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Patrick Lin, Ph.D.
Dr.
Patrick Lin is the research director for the organization,
bringing a rare blend of experience from post-doctoral research in nanoethics
and corporate work in issues management and technology communications.
Dr.
Lin is currently a visiting assistant professor at California Polytechnic
State University (Cal Poly, SLO) and also holds academic appointments at Dartmouth
College and Western Michigan University.
Dr. Lin serves on the editorial board of the new journal NanoEthics:
Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale and other
journals. He has a number of papers published and
forthcoming in both academic journals and ethics titles, and he has presented
talks about nanoethics at industry conferences.
Unlike many in academia,
Dr. Lin carries real-world business experience to his research that includes
legislative work in Washington D.C. and technology savvy from Silicon
Valley. He has
worked with start-ups to established companies such as Covisint (venture
founded by Ford, GM, DaimlerChrysler, et al.), Volkswagen, Nextel, Sprint PCS,
Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Omnisky, Siemens, Business Objects,
Veritas, JetBlue, eBay, E*TRADE, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medtronic, Telus, and
other market makers.
Active in community affairs, Dr. Lin has served on the board of directors
for Make-A-Wish Foundation and Foodbank in
Santa Barbara.
He was also involved with the Ronald McDonald House and other organizations
in San Francisco.
Dr.
Lin received his B.A. in philosophy (political & legal theories) from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1990, with significant coursework in
the physical sciences. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D.
in philosophy (ethics and political & economic theories) from the University
of California at Santa Barbara in 1997.
Fritz Allhoff, Ph.D.
Fritz Allhoff is a senior
fellow for the organization, with areas of focus in ethical theory, applied
ethics and philosophy of science, including nanotechnology.
He is also an assistant professor at Western Michigan University and a
visiting fellow at University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science
as well as Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and
Public Ethics (CAPPE). He also recently
completed a senior research fellowship at the American Medical Association's
Institute for Ethics. Dr. Allhoff is also on the editorial board of the
new journal NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the
Nanoscale (forthcoming in 2007; published by Springer).
Active in the research
community, Dr. Allhoff has published in prominent publications such as American Journal of Bioethics,
Journal of Business Ethics, History and Philosophy of the Life
Sciences, Ethics, Human Nature Review, International Journal of Applied Philosophy,
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics and Kennedy Institute of
Ethics Journal. He has also edited several anthologies on various topics, including
Biomedical Ethics, Business and Professional Ethics,
Ethics in
the Workplace and History of Philosophy, a four-volume series.
Dr. Allhoff has established a
strong presence in industry circles, having organized and presented talks on
ethics, science and public policy at conferences in international venues,
including Vienna, Austria; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York;
Ontario, Canada; Oviedo, Spain; and other locations worldwide.
He also has taught a wide
range of classes at the introductory and advanced levels at the University of
California at Santa Barbara, such as: advanced
ethics, biomedical ethics, business & professional ethics, introduction to
ethics and philosophy of law.
Dr. Allhoff received his B.S.
in physics as well as philosophy from the College of William & Mary. He
earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa
Barbara.
James Moor, Ph.D.
James Moor, Ph.D.,
a senior fellow of the organization,
is also a professor and previously chairman of Dartmouth College's philosophy
department as well as an adjunct professor with The Centre for Applied
Philosophy and Public Ethics (Australian National University).
Dr. Moor is well-published in the fields of computer ethics, philosophy of
artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science as well as
logic. His books include Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social
Implications of Nanotechnology (MIT Press, in progress), The Logic Book
(McGraw-Hill, 2004), The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of
Artificial Intelligence (Kluwer Academic, 2003), Cyberphilosophy: The
Intersection of Computing and Philosophy (Basil Blackwell, 2002), and
The Digital Phoenix: How Computers Are Changing Philosophy (Basil
Blackwell, 1998).
He is an editor of the new journal NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that
Converge at the Nanoscale as well as Minds and Machines, and he
serves on the editorial board for Ethics and Information Technology and
Information, Communication & Ethics in Society. Dr. Moor is
currently president of the International Society for Ethics and Information
Technology (INSEIT) and also affiliated with a number of other professional
organizations such as Society for Machines and Mentality, APA Committee on
Philosophy and Computers, and many others.
Dr. Moor earned his B.S. in mathematics from Ohio State University in 1965;
M.A. in philosophy from University of Chicago in 1966; and Ph.D. in history
and philosophy of science from Indiana University in 1972.
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