Carl Mitcham, Ph.D., is Hans Jonas Chair at the European Graduate School EGS and Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines. Carl Mitcham received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Fordham University in 1988. He also holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Carl Mitcham is one of the leading American philosophers of technology with a focus on the ethics of science, technology and medicine. He has held academic positions at several institutions in the United States and internationally: from 1970–72 at Berea College, Kentucky as an Instructor in Philosophy; from 1972–82 at St. Catharine College, Kentucky as a Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Science; from 1982–90 at Brooklyn Polytechnic University as an Associate and then a Professor of Humanities. He was a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Science-Technology-Society Program, Pennsylvania State University from 1989–99, and the founding Director of the Philosophy and Technology Studies Center, Polytechnic University, New York. Carl Mitcham has also been a visiting professor at the Universidad de Pais Vasco, Spain (2003–4), the University of Tilburg and the University of Twente, Netherlands (1998), the Universidad de Oviedo (1993), and the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez (1988). He is currently the Director of the Hennebach Program for the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines, a program which sponsors events with visiting professors in the humanities. He is president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.

Carl Mitcham is the co-editor of Philosophy of Technology: Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Technology, with Robert Mackey (1972); Theology and Technology: Essays in Christian Analysis and Exegesis, with Jim Grote (1984); Philosophy and Technology II: Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice, with Alois Huning (1986); Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies, with Stephen H. Cutcliffe (2001); The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection, with Lee Hoinacki (2002); Ethics and Technology. He was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, published in four volumes (2005).

Carl Mitcham is the author of Bibliography of the Philosophy of Technology, with Robert Mackey (1973); Thinking Through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy (1994); Research in Philosophy and Technology: Social and Philosophical Constructions of Technology (1995); Thinking Ethics in Technology: Hennebach Lectures and Papers, 1995–1996 (1997); Engineer's Toolkit: Engineering Ethics, with R. Shannon Duval (2000); La ética en la profesión de ingeniero: Ingeniería y ciudadanían, with Marcos García de la Huerta (2001); Technology and Religion: Oppositions, Sympathies, Transformations (2008); Science, Technology, and Ethics: An Introduction.