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6Reflections (2 of 4): Discourse ethics for agricultural biotechnology: Its limits and its inevitability — A response to Jamieson (review)Science and Engineering Ethics 6 (2): 275-278. 2000.
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15A Social History of American Technology by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (review)Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4): 409-410. 2000.Book review, feminist history of technology
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19Smells like Team Spirit: A Response to Comments on The Spirit of the SoilEthics, Policy and Environment 22 (3): 259-266. 2019.The Spirit of the Soil was updated for its 2nd edition in 2017. Three comments on the update are addressed here. First, productionism was not intended as a explanation of farm management decision m...
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1Book review (review)Agriculture and Human Values 25 (1): 137-138. 2008.Review of the Handbook of Rural Studies
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66Re-Envisioning the Agrarian IdealJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25 (4): 553-562. 2012.Abstract Critics of The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (Lexington: 2010, University Press of Kentucky) have difficulties with its commitment to agrarian philosophy, and have also suggested that the program described there needs more elaboration of how sustainability might be pursued, especially in its social dimensions. The book draws upon agrarian philosophy to argue that habit and material practice are an appropriate and vital focus of ethics. Attention to habit and…Read more
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37Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective: A Transpacific Dialogue (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This collection of essays is a transpacific dialog on the role of agriculture and food, especially within traditions of Chinese and Japanese philosophy and social thought.
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978The Philosophical Foundations of RiskSouthern Journal of Philosophy 24 (2): 273-286. 1986.Characterizes the philosophical grammar of risk attributions and argues that epistemic features of a situation can be a source of risk.
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294The Emergence of Food EthicsFood Ethics 1 (1): 61-74. 2016.Philosophical food ethics or deliberative inquiry into the moral norms for production, distribution and consumption of food is contrasted with food ethics as an international social movement aimed at reforming the global food system. The latter yields an activist orientation that can become embroiled in self-defeating impotency when the complexity and internal contradictions of the food system are more fully appreciated. However, recent work in intersectionality offers resources that are useful …Read more
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10Howard Markel, The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek: Pantheon Books, New York, 2017, 506 +pp. ISBN 978 03 07907271 (review)Agriculture and Human Values 35 (3): 737-738. 2018.Markel is a medical historian who produced this joint biography of John Harvey Kellogg and W.K. Kellogg
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12John Crowe Ransom: Land! The case for an agrarian economy: University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend, IN, 2017, 156 pp., ISBN 978-0-268-10193-0 (review)Agriculture and Human Values 34 (4): 1039-1041. 2017.
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38Commentary on Paul B. Thompson’s From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for EveryoneSocial Philosophy Today 33 209-215. 2017.Paul Thompson’s excellent book, From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone, argues that contemporary food ethics persistently ignores the nature and actual impact of GMOs, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, food aid to developing countries, and more. On Thompson’s view, such philosophical analyses must incorporate empirical knowledge. Additional strengths of Thompson’s book: its attention to quality-of-life issues, its openness to the concerns of the marginalized, and its emphasis on the …Read more
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6Need and Safety: The Nuclear Power DebateEnvironmental Ethics 6 (1): 57-69. 1984.Many arguments for and against nuclear power can be analyzed according to a matrix of logically competing claims on the need and safety of nuclear power. Logical analysis of the arguments reveals their philosophical basis and contributes to an understanding of their explanatory appeal. The evidential value of claims made in the arguments of both supporters and opponents depends upon familiar issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science.
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57From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for EveryoneOxford University Press USA. 2015.After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance. Justice for food workers and small farmers has joined the rising tide of concern over the impact of industrial agriculture on food animals and the broader environment, all while a global epidemic of obesity-related diseases threatens to overwhelm modern health systems. An emerging worldwide social movement has turned to local and organic foods, and struggles to exploit widespread concern over the next wave of genetic engin…Read more
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25Agricultural ethics: then and nowAgriculture and Human Values 32 (1): 77-85. 2015.This paper was written to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the University of Nottingham’s Easter School on “Issues in Agricultural Bioethics,” organized by Ben Mepham in 1993. At that time, agricultural ethics was being envisioned as an interdisciplinary sub-discipline comparable to that of medical ethics. Agricultural ethicists would co-operate with other agricultural faculty to produce careful articulation, analysis and critique of norms and values being implicitly assumed by agricultural r…Read more
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92The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental EthicsRoutledge. 1994.The Spirit of the Soil challenges environmentalists to think more deeply and creatively about agriculture. Paul B. Thompson identifies four `worldviews' which tackle agricultural ethics according to different philosophical priorities; productionism, stewardship, economics and holism. He examines current issues such as the use of pesticides and biotechnology from these ethical perspectives. This book achieves an open-ended account of sustainability designed to minimise hubris and help us to recap…Read more
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51Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2012.The second edition of this extensive work is the definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important area of food and agricultural ethics. Altogether about 100 new entries appear in this new edition. The start of the 21st century has seen intensified debate, discussion, and criticism of food and agriculture. Scholars, activists, and citizens increasingly question the goals and ethical rationale behind production, distribution and consumption of food, and the use o…Read more
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Nano and bio : how are they alike? How are they different?In Kenneth H. David & Paul B. Thompson (eds.), What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?: Social and Ethical Lessons for Nanoscience From the Debate Over Agrifood Biotechnology and Gmos, Elsevier/academic Press. 2008.
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39What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?: Social and Ethical Lessons for Nanoscience From the Debate Over Agrifood Biotechnology and Gmos (edited book)Elsevier/Academic Press. 2008.Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes kapitelvis.
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51Bolzano's deducibility and tarski's logical consequenceHistory and Philosophy of Logic 2 (1-2): 11-20. 1981.In this paper I argue that Bolzano's concept of deducibility and Tarski's concept of logical consequence differ with respect to their philosophical intent. I distinguish between epistemic and ontic approaches to logic, and argue that Bolzano's deducibility presupposes an epistemic approach, while Tarski's logical consequence presupposes an ontic approach
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Ethical Perspectives on Changing Agricultural Technology in the United StatesNotre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 3 (1): 85-116. 1987.
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39Ethical dilemmas in agriculture: The need for recognition and resolution (review)Agriculture and Human Values 5 (4): 4-15. 1988.Agricultural research and education ended 100 years of funding under the Hatch Act with a decade of unprecedented criticism of goals and outcomes. This paper examines the way that planners can accommodate some of these criticisms within a framework for understanding the ethical and social goals of agriculture that is consistent with traditional practice. The paper goes on to state that some criticisms are so fundamental that they cannot be readily incorporated into this framework. They must be r…Read more
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47Handbook of Rural Studies (Book review) (review)Agriculture and Human Values 25 (1): 137-138. 2008.
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42Agriculture and working-class political culture: A lesson from The Grapes of WrathAgriculture and Human Values 24 (2): 165-177. 2007.John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel can be given a reading that links events and the mentality of characters to mainstream schools of liberal and neo-liberal political theory: libertarianism, egalitarianism, and utilitarianism. Each of these schools is sketched in outline and applied to topics in rural political culture. While it is likely that Steinbeck himself would have identified with an egalitarian or utilitarian view, he resists the temptation to deny his Okie characters an authentic voice that ma…Read more
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53“There’s an App for That”: Technical Standards and Commodification by Technological MeansPhilosophy and Technology 25 (1): 87-103. 2012.Though the term “commodification” is used broadly, a theory of the processes by which goods become exchangeable and in fact objects of monetized exchange reveals a key site for technological politics. Commodities are goods that are alienable, somewhat rival, generally with low exclusion costs, and that are often consumed in use. Technological advances can affect all of these traits for certain goods, effectively bringing about a process of commodification by technological means. However, in orde…Read more
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11Ricardo Rozzi et al. (eds)., Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and PracticeEnvironmental Values 26 (4): 529-531. 2017.
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1Book review of Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth (review)Journal of Agricultural Ethics 2 (1): 69-71. 1989.This is a review of the first edition.
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58Synthetic Biology Needs A Synthetic BioethicsEthics, Policy and Environment 15 (1). 2012.Recent developments in synthetic biology are described and characterized as moving the era of biotechnology into platform technologies. Platform technologies enable rapid and diffuse innovations and simultaneous product development in diffuse markets, often targeting sectors of the economy that have traditionally been thought to have little relationship to one another. In the case of synthetic biology, pharmaceutical and biofuel product development are occurring interactively. But the regulatory…Read more
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1Author meets critics environmentalism, feminism, and agrarianism: Three isms in search of sustainable agricultureAgriculture and Human Values 15 (2): 170-176. 1998.
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