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.
What I mean by technological ethics, I'm going to actually go back to a book that's not all that old in philosophical terms, I mean... you know, if it was ... if it was written you know, after you know, say 1000 AD, it's considered to be new in philosophical terms. You know our idea of old is you k...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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