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3Book Review: Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (review)Environmental Values 22 (6): 789-792. 2013.
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3A Field Guide to Climate Change: Understanding the ProblemsBroadview Press. 2024.This book is a guide for understanding climate change. The guide takes an interdisciplinary approach because climate change is simultaneously a matter of science, engineering, economics, politics, culture, ethics, and more. The guide thus follows the contours of climate change as it appears in the world—as a tangle of problems. It builds climate literacy as a form of problem-posing by offering a set of tools for understanding how problems get framed, debated, and resolved. Through developing cli…Read more
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63Ethics and Science: An IntroductionCambridge University Press. 2012.Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking, cogent argument and informed judgement. In this book, Adam Briggle and Carl Mitcham help readers t…Read more
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6The Professionalization of PhilosophyIn Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2022.This chapter offers a rough sketch of the history and sociology of public philosophy. For philosophy, the crucial historical period of professionalization in the US is roughly 1865–1920 and slightly earlier than that for Germany and some other European countries. The chapter discusses the pre‐disciplinary hodgepodge of philosophy and its public nature. Around the time of the founding of the American Philosophical Association in 1900, William James lamented the barriers being erected between the …Read more
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40Moralizing Technology (review)Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 16 (1): 85-88. 2012.
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18Thinking Through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy in the AnthropoceneSpringer Verlag. 2020.In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene. Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: changing sameness. From this perennial philosophical mystery, he argues that a high-energy civilization is bound to create more a…Read more
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Review of Inventing Nature: Ecological Restoration by Public (review)Environmental Ethics 27 (1): 333-334
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5Dialogue and Next Generation PhilosophyPrecollege Philosophy and Public Practice 1 75-88. 2019.In the sixteenth-century book Utopia, Thomas More argues that philosophers can play an effective role in the public sphere. This article builds from More’s argument to develop a theory of public philosophy centered on dialogue or rhetoric. It contrasts this public philosophy with the disciplinary form of philosophy that emerged in the twentieth century. The discipline constitutes philosophers as experts and limits them to a dialogue only with their peers. By contrast, public philosophers can be …Read more
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24Field Philosophy East and West: An Introduction to the Special IssueSocial Epistemology 35 (4): 337-344. 2020.Field philosophy is both a collaborative practice of engaged scholarship and a theory of knowledge that contrasts with the model of disciplinary knowledge production. I briefly describe the origins...
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The Policy Turn in the Philosophy of TechnologyIn Anthonie W. M. Meijers, Peter Kroes, Pieter E. Vermaas & Maarten Franssen (eds.), Philosophy of Technology After the Empirical Turn, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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24Beware of the Toll Keepers: The Ethics of Geoengineering EthicsEthics, Policy and Environment 21 (2): 187-189. 2018.At the origins of bioethics, Daniel Callahan argued that if these newfangled bioethicists were going to be useful to physicians and policymakers, they would need to offer something like a recipe fo...
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23Strawmen at the Symposium: A ResponsePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 48 (1): 80-94. 2018.In this essay, we reply to the five commentaries offered of our 2016 book, Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st Century Philosophy. We argue that, in a recursive fashion, those commentaries exemplify the thesis of our book – that contemporary philosophy has a blind spot concerning the philosophical priors of its status as an institution. That is, 20th and now 21st century philosophy has limited metaphilosophy to being an exclusively theoretical exercise, neglecting to also pursue a ‘philos…Read more
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7Retail Sanity, Wholesale MadnessPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 16 (1): 14-24. 2009.This paper looks at the question of sustainability through the prism of a collective action problem fundamentally driven by human desires and needs. It ftrst characterizes the problem of non-sustainability by combining environmental ethics with the philosophy of technology. The paper then considers four basic strategies for resolving the collective action problem: virtue, regulation, price, and innovation. Each solution has its own set of weaknesses and strengths, meaning that achieving sustaina…Read more
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25Opening the Black Box: The Social Outcomes of Scientific ResearchSocial Epistemology 28 (2): 153-166. 2014.No abstract
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18The Good Life in a Technological Age (edited book)Routledge. 2012.Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human well-being? Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of disciplines, this volume combines an empirical investigation of technology and its social, psychological, and political effects, and a philosophi…Read more
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28Three Schools of Thought on Freedom in Liberal, Technological SocietiesTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14 (3): 176-193. 2010.Are citizens of contemporary technological society authors of their own lives? With Alasdair MacIntyre, Bruno Latour and Albert Borgmann, we discuss the shortcomings of traditional liberalism in terms of its ability to answer this question. MacIntyre argues that biological vulnerabilities and social interdependencies establish meaningful parameters within which reason and willing emerge. But MacIntyre ignores technologies as a third parameter. Latour defines humans as nodes in a socio-technical …Read more
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58Philosophy in the Age of NeoliberalismSocial Epistemology 26 (3-4): 311-330. 2012.This essay argues that political, economic, and cultural developments have made the twentieth century disciplinary approach to philosophy unsustainable. It (a) discusses the reasons behind this unsustainability, which also affect the academy at large, (b) describes applied philosophy as an inadequate theoretical reaction to contemporary societal pressures, and (c) proposes a dedisciplined and interstitial approach??field philosophy??as a better response to the challenges facing the twenty-first …Read more
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19Representation in digital systemsIn P. Brey, A. Briggle & K. Waelbers (eds.), Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy, Ios Press. pp. 175--116. 2008.
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29The Institution of Philosophy: Escaping Disciplinary CaptureMetaphilosophy 47 (1): 26-38. 2016.Philosophers view themselves as critical thinkers par excellence. But they have overlooked the institutional arrangements that govern their lives. The early twentieth-century research university disciplined philosophers, placing them in departments, where they wrote for and were judged by their disciplinary peers. Oddly, this change has been unremarked upon, or has been treated as simply part of the necessary professionalization of an academic field of research. The department has been tacitly a…Read more
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40Media and communicationIn Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein & Carl Mitcham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, Oxford University Press. pp. 220. 2010.
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11Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy (edited book)IOS Press. 2008.The theme of this volume is the multi-faceted 'computational turn' that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. In computer and information sciences, there are significant conceptual and methodological questions that require reflection and analysis. Moreover, digital, information and communication technologies have had tremendous impact on society, which raises further philosophical questions. This book tries to facilitate the task to continuously wor…Read more
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10Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield International. 2015.This book diagnoses a crisis facing philosophy – and the humanities more broadly – and sketches a path toward institutionalizing socially engaged approaches to philosophical research.
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15Review of Fred Pearce, The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation (review)Environmental Values 25 (1): 118-120. 2016.
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