Dr. Peter H. Denton is Associate Professor of History (part-time) at the Royal Military College of Canada, having taught in the Officer Professional Military Education Program since 2003 and in the War Studies graduate program since 2004. He is an instructor in Technical Communications and Ethics at Red River College, and teaches ethics by distance education for the Philosophy Department at the University of Manitoba.  He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba; a Research Affiliate of the Prairie Metropolis Centre at the University of Alberta; and Honourary Historian of the Royal Military Institute of Manitoba.  He is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada.

He has lectured at the University of Toronto; McMaster University; the University of Lethbridge; Concord College; and the University of Winnipeg, where he was appointed Assistant Professor in the departments of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies for two terms.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English and History (Winnipeg); a Master of Arts in English (UNB); a Master of Arts in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST, Toronto); a Master of Divinity (Knox, Toronto) and a Ph.D. in Religion and the Social Sciences (McMaster).

His research interests include: ethical issues in technology, society and culture; philosophy of technology; technology and warfare in the 21st century; globalization; ethics and migration; sociology of religion; science and religion; religion and warfare; and religion and politics.

While he has taught and published in a wide variety of areas, the current focus of his research and writing is the philosophy of technology and its application to contemporary global issues, including environmental sustainability; social responsibility; and warfare in the 21st century. 

Recent Publications and Presentations

“Believers in the Battlespace.” Canadian Military Journal (upcoming, 2008)

Restivo, Sal and Peter H. Denton, eds. Battleground: Science and Technology. 2 vols. (Greenwood Press, November 2008)

“Technology”; “Technology and Progress”; “Warfare”; “Health Care”; “Globalization”; “Water”; “Sustainability” and “Religion and Science” (with Sal Restivo). Battleground: Science and Technology, Sal Restivo and Peter H. Denton, eds. (Greenwood Press, November 2008)

Moderator, Panel Discussion on “The Public Impact of Injuries,” at the Deer Lodge Centre Operational Stress Injury Conference, “Military Trauma: The New Generation of War Injuries,” Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg, April 24-25, 2008

“Technology, Religion and Human Security in the 21^st Century.”  University of Winnipeg (40^th Anniversary Lecture Series), November 22, 2007

“Preserving Local Knowledge in the Global Village:  Countering the Dark Side of Distance Education.” 2007 Canadian Association for Distance Education Conference, Winnipeg, May 15, 2007

“The End of Asymmetry: Force Disparity and the Aims of War.”  Canadian Military Journal 7 No. 2 (Summer 2006), 23-28

“Atomic Age” and “Religion and Science.” Science, Technology and Society: An Encyclopedia, Sal Restivo, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005) 18-19; 444-49

The Philosophy of Technology, edited with introduction: “On the Nature of Technology.” Essays in Philosophy Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2005)  http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/

The ABC of Armageddon: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion and the Next War, 1919–1938.   SUNY Series on Science, Technology and Society, ed. Sal Restivo and Jennifer Croissant.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.  Xxvi + 174 pp.