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48The CRISPR Revolution in Genome Engineering: Perspectives from Religious EthicsJournal of Religious Ethics 50 (3): 333-360. 2022.This focus issue considers the normative implications of the recent emergence in genome editing technology known as CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) or CRISPR‐associated protein 9. Originally discovered in the adaptive immune systems of bacteria and archaea, CRISPR enables researchers to make efficient and site‐specific modifications to the genomes of cells and organisms. More accessible, precise, and economic than previous gene editing technologies, CRISPR hold…Read more
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20Between universalism and regionalism: universal systematics from imperial JapanBritish Journal for the History of Science 48 (4): 661-684. 2015.
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16Socially skilling toil: New artisanship in papermaking in late Chosŏn KoreaHistory of Science 57 (2): 167-193. 2019.In pre-modern Korea, paper was renowned for its white glossy surface and cloth-like strength, becoming an important item in both tributary exchanges and private trade. The unique material of the tak tree and related technical innovations, including toch’im, the repeated beating of just-produced paper that provides sizing and fulling effects, were crucial to this fame. However, the scholar-officials who integrated papermaking into the state production system in order to meet administrative and tr…Read more
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24Mutual Transformation of Colonial and Imperial Botanizing? The Intimate yet Remote Collaboration in Colonial KoreaScience in Context 29 (2): 179-211. 2016.ArgumentMutuality in “contact zones” has been emphasized in cross-cultural knowledge interaction in re-evaluating power dynamics between centers and peripheries and in showing the hybridity of modern science. This paper proposes an analytical pause on this attempt to better invalidate centers by paying serious attention to the limits of mutuality in transcultural knowledge interaction imposed by asymmetries of power. An unusually reciprocal interaction between a Japanese forester, Ishidoya Tsuto…Read more
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19Comparative Religious Ethics Among the RuinsJournal of Religious Ethics 42 (3): 571-584. 2014.This is a response to the recent essay by Elizabeth M. Bucar and Aaron Stalnaker on “Comparative Religious Ethics as a Field of Study.” I clarify my earlier positions on method and virtue in comparative religious ethics and try to respond to some of the issues that Bucar and Stalnaker raise in regard to my arguments specifically and the field more generally. I argue that while we need not measure the practical impact of scholarly work in comparative religious ethics purely in terms of political …Read more
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Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |