Martin Peterson
  • Professor of Philosophy and the Sue and Harry Bovay Chair of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering

Areas of Specialization

  • Ethics of Technology
  • Normative Ethics (Consequentialism)
  • Decision Theory

Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In

  • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
  • Value Theory and Applied Ethics

Biography

Martin Peterson is the Sue and Harry Bovay Professor of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, he taught at Eindhoven University of Technology, and prior to that he was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University. He is the author of several books including, The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles (OUP 2017),  The Dimensions of Consequentialism (CUP 2013) and An Introduction to Decision Theory (CUP 2009).

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2003

Scholarly Achievements

  • Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

  • Ethics for Engineers (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  • The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles (Oxford University Press, 2017)

  • The Dimensions of Consequentialism (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

  • An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2009. 2nd ed. 2017)

  • Non-Bayesian Decision Theory (Springer, 2008)

Office Hours

  • On Research Leave - Spring 2025