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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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185Letter 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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27Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments? (edited book)Prometheus Books. 2007.This volume presents a unique collection of authors who generally maintain that science can help us make wise choices and that an increase in scientific knowledge can help modify our ethical values and bring new ethical principles into social awareness.
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6Reply to SungIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 25--164. 2014.
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112Human Participants in Engineering Research: Notes from a Fledgling Ethics CommitteeScience and Engineering Ethics 21 (4): 1033-1048. 2015.For the past half-century, issues relating to the ethical conduct of human research have focused largely on the domain of medical, and more recently social–psychological research. The modern regime of applied ethics, emerging as it has from the Nuremberg trials and certain other historical antecedents, applies the key principles of: autonomy, respect for persons, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice to human beings who enter trials of experimental drugs and devices :168–175, 2001). Institut…Read more
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Synthetic Biology and IP: How Do Definitions of “Products of Nature” Affect their Implications for Health?In Iñigo de Miguel Beriain Carlos María Romeo Casabona (ed.), Synbio and Human Health, . pp. 45-53. 2014.Currently, under the law of intellectual property, IP owners may exclude from use or production substances and processes that we would ordinarily consider to be products of nature. This has helped companies monopolize disease genes, and thus diagnostic testing for those diseases, and “biosimilar” products, pharmaceutical materials that mimic biological materials. Extending the current paradigm to the world of synthetic biology and nanotechnology will create further injustices in the delivery of …Read more
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41Let’s Get Small: An Introduction to Transitional Issues in Nanotech and Intellectual Property (review)NanoEthics 3 (2): 157-166. 2009.Much of the discussion regarding nanotechnology centers around perceived and prosphesied harms and risks. While there are real risks that could emerge from futuristic nanotechnology, there are other current risks involved with its development, not involving physical harms, that could prevent its full promise from being realized. Transitional forms of the technology, involving “microfab,” or localized, sometimes desk-top, manufacture, pose a good opportunity for case study. How can we develop leg…Read more
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185Peter 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 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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