Adam is an applied ethicist, working on areas that cross over between ethics, technology and security. He is an assistant professor at the Philosophy Section at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His research concerns ethical and philosophical analyses of information technology and its uses, military ethics and on relations between ethics and national security. He has published on surveillance, emerging military technologies and intelligence and cyberspace. He is also interested in moral psychology, experimental philosophy and their relations to decision making and policy development.
He joined the university of Twente in 2021. He received his PhD through the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics from Charles Sturt University at the end of 2013, for his dissertation, My Identity Is Important: On The Identity/Information Dyad And Its Elucidation. He has a Master of Applied Ethics (2006-2007) from the Norwegian University of Technology (Norway) and Linkoping University (Sweden), a Master of Bioethics (2004-2005) from Monash University (Australia), a Graduate Diploma in 'The Biotechnologies of Life', (2002-2003) also from Monash University and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Biology/Biotechnology (1995-1997) from RMIT University (Australia).
Experience
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2014–presentPostdoctoral research fellow, National Security College, Australian National University
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2008–2014Researcher, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University
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2014–2014Associate professor, University of Hong Kong
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2008–2011Subject Coordinator/Tutor, Master of Professional and Applied Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University
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2000–2003Research Scientist, Kodak Australia Research Laboratories
Education
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2013Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Doctor of Philosophy
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2007Linkoping University (Sweden)/Norwegian University of Technology (Norway), Master of Arts: Applied Ethics
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2005Monash University, Master of Applied Arts, Bioethics
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2004Monash University, Graduate Diploma Biotechnologies of Life
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1997RMIT, Bachelor of Applied Science, Applied Biology/Biotechnology
Publications
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2014Opportunity Costs: Scarcity And Complex Medical Machines, Machine Medical Ethics, Springer, Ed by Pontier, M., & van Rysewyk, S.
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2013Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War, Routledge
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2012Making Sense Of Animal Disenhancement, Nanoethics
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2012Winning Well By Fighting Well, International Journal of Applied Philosophy
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2010Did You Just Say What I Think You Said? Talking About Genes, Identity And Information, Identity In The Information Society
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2010Computer Ethics And Applied Contexts (with John Weckert), The Cambridge Handbook Of Information And Computer Ethics Ed by L Floridi
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2009Book Review Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century. Ed by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Nanoethics
Grants and Contracts
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2013Ethics of Cyber-Security
- Role:
- Researcher
- Funding Source:
- National Security College, Australian National University
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2012Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Open Health
- Role:
- Researcher
- Funding Source:
- Brocher Foundation
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2007CSU Designated Centre Research Scholarship
- Role:
- PhD Student
- Funding Source:
- Charles Sturt University
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2006Bioethics Fellowship: Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Pharmacogenomics
- Role:
- Intern at World Health Org. (Geneva)
- Funding Source:
- Monash University (Centre for Human Bioethics)
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2006Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
- Role:
- Masters Student
- Funding Source:
- European Union
Research Areas
- Applied Ethics (2201)
- Bioethics (Human And Animal) (220101)
- Philosophy (2203)
- Ethical Use Of New Technology (E.G. Nanotechnology, Biotechnology) (220103)
- Professional Ethics (Incl. Police And Research Ethics) (220107)
- Applied Ethics Not Elsewhere Classified (220199)
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