Speaker Bios

Michael F. Brown is James N. Lambert '39 Professor of Anthropology & Latin American Studies at Williams College.  He has written numerous articles on ritual and religion, native peoples of North and South America, medical anthropology, human ecology, and intellectual and cultural property.  His recent book Who Owns Native Culture?  "documents the efforts of indigenous peoples to redefine heritage as a proprietary resource."    

Felmon J. Davis is an associate professor of Philosophy at Union College  His research centers on moral theory, metaphysics and philosophy of mind.  He recently taught a course entitled "The Self in Cyberspace" which explores "claims about how computational technology affects who we think we are as self-aware individuals, as private individuals, and as public individuals."

Tony Doyle is a reference librarian at the Hunter College Library of the City University of New York. He has an MA in Philosophy and a Masters in Library Science. He has also taught philosophy at Utica College, Marymount Manhattan College, and the United Nations International  School. His articles on information ethics have been published in Library Quarterly and the Journal of Information Ethics.

Don Fallis is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona.  He has a PhD in Philosophy.  He has written on information ethics and teaches a course on information ethics.  His articles have been published in Library Quarterly and the Journal of Philosophy.

David LaBrie has a degree in philosophy from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.  He is the recipient of the Petruzella Award for outstanding philosophy graduate at MCLA and he has published several articles in Thesis XII.  

Paul LeSage is an associate professor in the English/Communications department at  Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His Ph.D. in Communications is from UMass at Amherst. He  is currently studying the legal and ethical implications of media and the new technologies.

Kay Mathiesen is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her main areas of research are social groups and information ethics.  Her most recent article "What is Information Ethics" is forthcoming in Computers and Society.  She is currently teaching a course on "Information and Society" for which she received a CITI grant from the State of Massachusetts.  

Matthew Silliman is a professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.  He specializes in Social and Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Ethics. 

Catherine Womack is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State College. Her main areas of research include philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and logic.  She has been published in Synthese.  She has taught a course on "Values and Technology" for which she received a CITI grant from the State of Massachusetts.

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