Ian Peebles is a philosopher and bioethicist whose research focuses primarily on topics related to race, racism, and their relationships to health, medicine, and emerging biotechnologies. Additionally, he is interested in how virtue ethics (or moral philosophy more generally) might influence investigation into contemporary social issues typically monopolized by political philosophy.
Before joining ASU, Peebles was the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics at Princeton University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania, Peebles also studied social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience in Penn's Center for Neuroscience and Society.
