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EconomicsIn Michael C. Appleby, Anna Olsson & Francisco Galindo (eds.), Animal welfare, Cabi. 2018.
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16Agrarian Vision, Industrial Vision, and Rent-Seeking: A ViewpointJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (3): 391-400. 2020.Many public debates about the societal significance and impact of agriculture are usefully framed by Paul Thompson’s distinction between the “agrarian” and the “industrial vision.” The key argument of the present paper is that the ongoing debate between these visions goes beyond academic philosophy and has direct effects on the political economy of agriculture by influencing the scope of rent-seeking activities that are undertaken primarily in the name of the agrarian vision. The existence of re…Read more
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17Genetic Prospects: Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.The essays in this volume apply philosophical analysis to address three kinds of questions: What are the implications of genetic science for our understanding of nature? What might it influence in our conception of human nature? What challenges does genetic science pose for specific issues of private conduct or public policy?
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5Book Review of Sarah Franklin, Dolly Mixtures (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (4): 385-388. 2008.
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7Commodification and Secondary Rationalization. forthcoming.Commodification and Secondary Rationalization.
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1Animal agriculture and the welfare of animalsJournal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 226 (8): 1325-1327. 2005.
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7Native Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 73-76. 2004.
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108Theorizing Technological and Institutional ChangeTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 11 (1): 19-31. 2007.Formal, informal and material institutions constitute the framework for human interaction and communicative practice. Three ideas from institutional theory are particularly relevant to technical change. Exclusion cost refers to the effort that must be expended to prevent others from usurping or interfering in one’s use or disposal of a given good or resource. Alienability refers to the ability to tangibly extricate a good or resource from one setting, making it available for exchange relations. …Read more
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3Thoreau’s Living Ethics (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 33 (101): 29-35. 2005.
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9Richard Haynes and the early years of Agriculture and Human ValuesAgriculture and Human Values 40 (1): 45-48. 2023.Richard P. Haynes, founding editor of _Agriculture and Human Values_, was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florida. His personal interests in the environmental dimensions of agriculture led him to found the journal in the 1980s with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Later in life, he published on ethical treatment of lab and farm animals. Haynes understood _Agriculture and Human Values_ as a broadly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platfo…Read more
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2Native Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 73-76. 2004.
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28Machines, Watersheds, and SustainabilityThe Pluralist 11 (1): 110-116. 2016.brook muller begins his contribution to the Coss Dialogues by contesting and at least partially deconstructing Le Corbusier’s aphorism “a house is a machine for living.” He then trades upon an ambiguity that masks the difference between watersheds that mark an important transition from one phase to another and those that are defined by the drainage area associated with a body of water. The 2015 Coss Dialogues took place in the watershed of the Grand River, which extends from its southeast limit …Read more
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14McDermott as a ColleagueThe Pluralist 15 (1): 95-97. 2020.Although I took one class with John McDermott at SUNY Stony Brook, I write as a colleague who came through the ranks under his mentorship at Texas A&M from 1980 to 1997, when I left College Station to assume the Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University. I came to Texas A&M during the transition from McDermott's term as the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities to the leadership of Professor Hugh McCann. It was a heady time in Central Texas, and especi…Read more
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47Introduction, Dan Bromley, 2014 Coss Dialogues Invited SpeakerThe Pluralist 10 (1): 1-5. 2015.the coss dialogues were initiated in 1995 to foster cross talk between philosophers working in the classical American tradition modeled by C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Jane Addams, and others, on the one hand, and contemporary representatives from other traditions, especially disciplines other than philosophy, on the other. The format for the Coss Dialogues was originally conceived as a plenary presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosop…Read more
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264Ethical issues in global neuroimaging genetics collaborationsNeuroImage 117208 (221): 1-10. 2020.
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5University Governance and the Accountability of Academic AdministratorsJournal of Academic Ethics 2 (3): 187-197. 2004.
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The Agrarian Roots of PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2): 334-341. 2003.
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63Environmentalism and PosthumanismEssays in the Philosophy of Humanism 21 (2): 63-73. 2013.The term ‘posthumanism’ has not been promoted by many environmental philosophers, and it is not clear how the figures I discuss would react to be being characterized as posthumanist. It is more typical for advocates of the perspectives I discuss to characterize them with labels such as ‘non-anthropocentric,’ ‘ecocentric’, or ‘deep ecology.’ Yet, as I will argue, the ideas that have emerged in these lines of thought reflect philosophical commitments that could aptly be characterized as posthumani…Read more
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9Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson's Writings (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson’s Writings is a collection of essays on topics that relate to philosophical aspects of Jefferson’s thinking over the years. Much historical insight is given to ground the various philosophical strands in Jefferson’s thought and writing on topics such as political philosophy, moral philosophy, slavery, republicanism, wall of separation, liberty, educational philosophy, and architecture
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32Steven A. Moore. Technology and Place: Sustainable Agriculture and the Blueprint Farm (review)Agriculture and Human Values 19 (4): 369-371. 2002.
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18University Governance and the Accountability of Academic AdministratorsJournal of Academic Ethics 2 (3): 187-197. 2004.
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55The Evolutionary Biology of EvilThe Monist 85 (2): 239-259. 2002.This paper is intended to be exploratory, polemical, and, I hope, provocative. It attempts to provide an evolutionary and naturalistic account of a central ethical concept: evil. I attempt this with full knowledge of the widespread and longstanding aversion, by philosophers, to naturalism in ethics.
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55The Revival of ‘Emergence’ in BiologyCroatian Journal of Philosophy 3 (3): 217-229. 2003.Holism and emergence are coherent notions. The paper points to the classes of emergent phenomena -- such as autocatalysis -- that are taken as commonplace phenomena in biological sciences. Thus it questions the Democritean credo, “wholes are completely determined by their parts” (in some of its forms, called mereological determinism), that has become a dogma of contemporary philosophy. A living thing requires the ability to initiate, mediate and terminate processes that produce products that mak…Read more
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33Academic citizenship: An academic colleagues' working paper (review)Journal of Academic Ethics 3 (2-4): 127-142. 2005.Universities are facing a critical challenge; university citizenship has steadily declined over the last few decades. As a self-governing entity, most of the foundational elements of a university community are within its own control. As a result, the health and future welfare of the institution depends greatly on the quality of its leaders and robustness of its governing structure. These in turn depend on the quality of those undertaking leadership roles and serving on governing bodies and on th…Read more