Dr. Peter A. Danielson
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics

University of British Columbia

Large Scale GE³LS Project:
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Dr. Peter Danielson is the Mary and Maurice Young Professor of Applied Ethics and Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics at UBC. He has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. Dr. Danielson is a member of UBC's Institute for Computing, Information, and Cognitive Systems.

Dr. Danielson is interested in how moral and ethical agents interact with social norms to solve (and create) problems. His applied interests focus on technology – especially computer technology and genomics – and the environment. His methods come from evolutionary game theory (biology and economics), agent-based computer modeling (sociology and computer science) and ethical theory. Dr. Danielson's research team takes an empirical approach and has designed innovative surveys to gather data on ethical decision making.



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