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Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Vance Ricks is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, holding joint appointments in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Ricks earned his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University. His teaching and research focus on moral philosophy, ranging from the ethics of digital technologies to the works of John Stuart Mill.  His current research projects are on computer ethics pedagogy and (separately) on social robots.

Before joining Northeastern, Ricks was an associate professor of philosophy at Guilford College. He has published on the implications of social networks for friendship and for gossip, and has co-authored publications on autonomous vehicles and on designing ethics modules for computer science courses. He has also edited and contributed chapters to the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computer Science Playbook, a guide for computer science instructors who want to incorporate ethical reasoning into their curricula.

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