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4The Ethics of Intensification: Agricultural Development and Cultural Chang (edited book)Springer. 2008.The Ethics of Agricultural Intensification: An Interdisciplinary and International Conversation Paul B. Thompson and John Otieno Ouko* Global agriculture faces a number of challenges as the world approaches the second decade of the third millennium. Predictions unilaterally indicate dramatic increases in world population between 2010 and 2030, and a trend in developing countries toward greater consumption of animal products could multiply the need for prod- tion of basic grains even further. Alt…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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2Native Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 73-76. 2004.
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2Conceptions of sustainability in livestock farmingLudus Vitalis 2 (UMERO ESPECIAL): 143-156. 1997.
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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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1Animal agriculture and the welfare of animalsJournal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 226 (8): 1325-1327. 2005.
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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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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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1The agrarian roots of pragmatism / edited by Paul B. Thompson and Thomas C. Hilde (edited book)Vanderbilt University Press. 2000.The essays in this volume critically analyze and revitalize agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution in the classical American philosophy of key figures such as Franklin, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Dewey, and Royce.
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1Further Thoughts on Food FuturesIn Samantha Noll & Zachary Piso (eds.), Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food, Springer Verlag. pp. 185-206. 2023.Thompson provides commentary and reaction to other chapters in the book. It is organized as sections identified by the names of chapter authors. Thompson responds to chapters advancing new ideas in agriculture by indicating how he understands the authors’ analysis with respect to his own work. Chapters that address more philosophical dimensions of Thompson’s writings are addressed by clarifying the pragmatist orientation of Thompson’s thought. Michel Foucault’s metaethics is used as a basis for …Read more
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1Value judgments and risk comparisons : the case of genetically engineered cropsIn Craig Hanks (ed.), Technology and values: essential readings, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 347-355. 2010.
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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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EconomicsIn Michael C. Appleby, Anna Olsson & Francisco Galindo (eds.), Animal welfare, Cabi. 2018.
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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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The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental EthicsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 9. 1996.
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Theorizing Technological and Institutional Change: Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion CostIn Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Springer. pp. 131-140. 2008.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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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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The Agrarian Roots of PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2): 334-341. 2003.
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Resistance to risky technologiesIn David M. Kaplan (ed.), Philosophy, technology, and the environment, The Mit Press. 2017.
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Thompson, Paul B. Review of Risk Analysis and Scientific Method. By Kristin S. Shrader-FrechetteEnvironmental Ethics 8 277-285. 1986.
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Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2004). Reviewed by Paul B. Thompson, in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21(2008):297-301 (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21. 2008.
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Thompson, Paul B., Reviews of Albert Howard, The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic AgricultureJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 2008.
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