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Biographical Sketch
HERMAN T. TAVANI, PHD, is Professor Emeritus of
Philosophy at Rivier College, where he has also served as Chair of the Philosophy
Department and Director of the Liberal Studies Program. At Rivier, he has taught a wide range of
philosophy courses and has also chaired or served on numerous college-wide
committees, including the Faculty Senate. Professor Tavani has 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.
The author or editor of more than 100 publications,
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 its third 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 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. He received the
Catholic Library Association’s 2004 John Brubaker Memorial Award for his scholarly
writing in Catholic Library World.
Professor Tavani has delivered keynote
addresses/invited talks and presented peer-reviewed conference papers at
institutions in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic,
Finland, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain, and Japan, 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. Tavani has
served on the editorial boards of six academic journals, and is currently Book
Review Editor for the journal Ethics and
Information Technology (Springer, the Netherlands). He has also served on
the program and planning committees for numerous conferences, and has chaired
or co-chaired regional, national, and international conferences and symposia.
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. On two occasions, he served as President of the Northern New
England Philosophical Association (NNEPA). He 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). Tavani also served as Secretary/Treasurer of the
Association for Computing’s Special Interest Group on Computers and Society
(ACM SIGCAS). In 2008, he received the
ACM SIGCAS Outstanding Service Award in recognition of his contributions to
SIGCAS (and the ACM’s quarterly publication, Computers and Society).
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
Books that I have written or edited (since 2000) include:
Ethics
and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies in Ethical Computing
Third Edition
John Wiley & Sons
Publishers; 432 pages
ISBN 978-0-470-5095-0
© 2011
The Handbook of Information and
Computer Ethics
(with
Kenneth Himma)
John Wiley &
Sons; 702 pages
ISBN: 978-0-471-79959-9
© 2008
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
© 2007
Ethics,
Computing, and Genomics
Jones and Bartlett
Publishers; 374 pages
ISBN:
0-7637-3620-1
© 2006
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
© 2005
(with Richard Spinello)
Second Edition
Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 715 pages.
ISBN: 0-7637-2410-6
© 2004
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
© 2003
Readings
in Cyberethics
(with
Richard Spinello)
First
edition
Jones
and Bartlett Publishers; 617 pages.
ISBN:
0-7637-1500-X
©
2001
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
© 2011
Metaphilosophy (Special Section: Vol. 38, No. 4)
Coordinating Editor
Theme: Symposium on Bernard Gert’s
Moral Philosophy
Oxford,
UK: Blackwell Publishing.
ISSN:
0026-1068
© 2007
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
© 2001,
2003, 2004, 2010
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
© 2000, 2003, 2007, 2009
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.
CSI Communications (Publication of the Computer Society of India), 2005.
Ethicomp Journal (Publication of the Computing Centre for Social Research
– Leicester, UK). 2004.
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.
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.
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.
Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany), 2009, 2011.
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), 2011.
Jeff Buechner (Rutgers University), 2010, 2011.
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 College (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 ethics classes (since 2000):
Daniel Webster
College (Nashua, NH)
Purdue University
(West Lafayette, IN)
University of
Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)
Last updated in May 2012
© 2012 (and previous years) Herman T.
Tavani