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44The agricultural ethics of biofuels: climate ethics and mitigation argumentsPoiesis and Praxis 8 (4): 169-189. 2012.An environmental, climate mitigation rationale for research and development on liquid transportation fuels derived from plants emerged among many scientists and engineers during the last decade. However, between 2006 and 2010, this climate ethic for pursuing biofuel became politically entangled and conceptually confused with rationales for encouraging greater use of plant-based ethanol that were both unconnected to climate ethics and potentially in conflict with the value-commitments providing a…Read more
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33Commentary on “Rhetoric, Technical Writing and Ethics” (michael davis)Science and Engineering Ethics 5 (4): 484-486. 1999.
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112Privacy, secrecy and securityEthics and Information Technology 3 (1): 13-19. 2001.I will argue that one class of issues in computer ethics oftenassociated with privacy and a putative right to privacy isbest-analyzed in terms that make no substantive reference toprivacy at all. These issues concern the way that networkedinformation technology creates new ways in which conventionalrights to personal security can be threatened. However onechooses to analyze rights, rights to secure person and propertywill be among the most basic, the least controversial, and themost universally …Read more
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25Ruth Schwartz Cowan, A Social History of Technology (review)Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4): 409-410. 2000.This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date one-volume history of American technology from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Cowan writes clearly. Each chapter has a clear take-home message illustrated and amplified with straightforward, easily understood examples.
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37Marcel mazoyer and Lawrence roudart, a history of world agriculture from the neolithic age to the current crisis, James H. membrez, trJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 22 (1): 101-104. 2009.
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80Catastrophe ethics and activist speech: Reflections on moral norms, advocacy, and technical judgmentMetaphilosophy 42 (1-2): 118-144. 2011.Abstract: This essay critically examines whether there are ethical dimensions to the way that expertise, knowledge claims, and expressions of skepticism intersect on technical matters that influence public policy, especially during times of crisis. It compares two different perspectives on the matter: a philosophical outlook rooted in discourse and virtue ethics and a sociological outlook rooted in the so-called third-wave approach to science studies. The comparison occurs through metaphilosophi…Read more
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73The philosophical foundations of riskSouthern Journal of Philosophy 24 (2): 273-286. 1986.Rescher's 1983 study of risk analysis marks an important departure from game theory in that philosophical foundations for risk are neither formal nor implicit, But explicitly defined objective properties. Rescher's claim that these foundations are ontological fails, However. His ontology is internally inconsistent. Furthermore, Risk is always interest relative, Making it impossible to remove epistemological considerations entirely from any account of its foundations.
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28Crossing species boundaries is even more controversial than you thinkAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (3). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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