Andrew Light is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He is co-author, with John O’Neill and Alan Holland, of Environmental Values (Routledge, 2007) and co-editor of sixteen books including The Aesthetics of Everyday Life (Columbia, 2005) Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (MIT, 2003), and Technology and the Good Life? (Chicago, 2000). He is currently working on a book on ethics and restoration ecology.
Heinz C. Luegenbiehl is Professor of Philosophy and Technology Studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. He has published extensively on engineering ethics and liberal education in engineering education. His current research interests are in the areas of cross-cultural engineering ethics, especially in relation to Asian countries, and on developments toward an international code of engineering ethics.
Kristo Miettinen is a Senior Technical Fellow at ITT Industries Space Systems Division in Rochester, New York. His current technical work in image chain analysis focuses on automated image restoration and enhancement, image distortion parameter estimation, and modeling of image utility and interpretability as a function of engineering parameters.
Steven Moore is the Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of Texas at Austin where he is Director of the graduate program in Sustainable Design and Co-director of the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development. Moore is the author of many articles and four books on sustainable architecture and urbanism.
Kiyotaka Naoe is Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of Tohoku University, Japan. His interests include contemporary continental philosophy and philosophy of science and technology. His recent research is about the phenomenological and ethical aspects of technological actions, especially the relationship between technology and the body.
Kathryn A. Neeley is Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. She is author of Mary Sommerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind, published by Cambridge, and co-editor, with David Ollis and Heinz Luegenbiehl, of Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering: Responses to ABET 2000. Her research focus is on the aesthetic dimensions of scientific and engineering practice.
Alfred Nordmann is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Darmstadt Technical University. In recent years, he has focused on nanoscience and the convergence of enabling technologies. He wants to understand not only how these might affect society and how they alter the very notion of technology, but views them primarily as a symptom of more general changes in research practice and epistemic values.
Glenn Parsons is a member of the Philosophy department at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. His main research interest is the role of scientific knowledge in the aesthetic appreciation of nature. His essays have appeared in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. He is currently writing a book on the aesthetics of nature.
Joseph C. Pitt is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech. He graduated from the College of William and Mary, taking his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He authored three books, Pictures, Images and Conceptual Change; Galileo, Human Knowledge and the Book of Nature; and, most recently, Thinking About Technology. His research interests concern the impact of technological innovation on scientific change.
Bernhard Rieder is a postdoc researcher and teacher at the Hypermedia Department of Paris 8 University. He worked as a Web developer and published on the relationship between technology and culture. Current research interests include semantic computing, collaborative culture and the epistemology, methodology and ethics of software design.
Mirko Tobias Schafer is a junior teacher/researcher at Utrecht University at the Department for Media and Culture Studies. He studied theater, film and media studies and communication studies at Vienna University in Austria and digital culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is currently writing his dissertation on the collective and participatory production in user communities and cultural industries.
Colin Schmidt is a specialist in the Epistemology of artificial and natural intelligence as well as the relation between them. As such, he is interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Humanoid Robotics and novelties in Communication. To further his research agenda he draws on universal notions in the Philosophy of Mind and Language like Intentionality, reference, and categorization. His approach is often anthropological in nature and his methodology is always deliberately probatory and terminological.
John P. Sullins, (Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2002) is an associate professor at Sonoma State University in California. His recent research interests are the technologies of Robotics, AI and Artificial Life and how they inform traditional philosophical topics on the questions of life and mind as well as its impact on society and the ethical design of successful autonomous machines.
Paul B. Thompson holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University. He is a former President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. The second edition of his book Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective appeared in 2007, and a co-edited volume entitled What Can Nano Learn from Bio? Lessons for Nanotechnology from the Debate over Food Biotechnology and GMOs is slated for 2008.
Ibo Van de Poel is assistant professor ethics and technology at Delft University of Technology and managing director of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. His research focuses on ethical issues in engineering design, technological risks and in R&D networks. For more information, see http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/webstaf/ibop/.
Anke Van Gorp is researcher and consultant at the Innovation Policy group of TNO-Quality of Life. She has an MSc in Materials Science and Engineering and a PhD in ethics and technology. She has published several articles about ethics and engineering design. Her current interests are ethics and innovation and philosophy of technology.
Peter-Paul Verbeek is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and director of the international Master’s program Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society. He publishes on human-technology relations, technology design, and the social and cultural roles of technologies. One of his research interests is the moral relevance of technological artifacts and its implications for ethical theory and the ethics of technology design.
Pieter E. Vermaas is researcher at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He published in philosophy of technology on theories of technical functions, on design methodologies and on the use of quantum mechanics in nanotechnology. His current research focuses on functional decomposition, the breakdown of function into subfunctions, in engineering design.
Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics, and cyborgs. He is also Director of the University KTP Centre, which links the University with Small to Medium Enterprises. As well as publishing 500 research papers, Kevin is perhaps best known for being the first human being with a chip connected to his nervous system.