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    Risk, uncertainty, and rational action (edited book)
    Earthscan. 2001.
    Winner of the 2000-2002 outstanding publication award of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association.Risk as we now know ...
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    Shaking an invisible hand
    Complexity Economics 1 (1): 91-103. 2012.
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    COVID-19 heralds a new epistemology of science for the public good
    with Manfred D. Laubichler, Peter Schlosser, Jürgen Renn, Federica Russo, Gerald Steiner, Eva Schernhammer, and Guido Caniglia
    History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (2): 1-6. 2021.
    COVID-19 has revealed that science needs to learn how to better deal with the irreducible uncertainty that comes with global systemic risks as well as with the social responsibility of science towards the public good. Further developing the epistemological principles of new theories and experimental practices, alternative investigative pathways and communication, and diverse voices can be an important contribution of history and philosophy of science and of science studies to ongoing transformat…Read more
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    Ethics as rule systems: The case of genetically engineered organisms
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 37 (1). 1994.
    Like every major new technology, genetic engineering is affecting the hopes and fears of many people. The risks involved are perceived differently by different groups. One group regards genetic engineering as a simple extension of older techniques with no special risks, e.g. traditional breeding. This conservative denial of special risks is confronted with a different kind of conservatism from a group which, in the name of the preservation of nature, opposes any kind of genetic engineering. A th…Read more
  • Public Participation in Sustainability Science: A Handbook
    with Bernd Kasemir, Jill Jager, and Matthew T. Gardner
    Environmental Values 13 (3): 414-417. 2004.