Director, Program in Science, Technology & Society
Professor (Teaching), Managment Science & Engineering

Bldg. 200, Rm. 23 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 Telephone: 650-725-0117 Fax: 650-725-5389 Email Office hours vary by quarter. Sign up outside the professor's office or contact the STS Office to make an appointment.

Robert McGinn holds a B.S. in Unified Science and Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy/Humanities from Stanford. In addition to his positions in Stanford's STS Program and MS&E Department, he also serves as Associate Director for the Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology and for the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

His academic specialties are technology and society; ethics, science, and technology; engineering ethics; and ethics and public policy. His current research areas are ethical issues related to human embryonic stem cell research and to nanotechnology. Courses taught include:

• STS 101/ENGR 130: Science, Technology, and Contemporary Society
• STS 101Q: Technology in Contemporary Society
• STS 110/MS&E 197/PUBLPOL 103B: Ethics and Public Policy
• STS 115/ENGR 131: Ethical Issues in Engineering
• STS 210: Ethics, Science and Technology
• INTNLREL 205: Ethics, Technology and International Relations

McGinn's publications include two books, Science, Technology, and Society (1991) and Navigating Rough Waters: Ethical Issues in the Water Industry (2001; co-edited and -written with Cheryl Davis), and articles in scholarly journals such as Daedalus, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Professional Ethics, Technology and Culture, and Science and Engineering Ethics.

He has received the Stanford Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa Awards for teaching excellence, and the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for contributions to undergraduate education at Stanford.