Dr. Herman T. Tavani has been teaching philosophy courses at Â鶹ÊÓƵ since 1980. Having retired from full\u2013time teaching in 2011, he continues to teach each year at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, in a part-time role, as an emeritus professor. He previously served for many years as Chair of Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s Philosophy Department and as Director of the University\u2019s Liberal Studies Program.<\/p>\n
During his tenure as a Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor, Dr. Tavani also held academic appointments at Dartmouth College where he was a visiting scholar and associate research fellow, and at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health where he was a visiting scholar in environmental health ethics for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
Professor Tavani is the author of Ethics and Technology, a textbook that is widely used in many countries and currently in its fifth edition (2016). He has also written, edited, or co-edited five other books: Readings in CyberEthics (2001; 2nd ed. 2004); Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World (2005); Ethics, Computing, and Genomics (2006); The Handbook on Information and Computer Ethics (2008); and Elements of Reasoning: A Short Introduction (2009). His academic publications also include more than 100 journal articles, encyclopedia entries, review essays, book reviews, bibliographies, and edited volumes.<\/p>\n
A traveled speaker, Dr. Tavani has presented more than 100 conference papers, keynote addresses, and invited talks at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and in eleven countries in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n
Professor Tavani currently serves on the editorial and review boards of numerous academic journals. He has been the Book Review Editor of the journal of Ethics and Information Technology since 1998 and has also previously served as an associate editor of Computers and Society.<\/p>\n
Active in several professional academic organizations, Dr. Tavani served as an executive director and later as President of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology. He served two terms as President of the Northern New England Philosophical Association, and also served on advisory and steering committees of the American Philosophical Association and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy.<\/p>\n
Dr. Tavani has been honored with a wide range of awards for his teaching, writing, research, and professional service. He recently received the 2019 Weizenbaum Award for his \u201csignificant contributions to the field of information and computer ethics, through his research, service, and vision\u201d over a 25\u2013year period.<\/p>\n
Background Dr. Herman T. Tavani has been teaching philosophy courses at Â鶹ÊÓƵ since 1980. Having retired from full\u2013time teaching in 2011, he continues to teach each year at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":1491,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n