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Shannon Vallor
Shannon Vallor is a philosopher of technology and science, as well as specializes in emerging technology ethics, at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. She is presently the William J. Rewak, S.J. Professor, and chair of the philosophy department. She is president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, and an executive board member of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics. [Shannon Vallor is also a scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, where she and Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan created a free, online module called "An Introduction to Software Engineering Ethics." ] She was given the World Technology Award in Ethics in 2015, and has authored numerous articles on ethical issues in emerging technology, as well as a book, "Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting", [in which Vallor creates a framework for a need of virtue ethics in the 21st century and applies that framework to emerging ethical dilemmas surrounding technology, including biomedical advancement, military weaponization, and technological surveillance and monitoring.]

Education and Career
[While getting her Ph.D at Boston College, Shannon Vallor was a teaching fellow from 1997-1999 in the department of philosophy. She continued on to be a lecturer at the University of San Francisco from 2001-2003 and then Santa Clara University from 2003-2006. Vallor presently remains at Santa Clara University as a professor in the philosophy department.]

Books
Vallor, Shannon (2016). Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190498511

Journal Articles
Vallor, Shannon (2010). "Social Networking Technology and the Virtues," Ethics and Information Technology 12:2, 157-170.

Vallor, Shannon (2011). "Knowing What to Wish For: Human Enhancement Technology, Dignity and Virtue," Techne 15:2, 82-100.

Vallor, Shannon (2011). "Carebots and Caregivers: Sustaining the Ethical Ideal of Care in the 21st Century," Philosophy and Technology 24:3, 251-268.

Vallor, Shannon (2012). "Flourishing on Facebook: Virtue Friendship and New Social Media," Ethics and Information Technology 14:3, 185-199.

Vallor, Shannon (2014). "Armed Robots and Military Virtue," in The Ethics of Information Warfare, eds. Floridi and Taddeo (Springer) ISBN 978-3-319-04135-3

Vallor, Shannon (2015). "Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine Age: Reflections on the Ambiguous Future of Character," Philosophy and Technology. 28: (2015), 107-124.

Encyclopedia Articles
Vallor, Shannon (2012; Revised 2015). "Social Networking and Ethics," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ISSN 1095-5054