Peterson from Texas A&M to SMU

Martin Peterson, currently professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Southern Methodist University (SMU). Professor Peterson works in ethics, particularly normative ethics, engineering ethics, and the ethics of technology. His latest book is Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong. You can learn more about his work here and here. Readers may recall that Professor Peterson was told by administrators at Texas A&M at the start of this year to remove texts from Plato from his philosophy course. I am told that the censorship policies recently adopted by the university motivated his decision to leave. He is the second philosophy professor to decide to leave Texas A&M owing to the administration’s disregard of academic freedom (Linda Radzik’s impending move to Binghamton University was reported on last month). Peterson’s resignation from Texas A&M is effective July 31st, 2026, and he starts at SMU in August as Professor of Philosophy and the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor in Human Values: Endowed Chair of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. The post Peterson from Texas A&M to SMU first appeared on Daily Nous.