Tobias Flattery joined the Department of Philosophy at Wake Forest University in 2023. Prior to that, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, and his B.A. in philosophy from Texas A&M University. He is also the Program Manager of the Honesty Project, a $4.4 million research project on the philosophy and psychology of honesty, headquartered here at Wake Forest University. Before turning to academia, he spent time working in the private technology sector as a data warehouse engineer and business intelligence developer/analyst.

His teaching and research is usually in the history of philosophy and philosophy of technology (broadly construed, but especially technology ethics), though he works in a few other areas as well.