Professor Thomas M. Powers
Thomas M. Powers, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy;
Faculty Research Fellow of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute; and
Assistant Director of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Program, all at the
University of Delaware. His recent research focuses on the ethics of
emerging
technologies (especially nanotechnology), computer ethics, and
environmental ethics.
Tom authored
Real Wrongs in Virtual Communities,
Ideas, Expressions, Universals, and Particulars: Metaphysics in the
Realm of Software Copyright Law,
Prospects for a Kantian Machine, and
Environmental Holism and Nanotechnology,
coauthored
Computers as Surrogate Agents and
Computer Systems and Responsibility: A Normative Look at
Technological
Complexity, and
coedited
From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social
Theory.
Read the full
list of his publications!
Tom earned his B.A. in Philosophy (with high honors) from the College of
William and Mary in 1987. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from
the University of Texas, Austin with the
dissertation “Formalism in Kant’s Ethics” in 1994.
