 Jonathan Beever is an
environmental philosopher focused on
questions of ethics and digital technologies. He is
currently Associate Professor of
Ethics and Digital Culture in the
Department of Philosophy and the Texts
& Technology Ph.D. Program at the
University of Central Florida. He
completed postdoctoral appointments at
both The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn
State University and the Weldon School
of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue
University after taking his Ph.D. from
Purdue's Department of Philosophy.
Beever is the co-founder and director
of the UCF
Center for Ethics, the director
of the UCF Theoretical
and Applied Ethics Graduate
Certificate Program, and leads
the Sound,
Silence, and Environments lab.
His research seeks to understand and
impact the ways in which we all relate
to and value ecological relationships
at the intersections of digital and
"analog" environments. His work as a
whole seeks to understand and impact
that ways we relate to and value the
rest of the natural world.
He co-organizes Ethically Speaking, an ethics lecture series hosted by the UCF Center for Ethics, and he previously co-founded the Purdue
Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and
Science, a seminar
series in bioethics at Purdue
University (www.purdue.edu/bioethics, and the Research Ethics Lecture Series
at Penn State University (http://rockethics.psu.edu/events/event-collections/research-ethics-series).
Beever has held fellowships with the
Kaufmann Foundation in
entrepreneurship, the Aldo Leopold
Foundation in conservation ethics, and
the Global Sustainable Soundscape
Network in the ethics of soundscape
ecology, among others.
He has co-authored several successful
grant proposals in support of his
research, which focuses on issues at
the intersection of the living world
and the biotechnologies that shape our
human relationships within it. Beever
has published on a wide range of
interrelated topics including digital
and environment ethics, ethics
education and pedagogy, biosemiotics,
and philosophical questions around
simulation.
At the national level, Beever serves
as the Secretary of the
International Association for
Environmental Philosophy
(IAEP), as amember of the Ethics Board
of the American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE), and as
an Editorial Board Member for the
Online Ethics Center.
You can learn more about his
book-length projects here:
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