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 I turn finally to this topic of university-industry relationships and the role that scholarship in technological ethics might play. I want to suggest that the kind of work that scholars of technology ethics do has two advantages over the way that technological ethics is currently instantiated in...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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