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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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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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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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28Thinking About Thinking About TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 5 (1): 29-34. 2000.
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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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31Borgmann on commodification: A comment on real american ethicsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (1): 75-84. 2008.
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14Report of the nabc ad-hoc committee on ethicsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10 (2): 105-125. 1997.1. Each NABC member institutions should ensure that subject matter on ethical issues associated with food and agricultural biotechnology is systematically integrated into the curriculum of their institution. The pattern of implementation will vary a teach institution, but we expect that some combination of the following three strategies will be employed at most institutions. a) Modules Included in Basic and Applied Science Courses b) Modules Included in General Courses on Applied Ethics c) Speci…Read more
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177Review of Gary L. Comstock, Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology (review)Agriculture and Human Values 18 (3): 341-345. 2001.
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19Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development by Tarla Rae Peterson (review)Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4): 407-408. 2000.
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26The first European congress on agricultural and food ethics and follow-up workshop on ethics and food biotechnology: A US perspective (review)Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4): 327-332. 2000.The first European Congress on Agriculturaland Food Ethics was held at Wageningen University andResearch Center (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands, March 4–6, 1999. This was the inaugural conference forthe newly forming European Society for Agricultural andFood Ethics – EUR-SAFE – and around two hundredpeople from across Europe (and a handful of NorthAmericans) participated. Following theCongress/conference, a small (16 people), two-dayworkshop funded in part by the US National ScienceFoundation…Read more
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16From Synthetic Bioethics to One Bioethics: A Reply to CriticsEthics, Policy and Environment 18 (2): 215-224. 2015.Replies to commentaries on my 2012 article ‘Synthetic Biology Needs a Synthetic Bioethics,’ note that I do not, in fact, call for some ‘new’ kind of ethics. The focus then and now is on integrating questions that relate to distributive justice and environmental quality more faithfully into the topics that have come to preoccupy mainstream bioethics as institutionalized in medical schools and medical research institutions
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91Ethics in agricultural researchJournal of Agricultural Ethics 1 (1): 11-20. 1988.Utilitarian ethics provides a model for evaluating moral responsibility in agricultural research decisions according to the balance of costs and benefits accruing to the public at large. Given the traditions and special requirements of agricultural research planning, utilitarian theory is well adapted to serve as a starting point for evaluating these decisions, but utilitarianism has defects that are well documented in the philosophical literature. Criticisms of research decisions in agricultura…Read more
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113The agricultural ethics of biofuels: A first look (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (2): 183-198. 2008.A noticeable push toward using agricultural crops for ethanol production and for undertaking research to expand the range of possible biofuels began to dominate discussions of agricultural science and policy in the United States around 2005. This paper proposes two complementary philosophical approaches to examining the philosophical questions that should be posed in connection with this turn of events. One stresses a critique of underlying epistemological commitments in the scientific models be…Read more
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Convergence in an agrarian keyIn Ben Minteer (ed.), Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy, Temple University Press. 2009.
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21Privacy and the Urinalysis Testing of AthletesJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 9 (1): 60-65. 1982.No abstract
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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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327The 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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85What Happens to Environmental Philosophy in a Wicked World?Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25 (4): 485-498. 2012.What is the significance of the wicked problems framework for environmental philosophy? In response to wicked problems, environmental scientists are starting to welcome the participation of social scientists, humanists, and the creative arts. We argue that the need for interdisciplinary approaches to wicked problems opens up a number of tasks that environmental philosophers have every right to undertake. The first task is for philosophers to explore new and promising ways of initiating philosoph…Read more
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