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21This book is an easy to read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in research ethics and scientific integrity. It addresses questions about what constitutes appropriate academic and scientific behaviors from the point of view of what Robert Merton called the “ethos of science.” In other words, without getting into tricky questions about the nature of the good or right (as philosophers often do), Koepsell’s concise book provides an approach to behaving according to the norms of sci…Read more
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531Creating a Controlled Vocabulary for the Ethics of Human Research: Towards a biomedical ethics ontologyJournal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 4 (1): 43-58. 2009.Ontologies describe reality in specific domains in ways that can bridge various disciplines and languages. They allow easier access and integration of information that is collected by different groups. Ontologies are currently used in the biomedical sciences, geography, and law. A Biomedical Ethics Ontology would benefit members of ethics committees who deal with protocols and consent forms spanning numerous fields of inquiry. There already exists the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)…Read more
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17Philosophy and Breaking Bad (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.This volume considers the numerous philosophical ideas and arguments found in and inspired by the critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad. This show garnered both critical and popular attention for its portrayal of a cancer-stricken, middle-aged, middle-class, high school chemistry teacher’s drift into the dark world of selling methamphetamine to support his family. Its characters, situations, and aesthetic raise serious and familiar philosophical issues, especially related to ethics and morali…Read more
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The Ontology of CyberspaceDissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo. 1997."Cyberspace" is a term used commonly but without adequate definition. All computer-mediated phenomena may be said to comprise cyberspace. So far, no adequate ontology of cyberspace has been formulated. The law of intellectual property has attempted to fit computer-mediated phenomena into the current legal scheme. Currently, the law of intellectual property distinguishes between the subjects of patent law , and the subject of copyright law . The distinction embodied in the law of intellectual pro…Read more
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1Review of Brian Cantwell Smith's On the origin of objects (review)Philosophical Psychology 11 389-390. 1998.
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181Letter to the Editor: Dealing with socially constructed concepts in an ontologyJournal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 4 (2): 75-76. 2009.Response to the paper “The Biomedical Ethics Ontology Proposal: Excellent Aims, Questionable Methods" by James DuBois, published in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
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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 R. 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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16Who 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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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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