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4The Ethics of Intensification: Agricultural Development and Cultural Chang (edited book)Springer. 2008.The Ethics of Agricultural Intensification: An Interdisciplinary and International Conversation Paul B. Thompson and John Otieno Ouko* Global agriculture faces a number of challenges as the world approaches the second decade of the third millennium. Predictions unilaterally indicate dramatic increases in world population between 2010 and 2030, and a trend in developing countries toward greater consumption of animal products could multiply the need for prod- tion of basic grains even further. Alt…Read more
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3Thoreau’s Living Ethics (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 33 (101): 29-35. 2005.
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2Conceptions of sustainability in livestock farmingLudus Vitalis 2 (UMERO ESPECIAL): 143-156. 1997.
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2Native Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 73-76. 2004.
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1Further Thoughts on Food FuturesIn Samantha Noll & Zachary Piso (eds.), Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food, Springer Verlag. pp. 185-206. 2023.Thompson provides commentary and reaction to other chapters in the book. It is organized as sections identified by the names of chapter authors. Thompson responds to chapters advancing new ideas in agriculture by indicating how he understands the authors’ analysis with respect to his own work. Chapters that address more philosophical dimensions of Thompson’s writings are addressed by clarifying the pragmatist orientation of Thompson’s thought. Michel Foucault’s metaethics is used as a basis for …Read more
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1Book review of Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth (review)Journal of Agricultural Ethics 2 (1): 69-71. 1989.This is a review of the first edition.
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1Author meets critics environmentalism, feminism, and agrarianism: Three isms in search of sustainable agricultureAgriculture and Human Values 15 (2): 170-176. 1998.
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1The agrarian roots of pragmatism / edited by Paul B. Thompson and Thomas C. Hilde (edited book)Vanderbilt University Press. 2000.The essays in this volume critically analyze and revitalize agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution in the classical American philosophy of key figures such as Franklin, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Dewey, and Royce.
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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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1Book review (review)Agriculture and Human Values 25 (1): 137-138. 2008.Review of the Handbook of Rural Studies
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The Agrarian Roots of PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2): 334-341. 2003.
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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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Animal agriculture and the welfare of animalsJournal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 226 (8): 1325-1327. 2005.
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Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2004). Reviewed by Paul B. Thompson, in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21(2008):297-301 (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21. 2008.
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Thompson, Paul B., Reviews of Albert Howard, The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic AgricultureJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 2008.
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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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Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary PrincipleJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10 351-354. 2001.
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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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The Ethics of Aid and Trade: U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social ContractCambridge University Press. 1992.The traditional military-territorial model of the nation state defines international duties in terms of protecting citizens' property from foreign threats. In this 1992 book about the principles of the US agricultural policy and foreign aid, Professor Thompson replaces this model with the notion of the trading state that sees its role in terms of the establishment of international institutions that stabilize and facilitate cultural and intellectual, as well as commercial, exchanges between natio…Read more
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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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Review of Hobbelink, Henk, Biotechnology and the Future of World Agriculture (review)Environmental Values 2 (1). 1993.
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The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental EthicsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 9. 1996.
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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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