Paul Thompson holds the W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He formerly held positions in philosophy at Texas A&M University and Purdue University. His research has centered on ethical and philosophical questions associated with agriculture and food, especially concerning the guidance and development of agricultural technoscience. This research focus has led him to undertake a series of projects on the application of recombinant DNA techniques to agricultural crops and food animals.
Paul Thompson reeived his undergraduate degree from Emory University and his Master's degree and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Scholarship on technological ethics is effective to the extent that it is public, meaning both that it is freely available for pure commentary and critique just as in the sciences but also that it both is and is seen as a nonstrategic activity that's aimed solely at disclosing the ethics researchers...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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