{"id":242989,"date":"2026-04-10T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242989\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:04:17","slug":"peterson-from-texas-am-to-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242989\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterson from Texas A&#038;M to SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.martinpeterson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Martin Peterson<\/a>, currently professor of philosophy at <a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.tamu.edu\/philosophy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas A&amp;M University<\/a>, will be moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smu.edu\/dedman\/academics\/departments\/philosophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Southern Methodist University<\/a> (SMU). <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57103 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/peterson-martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Professor Peterson works in ethics, particularly normative ethics, engineering ethics, and the ethics of technology. His latest book is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/se\/universitypress\/subjects\/philosophy\/ethics\/ethics-gray-area-gradualist-theory-right-and-wrong?format=HB#description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong<\/a>. You can learn more about his work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martinpeterson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/philpeople.org\/profiles\/martin-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers may recall that Professor Peterson was told by administrators at Texas A&amp;M at the start of this year to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailynous.com\/2026\/01\/06\/texas-am-bans-plato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">remove texts from Plato from his philosophy course<\/a>. I am told that the censorship policies recently adopted by the university motivated his decision to leave.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second philosophy professor to decide to leave Texas A&amp;M owing to the administration\u2019s disregard of academic freedom (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailynous.com\/2026\/03\/31\/radzik-from-texas-am-to-binghamton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Radzik\u2019s impending move to Binghamton University<\/a> was reported on last month).<\/p>\n<p>Peterson\u2019s resignation from Texas A&amp;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Peterson, currently professor of philosophy at Texas A&amp;M University, will be moving to Southern Methodist University (SMU).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-242989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}