COLA Salon Series Presents: Dr. Craig Hanks

This is a free event. Please register to receive the Zoom link.

Dr. Hanks is professor of philosophy at Texas State University. A winner of seven teaching awards, including the highest recognition at Texas State University and The University of Alabama in Huntsville, he has more than 25 years of experience teaching Philosophy of Technology, Engineering Ethics, and Professional Ethics. He has served Texas State on the Intitutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and the Institutional Review Board (IRB), which he chaired for three years. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Inderdispininary Graduate Program in Sustainability Studies at Texas State. He was a visiting associate professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and has offered short courses and seminars on philosophy and ethics for teachers from high school through doctoral programs. Dr. Hanks’ books include, Technology and Values (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Technological Musings (2014) and Technology and Transcendence which is forthcoming. He is an active member of the International Society for Philosophy and Technology, a member of the editorial board for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and an editor for the book series Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (Springer).

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