Autor: Nicolae Morar

Jonathan Beever co-founded the Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science at Purdue University. Beever receives his doctorate from Purdue in December 2012. His primary research in philosophy focuses on applied ethics, science, and bioethics, but also he works in continental philosophy, political and moral philosophy, and semiotics. Beever has published on several interrelated topics concerning semiotics, environmental value, biotechnological risk, and bioethics. Morar is a 2011-2012 Faculty Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon. He recently received his doctoral degree from Purdue University with a thesis analyzing the ways in which current biotechnologies are altering traditional conceptions of human nature. He is also coediting a book with V. Cisney on New Directions in Biopower: Ethics and Politics in the Twenty-First Century.