Evan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Program Faculty at the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology. When he's not engaging issues concerning expertise and the ethics of science and technology, Evan enjoys spending time with his wife Noreen and daughter Rory, making the most of life in the world's imaging capital. Although Evan is a prolific researcher with numerous academic books and articles, he also cares deeply about public engagement. He writes for popular magazines and blogs, including Slate, The Atlantic, and The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology. Email: eselinger@gmail.com
by D.E. Wittkower, Evan Selinger and Lucinda Rush Some time has passed since Nicholas Kristof published his controversial Op-Ed “Professors, We Need You!“, and the time is ripe for us to approach the issue afresh. After briefly revisiting the controversy, we’ll offer some thoughts about how to promote public engagement by changing academic cultures and…
by Evan Selinger My colleague Thomas Seager and I recently co-wrote “Digital Jiminy Crickets,” an article that proposed a provocative thought experiment. Imagine an app existed that could give you perfect moral advice on demand. Should you use it? Or, would outsourcing morality diminish our humanity? Our think piece merely raised the question, leaving the…
by Evan Selinger Earlier this year, controversy surrounded ultrasound legislation in Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, and Idaho. Lost in the critical commentaries on abuses of patients’ and physicians’ rights was concern over a fundamental violation of liberty. This issue hasn’t gone away, even though sonogram coverage isn’t currently grabbing headlines. Medical experts routinely use…
by Evan Selinger, Thomas Seager, and Jathan Sadowski A highly publicized Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study depicts Millennials as more egoistic than Baby Boomers and Generation Xers. The research is flawed. The psychologists fail to see that kids today face new problems that previously weren’t imaginable and are responding to them in ways…