Wade Robison
Ezra A Hale Professor in Applied Ethics
Wade Robison
Ezra A Hale Professor in Applied Ethics
Education
BA, University of Maryland; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Bio
Wade L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with a minor in law. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on David Hume at Dartmouth in 1990, has received several National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, including a year-long fellowship in Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was a founding member of the International Hume Society and its President for sixteen years. He was founding President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. He has published extensively in philosophy of law, David Hume, and practical and professional ethics. His book Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy (University Press of New England, 1994) won the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize in Social Science and Public Policy. He has co-edited anthologies in medical ethics, business and professional ethics, and Hume, and his most recent book is on Ethics Within Engineering (Bloomsbury, 2016).