Ryan Jenkins
Assistant Professor
PHIL Major and Minor Advisor
Contact Information
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Office: Bldg. 47, Rm. 34P
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Phone: (805) 756-1224
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E-mail: ryjenkin@calpoly.edu
Fields
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Normative ethics (especially consequentialism)
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Applied ethics (especially military ethics and emerging technology)
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Social and political philosophy
Education
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Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
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B.A., Florida State University
Courses Taught
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PHIL 231: Philosophical Classics: Ethics and Political Philosophy
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PHIL 322: Philosophy of Technology
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PHIL 323: Ethics, Science, and Technology
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PHIL 328: Technologies and Ethics of War
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PHIL 340: Environmental Ethics
Selected Publications
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“Averting the moral free-for-all of autonomous weapons.” Fletcher Forum on World Affairs. Vol 41, no 2. Summer 2017.
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“A Dilemma for Moral Deliberation in AI” (with Duncan Purves). International Journal of Applied Ethics. Volume 30, Issue 2. Fall 2016.
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“Robots and Respect: A Reply to Sparrow” (with Duncan Purves). Ethics & International Affairs. Volume 30, Issue 3. Fall 2016.
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“Right Intention and the Ends of War” (with Duncan Purves). Journal of Military Ethics. Volume 15, Issue 1. 2016
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“Autonomous Vehicles Ethics & Law: Towards an Overlapping Consensus”. New America Foundation. September, 2016.
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“Autonomous Machines, Moral Judgment, and Acting for the Right Reasons” (with Duncan Purves and Bradley Strawser). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Volume 18, Issue 4. 2015.
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“Cyberwarfare as ideal war”. Forthcoming. Invited, peer-reviewed book chapter. Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare, Oxford University Press. (eds. Bradley Strawser, Adam Henschke, and Fritz Allhoff.)
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“Is Stuxnet Physical? Does it matter?” Journal of Military Ethics. Volume 12, Issue 1. 2013.
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Anthologized in: Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2014). Timothy J. Demy, George R. Lucas Jr., Bradley J. Strawser (eds.). Routledge.
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Edited Anthologies
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Editor, "Who Should Die? The Ethics of Killing in War" (with Mike Robillard and BJ Strawser). Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
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Editor, "Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence" (with Patrick Lin and Keith Abney). Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
Selected Presentations
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Panel Presentation, “Ethics of Autonomous Weapons.” McCain Conference. United States Naval Academy Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. Annapolis, MD. April 2017.
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Participant. Plenary Panel, “National Science Foundation Project on Ethics and Cyber Warfare”. International Society of Military Ethics conference. Washington, DC. January, 2017.
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“What’s the perfect driverless car? It depends who you ask”. TEDxCal Poly. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. October, 2016.
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Presenter, “Autonomous Vehicles Ethics & Law: Towards an Overlapping Consensus”. New America Foundation “Digital Industries Initiative” roundtable series. September, 2016.
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Panel Moderator, “Ethical and Social Implications of Automated Vehicles: Values and Weights.” Automated Vehicles Symposium 2016. San Francisco, California, July, 2016.
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Participant, “Cyberwar, Ethics, and International Humanitarian Law” workshop hosted by International Committee of the Red Cross. Geneva, Switzerland, May, 2014.
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“Is Stuxnet Physical? Does It Matter?” Distinguished Speakers Series. United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, April, 2013.
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“Don’t Fear the Reapers: A Moral Argument for Drone Strikes”. Think! Talk, University of Colorado. November, 2014. Public philosophy lecture series.
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“The Criterion of Right Intention and the Ends of War” (with Duncan Purves). International Society for Military Ethics 2014 Conference, South Bend, IN, October, 2014.
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“A rule-consequentialist in bello moral code”. Inaugural Conference on the Ethics of War in the 21st Century, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Stockholm, Sweden. May, 2014.
Selected Media Articles
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“The Ethics of Killer Robots”, E-International Relations, July 23, 2014. 
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“When Is a Real-World Response to a Cyberattack Justifiable?” (with Fritz Allhoff), Slate, June 11, 2014.