Don Howard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Reilly Fellow in the university’s John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, as well as a Faculty Fellow in the university’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His undergraduate degree, from Michigan State University’s Lyman Briggs College, was in physics; he completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Boston University. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, his areas of study include the history and philosophical foundations of modern physics, the history of the philosophy of science, and an expanding array of issues in science and technology ethics.