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Ryan Jenkins

Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department

Fields

  • Normative ethics (especially consequentialism)
  • Applied ethics (especially military ethics and emerging technology)
  • Social and political philosophy

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
  • B.A., Florida State University
     

Publications (selected)

  • Autonomous Machines, Moral Judgment, and Acting for the Right Reasons” (with Duncan Purves and Bradley Strawser). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Forthcoming.
  • “Cyberwarfare as Ideal War”. Forthcoming. Invited, peer-reviewed book chapter. Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare, Oxford University Press. (eds. Bradley Strawser, Adam Henschke, and Fritz Allhoff.)
  • Is Stuxnet Physical? Does it matter?” Journal of Military Ethics. Volume 12, Issue 1. 2013.
    • Anthologized in: Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2014). Timothy J. Demy, George R. Lucas Jr., Bradley J. Strawser (eds.). Routledge.
       

Presentations (selected)

  • Participant, “Cyberwar, Ethics, and International Humanitarian Law” workshop hosted by International Committee of the Red Cross. Geneva, Switzerland, May, 2014.
  • “Is Stuxnet Physical? Does It Matter?” Distinguished Speakers Series. United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, April, 2013.
  • “Don’t Fear the Reapers: A Moral Argument for Drone Strikes”. Think! Talk, University of Colorado. November, 2014. Public philosophy lecture series.
  • “The Criterion of Right Intention and the Ends of War” (with Duncan Purves). International Society for Military Ethics 2014 Conference, South Bend, IN, October, 2014.
  • “A Rule-Consequentialist In Bello Moral Code”. Inaugural Conference on the Ethics of War in the 21st Century, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Stockholm, Sweden. May, 2014.
     

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Courses

  • PHIL 231: Philosophical Classics: Ethics and Political Philosophy
  • PHIL 322: Philosophy of Technology

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