Jonathan Beever

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Department of Engineering and Society
University of Virginia
Charlottesville 
 
   
   
 

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Areas of Specialization and Competence:
Specializations: Applied Ethics (Engineering Ethics, Bioethics, Animal and Environmental Ethics, Digital Ethics ), Environmental Philosophy
Competencies: Normative Ethics, Semiotics
Interdisciplinary Compentencies: Environmental Humanities, Digital Humanities, Engineering Education


Works in Progress:

  • Principles of Engineering Ethics. 2027. Edward Elgar Press UK.
  • Meaning, Mattering, and Moral Standing. 2029. Springer Biosemiotics.

Active Grants:

  • Rakhshan, M. (PI) and Beever, J. (co-PI). (August 2025). “Long-Term EMG-based Interaction Facilitation Using Manifold Alignment and Kalman-Filter-Based Symbiosis.” Meta, Motor Learning & Neuromotor Ethics RFP.
  • Welch, G. (PI). (July 2022). “Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA)” National Science Foundation CCRI. (Beever is Co-Investigator, Ethics Lead)
  • Beever, J. (PI), Kuebler, S., Pinkert, L.A., Klonoff, L. (co-PIs). (Sept. 2020). “Impact of Intersections of Moral Foundations and Ethics Frameworks on Disciplinary Enculturation in STEM.” Ethical and Responsible Research Program, National Science Foundation.
Selected Publications:
  • "Where Ethics is Taught: An Institutional Epidemiology." 2021. International Journal of Ethics Education. Jonathan Beever, Stephen Kuebler, Jordan Collins.
  • "Sonic Liminality: Soundscapes, Semiotics, and Ecologies of Meaning." 2020. Biosemiotics (special edition on Hybrid Natures). Ed. Maekivi, N.
  • Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence. 2020. Lexington Books. Jonathan Beever (Ed.).
  • Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts. December 2019. Jonathan Beever, Rudy McDaniel, Nancy Stanlick. Taylor and Francis.
  • The Way of Nature or the Way of Grace: Philosophical Themes in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. 2016. Jonathan Beever and Vernon W. Cisney (Eds.). Northwestern University Press.
  • “The Mountain and the Wolf: Leopold’s Uexkullian Influence.” 2017. Beever, Jonathan. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
  • “Justifying Moral Standing by Biosemiotic Particularism.” 2016. Beever, Jonathan and Morten Tønnessen. Zeitschrift fur Semiotik #1/2.
  • “Introducing Biosemiotic Ethics.” 2016. Zeitschrift fur Semiotik #1/2. Morten Tønnessen, Jonathan Beever, and Yogi Hale Hendlin.
  • “Teaching Ethics Ecologically: Decision-Making Through Narrative.” 2016. Beever, Jonathan. Teaching Ethics.
  • “Bioethics and the Challenge of the Ecological Individual.” 2016. Beever, Jonathan and Nicolae Morar. Environmental Philosophy.
  • “The Porosity of Autonomy: Social and Biological Constitution of the Individual in Biomedicine.” 2016. Beever, Jonathan and Nicolae Morar. American Journal of Bioethics 16(2).
  • “Reflexive Principlism As An Effective Approach for Developing Ethical Reasoning in Engineering.” 2016 [online Feb 2015]. Beever, Jonathan and Andrew Brightman. Science and Engineering Ethics 22(1):275-291. DOI 10.1007/s11948-015-9633-5.
  • Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy. 2013a. Purdue University Press. ed. Beever, Jonathan and Nicolae Morar.
  • “Baudrillard’s Simulated Ecology.” 2013b. Sign Systems Studies. Beever, Jonathan.
  • “Violence, Terrorism, and the Symbolic Response.” 2012a. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. Beever, Jonathan.
  • “Meaning Matters: The Biosemiotic Basis of Bioethics.” 2012b. Biosemiotics, 5:2. 181-191. Beever, Jonathan.