Participant Bios

Mark Alfino is a professor in the Philosophy Department at Gonzaga University.  He has published numerous articles on information ethics.  He is also the author (with Linda Pierce) of Information Ethics for Librarians.

Philip Doty is an associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas.  He is also associate director of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas.

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 taught philosophy at Utica College, Marymount Manhattan College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 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 associate professor of Information Resources and an adjunct associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.  He has written on information ethics and regularly teaches a course on information ethics.  His articles have been published in Library Quarterly and the Journal of Philosophy.

Martin Frické is an associate professor of Information Resources at the University of Arizona.  He was formerly a professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago.  He has written on information ethics and regularly teaches a course on information ethics.  His articles have been published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Library Quarterly, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Thomas Grassey is James B. Stockdale Professor of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Naval War College.  He has a PhD in Philosophy and was a Ford Foundation fellow.  He has taught philosopy at Villanova University, the University of San Diego, and San Jose State University (where he headed the interdisciplinary professional ethics program).  He has published in books and professional journals on strategy, leadership, logic, intelligence, ethics, and decision theory.  

Kenneth Einar Himma is an associate professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University.  He has published numerous scholarly articles on legal philosophy, information ethics, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion.  He is on the editorial boards of the International Review of Information Ethics and INSEIT Annual Journal.

Peter Lewis is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Miami. He has published numerous articles on the philosophy of science.

Alan Mattlage is a reference librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries. He has a PhD in Philosophy and a Masters in Library Science.  He has been published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship.

Kay Mathiesen is a senior lecturer of Information Resources at the University of Arizona, where she regularly teaches a course on "Ethics for Library and Information Professionals."  She has a PhD in Philosophy and has held tenure-track positions in Philosophy at Montclair State University and 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?", appeared in the ACM journal, Computers and Society.

Adam Moore is an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department and the Information School at the University of Washington.  He has published numerous articles on information policy, applied ethics, and philosophy of law.  He is the author of  Intellectual Property and Information Control and the editor of Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power and Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas.

David Resnik is a bioethicist at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health.  He has a PhD in Philosophy and a JD.  He has published four books and numerous articles on philosophical, ethical, and legal issues in scientific research.

Alasdair Roberts is an associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.  He is also the director of the Maxwell School's Campbell Public Affairs Institute.  He has an international reputation as a specialist on open government.  In addition to numerous articles on the topic, he is the author of Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).

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.  Her articles have been published in Synthese and The Atkins Diet and Philosophy.  She teaches a course on "Values and Technology" for which she received a CITI grant from the State of Massachusetts.

David Woolwine is an assistant professor and reference and instruction librarian at Hofstra University.  He has a PhD in Sociology and a Masters in Library Science.  His most recent articles are "The Controversy Over DoubleFold as a Battle of Elites" in Progressive Librarian and "Gay Moral Discourse: Talking About Identity, Sex, and Commitment" (with E. Doyle McCarthy) in Studies in Symbolic Interaction.  He is working on a paper on the ALA and the USA Patriot Act.

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