| Bio |
Philip Brey (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) is associate professor in philosophy and vice chair of the department of philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands. He was educated at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, and the University of California at San Diego and Berkeley. He was previously employed at the department of philosophy of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is co-editor, with Thomas Misa and Andrew Feenberg, of the forthcoming book Modernity and Technology (MIT Press, 2002) and is a member of the board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. His research is on the philosophy of information and communication technology (ICT), with special attention to computer ethics and to the social and cultural roles of information and communication technology. His work in computer ethics has concentrated on ethical and political aspects of computer systems design, on issues of justice and autonomy in relation to ICT,and on ethical aspects of virtuality, mobility and surveillance. He has also published on the implications of ICT for globalization,for conceptions of place and ontology, and for the quality of life. |
