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96Agrarian philosophy and ecological ethicsScience and Engineering Ethics 14 (4): 527-544. 2008.Mainstream environmental ethics grew out of an approach to value that was rooted in a particular conception of rationality and rational choice. As weaknesses in this approach have become more evident, environmental philosophers have experimented with both virtue ethics and with pragmatism as alternative starting points for developing a more truly ecological orientation to environmental philosophy. However, it is possible to see both virtue ethics and pragmatism as emerging from older philosophic…Read more
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37Pragmatism and policy: The case of waterIn Andrew Light & Eric Katz (eds.), Environmental Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 187--208. 1996.
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32Uncertainty Arguments in Environmental IssuesEnvironmental Ethics 8 (1): 59-75. 1986.A large part of environmental policy is based upon scientific studies ofthe likely health, safety, and ecological consequences of human actions and practices. These studies, however, are frequently vulnerable to epistemological and methodological criticisms which challenge their validity. Epistemological criticisms can be used in ethical and political philosophy arguments to challenge the applicability of scientific knowledge to environmental policy, and, in turn, to challenge the democratic bas…Read more
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79Mark Sagoff 's price, principle, and the environment: Two commentsEthics, Place and Environment 9 (3). 2006.I will discuss two themes that can be found in Mark Sagoff's most recent book, Price, Principle, and the Environment. Built from pieces fashioned in his entertaining and incisive critical es...
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Hugh Lehman, Rationality and Ethics in Agriculture Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (3): 185-187. 1996.
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164Food aid and the famine relief argument (brief return)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 23 (3): 209-227. 2010.Recent publications by Pogge ( Global ethics: seminal essays. St. Paul: Paragon House 2008 ) and by Singer ( The life you can save: acting now to end world poverty. New York: Random House 2009 ) have resuscitated a debate over the justifiability of famine relief between Singer and ecologist Garrett Hardin in the 1970s. Yet that debate concluded with a general recognition that (a) general considerations of development ethics presented more compelling ethical problems than famine relief; and (b) s…Read more
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Technological mediation and nuclear weaponsIn Larry A. Hickman (ed.), Philosophy, Technology, and Human Affairs, Ibis Press of College Station, Texas. pp. 117. 1985.
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83Collective responsibility and professional rolesJournal of Business Ethics 5 (2). 1986.Flores and Johnson (Ethics 93 No. 3 (1983) pp. 537, 545.) offer a solution to the problem of individual and collective responsibility which obscures the fundamental requirement for responsibility ascriptions, namely, moral agency. Close attention to matters of individual and collective agency provides a simple yet defensible criterion for establishing when an individual is and isn't responsible for the untoward consequences of a collective act.
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28Thinking About Thinking About TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 5 (1): 29-34. 2000.
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