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15Smells like Team Spirit: A Response to Comments on The Spirit of the SoilEthics, Policy and Environment 22 (3): 259-266. 2019.The Spirit of the Soil was updated for its 2nd edition in 2017. Three comments on the update are addressed here. First, productionism was not intended as a explanation of farm management decision m...
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15A Social History of American Technology by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (review)Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4): 409-410. 2000.Book review, feminist history of technology
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14Agrarian Vision, Industrial Vision, and Rent-Seeking: A ViewpointJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (3): 391-400. 2020.Many public debates about the societal significance and impact of agriculture are usefully framed by Paul Thompson’s distinction between the “agrarian” and the “industrial vision.” The key argument of the present paper is that the ongoing debate between these visions goes beyond academic philosophy and has direct effects on the political economy of agriculture by influencing the scope of rent-seeking activities that are undertaken primarily in the name of the agrarian vision. The existence of re…Read more
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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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14Just before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Evolution. John Langdon BrooksIsis 77 (2): 352-353. 1986.
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14McDermott as a ColleagueThe Pluralist 15 (1): 95-97. 2020.Although I took one class with John McDermott at SUNY Stony Brook, I write as a colleague who came through the ranks under his mentorship at Texas A&M from 1980 to 1997, when I left College Station to assume the Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University. I came to Texas A&M during the transition from McDermott's term as the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities to the leadership of Professor Hugh McCann. It was a heady time in Central Texas, and especi…Read more
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14Food System Transformation and the Role of Gene Technology: An Ethical AnalysisEthics and International Affairs 35 (1): 35-49. 2021.The global food system exhibits dizzying complexity, with interaction among social, economic, biological, and technological factors. Opposition to the first generation of plants and animals transformed through rDNA-enabled gene transfer has been a signature episode in resistance to the forces of industrialization and globalization in the food system. Yet agricultural scientists continue to tout gene technology as an essential component in meeting future global food needs. An ethical analysis of …Read more
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11Evolutionary Ethics: Its Origin and Contemporary FaceZygon 34 (3): 473-484. 1999.The development of modern evolutionary ethics began shortly after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection. Early discussions were plagued by several problems. First, evolutionary ethical explanations were dependent on group‐selection accounts of social behavior (especially the explanation of altruism). Second, they seem to violate the philosophical principle that “ought” statements cannot be derived from “is” statements alone (values cannot be derivedfro…Read more
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10John Crowe Ransom: Land! The case for an agrarian economy: University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend, IN, 2017, 156 pp., ISBN 978-0-268-10193-0 (review)Agriculture and Human Values 34 (4): 1039-1041. 2017.
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10Ricardo Rozzi et al. (eds)., Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and PracticeEnvironmental Values 26 (4): 529-531. 2017.
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9Issues in Evolutionary Ethics (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1995.This book explores historical and current discussions of the relevance of evolutionary theory to ethics. The historical section conveys the intellectual struggle that took place within the framework of Darwinism from its inception up to the work of G. C. Williams, W. D. Hamilton, R. D. Alexander, A. L. Trivers, E. O. Wilson, R. Dawkins, and others. The contemporary section discusses ethics within the framework of evolutionary theory as enriched by the works of biologists such as those mentioned …Read more
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9Ethics in the Innovation Process: Some Unaddressed Issues for PragmatistsContemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2): 53-76. 2023.There are now dozens of proposals for integrating ethics into the early planning and assessment of technological innovation. This paper tracks some of Larry Hickman’s contributions to these trends. While Hickman’s suggestions could be incorporated into virtually many of the new proposals for integrating ethics into technological research, development and dissemination, barriers remain. In this paper, I will explores some reasons why the field remains fragmented, emphasizing weaknesses in the pra…Read more
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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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9Land and WaterIn Dale Jamieson (ed.), A Companion to Environmental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.This chapter contains sections titled: Threatened agro‐ecosystems The optimization approach Agricultural environmental ethics: a neglected topic The dogma of pristine nature The dogma of environmental impact Pristine nature and environmental impact: implications for land use The agrarian alternative Agrarian philosophy and environmental quality From agrarianism to sustainable land and water use.
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8Howard Markel, The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek: Pantheon Books, New York, 2017, 506 +pp. ISBN 978 03 07907271 (review)Agriculture and Human Values 35 (3): 737-738. 2018.Markel is a medical historian who produced this joint biography of John Harvey Kellogg and W.K. Kellogg
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8Richard Haynes and the early years of Agriculture and Human ValuesAgriculture and Human Values 40 (1): 45-48. 2023.Richard P. Haynes, founding editor of _Agriculture and Human Values_, was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florida. His personal interests in the environmental dimensions of agriculture led him to found the journal in the 1980s with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Later in life, he published on ethical treatment of lab and farm animals. Haynes understood _Agriculture and Human Values_ as a broadly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platfo…Read more
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8Book reviews (review)Agriculture and Human Values 3 (3): 41-80. 1986.My contribution is a review of Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic
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7Native Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 73-76. 2004.
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7Commodification and Secondary Rationalization. forthcoming.Commodification and Secondary Rationalization.
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7Narrative & Genre: Contexts and Types of CommunicationRoutledge. 1998.Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction to the Series -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Oral History as Genre -- 3. Silences -- 4. A Brazilian Worker's Autobiography in an Unexpected Form -- 5. Family Fables -- 6. Anecdote as Narrative Resource in Working-Class Life Stories -- 7. My Life as Consumer -- 8. Distant Homes, Our Genre -- 9. The Oral History Interview in a Cross-Cultural Setting -- 10. In the Archieve, In the …Read more
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7Uncertainty 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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7Of Cabbages and KingsPublic Affairs Quarterly 2 (1): 69-87. 1988.The paper provides an analysis and critique of views supporting the use of food policy and trade in foodstuffs to pursue geopolitical objectives.
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6Reflections (2 of 4): Discourse ethics for agricultural biotechnology: Its limits and its inevitability — A response to Jamieson (review)Science and Engineering Ethics 6 (2): 275-278. 2000.
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6Introduction to Food Justice and GovernanceIn Ian Werkheiser & Zachary Piso (eds.), Food Justice in Us and Global Contexts: Bringing Theory and Practice Together, Springer Verlag. pp. 165-170. 2017.Essay introducing other papers in the volume.
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6Need 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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5Book Review of Sarah Franklin, Dolly Mixtures (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (4): 385-388. 2008.
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5GmosIn Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 1003-1008. 2021.
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