).

54. “Game Design and Game Theory: A Sustainability Ethics Project” (with Tom Seager), RIT Gaming Dept (2009).

55. “Using Games to Teach Wicked Problem Re-Solution Skills in Sustainability Ethics” (with Tom Seager), The Bovay Seminar in History and Ethics of Engineering, Cornell University (2009).

56. “A Normative Research Agenda for Enhancing Translational Research in Medicine,” workshop on translational research medicine, University of Rochester (2009).

57. “Nudge: Phil Tech & STS Concerns,” guest lecture for graduate course, “Introduction to Science and Technology Studies,” Science and Technology Studies Department, Cornell University (2009).

58. “From Instrumentalism to Nudge: Should We Embrace Choice Architecture,” invited public lecture, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, Denmark (2009).

59.  “Integrative Engineering Education: Practical and Philosophical Lessons,” invited public lecture, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, Denmark (2009).

60. “The Ethical Design of Interfaces,” invited lecture for students enrolled in the Hum-Tech (Humanities-Technology) program at Roskilde University, Denmark (2009).

61. “Exploring Developmental and Pedagogical Dimensions of Interactional Expertise” (with David Stone), 3rd annual Meeting of Studies of Expertise and Experience, Cardiff University, Wales (2009).

62. “Should the Public Be ‘Nudged’?” (co-authored with and presented by Kyle Whyte), Eastern Division APA, Committee Session Symposium on Public Philosophy, New York (2009).

63. “Developing Reflexivity as an STS Program Director at the NSF: A Case Study in Interactional Expertise and Trading Zones,” Dept. Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University (2010).

64. “Technology, Tourism, and Ethics,” Dept. Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands (2010).

65. “Choice Architecture, Trust, and Competence,” Dept. Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands (2010).

66. “Using Games to Teach Sustainability Ethics,” Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology, Colorado School of Mines (2010).

67. “Clarifying the Developmental and Psychological Dimensions of Interactional Expertise as a Function of Social and Psychological Relations Between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge” (with David Stone, Christopher Schunn, and Barbara Koslowski” at “Acquiring and Using Interactional Expertise: Psychological, Sociological, and Philosophical Perspectives) workshop, University of California at Berkeley (2010).

Technoscience “Roasts” Participated In (Organized by Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, 1998-2010)

  • Albert Borgmann
  • Hubert Dreyfus
  • Andrew Feenberg
  • Peter Galison
  • Donna Haraway
  • Andrew Pickering
  • Trevor Pinch
  • Peter-Paul Verbeek

REVIEWER For:
1. Brookhaven National Laboratories Contest in Science Writing
2  Oxford University Press
3. SUNY Press
4. University of Chicago Press
5. Roman & Littlefield
6. Indiana University Press
7. Ashgate Publishing Group
8. Kluwer
9. Palgrave Macmillan
10. Columbia University Press
11. Wiley-Blackwell
12. Continental Philosophy Review
13. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
14. Science, Technology, and Human Values
15. Janus Head
16. Synthese
17. Synthese Library
18. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
19. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
20. Peace and Change
21. Science and Engineering Ethics
22. Philosophical Psychology
23. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
24. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
25. Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
26. Agriculture and Human Values
27. Science as Culture
28. Theoria
29. Social Studies of Science
30. Journal of Applied Philosophy
31. British Journal of Sociology
32. National Endowment for the Humanities
33. National Science Foundation
34. IEEE Symposium on Technology and Society

TENURE AND PROMOTIONS REFEREE For:
1. The University of Tasmania

INVITED PANELIST
1. Cyborg Identities. University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (1999).

2. Cultures of Death and Dying. Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (1999).

3. Excellence in Teaching. The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and The Council of Distinguished Teaching Professors. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (2001).

SUMMER PROGRAMS

1. Participant at the 22nd annual Collegium Phaenomenologicum on “Spacing Art: Visibility, Image, Representation,” Perugia, Italy (1997).

TALKS ORGANIZED

1. Arranged for Don Ihde (Stony Brook University) to give two talks at RIT: “The Liberal Arts and Technology: Leading a Conversation in a Technological University” and “Imaging: The Many Lives of the Camera Obscura” (2003).

2. Arranged for Robert Scharff (University of New Hampshire) to give a talk at RIT: “Technoscience as Consumating Event: Comte’s Pleasure, Heidegger’s Problem” (2005).

3. Arranged for Robert Rosenberger (Stony Brook University) to give two talks at RIT: “A Phenomenological Analysis of Neurobiological Imaging” and “Alternatives to the Combat Model of Scientific Practice” (2006).

4. Arranged for Benjamin Hale (University of Colorado at Boulder) to give a talk at RIT: “Nature and Culpability” (2006).

5. Arranged for David Goldblatt (Denison University) to give a talk at RIT: “Warnings and Threats: Performative” (2006).

6. Arranged for Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines) to give two talks at RIT: “Technology and Religion: From Christianity to Buddhism” and “New Dimensions of Science Policy” (2006).

7. Arranged for Eric Dietrich (Binghamton University) to give a talk at RIT: “After the Humans are Gone” (2006).

8. Arranged for John Dakers (University of Glasgow) to give a talk at RIT: “Technologists, Who, by Looking Back, Do Not Always See What is Before Them” (2007).

9. Arranged for Dennis Weiss (York College) to give a talk at RIT:  “Extreme Makeover(s) and the End(s) of Humanity” (2007).

10. Arranged for Heather Douglas (University of Tennessee) to give a talk at RIT: “Integrity and Advocacy in Expertise” (2007).

11. Arranged for Kyle Powys-Whyte (Stony Brook University) to give at RIT: “”An Ethics of Technical Decision-Making for Powerless People: Environmental Justice, American Indians and Risk” (2008).

12. Arranged for John Protevi (Louisiana State University) to give a talk at RIT: “The Assumption of Individual Moral Responsibility in Group Military Action” (2008).

13. Arranged for Randall Curren (University of Rochester) to give a talk at RIT: “Education for ‘Sustainable Development’: A Philosophical Assessment of UNESCO’s ESD” (2008).

14. Arranged for Kevin Outterson (Boston University) to give a talk at RIT: “Visiting Low-Income-People: Education or Exploitation” (2008).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Courses Taught

  • Philosophy of Vision and Imaging
  • Sustainability Ethics

Undergraduate Courses Taught

  • Composition
  • Concepts of the Person
  • Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology
  • Honors: Design Research
  • Introduction to Ethics
  • Introduction to Logic
  • Moral Reasoning
  • Minds and Machines
  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Expertise
  • Philosophy of Perception
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Peace
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Philosophy of Vision and Imaging
  • Social Dimensions of Science
  • Sustainability Ethics
  • Technology and Human Values
  • Thinking About Science
  • Western Literature

Teaching Done In Special Academic Programs

  • Women In Science and Engineering
  • Learning Communities

Independent Studies Directed At RIT

  • Philosophy of Artificial Life
  • Technology and the Literature of Change
  • Modeling Prejudice Reduction I
  • Modeling Prejudice Reduction II
  • Philosophy of Identity
  • Philosophical Analysis of the “Culture Based Approach” to Design and Product Development

Co-Ops Supervised at RIT

  • Daniel Whiddon (40 hours per week during winter 2009-2010 quarter; with Tom Seager and David Schwartz)

Course Grader

  • Medicine and Society

Teaching Assistant

  • Law and Justice
  • Values in the Modern World
  • Philosophy of Religion

SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1. Philosophy Department Masters Student Representative, University of Memphis (1997-1998).
2. Academic Advisor for a cohort of the Communities of Science Program, Learning Communities, Stony Brook University (2002-2003).
3. Hiring Committee for Department of Philosophy, RIT (2003).
4. College Writing Committee, RIT (2004-2008).
5. Honors Committee, RIT (2004-2009).
6. Advisor Peace Studies Concentration, RIT (2004-2010).
7. Academic Standards Committee, RIT (2005-2006).
8. Philosophy Department Speaker Coordinator, RIT (2006-2009).
9. Mentor in Global Leadership Program, RIT (2008).
10. Curriculum Committee for the Golisano Institute of Sustainability, RIT (2008-2009)
11. Planning Committee for the Humanities/Science-Technology Cluster, a Mellon Foundation Funded Consortium between Syracuse University, Cornell University, and University of Rochester (2008-2010).
12. Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts, RIT: (2010-2012).
13. Promotions Committee, College of Liberal Arts, RIT: (2010-2012)

PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS

  • American Philosophical Association
  • International Society for Hermeneutics and Science
  • Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • Society for the Social Studies of Science
  • International Society for Artificial Life

LANGUAGES

  • German (reading)