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191Peter Hare and the problem of evilTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (1): 53-59. 2010.Peter Hare and Edward Madden's collaborative book Evil and the Concept of God (968) has become a staple in literature about the problem of evil and remains frequently cited by supporters and critics alike. The major concepts of the work arose out of earlier papers in which they first began to formulate their arguments about the problem of evil. Their article "Evil and Unlimited Power" embodies many of their arguments against quasi-theist attempts to resolve the problem of evil.1 Assembled from t…Read more
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19Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data: Preliminary QuestionsJournal of Evolution and Technology 16 (1): 151. 2007.
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Carl Menger and exact theory in the social sciencesIn Paul Kurtz & David Richard Koepsell (eds.), Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments?, Prometheus Books. pp. 332. 2007.
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3The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual PropertyOpen Court Publishing Company. 2000.
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6Respect My Religiositah!In Robert Arp & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!, Wiley. 2013.
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22Who Owns You?: The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your GenesWiley-Blackwell. 2009.You quite rightly need not fear being owned in the most traditional and reprehensible sense by which humans ... New and more subtle forms of ownership have emerged in the past hundred years that now impact on essential qualities and ...
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57Back to Basics: How Technology and the Open Source Movement Can Save ScienceSocial Epistemology 24 (3): 181-190. 2010.The recent debate arising from leaked emails from a UK-based research group working on the issue of climate change is another in a long string of historical lapses that periodically threatens public confidence in the institutions and methods of science. As with other similar events, it did not have to happen. What should concern us is that the accepted methods and practices of science have once again to be shown to be too easily set aside, ignored, or broken due to human frailties. Years of rese…Read more
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97An emerging ontology of jurisdiction in cyberspaceEthics and Information Technology 2 (2): 99-104. 2000.The emergence of the new information economy hascomplicated jurisdictional issues in commerce andcrime. Many of these difficulties are simplyextensions of problems that arose due to other media.Telephones and fax machines had already complicatedjurists'' determinations of applicable laws. Evenbefore the Internet, contracts were often negotiatedwithout any face-to-face contact – entirely bytelephone and fax. Where is such a contractnegotiated? The answer to this question is critical toany litigat…Read more
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50Peter Ludlow, ed., high noon on the electronic frontier: Conceptual issues in cyberspace (review)Minds and Machines 7 (3): 468-471. 1997.
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56Breaking bad and philosophy (edited book)Open Court. 2012.Breaking Bad, hailed by Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and many others as the best of all TV dramas, tells the story of a man whose life changes because of the medical death sentence of an advanced cancer diagnosis. The show depicts his metamorphosis from inoffensive chemistry teacher to feared drug lord and remorseless killer. Driven at first by the desire to save his family from destitution, he risks losing his family altogether because of his new life of crime. In defiance of the tradition t…Read more
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1Principals, agents, and the intersection between scientists and policy-makers: reflections on the H5N1 controversyFrontiers in Public Health 2 109. 2014.
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58On genies and bottles: Scientists' moral responsibility and dangerous technology r&dScience and Engineering Ethics 16 (1): 119-133. 2010.The age-old maxim of scientists whose work has resulted in deadly or dangerous technologies is: scientists are not to blame, but rather technologists and politicians must be morally culpable for the uses of science. As new technologies threaten not just populations but species and biospheres, scientists should reassess their moral culpability when researching fields whose impact may be catastrophic. Looking at real-world examples such as smallpox research and the Australian “mousepox trick”, and…Read more
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