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Biographical Sketch

Herman T. Tavani (Ph.D., Temple University) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Rivier University, where he previously served as Chair of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Liberal Studies Program. He has also held appointments as a visiting lecturer at Boston College, and as a visiting scholar/research fellow at Dartmouth College. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, where his research has centered on ethical issues at the intersection of environmental health and computational genomics.

Professor Tavani has written, edited, or co-edited five books on social and ethical aspects of information technology; his textbook Ethics and Technology (Wiley) is now in a fourth edition. He also has edited or co-edited four books of (conference) proceedings, two book-length bibliographies, and ten special issues of journals (on themes in computer ethics). His numerous scholarly papers have been published as research articles in (refereed) journals and periodicals; as chapters in books of readings and proceedings; and as entries in encyclopedias and handbooks. Professor Tavani has delivered keynote addresses/invited talks and has presented peer-reviewed conference papers at institutions in nine countries in Europe and Asia, as well as at colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has been an invited guest on radio programs (discussing technology-and-society/ethics related topics) and has been interviewed by journalists in connection with his expertise in computer ethics; transcripts of these interviews have been published in books and periodicals.

An active member of several professional associations, Professor Tavani recently completed a four-year term as President of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT)—an association for which he also previously served as Co-Executive Director and (founding) Editor of the INSEIT Newsletter. On two occasions, he served as President of the Northern New England Philosophical Association (NNEPA). He also served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Association for Computing’s Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (ACM SIGCAS), and received the 2008 ACM SIGCAS Outstanding Service Award for his contributions to SIGCAS (and its quarterly publication, Computers and Society). Tavani has chaired or co-chaired regional, national, and international conferences and symposia, and has served on the program and planning committees for numerous academic conferences. He has served on the American Philosophical Association (APA) Committee on Philosophy and Computers (PAC), and on the Steering Committee for the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). He has also served on the editorial/advisory/review boards of a wide range of academic journals, and is currently Book Review Editor for the (Springer) journal Ethics and Information Technology.

Professor Tavani has been acknowledged in Who's Who Among America's Teachers for “excellence as a distinguished educator” who has “made a difference” as a college teacher. Before he became a full-time professor, Tavani worked in the computer industry as a software technical writer and writing supervisor. He resides in Nashua, NH with his wife, Joanne, and their daughter, Regina.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books that I have written or edited (since 2000) include:

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Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies in Ethical Computing

Fourth Edition

John Wiley & Sons Publishers; 454 pages

ISBN 978-1-118-28172-7

Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies in Ethical Computing

Third Edition

John Wiley & Sons Publishers; 432 pages

ISBN 978-0-470-5095-0

The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

(with Kenneth Himma)

John Wiley & Sons; 702 pages

ISBN: 978-0-471-79959-9

Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology

Second Edition

John Wiley & Sons Publishers; 424 pages.

ISBN: 0-471-99803-6

Ethics, Computing, and Genomics

Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 374 pages

ISBN: 0-7637-3620-1

Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World: Theory and Practice

(with Richard Spinello)

Information Science Publishing (an imprint of IGI Global); 295 pages.

ISBN: 159140577-7

Readings in CyberEthics

(with Richard Spinello)

Second Edition

Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 715 pages.

ISBN: 0-7637-2410-6

Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology

First Edition

John Wiley & Sons Publishers; 368 pages.

ISBN: 0-471-24966-1

Readings in Cyberethics

(with Richard Spinello)

First edition

Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 617 pages.

ISBN: 0-7637-1500-X

Edited Volumes: Special Issues of Journals that I have Guest-Edited (since 2000) include:

Information (Special Issue: Vol. 2, No. 4)

Guest Editor (with Dieter Arnold)

Theme: Trust and Privacy in Our Networked World

Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Publications

ISSN: 2078-2489

Metaphilosophy (Special Section: Vol. 38, No. 4)

Coordinating Editor

Theme: Symposium on Bernard Gert’s Moral Philosophy

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

ISSN: 0026-1068

Ethics and Information Technology (Four Special Issues:

Vol. 3, No. 1; Vol. 5, No. 4; Vol. 6, No. 1; Vol. 12, No. 4)

Co-Guest Editor

Dordrecht, NL: Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers.

ISSN: 1388-1957

Computers and Society (Four Special Issues: Vol. 30,

No, 4; Vol. 33, No. 3; Vol. 37. No.2; Vol. 40, No. 3)

Guest-Editor/Co-Guest Editor

New York: ACM Press.

ISSN: 0095-2737

Books (other than my own) in which my scholarly papers have been published (since 2000) include:

Robo- and Information-Ethics: Some Fundamentals. Edited by M. Decker and M. Gutmann (Berlin, Germany: LIT Verlag), 2012.

The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Edited by L. Floridi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), 2010.

Global Information Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Edited by F. Tan (New York: Information Science Reference/IGI Global), 2008.

Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings. Edited by J. Olen, J. Van Camp, and V. Barry (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth), 2008.

Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Edited by A. Anttiroiko (New York: Information Science Reference/IGI Global), 2008.

Localizing the Internet: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective. Edited by R. Capurro, J. Frühbauer, and T. Hausmanninger (Munich, Germany: Fink Verlag), 2007.

Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society. Edited by K. E. Himma (Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett) 2007.

Computer Ethics. Edited by J. Weckert (London, UK: Ashgate), 2007.

Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives. Edited by S. Hongladarom and C. Ess (New York: Information Science Reference/IGI Global), 2007.

Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus. 3rd edn. Edited by L. Hinman (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall), 2006.

The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives. Edited by R. Cavalier (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press), 2005.

Foundations of Information Ethics. Edited by M. Ochi, M. Tsuboi, and Y. Goto (Hiroshima, Japan: Hiroshima University Press), 2002.

Internet Ethics. Edited by D. Langford (London, UK: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin’s Press), 2000.

Privacy and the Constitution. Edited by M. Placencia (Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing), 2000.

Journals/Periodicals in which my scholarly papers have been published (since 2000) include:

Catholic Library World (Publication of the Catholic Library Association – Pittsfield, MA), 2002.

Computers and Society (ACM Press, New York), 2000-2002, 2007-2011.

Ethics and Information Technology (Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer, The Netherlands), 2001-2005, 2008, 2010, 2011.

Information (MDPI Publications – Basel, Switzerland), 2011.

Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal (Publication of the Organizational Systems Research Association – Morehead, KY), 2006.

International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (Publication of the Center for Information Policy – Milwaukee, WI), 2010.

International Review of Information Ethics (Publication of the International Center for Information Ethics – Stutgart, Germany), 2005.

Journal of Information, Communication, and Ethics in Society (Troubadour/Emerald Publishing, UK), 2003, 2004.

Journal of Information Ethics (McFarland Publishers – Jefferson, NC), 2000, 2006, 2012.

Library Hi Tech (Emerald Publishing, UK), 2007.

Metaphilosophy (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK), 2007.

Minds and Machines (Springer Publishers, the Netherlands), 2011.

Technology and Society (IEEE Press, New York), 2000, 2002, 2005, 2012.

The Information Society (Routledge/Taylor and Francis Publishers, New York), 2005.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Institutions at which I have presented keynote addresses and invited lectures (since 2000) include:

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), 2000, 2001.

Center for Art and Media Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany), 2004.

City University New York (CUNY) – Graduate Center (NYC), 2002.

Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT), 2011

Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA), 2003.

Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan), 2001.

(College of the) Holy Cross (Worcester, MA), 2002.

Ionian University (Corfu, Greece), 2012.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany), 2009, 2011.

Loyola University (Chicago, IL), 2012.

LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy), 2009.

Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN), 2001.

Research Center for Computing and Society (New Haven, CT), 2002.

Turku School of Economics (Turku, Finland), 2010.

University of Memphis (Tennessee), 2009.

U.S. Embassy – Prague (Czech Republic), 2004.

Yale Law School (New Haven, CT), 2007.

Institutions at which I have presented peer-reviewed conference papers and/or chaired paper sessions (since 2000) include:

Bates College (Lewiston, ME), 2006.

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA), 2003.

Clark University (Worcester, MA), 2001.

Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), 2000, 2004.

Ionian University (Corfu, Greece), 2009.

Kennedy School of Government – Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC), 2002.

Palace of St. George and St. Michael (Corfu, Greece), 2009.

Twente University (Enschede, The Netherlands), 2005.

University of Connecticut (Stamford, CT), 2001.

University of New Hampshire (Dover, NH), 2000, 2009.

University of Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), 2010.

University of San Diego (San Diego, CA), 2007.

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (2011).

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA), 2004.

Colleagues with whom I have co-presented conference papers and/or co-authored or co-edited scholarly works (since 2000) include:

Dieter Arnold (Albis Technologies, Switzerland), 2011.

Ann Backus (Harvard School of Public Health), 2003, 2004.

Maria Bottis (Ionian University, Greece), 2009-2011.

Elizabeth Buchanan (University of Wisconsin-Stout), 2013.

Jeff Buechner (Rutgers University), 2010-2012.

Edward Gehringer (North Carolina State University), 2004.

Frances Grodzinsky (Sacred Heart University), 2001-2005, 2007-2011.

Kenneth Himma (Seattle Pacific University), 2008.

Deborah Johnson (University of Virginia), 2000, 2001.

Laurie King (College of the Holy Cross), 2004.

James Moor (Dartmouth College), 2000, 2001.

Richard Spinello (Boston College), 2001, 2003-2005.

RECENT Courses Taught

Rivier University (courses taught since 2000):

CS 576: Technological Ethics (graduate course)

HS 425: Senior Honors Thesis

PHI 341: Junior Year Seminar

PHI 228: Philosophy and Computers

PHI 227: Computer Ethics

PHI 223: Technology, Values and Society

PHI 211: Business Ethics

PHI 209: Contemporary Moral Issues

PHI 205: Theories of Ethics

PHI 115: First Year Seminar: Reasoning

PHI 101: Introduction to Critical Reasoning (Informal Logic)

PHI 100: Introduction to Philosophy

Boston College – Carroll School of Management (courses taught since 2004):

MD 711: Social Issues in Management (graduate course)

MD 260/CS 260: Social and Ethical Issues in Information Technology

MH 011: Introduction to Ethics

Colleges/Universities at which I have guest-lectured in technology-ethics classes (since 2000):

Daniel Webster College (Nashua, NH)

Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)

University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)

Last updated on January 16, 2013

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