Co-Directors
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Craig Callender
Professor, UC San Diego Department of Philosophy
Craig Callender is a philosopher of science who has worked in the foundations of physics, and who has teaching and research interests in environmental ethics.
Prior to UC San Diego, Craig worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997, and his book “What Makes Time Special?” (Oxford, July 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award.
He was recently elected to the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Council, the largest science advocate in the world.
Craig is working on a range of topics in the foundations of physics, and is beginning research on (1) the nature of future time biases and (2) a book on environmental ethics.
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John H. Evans
Professor, UC San Diego Department of Sociology
Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social SciencesJohn H. Evans earned his bachelor's degree from Macalester College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University and has held visiting professorial fellowships or honorary professorships at the Universities of Edinburgh, Muenster, Ben Gurion, and Queensland.
He has published two books on the profession of bioethics, two books of sociological analyses of ethical controversies in reproductive genetics, and numerous articles about religion, science, ethics and politics. His most recent book is “Morals Not Knowledge: Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict Between Religion and Science” (University of California Press).
Advisory Board Members
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Sandra Brown
Distinguished Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology
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Cristina Della Coletta
Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities
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David Danks
Professor of Data Science and Philosophy -
Cathy Gere
Associate Professor of History
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Larry Goldstein
Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
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Daniel Navon
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Dana Nelkin
Professor of Philosophy
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Kim Prather
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Ramesh Rao
Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) -
Suresh Subramani
Professor
Members
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Wael Al-Delaimy
Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine
Division Chief of Global Health
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Cinnamon Bloss
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine
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Reuven Brandt
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
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David O. Brink
Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Nancy Cartwright
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham
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Scott W. Desposato
Professor, Department of Political Science
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Mary Devereaux
Assistant Director, UC San Diego Research Ethics Program
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Fonna Forman
Professor, Department of Political Science
Director, UC San Diego Center on Global Justice
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Dov Fox
Professor, School of Law, University of San Diego
Director, Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics
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Robert M. Friedman
Vice President for Policy and University Relations, J. Craig Venter Institute
Professor of Practice, School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Cathy Gere
Associate Professor, Department of History
Director of Science Studies Program
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Stuart Geiger
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Practical Ethics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Computational Social Science
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Daniel C. Hallin
Professor, Department of Communication
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Lilly Irani
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
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Michael W. Kalichman
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology
Director, UC San Diego Research Ethics Program
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Uma R. Karmarkar
Assistant Professor, Rady School of Management and School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Karen Kovaka
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Andy Lamey
Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Kerry McKenzie
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Daniel Navon
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
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Camille Nebeker
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health
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Dana Nelkin
Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Amy L. Non
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
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Samuel Rickless
Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Margaret E. Roberts
Professor, Department of Political Science
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Akos Rona-Tas
Professor, Department of Sociology
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Lynn Russell
Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Ulrike Schaede
Professor of Japanese Business, School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Cynthia (Cindy) Schairer
Assistant Project Scientist, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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Will Styler
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Linguistics
Director of UC San Diego Computational Social Science Program -
Manuel Vargas
Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Saiba Varma
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
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Bradley Voytek
Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science
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Lillian Walkover
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Communication and Global Health Program
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David Wiens
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
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Monique Wonderly
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Pinar Yoldas
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Staff
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Anthony King
Assistant Dean, Strategic Engagement
School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office
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Eva Thiveos
Business and Data Officer
School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office
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Allison Santana
Events and Outreach Specialist
School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office
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Joelle (Fusaro) Adesso
Public Relations Specialist
School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office
Institutional Collaborators
- School of Arts and Humanities
- School of Social Sciences
- Tata Institute for Genetics and Society
- Halicioglu Data Science Institute
Related Programs
UC San Diego has several related programs offered as a resource to the Institute for Practical Ethics, providing opportunities for faculty and researchers to know more about these campus-wide communities.