Deborah G. Johnson

Deborah G. Johnson (born 1945) is an American philosopher and Olsson Professor Emeritus of Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia. She is a winner of the Covey Award, Weizenbaum Award, and Barwise Prize. Johnson is known for her works on the computer ethics and engineering ethics.^[1][2][3][4] Her book Computer Ethics (1985) was the first significant textbook in the discipline and rapidly became the main resource used in computer ethics courses at universities in English-speaking countries.^[5]

Deborah Johnson
Born	1945
Nationality	Indian
Awards	Covey Award, Weizenbaum Award, Barwise Prize
Academic background
Education	University of Kansas (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	engineering ethics
Institutions	University of Virginia

Books

• Engineering Ethics: Contemporary and Enduring Debates, Yale University Press 2020
• Computer Ethics, First Edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1985; Second Edition 1994; Third Edition 2001
• Johnson, D. and H. Nissenbaum (eds.) (1995), Computing, Ethics & Social Values, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall