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Department of Philosophy
 Education: Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
B.A., University of Mississippi
“Technology allows us to look at things differently—think about things differently,” says Dr. Patrick Hopkins, associate professor of philosophy at Millsaps College. Dr. Hopkins’s courses cover material as diverse as ethics, biotechnology, gender studies, and the history of philosophy.
Topics in these fields can be as strange as alternative meat, which takes a biopsy from an animal to create sheets of meat that do not kill the animal they come from. Donated foreskins, similarly, can be used to grow sheets of skin for burn victims. Dr. Hopkins also does research on artificial wombs and their influence on the abortion debate. Because the famous Roe v. Wade case only gives justification for the removal of the fetus, says Dr. Hopkins, artificial wombs may change the way we think about these unborn fetuses.
Dr. Hopkins was recently awarded the 2007 Humanities Teacher Award by the Mississippi Humanities Council. “Anytime someone tells you that you are good enough at what you do to win an award,” he says, “you have to feel good.”
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