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Michael Bowler
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies
Humanities Department
Michigan Technological University
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Vita
Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, August 2004
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Watson
M.A. in Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of
California, Davis
Research
Research Grant:
As Principle Investigator:
2008 - 2012, National Science Foundation, $344,683
($299,614 from NSF and $45,069 from Michigan Tech)
"Responsible Conduct of Research in Science and Engineering
Education: Moral Motivation and Ethical Sensitivity in Multi-National
Graduate Students"
Short Description: This is a 3-year, $344,683 ($299,614 from NSF and
$45,069 from Michigan Tech) grant to study important aspects of ethical
behavior that up until now have received little attention, namely, moral
motivation and ethical sensitivity. Under the former is included the
personal and professional values that motivate one to act and the latter
comprises one's ability to recognize and take account of the ethically
relevant elements of situations, e.g., the rights and obligations of those
involved, applicable principles and ethical guidelines, and the
consequences of particular courses of action, etc. I lead an
interdisciplinary team of researchers from philosophy, cognitive and
learning sciences, engineering, mathematics, and technical communication
whose task is to study the relation between moral motivation and ethical
sensitivity among multi-national science and engineering graduate students.
This projects represents the foundational research that will be
required to both understand and improve upon ethics education in science
and engineering. It also furthers our insight into the factors that
effect moral behavior and thus will further the study of moral psychology.
[Project Description]
Educational
Project:
Project Director (2010 - 2015) - International
Online Responsible Conduct of Research Training Collaboration. I am
Michigan Tech’s project director on a collaborative project sponsored by 22
universities worldwide to develop an international online training program
for responsible conduct of research (RCR) in conjunction with the Epigeum
Group (http://www.epigeum.com). As a project director, I will help to
develop the curriculum for a series of online modules to train faculty and
students in responsible conduct of research, beta test the modules at
Michigan Tech and suggest improvements to the product, implement
tutor-guided workshops using version 1.0 of the online modules at Michigan
Tech, and suggest improvements to the design of the modules for the next
three years. This will replace the CITI online RCR training that Michigan
Tech currently uses. The project is being supported by the Vice President
for Research Office and I will be working with the Office of Research
Integrity and Compliance to implement the program on campus.
Scholarly Publications:
Heidegger and Aristotle: Philosophy as
Praxis (Continuum: New York and London, 2008). [Information
here]
(Reviews: Philosophy in Review 30.1;
Review of Metaphysics 62.4; Choice
January 2009)
Hermeneutical Heidegger, co-edited with Ingo Farin (In progress:
Northwestern University Press)
Bowler, M.; Amato-Henderson, S.; Drummer, T.; Holles, J.; Lockhart, T.;
Schreiber, J.; Charlesworth, D.; Ren, J., “Does a STEM Researcher’s Role
Orientation Predict His or Her Ethical Sensitivity to Responsible Conduct
of Research?” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Engineering Education 2011 (June 2011)
Bowler, M.; Amato-Henderson, S.; Drummer, T.;
Holles, J.; Lockhart, T.; Schreiber, J.; Charlesworth, D.; Ren, J.,
“Assessing Role Orientation Among STEM Researcher's: The Development of a
Research Role Orientation Inventory," Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education 2010 (June
2010)
Bowler, M.; Amato-Henderson, S.; Drummer, T.; Holles, J.; Lockhart, T.;
Schreiber, J.; Charlesworth, D.; Ren, J., "Testing for Ethical
Sensitivity to Responsible Conduct of Research among Multi-National STEM
Researchers," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Engineering Education 2010 (June 2010)
“A Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Aristotle's Realism and
Modern Skepticism"
Newsletter of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 2,
2004
“Thinking, Thought, and Nous in
Aristotle’s De Anima”
Newsletter of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 1999/2000,
no. 4
Invited review of Gadamer’s Dialectical Hermeneutics by Lauren
Swayne Barthold
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 2010 (2,870 words)
Teaching
HU2700 - Introduction to Philosophy, HU2702 - Ethical Theory/Moral
Problems, HU4701 - Political Philosophy, HU5004 - Communication in Cultural
Contexts, HU6060 Special Topics in Philosophy - Continental Philosophy.
<> Contact Information
Email: mjbowler@mtu.edu
Mail: Michael Bowler
Department of Humanities
319 Walker Arts & Humanities
Center
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
Phone: (906) 487 - 2447
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