Carl Mitcham

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Carl Mitcham is a philosopher of technology. Currently Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines.

He was educated at the University of Colorado (BA, MA) and Fordham University (PhD). Previous teaching appointments include Berea College (Kentucky), St. Catherine College (Kentucky), Brooklyn Polytechnic University, and Pennsylvania State University, and was a conscientious objector during Vietnam War.

Mitcham has worked to promote ethical reflection on technology, and “aspires to advance philosophical, ethical, and policy understanding within the relevant and overlapping professional communities in ways that may deepen democratic public intelligence." [1] Mitcham has also a long history of work in engineering ethics and the theory and practice of interdisciplinary education and research. Mitcham was also one of the founders of New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy [2].

This past November Mitcham received the 2006 international World Technology Network award for Ethics.

1 Books
- 1.1 As author
- 1.2 As editor or co-editor
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Books

[edit] As author

Technology and Religion
Thinking Through Technology:The Path between Engineering and Philosophy (1994)
Social and Philosophical Construction of Technology
Engineering Ethics (with R Shannon Duval) (1999) ISBN 0805364366

[edit] As editor or co-editor

Philosophy and Technology (1972, 1983, 1986)
Theology and Technology (1984)
Ethics and Technology
Visions of STS: Contextualizing Science, Technology, and Society Studies (2001) ISBN 0791448452.
Philosophy of Technology Reader
The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (2002)
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (2005)