Dr. Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group,
based in the philosophy department at California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo. He is also lead editor of the book, Robot
Ethics.
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Patrick Lin, Ph.D. is the director of the
Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based
at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has published
several books and papers in the field of technology ethics, especially the
areas of military technologies, robotics, human enhancement, and
nanotechnology, and including a new edited volume
Robot
Ethics, released by MIT Press this month. Currently, he is an assistant
professor in Cal Poly's philosophy department,
an
affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, and
an adjunct senior research fellow at Australia's Centre for Applied Philosophy
and Public Ethics (CAPPE). Dr. Lin also serves on the executive board of
the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National
Security (CETMONS) and is the interim executive director of the International
Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). Previously, he was an
ethics fellow at the US Naval Academy and a post-doctoral associate at
Dartmouth College. His research
has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval
Research, the Greenwall Foundation, and others. 
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