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Philip R. Olson

Associate Professor
  • Department of Science, Technology and Society
Philip R. Olson
333 Lane Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phil Olson is a philosopher and technology ethicist who encourages critical engagement with the often-implicit normative commitments that shape people's relationships with technologies, and which motivate and govern academic research. His own research engages with death studies, bioethics, waste studies, virtue theory, and gender and labor.