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.
So with this conceptual argument let me just reiterate my claim that technological ethics are better established in private industry than in academic science. This is not to say that the mode of practice for technological ethics in the biotechnology industry is beyond criticism nor to imply that un...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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