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6Respect My Religiositah!In Robert Arp & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
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51Back 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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91An 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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50Breaking 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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52On 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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14Copyright Genes, EmbryosIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 25--152. 2014.
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1Human Research Ethics Committees in Technical UniversitiesJournal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 9 (3): 67-73. 2014.Human research ethics has developed in both theory and practice mostly from experiences in medical research. Human participants, however, are used in a much broader range of research than ethics committees oversee, including both basic and applied research at technical universities. Although mandated in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, non-medical research involving humans need not receive ethics review in much of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Our survey o…Read more
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