Moor studied mathematics at the
Ohio State University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1965. He went on to study philosophy at the
University of Chicago, where he obtained a masters' degree. He worked as a teaching fellow at
Findlay College before embarking on further studies at
Indiana University Bloomington, where he earned his Ph.D. in the
philosophy of science in 1972. His thesis titled
Computer Consciousness was supervised by
Wesley C. Salmon. Moor joined
Dartmouth College in the same year as an assistant professor in philosophy. He became an associate professor in 1978 and a professor in 1985. Moor's 1985 paper entitled "What is Computer Ethics?" established him as one of the pioneering theoreticians in the field of
computer ethics. Since 2009 at Dartmouth, Moor was the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, a title he held until his death. Moor was the editor-in-chief of
Minds and Machines (2001-2010), a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science. == Research ==