Don Howard, Ph.D.
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Don Howard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Director of its Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science. In July 2011 he will be the Director of Notre Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. Howard is a central collaborator in the Reilly Center’s new ETNSI initiatvie: Emerging Technologies of National Security and Intelligence. An historian and philosopher of physics by training and long experience, he is now redirecting a major part of his research and teaching portfolio toward the ethics of emerging weapons technologies, especially in the area of cyberwarfare. Recent work in this area includes a presentation on “Cyberwarfare and Its Challenges to the Laws of Armed Conflict” in January 2011 at the annual meeting of the International Society for Military Ethics. Howard has long offered at Notre Dame a highly successful course on ethics and nuclear weapons, “Modern Physics and Moral Responsibility,” and has just introduced in spring 2011 a new course specifically on “The Ethics of Emerging Weapons Technologies.” Howard holds a B.Sc. in Physical Science from Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University (1971), and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University (1973, 1979). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.