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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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Philosophy of Technology and the EnvironmentIn Stephen M. Gardiner & Allen Thompson (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2017.Four strands of research in the philosophy of technology have made important contributions to environmental philosophy. First, critical theory of technology emphasizes the environmentally exploitative tendencies of capitalist technological innovation. Second, phenomenologyhas examined how technologies shapeperception and orientation to the world with implications for our treatment of and regard for nature. Third, concurrent with the environmental movement itself, an empirical turn in philosophy …Read more
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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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Resilience as a systems concept, with an application to the American WestIn Kelly A. Parker & Heather E. Keith (eds.), Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience, Lexington Books. 2019.
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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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