Rockwell Clancy is a Research Scientist in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, Affiliate Researcher in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, and Guest Researcher in the Department of Values, Technology, and Innovation, at Delft University of Technology. Before moving to Virginia, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Mines, Lecturer at Delft, Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, and Research Fellow in the Institute of Social Cognition and Decision-making, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Rockwell completed his PhD in philosophy and literature at Purdue University in 2012, and worked as a long-term educational to set up a course and write a corresponding textbook on global engineering ethics for a grant project at Purdue during the Spring 2016 semester.
His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of engineering and technology ethics, moral psychology,, and Chinese philosophy. His papers have appeared in Science and Engineering Ethics, International Journal of Ethics Education, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, New Directions in Children & Adolescent Psychology, Philosophy and Literature, the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Modernity/modernism, Metapsychology Online Reviews, and the Journal of Philosophy.
Rockwell’s most recent book, Global Engineering Ethics, cowritten with Heinz Luegenbiehl and published in 2017, develops an approach to engineering ethics that takes the increasingly cross-cultural and international environments of contemporary technology as its point of departure. In 2015, he published Towards a Political Anthropology in the work of Gilles Deleuze, arguing for the need to reconsider the role of conceptions of human nature in contemporary political and ethical debates. Rockwell is currently carrying out studies and writing articles on the effects of education and culture on ethical reasoning and judgments related to technology, in collaboration with behavioral and computer scientists.
He completed his BA in philosophy at Fordham University in 2005, MA in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium in 2007, and was a doctoral exchange student at the University of Strasbourg, France in 2012. Rockwell lived in Shanghai, China 2012-2020, Delft, the Netherlands 2020-2021, Denver, Colorado 2021-2022, and Blacksburg, Virginia now. He enjoys keeping up on his Mandarin.
His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of engineering and technology ethics, moral psychology,, and Chinese philosophy. His papers have appeared in Science and Engineering Ethics, International Journal of Ethics Education, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, New Directions in Children & Adolescent Psychology, Philosophy and Literature, the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Modernity/modernism, Metapsychology Online Reviews, and the Journal of Philosophy.
Rockwell’s most recent book, Global Engineering Ethics, cowritten with Heinz Luegenbiehl and published in 2017, develops an approach to engineering ethics that takes the increasingly cross-cultural and international environments of contemporary technology as its point of departure. In 2015, he published Towards a Political Anthropology in the work of Gilles Deleuze, arguing for the need to reconsider the role of conceptions of human nature in contemporary political and ethical debates. Rockwell is currently carrying out studies and writing articles on the effects of education and culture on ethical reasoning and judgments related to technology, in collaboration with behavioral and computer scientists.
He completed his BA in philosophy at Fordham University in 2005, MA in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium in 2007, and was a doctoral exchange student at the University of Strasbourg, France in 2012. Rockwell lived in Shanghai, China 2012-2020, Delft, the Netherlands 2020-2021, Denver, Colorado 2021-2022, and Blacksburg, Virginia now. He enjoys keeping up on his Mandarin.