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29Thinking About Thinking About TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 5 (1): 29-34. 2000.
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31Borgmann on commodification: A comment on real american ethicsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (1): 75-84. 2008.
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14Report of the nabc ad-hoc committee on ethicsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10 (2): 105-125. 1997.1. Each NABC member institutions should ensure that subject matter on ethical issues associated with food and agricultural biotechnology is systematically integrated into the curriculum of their institution. The pattern of implementation will vary a teach institution, but we expect that some combination of the following three strategies will be employed at most institutions. a) Modules Included in Basic and Applied Science Courses b) Modules Included in General Courses on Applied Ethics c) Speci…Read more
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177Review of Gary L. Comstock, Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology (review)Agriculture and Human Values 18 (3): 341-345. 2001.
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19Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development by Tarla Rae Peterson (review)Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4): 407-408. 2000.
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27The first European congress on agricultural and food ethics and follow-up workshop on ethics and food biotechnology: A US perspective (review)Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4): 327-332. 2000.The first European Congress on Agriculturaland Food Ethics was held at Wageningen University andResearch Center (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands, March 4–6, 1999. This was the inaugural conference forthe newly forming European Society for Agricultural andFood Ethics – EUR-SAFE – and around two hundredpeople from across Europe (and a handful of NorthAmericans) participated. Following theCongress/conference, a small (16 people), two-dayworkshop funded in part by the US National ScienceFoundation…Read more
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17From Synthetic Bioethics to One Bioethics: A Reply to CriticsEthics, Policy and Environment 18 (2): 215-224. 2015.Replies to commentaries on my 2012 article ‘Synthetic Biology Needs a Synthetic Bioethics,’ note that I do not, in fact, call for some ‘new’ kind of ethics. The focus then and now is on integrating questions that relate to distributive justice and environmental quality more faithfully into the topics that have come to preoccupy mainstream bioethics as institutionalized in medical schools and medical research institutions
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91Ethics in agricultural researchJournal of Agricultural Ethics 1 (1): 11-20. 1988.Utilitarian ethics provides a model for evaluating moral responsibility in agricultural research decisions according to the balance of costs and benefits accruing to the public at large. Given the traditions and special requirements of agricultural research planning, utilitarian theory is well adapted to serve as a starting point for evaluating these decisions, but utilitarianism has defects that are well documented in the philosophical literature. Criticisms of research decisions in agricultura…Read more
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