Dr. Adam Briggle

Adam Briggle is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy & Religion. He holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado and served for three years as a postdoctoral fellow working on the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of ethics and policy with science and technology. He is author of A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council (2010, University of Notre Dame Press) and of Thinking Through Climate Change A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene (2020, Springer International Publishing), co-author of Ethics and Science: An Introduction (2012, Cambridge University Press), and co-editor of The Good Life in a Technological Age (2012, Routledge Press). He is also the author of A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking (2015, Liveright Press), co-author with Robert Frodeman of Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st Century Philosophy (2016, Rowman & Littlefield). He is a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Philosophy & Technology and serves on the Executive Committee of the Public Philosophy Network.