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8Uncertainty 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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63Book Symposium on The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics by Paul B. Thompson: The University Press of Kentucky 2010 (review)Philosophy and Technology 26 (3): 301-320. 2013.
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Michael Heim, Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 8 (12): 483-486. 1988.
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328The opposite of human enhancement: Nanotechnology and the blind chicken problem (review)NanoEthics 2 (3): 305-316. 2008.Nanotechnologies that have been linked to the possibility of enhancing cognitive capabilities of human beings might also be deployed to reduce or eliminate such capabilities in non-human vertebrate animals. A surprisingly large literature on the ethics of such disenhancement has been developed in response to the suggestion that it would be an ethically defensible response to animal suffering both in medical experimentation and in industrial livestock production. However, review of this literatur…Read more
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19Food Biotechnology's Challenge to Cultural Integrity and Individual ConsentHastings Center Report 27 (4): 34-39. 1997.Consumer response to genetically altered foods has been mixed in the United States. While transgenic crops have entered the food supply with little comment, other foods, such as the bioengineered tomato, have caused considerable controversy. Objections to genetically engineered food are varied, ranging from the religious to the aesthetic. One need not endorse these concerns to conclude that food biotechnology violates procedural protections of consumer sovereignty and religious liberty. Consumer…Read more
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79The ethics of truth-telling and the problem of riskScience and Engineering Ethics 5 (4): 489-510. 1999.Risk communication poses a challenge to ordinary norms of truth-telling because it can easily mislead. Analyzing this challenge in terms of a systematic divergence between expertise and public attitudes fails to recognize how two specific features of the concept of risk play a role in managing daily affairs. First, evaluating risk always incorporates an estimate of the reliability of information. Since risk communication is an effort at providing information, audiences will naturally and appropr…Read more
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26Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel tickner, eds., Protecting public health and the environment: Implementing the precautionary principle (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14 (3): 351-354. 2001.
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9Book Review: Albert Howard Soil and Health + Julie Guthman, Agrarian Dreams (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (3): 297-301. 2008.
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