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19The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism (edited book)Vanderbilt University Press. 2000.Critically analyzes and revitalizes agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution. Today, most historians, philosophers, political theorists, and scholars of rural America take a dim view of the agrarian ideal that farmers and farming occupy a special moral and political status in society. Agrarian rhetoric is generally seen as special pleading on the part of farmers seeking protection from labor reform and environmental regulation while continuing to receive direct payments and subsidies from th…Read more
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35Need 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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1Value judgments and risk comparisons : the case of genetically engineered cropsIn Craig Hanks (ed.), Technology and values: essential readings, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 347-355. 2009.
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Aid and TradeIn Charles V. Blatz (ed.), Ethics and Agriculture: An Anthology on Current Issues in World Context, University of Idaho Press. pp. 340. 1991.
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200F. Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk: Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare: Oxford University Press, New York, 2011, xiv + 409 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-955116-3 (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 26 (2): 517-521. 2013.F. Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk: Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s10806-012-9377-z Authors Paul B. Thompson, WK Kellogg Professor of Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, 503 South Kedzie Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1032, USA Journal Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Online ISSN 1573-322X Print ISSN 1187-7863
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35The reshaping of conventional farming: A north american perspective (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14 (2): 217-229. 2001.Debates over the future of agriculture in North Americaestablish a dialectical opposition between conventional,industrial agriculture and alternative, sustainable agriculture.This opposition has roots that extend back to the 18th century inthe United States, but the debate has taken a number ofsurprising turns in the 20th century. Originally articulated as aphilosophy of the left, industrial agriculture has utilitarianmoral foundations. In the US and Canada, the articulation of analternative to …Read more
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43The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental EthicsUniversity Press of Kentucky. 2010.Agrarian political philosophies since ancient Greece stress the role of agriculture in forming political solidarity and civic virtue. More recent transformations suggest a way to conjoin these elements of what makes a polity politically sustainable with environmental sensitivity and literacy.
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