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Biography

Thomas M. Powers, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the 91Ô­´´. He is also the director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy at 91Ô­´´. 

Current Work

Powers' current research focuses on the ethics of information technology and the philosophy of technology. He contributes to scholarship on rule-based conceptions of machine ethics, computer agency, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and other philosophical issues involving emerging technologies, including human-robot interaction. ​​

Sample of Publications

"Powers, TM (2024). Artificial Moral Dispositions in Humans and Computers, in Artificial Dispositions: Investigating Ethical and Metaphysical I​​​ssues, eds. A Marmadoro and WA Bauer, Bloomsbury Publishing, London.

Powers, TM, and Ganascia, JG, (2020). The Ethics of the Ethi​cs of Artificial Intelligence, in Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, eds. M Dubber, F Pasquale, and S Das, Oxford University Press.

Tolmeijer, S, A Weiss, M Hanheide, F Lindner, TM Powers, C Dixon, and M Tielman (2020).  Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategie​​s, in Proceedings of Human Robot Interaction 2020 (HRI ’20), ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Powers, TM, editor (2017). Philosophy and Com​​puting: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics, Springer Publishing.

Powers, TM (2016). Prospects for a Kantian Machine, in Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics, eds.  W. Wallach and P. Asaro, Ashgate Publishing/Routledge 2017 pape​rback [republication of Powers TM (2006)]​​​.