Paul B. Thompson Department of Philosophy, 503 South Kedzie Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI48824-1032 (517) 432-0316 FAX (517) 432-1320 thomp649@msu.edu 1611 Osborn Road Lansing, MI48915 (517) 230 5821 Personal Data: Born July 22, 1951, Springfield, MO; Married March 28, 1975; 2 children. Education: Ph.D. 1980 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY - Philosophy Major Professor: Don Ihde Dissertation: The Concept of Risk M. A. 1979 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY - Philosophy B. A. 1974 Emory University – Major: Philosophy 1971 – 1973 Georgia Institute of Technology – Major: Mathematics 1969 – 1971 University of Northern Colorado – Major: Mathematics Diploma 1969 George Washington High School, Denver, CO Professional Experience: August 2022-Present: Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University August 2003-August 2022: Endowed Professor of Philosophy, Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics and Community Sustainability, Michigan State University July 1997 to August 2003: Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University. July 1999 to August 2003: Director, Center for Food Animal Productivity and Well-Being, Purdue University Sept. 1992 to July 1997: Professor of Philosophy and Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University Sept. 1990 to July 1997: Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics (formerly Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics), Institute for Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Sept. 1987 to Aug. 1992: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University Sept. 1986 to Aug. 1987: Visiting Scholar, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington D. C. Sept. 1982 to Aug. 1986: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University Sept. 1981 to June 1982: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University Sept. 1975 to June 1980: Graduate Council Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University Academic Honors: W. K. Kellogg Professor of Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Michigan State University, 2003-2022. European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics, Award for Distinguished Career Achievement 2021 2019 Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy, International Society for Environmental Ethics, William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, Michigan State University, Feb. 7, 2017. 2015 Book of the Year, North American Society for Social Philosophy, for From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone. The Don Ihde Prize, Distinguished Alumni Award for Career Achievement, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, December 2015. Richard P. Haynes Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Research, Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, June 2013. Fellow, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, 2000. Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Professor of Applied Ethics, Purdue University, 1997—2003. Yale University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Agrarian Studies, 1994-95. New Mexico State University, 1993-94 Visiting Distinguished Professor. American Agricultural Economics Association Award for Professional Excellence in Communication for Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes, 1993. American Agricultural Economics Association Award for Professional Excellence in Communication, for contributions to Agricultural Biotechnology: Issues and Choices, 1992. Maria Julia and George R. Jordan, Jr. Term Professorship in Public Policy, Texas A&M University, 1990-92. Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, 1986-87. National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Resources for the Future, Resident Fellow, 1986-87. State University of New York Doctoral Exchange Fellow, 1977-78. Stony Brook University Graduate Council Fellow, 1975-79. Related Experience: Ethicist, Animal Welfare Committee, American Veterinary Medical Association, 2021—. Foreign Director, National Center for Agricultural Ethics, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, 2019. Member, LEEDR Panel for Insect Allies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. Department of Defense, 2017. Member, External Advisory Board, Center for Genetics and Society, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2016. Member, Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, American Humane Association, 2012— Member, Animal Welfare Science Advisory Committee, United Egg Producers, 2004— Member, Board of Governors, Public Philosophy Network, 2018-2019. Member, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Working Group on Plant and Animal Productivity, 2017. Member, Board of Directors, RESOLVE, Washington, DC. 2011—2017. External Project Review, The Wellcome Trust, London, 2016. Member, Program Review Team, MA in Environmental Humanities, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 2015. Visiting Scholar, Center for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2011-2012. Member, External Advisory Board, International Barcode of Life (IBoL), University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, 2010—2015. Chair, Council on Agricultural Science and Technology Working Group on Ethics and Animal Agricultural Biotechnology, 2006—2010 Member, Advisory Committee on Biotechnology, Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. 2002—2010 Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, The Mansholt Graduate School, Wageningen University and Research Institute, The Netherlands, 1996—2010 Member, Science and Industry Advisory Committee, Genome Canada, 2004—2008 Member, Executive Committee, Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2006-2008; 2008-2010. Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Genome Alberta, 2005—2007 Member Scientific Advisory Committee, Genome Prairie Research Project, Alberta, Canada, 2002—2005. Member, Steering Committee, University of Texas Center on Sustainable Development, Austin, TX, 2002—2004 Consultant to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations on ethics and food safety, 2002. Member, Subcommittee on Environmental Consequences from Commercialization of Transgenic Crops, National Research Council, 2000—2001. Member, Council on Agricultural Science and Technology Task Force on Urban Agriculture, 2000—2001. Faculty, Foundation for American Communications Workshop, The Biotech Food Fight, April 28-30, 2000, Minneapolis, MN. Member, Ecological Standards Workgroup, Public Policy Dialog Committee, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, June 1997—May 1998. Member, U. S. Government Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee (ABRAC), October 1994 - January 1996. Graduate Faculty of the George Bush School for Public Leadership, Texas A&M University, 1996-97. Graduate Faculty, Speech Communication and Theater Arts, Texas A&M University, 1992-1997. Instructor and Associate Producer, AG*SAT course on Agricultural Ethics, interactive satellite broadcast, Spring 1992. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Ethics and International Relations, University of Virginia, 1993. Member, Council on Agricultural Science and Technology Task Force on Animal Well Being, 1991-97. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Consequentialism Participant, Syracuse University, 1988. Organizer and Coordinator, Curriculum and research workshops on ethics in agriculture at University of Florida, University of Kentucky, University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, Oregon State University, Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University, Texas A&M University, 1984-1998. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 1989-1990. Visiting Fellow, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau of Science & Technology, Office of Agriculture, Washington, DC. 1986 - 87. Member, Editorial Advisory Board: Environmental Values,2000-2006; Environmental Ethics, since 2007; Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, since 1988; Agriculture and Human Values, since 1985. Coordinator, Agriculture and Liberal Arts Project, Texas A&M University, 1985-1989. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Collective Responsibility Participant, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, 1983. Risk Quantification Consultant, Oconee Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Nuclear Safety Analysis Center and the Duke Power Company, Charlotte, NC, 1981. Writer and Producer for a pilot episode of a TV program to teach logic, Stony Brook University, 1979. Books and Monographs: P. B. Thompson. From Silo to Spoon: Local and Global Food Ethics. New York: 2024. Oxford University Press. P. B. Thompson and P. E. Norris, Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know New York: 2021, Oxford University Press. P. B. Thompson, Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective 3rd Ed. New York: 2020, Springer. P. B. Thompson and Kirill O. Thompson, Eds. Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective: A Transpacific Dialogue. New York and Dordrecht: 2018, Springer. P. B. Thompson, The Spirit of the Soil 2nd ed. New York and London: Routledge, 2017. P. B. Thompson, From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone New York: Oxford University Press, 2015: フィールドからフォークへ：すべての人のための食品倫理 (Japanese translation of From Field to Fork, 2020) P.B. Thompson and D. Kaplan, Eds. The Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics 3 volumes Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 2014. P. B. Thompson, The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010. P. B. Thompson, Ed. The Ethics of Intensification: Agricultural Development and Cultural Change. Dordrecht, NL: 2008, Springer. K. David and P. B. Thompson, Eds. What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology? Social and Ethical Lessons for Nanoscience from the Debate over Agrifood Biotechnology and GMOs. Burlington, MA: 2008, Academic Press. J. B. Callicott and R. Frodeman, Eds-in-Chief; V. Davion, B. Norton, C. Palmer and P. B. Thompson, Assoc. Eds. Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy Farmington Hills, MI: 2008, Gale-Cengage Learning. P. B. Thompson, Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective 2nd Edition, Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 2007. Arabic translation by Moustapha Kassem, and Wouter G. Werner, 2009. Committee on Environmental Impacts Associated with Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, (12 individuals). Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants: The Scope and Adequacy of Regulation. Washington, DC: 2002, The National Research Council. P. B. Thompson and T. C. Hilde, Eds. The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. Nashville, TN: 2000, Vanderbilt University Press. P. B. Thompson, Agricultural Ethics: Research, Teaching and Public Policy, Ames, IA: 1998, Iowa State University Press. P.B. Thompson, Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, London: 1997, Chapman and Hall (Blackie Academic and Professional). P.B. Thompson, The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, New York and London: 1995, Routledge Publishing Co. 〈土〉という精神 アメリカの環境倫理と農業 哲学・宗教 ポール・B・トンプソン(著), 太田 和彦(訳 | 訳) 発行：農林統計出版 (Japanese Translation 2017).. P.B. Thompson, R. Matthews, E.O. van Ravenswaay, Ethics, Public Policy, and Agriculture, New York: 1994, Macmillan. P.B. Thompson, The Ethics of Aid and Trade: U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition and the Social Contract, New York: 1992, Cambridge University Press. W. Browne, J. Skees, L. Swanson, P.B. Thompson, and L. Unnevehr, Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes: Agrarian Myths and Policy Realities, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992; republished 2019, New York: Routledge.. P.B. Thompson and B. A. Stout, Eds. Beyond the Large Farm: Ethics and Research Goals for Agriculture, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991; republished 2018, New York: Routledge. Refereed Journal Articles C. Kendig, T. Selfa, P. B. Thompson, R. Anthony, W. Bauchspies, G. Blue, A. Das, R. Harrison, C. Henke, S. Jin, J. Kuzma, F. Lipschitz, K. Richter, M. Ruelle, T. Silberg & B. Takahashi, “The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology,” Journal of Responsible Innovation 11(2024):1, DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2024.2304383 P. B. Thompson, “Ethics in the Innovation Process: Some Unaddressed Issues for Pragmatists,” Contemporary Pragmatism (2023) Online First: doi:10.1163/18758185-bja10062 P. B. Thompson, “Richard Haynes and the early years of Agriculture and Human Values,” Agriculture and Human Values 40 (2023): 45-48, Online ttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10379-2 P. B. Thompson, “Food System Transformation and the Role of Gene Technology: An Ethical Analysis,” Ethics and International Relations 35(2021): 35-49. P. B. Thompson, L. Thorp, B. L. Ginsberg, T.M. Zivku, and M. Benjamin, “Early Ethical Assessment: An Application to the Sustainability of Swine Body Scanners,” Sustainability 13 (2021): 14003. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132414003 A. Thompson, C. Wolf, E. Brister & P. Thompson. “Author Meets Critics: Paul Thompson, The Spirit of the Soil, 2nd Ed.”, Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2021: DOI:10.1080/21550085.2021.1904528 P. B. Thompson. “Pragmatism in a Post-Truth Era,” Pragmatism Today 12(2021): 88-99. P. B. Thompson, “Philosophical Ethics and the Improvement of Farmed Animal Lives,” Animal Frontiers 10 (2020): 21-28. Open access at:https://academic.oup.com/af/article/10/1/21/5699798?guestAccessKey=8903cab8-0558-4b24-8e30-09a28dede9c5 P. B. Thompson, “One Bioethics for COVID-19?” Agriculture and Human Values 37 (2020): 619-620. J. Jauernig, I. Pies, P. B. Thompson, and V. Valentinov. "Agrarian Vision, Industrial Vision, and Rent-Seeking: A Viewpoint." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (2020): 391-400. P. B. Thompson. "Reflexivity in Jaeggi’s Critique of Forms of Life." Social Philosophy Today 36 (2020): 211-221. P. B. Thompson, “Smells Like Team Spirit: A Response to Comments on The Spirit of the Soil,” Ethics Policy and the Environment. 22 (2019): 259–266, https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2019.1652236 K. H. Meagher & P. B. Thompson, “Before We Make a Pig’s Ear of It: How North Carolina Hog-Farming Nuisance Suits Provide a Context for the Ethics of Gene Editing,” North Carolina Law Review 97(2019): 1273-1328. Z. Piso, R. Boisvert, L. Heldke, E. McKenna, P. Sandin, G. Van Wieren, and P. B. Thompson, “A Critical Conversation,” Public Philosophy Journal 2 (2019): https://publications.publicphilosophyjournal.org/record/?issue=6-18-224799&kid=6-15-224800 P.B. Thompson, “The Role of Ethics in Gene Drive Research and Governance,” Journal of Responsible Innovation 5(2018): S159-S179. D. Lake and P. Thompson, “Philosopher-As-Liaison? Lessons from Sustainable Knowledge and American Philosophy,” Dewey Studies 2 (2018): 10-41. J.A. Buckley, P. B. Thompson and K. P. Whyte, “Collingridge’s Dilemma and the Early Ethical Assessment of Emerging Technology: The Case of Nanotechnology Enabled Biosensers,” Technology in Society 48 (2017): 54-63. P. B. Thompson, “Analytic and Pragmatist Food Ethics: Method and Approach,” Pragmatism Today 8 (2017) No. 2, pp 10-23, Available at: http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/winter2017/Analytic-vs-Pragmatist-Food-Ethics-Method-and-Approach-Paul-B-Thompson.pdf P.B. Thompson, “From Field to Fork and on to Philosophy: Response to Commentators,” Social Philosophy Today 33 (2017): 225-232. P. B. Thompson, “And Don't Forget Food Ethics,” The American Journal of Bioethics, 17(2017):9, 22-24, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2017.1353168 P. B. Thompson, “The Emergence of Food Ethics, Food Ethics 1 (2016):61-74. P. B. Thompson, “Machines, Watersheds and Sustainability,” The Pluralist 11 (2016): 110-116. P. B. Thompson, “From World Hunger to Food Sovereignty: Food Ethics and Human Development,” Journal of Global Ethics 11 (2015): 336-350. P. B. Thompson “From Synthetic Bioethics to One Bioethics: A Reply to Critics,” Ethics, Policy & Environment, 18(2015):2, 215-224 P. B. Thompson, “Agricultural Ethics—Then and Now,” Agriculture and Human Values 32 (2015): 77-85. P. B. Thompson & M. List, “Ebola Needs One Bioethics,” Ethics, Policy and the Environment 18 (2015): 96-102. P. B. Thompson, J.V. Stone and L M. Busch. “Standards Education in the Liberal Arts: Curricular Materials and Educational Strategies,” Standards Engineering 67(4) [2015]: 12-15. P. B. Thompson, “Dan Bromley, 2014 Coss Dialogs Invited Speaker,” The Pluralist 10 (2015): 1-5. P. B. Thompson, “The GMO Quandary and What It Means for Social Philosophy,” Social Philosophy Today 30 (2014): 7-27. L. Goralnik, L. Thorp, D. Rozeboom & P. Thompson, “Storytelling Morality: Ecofeminism, Agrarianism and Pigs in the Field,” The Trumpeter 30(2014): 15-32. P. Sandin, E. Mårald, A. Davison, D. E. Nye & P. B. Thompson, “Book Symposium on The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics by Paul B. Thompson,” Philosophy & Technology 26 (2013): 301-320. P. B. Thompson, "Environmentalism and Posthumanism," Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 21, No. 2 (2013): 63-73. P. B. Thompson, “Synthetic Biology Needs a Synthetic Bioethics,” Ethics, Policy and Environment 15 (2012): 1-20. P. B. Thompson, “Ethics and Risk Communication,” Science Communication 34 (2012): 618-641. K. P. Whyte and P. B. Thompson, “Ideas for How to Take Wicked Problems Seriously,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25(2012): 441-445. P. B. Thompson and K. P. Whyte, “What Happens to Environmental Philosophy in a Wicked World?” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25(2012): 485-498. J. C. Swanson, Y. Lee, P. B. Thompson, R. Bawden and J. A. Mench, “Integration: Valuing Stakeholder Input in Setting Priorities for Socially Sustainable Egg Production,” Poultry Science 90(2012): 2110-2121. P. B. Thompson, “The Agricultural Ethics of Biofuels: The Food vs. Fuel Debate,” Agriculture 2 (2012): 339-358; doi:10.3390/agriculture2040339 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/2/4/339 P. B. Thompson, “Re-Envisioning the Agrarian Ideal,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25(2012): 553-562. P. B. Thompson, “The Agricultural Ethics of Biofuels: Climate Ethics and Mitigation Arguments,” Poesis & Praxis: The International Journal of Technology Assessment and Ethics of Science Open Access DOI (2012): 10.1007/s10202-012-0105-6. P. B. Thompson, “"There’s an App for That": Technical Standards and Commodification by Technological Means,” Philosophy and Technology 25(2012): 87-103. E. Selinger, P. Thompson and H. Collins, “Catastrophe Ethics and Activist Speech: Reflections on Moral Norms, Advocacy and Technical Judgment,” Metaphilosophy 42(2011): 118-144. J. C. Swanson, J. A. Mench and P. B. Thompson, “Introduction—The Socially Sustainable Egg Production Project,” Poultry Science 90(2011): 227-228. doi:10.3382/ps.2010-01266 P. B. Thompson, M. Appleby, L. Busch, L. Kalof, M. Miele, B. F. Norwood, and E. Pajor. “Values and public acceptability dimensions of sustainable egg production,” Poultry Science 90(2011): 2097-2109. doi: 10.3382/ps.2010-0138 P. B. Thompson, “Food Aid and the Famine Relief Argument (Brief Return),” The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 23(2010): 209-227. P. B. Thompson, “Animal Ethics and Public Expectations: The North American Outlook,” Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 37(2010): 13-21. P. B. Thompson, “Why Using Genetics to Address Welfare May Not Be a Good Idea,” Poultry Science 89(2010): 814-821. K. P. Whyte and P. B. Thompson, “A Role for Ethical Analysis in Social Research on Agrifood and Environmental Standards,” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 25(3), 2010: 79-98. B. J. Deaton, L. Busch, W. J. Samuels and P. B. Thompson, “A Note On The Economy Of Utilities: Attributing Production Practices To Agricultural Practices,” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 25(3), 2010: 99-110. P. B. Thompson, “The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem,” NanoEthics 2(2008): 305-316; Republished In Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future, Sean A. Hays, Jason Scott Robert, Clark A. Miller and Ira Bennett, eds. Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 2013, pp. 247-263. P. B. Thompson, “Agrarian Philosophy and Ecological Ethics,” Science and Engineering Ethics 14(2008): 527-544. P. B. Thompson, “The Agricultural Ethics of Biofuels: A First Look,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21(2008): 183-198; republished in The Ethics of Nanotechnology, Geoengineering and Clean Energy, A. Maynard and J. Stilgoe, eds. New York: 2017, Routledge, pp. 419-434. W. Hannah and P. B. Thompson, “Nanotechnology, Risk and the Environment: A Review,” Journal of Environmental Monitoring 10(2008): 291-300. P. B. Thompson and W. Hannah. “Food and Agricultural Biotechnology: A Summary and Analysis of Ethical Concerns,” Advances in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology 111(2008): 229-264. P. B. Thompson, “Current Ethical Issues in Animal Biotechnology,” Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 20 (2008): 67–73. P. B. Thompson, “Animal Biotechnology: How Not to Presume,” The American Journal of Bioethics, 8:6, (2008) 49-50. DOI: 10.1080/15265160802248278.URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265160802248278 P. B. Thompson, “Borgmann on Commodification: A Comment on Real American Ethics,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (2008): 75-84, (published with a reply by Borgmann, pp. 85-96). A. J. Knight, M. R. Worosz, M. K. Lapinski, T. A. Ten Eyck, C. K. Harris, L. D. Bourquin, T. M. Dietz, P. B. Thompson, and E. C. Todd. “Consumer Perceptions of the Food Safety System: Implications for Food Safety Educators and Policy Makers.”  Food Protection Trends 28(6) (2008): 27-32. P. B. Thompson, “Theorizing Technological and Institutional Change: Alienability, Rivalry and Exclusion Cost,” Technè 11(1) (Fall 2007): 19-31. P. B. Thompson, “Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not,” International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 5 (2007): 5-16; reprinted in J. Pretty, Sustainable Agriculture and Food, v. VI, London: 2008, Earthscan https://ia802303.us.archive.org/5/items/eco-18/ECO18.pdf P. B. Thompson, “Agriculture and Working-Class Political Culture: A Lesson from The Grapes of Wrath,” Agriculture and Human Values 24 (2007): 165-177. P. B. Thompson, C. Harris, D. Holt and E.A. Pajor. “Livestock Welfare Product Claims: The Emerging Social Context,” Journal of Animal Science 85 (2007): 2354—2361. P. B. Thompson, “Norton’s Sustainability: Some Comments on Risk and Sustainability,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 20(2007): 375-386 (published with a Reply by Norton, pp. 387-405). P. B. Thompson, “Mark Sagoff’s Kantian Environmental Philosophy,” Ethics, Place and Environment 9(2006): 344-350 (published with a Reply from Sagoff, pp. 365-372). P. B. Thompson, “Should We Have GM Crops?” Santa Clara Journal of International Law 4(2006): 75-95. P. B. Thompson, “Ecological Risks of Transgenic Crops: A Framework for Assessment and Conceptual Issues,” Sustainability in Agriculture, R.E. Hester and R. M. Harrison, Eds. Issues in Environmental Science and Toxicology, Vol. 21, Cambridge, UK: 2005, Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 16-30. P. B. Thompson, “Animal Agriculture and the Welfare of Animals,” Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 226(2005): 1325-1327. L. L. Wolfenbarger, D. A. Andow, A. Hilbeck, T. Nickson, F. Wu, P. B. Thompson and K. Ammann. “GE Crops: Balancing Predictions of Promise and Peril,” Frontiers in Ecology 2(2004): 154-160. P. B. Thompson, “Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons: The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops,” Plant Physiology 132(2003): 10-16. http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/132/1/10 Republished in Maarten J. Chrispeels, Ed. Agricultural Ethics in a Changing World. Rockville, MD: 2004, American Society of Plant Biologists, pp. 40-46; Republished in Craig Hanks, Technology and Values: Essential Readings Malden, MA: 2010, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 347-355. K.K. Schillo and P. B. Thompson, “Postmodernism for Animal Scientists,” Journal of Animal Science 80(E. Suppl. 2)[2003]: E189-E194. P. B. Thompson, “Crossing Species Boundaries Is Even More Controversial than You Think,” The American Journal of Bioethics 3(3)[2003]: 14-15. P. B. Thompson, “The Reshaping of Conventional Farming: A North American Perspective,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14 (2001): 217-229. P. B. Thompson, “Risk, Consent and Public Debate: Some Preliminary Considerations for the Ethics of Food Safety,” International Journal of Food Science and Technology36 (2001): 833-843. P. B. Thompson, “Animal Welfare and Livestock Production in a Postindustrial Milieu,” Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 4(3) [2001]: 191-205. P. B. Thompson, “Privacy, Secrecy and Security,” Ethics and Information Technology 3(2001): 13-19. P. B. Thompson, “Grades and Standards in the Context of International Trade: Some Ethical Considerations,” Cahiers d’Economie et SociologieRurales 55-56(2000): 53-70. P. B. Thompson, “Food and Agricultural Biotechnology: Ethical Issues behind the Research Choices,” The IPTS Report, 50 (December 2000): (Simultaneously published in English, French, Spanish and German). P. B. Thompson, “Thinking about Thinking About Technology,”Techné: Technology in Culture and Concept 5(1): 44-53 (Fall 2000). http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/ A. A. Schmid and P.B. Thompson, “Against Mechanism: Methodology for an Evolutionary Economics,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:1160-1165 (1999). P. B. Thompson, “The Ethics of Truth-Telling and the Problem of Risk,” Science and Engineering Ethics 5(4)[1999]: 489-511. P. B. Thompson and A. Nardone, “Sustainable Livestock Production: Methodological and Ethical Challenges,” Livestock Production Science 61(1999): 111-119. P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues in Livestock Cloning,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 11(1999): 197-217. P. B. Thompson, "From a Philosopher's Perspective, How Should Animal Scientists Meet the Challenge of Contentious Issues?" Journal of Animal Science 77(1999): 372-377. D. M. Vietor, P. B. Thompson, M. L. Wolfe and David Jones. “UD-R-ALL Dairy: A Decision Case about Dairy Expansion,” Journal of Natural Resources and Life Science Education 28 (1999): 9-16. P. B. Thompson, “Have Americans Accepted Food Biotechnology?” Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues Third Quarter 1998, 31-33. H. O. Kunkel, P. B. Thompson, B. A. Miller, and C. L. Skaggs, “Use of Competing Conceptions of Risk in Animal Agriculture,” Journal of Animal Science 76(1998): 706-713. P. B. Thompson, “Technological Controversies,” Research in Philosophy and Technology 17(1998):303-306. P. B. Thompson, “Food Biotechnology’s Challenge to Cultural Integrity and Individual Consent,” Hastings Center Report, 27(4): 34-38 (July-August 1997). P. B. Thompson, “Ethics and the Genetic Engineering of Food Animals,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10(1997): 1-23. P. B. Thompson, “Science Policy and Moral Purity: The Case of Animal Biotechnology,” Agriculture and Human Values 14(1997): 11-27; Republished in David Kaplan, Ed. Readings in the Philosophy of Technology 2nd Ed. Totowa, NJ: 2009, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. . W. E. Grant and P. B. Thompson, “Integrated Ecological Models: Simulation of Socio-cultural Constraints on Ecological Dynamics,” Ecological Modeling 100(1997): 43-59. P. B. Thompson, “Sustainability as a Norm,” Techné: Technology in Culture and Concept 2(2): 75-94 (Winter 1997). https://doi.org/10.5840/techne19972230 P. B. Thompson and W. E. Dean, “Competing Conceptions of Risk,” Risk: Health, Safety and Environment 7(4): 361-384, (1996). P. B. Thompson, “Food Labels and the Ethics of Consent,” Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues First Quarter 1996, 11-13. P. B. Thompson, “Conceptions of Property and the Biotechnology Debate,” Bioscience 45(4): 275-282, April 1995. D. M. Vietor, J. M. Chandler, P. B. Thompson, and M. L. Kitchersid. “Should Public Funds Support Biotechnology Development? A Case About Herbicide Resistant Cotton,” Journal of Natural Resources and Life Science Education. 24(1995): 173-178. P.B. Thompson, “Animals in the Agrarian Ideal,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 6 (special supplement 1): 36-49, (1993). P.B. Thompson, “Genetically Modified Animals: Ethical Issues,” Journal of Animal Science 7(3): 51-56, (1993). P.B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues Facing the Food Industry,” Journal of Food Distribution Research (February): 12-22, (1993). P.B. Thompson, “The Varieties of Sustainability,” Agriculture and Human Values 9(4):11-19, (1992). P.B. Thompson and D.N. Kutach, “Agricultural Ethics in Rural Education,” Peabody Journal of Education, 67(4): 131-153, (1990), Published 1992. P.B. Thompson, “Designing Animals: Ethical Issues for Genetic Engineers,” Journal of Dairy Science, 75:2294-2303, (1992). P.B. Thompson, “Reply to Valverde,” Risk: Issues in Health and Safety, 1(3): 49-57, (1992). P.B. Thompson, “Agrarianism and the American Philosophical Tradition,” Agriculture and Human Values 7(1): 3-8, (1990). P.B. Thompson, “Agricultural Ethics and Economics,” Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, 42(1):3-7, (1990). P.B. Thompson, “Risk Subjectivism and Risk Objectivism: When Are Risks Real?” Risk: Issues in Health and Safety, 1(1): 3-19, (1990). P.B. Thompson, “Values and Food Production,” The Journal of Agricultural Ethics, 2:209-223, (1989). P.B. Thompson, “Agriculture, Biotechnology, and the Political Evaluation of Risk,” Policy Studies Journal, 17(1): 97-108, (1988). H. O. Kunkel and P.B. Thompson, “Interests and Values in National Nutrition Policy in the United States,” The Journal of Agricultural Ethics, 1(4): 241-256 (1988). P.B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues in Agriculture: The Need for Recognition and Reconciliation,” Agriculture and Human Values, 5(4):4-15 (1988). P.B. Thompson, “Of Cabbages and Kings,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 2(1): 69-88, (1988); reprinted in Ethics and Agriculture, Charles V. Blatz, ed. (Moscow: 1991, Idaho University Press), 577-584. P.B. Thompson, “Ethics in Agricultural Research,” The Journal of Agricultural Ethics, 1(1): 11-20, (1988). P.B. Thompson, “Agricultural Biotechnology and the Rhetoric of Risk: Some Conceptual Issues,” The Environmental Professional, 9:316-326 (1987). P.B. Thompson, “Collective Action and the Analysis of Risk,” Public Affairs Quarterly 1(2):23-42 (1987). P. Madden and P.B. Thompson, “Ethical Perspectives on Changing Agricultural Technology in the United States,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, 3(1): 85-116 (1987). P.B. Thompson, “The Social Goals of Agriculture,” Agriculture and Human Values 3(4): 32-42 (1986). P.B. Thompson, “The Philosophical Foundations of Risk,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 24:273-286 (1986). P.B. Thompson, “Uncertainty Arguments in Environmental Issues,” Environmental Ethics, 8(1): 59-75 (1986). P.B. Thompson, “Collective Responsibility and Professional Roles,” The Journal of Business Ethics, 5:151-154 (1986). P.B. Thompson, “Risking or Being Willing: Hamlet and the DC-10,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, 19:301-310 (1985). P.B. Thompson, “Need and Safety: The Nuclear Power Debate,” Environmental Ethics, 6(1): 57-69 (1984). P.B. Thompson, “Two Types of Practical Philosophy,” Philosophy In Context, 13:9-16 (1983). P.B. Thompson, “Risk, Ethics and Agriculture,” The Journal of Environmental Systems, 13:137-155 (1983-84); also published in R. Haynes & R. Lanier, Eds. Agriculture, Change and Human Values (Gainesville, FL: 1983, The Agriculture and Humanities Program) 528-548. P.B. Thompson, “What Philosophers Can Learn From Agriculture,” Agriculture and Human Values, 1(2): 17-19 (1984). P.B. Thompson, “Ellul on Technology,” Cross Currents 33(2): 33-42 (1983). P.B. Thompson, “Privacy and the Urinalysis Testing of Athletes,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 9:60-65 (1982); reprinted in Philosophic Inquiry in Sport, W. J. Morgan and K. V. Meier, eds. (Champaign, IL: 1988, Human Kinetics Publishers), 313-318. P.B. Thompson, “Bolzano’s Deducibility and Tarski’s Logical Consequence,” History and Philosophy of Logic, 2:11-20 (1981). Book Chapters and Invited Papers: P. B. Thompson, “Food Systems in the Anthropocene: Some Philosophical Reflections,” in Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Contested Knowledge and the Need for Change, A. M. Loconto and D. H. Constance, eds. London: 2024, Sage, pp. 37-43. P. B. Thompson, “Further Thoughts on Food Futures,” in Paul B. Thompson’s Philosophy of Agriculture, S.Noll and Z. Piso, eds. Cham, CH: 2023, Springer, pp. 185-206/ P. B. Thompson, “What Is Agricultural Ethics, and Why Does It Matter?” in Key Issues in Agricultural Ethics, R.L. Zimdahl, ed. Cambridge, UK: 2023, Burleigh-Dodds Publishing, pp. 3-20. P. B. Thompson, “How We Got to Now: Why the U.S. and Europe Went Different Ways on GMOs,” in The Conversation on Biotechnology, M. Zimmer, ed. Baltimore, MD: 2023, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 76-85; P. B. Thompson, “The Vanishing Ethics of Husbandry,” in The Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-Existing with Animals in the Anthropocene, B. Bovenkerk and J. Keulartz, eds. Cham, CHE: 2021, Springer, pp. 203-221. P. B. Thompson, “Field Philosophy in an Actual Field,” in A Guide to Field Philosophy: Case Studies and Practical Strategies, E. Brister and R. Frodeman, eds. New York: 2020, Routledge, pp. 285-297. P. B. Thompson, “Primary Agricultural Production: Crops and Farmers, in Feeding the World Well: A Framework for Ethical Food Systems, A. M. Goldberg, ed. Baltimore: 2020, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 175-185. P. B. Thompson and J. L. Talley, “Resilience as a Systems Concept, with an Application to the American West,” in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience, K. A. Parker and H. E. Keith, eds. Lanham, MD: 2020, Lexington Books, pp. 195-212. P.B. Thompson, “Ihde’s Pragmatism,” in Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde, G. Miller and A. Shew, eds. New York: 2020, Springer, pp 43-62. P. B. Thompson, “Emerging (Food) Technology as an Environmental and Philosophical Issue in the Era of Climate Change,” in Food, Environment and Climate Change: Justice at the Intersections, E. Gilson and S. Kenehan, eds. Lanham, MD: 2019, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 195-212. Jauernig, J., I. Pies, P. B. Thompson, and V. Valentinov. "Theorizing agriculture-society tensions: an ordonomic approach to the agrarian vision." In Sustainable Governance and Management of Food Systems: Ethical Perspectives, E. Vinnari and M. Vinnari, eds. Wageningen, NL: 2019, Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 634-657. P. B. Thompson, “Communicating Science-Based Information about Risk: How Ethics Can Help,” in Ethics and Practice in Science Communication, S. Priest, J. Goodwin and M. F. Dahlstrom, eds. Chicago: 2018, University of Chicago Press, pp. 34-54. P.B. Thompson, “Sustainable Intensification as a Sociotechnical Imaginary,” in Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System, D. Constance, J. Konefal and M. Hatenaki, Eds. London: 2018, Earthscan, pp. 42-58. P. B. Thompson, “Norton and Sustainability as Such,” in A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton, S. Sarkar and B.A. Minteer, Eds. New York: 2018, Springer, pp. 7-26. P. B. Thompson, “Animal Ethics: Probing the Philosophical Issues,” in Advances in Agricultural Animal Welfare, J. Mench, Ed. Cambridge, MA: 2018, Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier, pp. 51-67. P.B. Thompson, “Plant Risks: Can Risk Assessment Accommodate ‘Cultural Services’,” in Plant Ethics: Concepts and Applications, A. Kallhoff, M. DiPaola and M. Schörgenhumer, Eds. Oxon, UK: 2018, Routledge, pp. 152-163. P. B. Thompson, “Agrarian Environmental Philosophy in an Inter-cultural Context,” in Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Prespective: A Transpacific Dialogue, P. B. Thompson and K. O. Thompson, Eds., New York and Dordrecht, NL: 2018, Springer, pp. 1-11. P. B. Thompson, “Resistance to Risky Technology; When Are Our Environmental Fears Justified?” in Philosophy, Technology and the Environment, D. Kaplan, Ed. Cambridge, MA: 2017, The MIT Press, pp. 63-80. P. B. Thompson, “Food Security and Food Sovereignty,” in Food, Ethics and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings, A. Barnhill, M. Budolfson, and T. Doggett, Eds. New York: 2017, Oxford University Press, pp. 160-164. (Reprinted selection of From Field to Fork). P. B. Thompson, “Introduction to Food Justice and Governance,” in Food Justice in U.S. and Global Contexts: Bringing Theory and Practice Together, I. Werkheiser and Z. Piso, eds. New York and Dordrecht, NL: 2017, Springer, pp. 165-170. P. B. Thompson, “The Many Meanings of Sustainability: A Competing Paradigms Approach,” in Pragmatic Sustainability: Dispositions for Critical Adaptation, 2nd Ed. Steven A. Moore, Ed. Abingdon, Oxon UK and New York: 2016, Routledge, pp. 16-28. P.B. Thompson, Risks and ethics in the context of food nanotechnology and the delivery of bioactive ingredients, in Nanotechnology and Functional Foods: Effective Delivery of Bioactive Ingredients, C. Sabilov, H. Chen and R. Yada, eds. Oxford: 2015, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 318-330. I. Werkheiser, S. Tyler and P. B. Thompson, “Food Sovereignty: Two Conceptions of Food Justice,” in Just Food: Philosophy, Justice and Food, J. M. Dieterle, Ed. New York: 2015, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 71-86. P. B. Thompson, “Thomas Jefferson’s Land Ethics,” in Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson’s Writings, M. A. Holowchak, ed. Lanham, MA: 2014, Lexington Books, pp. 61-77. P. B. Thompson, “Ethics and Equity,” in Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation, K. Ludlow S.J. Smyth and J. Falck-Zepeda, eds. Dordrecht, NL: 2014, Springer, pp. 97-107. K.P. Whyte, P. B. Thompson, M. List, L. Busch, J. V. Stone, D. Buskirk, D. Grooms, E. Giordia, S. Gasteyer and H. Bouri. “Uberveillance, Standards and Anticipation: A Case Study of Nanobiosensers in Cattle,” in Uberveilance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies, M.G. Michael and K. Michael, eds. Hershey, PA: 2014, IGI Global, pp. 260-279. P. B. Thompson, “Artificial Meat,” in Ethics and Emerging Technologies, R. L. Sandler, ed. New York: 2014, Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 516-530. P. B. Thompson, “Conceptualizing Fairness in the Context of Competition: Philosophical Sources,” in The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition, Harvey S. James, ed. Dordrecht, NL: 2013, Springer, pp. 23-36. P. B. Thompson, “Is Sustainability Worth Debating?” in Debating Science: Deliberation, Values and the Common Good, D. Scott and B. Francis, eds. Amherst, NY: 2012, Harmony Books, pp. 133-146. P. B. Thompson, “Nature Politics and the Philosophy of Agriculture,” in The Philosophy of Food D. Kaplan, ed., Berkeley, CA: 2012, University of California Press, pp. 214-232. B. E. Rollin and P. B. Thompson, “Perspectives on Emergence of Contemporary Animal Agriculture in the Mid-twentieth Century: The Decline of Husbandry and the Rise of the Industrial Model,” in Animal Welfare in Animal Agriculture: Husbandry Stewardship, and Sustainability in Animal Production, W.G. Pond, F. W. Bazer and B. E. Rollin, eds. Boca Raton, FL: 2012, CRC Press, pp. 3-12. P. B. Thompson, “Perspective: The Ethics of Risk Communication for Nanotechnology,” in Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perception and Risk Communication, S. Priest. Boca Raton, FL: 2012, CRC Press, pp. 171-183. P. B. Thompson, “The Farmers: The Agrarian Critique of Industrial Agriculture,” in Designer Animals: Mapping the Issues in Animal Biotechnology, C. G. Brunk and S. Hartley, eds. Toronto, ON: 2012, University of Toronto Press, pp. 98-124. P.B. Thompson and W. Hannah, “Novel and Normal Risk: Where Does Nanotechnology Fit In?” in Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters? What Really Works? D. Schmitz and E. Willett, eds. New York: 2012, Oxford University Press, 609-622. P. B. Thompson, “Understanding and Coping with Social Risk in Emerging Technology Risk Assessment,” in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment: Minding and Managing the Potential Threats Around Us, S. Ripp and T. B. Henry, eds. New York: 2011, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-16. P. B. Thompson, “The Ethics of Soil: Stewardship, Motivation and Moral Framing,” in T. J. Sauer, J. M. Norman, and M. V. K. Sivakumar, eds. Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Ethics 2011, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, pp. 31-42. R. Bennett and P. Thompson, “Economics,” in Animal Welfare 2nd Ed. M.C. Appleby, J. A. Mench, I A. S. Olsson and B. O. Hughes, eds. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: 2011, CAB International, pp. 279-290; revised and updated in Animal Welfare, 3rd Ed. M.C. Appleby, I. A. S. Olsson and F. Galindo, eds. Walingford, Oxfordshire, UK: 2018, CAB International, pp. 335-348. P. B. Thompson, “Agrifood Nanotechnology: Is This Anything?” in Understanding Nanotechnology: Philosophy, Policy and Publics, U. Fiedeler, C. Coenen, S. R. Davies and A. Ferrari, eds. Heidelberg, Germany: 2010, Akademische Verlagsgesellshchaft AKA GmbH, pp. 157-170. P. B. Thompson, “Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not,” in Pragmatic Sustainability: Theoretical and Practical Tools, S. E. Moore, ed. London: 2010, Routledge, pp. 16-29. P. B. Thompson, “Everything Must Go,” in Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, Eds. Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, San Antonio, TX: 2010, Trinity University Press, pp. P. B. Thompson, “Land,” in Life Science Ethics G. Comstock, Ed. Ames, IA: 2002, Iowa State Press, pp. 169-190; revised and republished in Life Science Ethics 2nd Ed. G. Comstock Ed., 2010, Dordrecht, NL: Springer, pp. 123-144. P. B. Thompson, “Capabilities, Consequentialism and Critical Consciousness,” in Capabilities, Power and Institutions: Toward a More Critical Development Ethics, Stephen L. Esquith and Fred Gifford, eds. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 163-170. P. B. Thompson, “Convergence in an Agrarian Key,” in Nature in Common? Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy. Ben Minteer, Ed. Philadelphia, PA: 2009, Temple University Press, pp. 167-184. P. B. Thompson, “Of Biotechnology and Blind Chickens,” in Emerging Technologies: From Hindsight to Foresight, Edna Einseidel, Ed. Vancouver:2009, University of British Columbia Press, pp. 69-80. P. B. Thompson, “Animal Welfare in Livestock Production: Implications for Producers, Consumers and Public Health,” in Food Security in a Global Economy: Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Gary Smith and Alan M. Kelly, Eds. Philadelphia: 2009, University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 51-60. P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Perspectives on Food Biotechnology,” in Acceptable Genes: Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods, Conrad G. Brunk and Harold Coward, Eds. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 39-62. P. B. Thompson, “Alienability, Rivalry and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design,” in Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light and Steven A. Moore, Eds. Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 2008, pp. 131-140. P. B. Thompson, “The Presumptive Case for Nanotechnology,” in Nanotechnology & Society: Current and Emerging Issues, Fritz Allhoff and Patrick Lin, Eds. Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 2008, pp. 39-54. P. B. Thompson, “Nano and Bio: How Are They Alike How Are They Different? in What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology: Social and Ethical Lessons from the Controversy over Agrifood Biotechnology and GMOs, Kenneth David and Paul B. Thompson, Eds. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2008, pp. 125-155. P. B. Thompson, “Ethics, Hunger and the Case for Genetically Modified (GM) Crops,” in Ethics, Hunger and Globalization: In Search of Appropriate Policies, Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Peter Sandøe, Eds. Dordrecht, NL: 2007, Springer, pp. 215-235. P. B. Thompson, “Ethics on the Frontiers of Livestock Science,” in Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century, D. L. Swain, E. Charmley, J. W. Steel and S. G. Coffey, Eds. Wallingrford, UK/Cambridge, MA: 2007, CABI, pp. 30-45. P. B. Thompson, “Commodification and Secondary Rationalization,” in Democratizing Technology: Andrew Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology, Tyler J. Veak, Ed. Albany: 2006, State University of New York Press, pp. 112-135. P. B. Thompson, “What Does It Mean to Have an Ethics,” in Experience as Philosophy: On the Work of John J. McDermott, J. Campbell and R. Hart, Eds. New York: 2006, Fordham University Press, pp. 162-177. P. B. Thompson, “Ihde and Technological Ethics,” in Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde, Evan Selinger, Ed. Albany: 2006, State University of New York Press, pp. 109-116. P. B. Thompson, “Getting Pragmatic about Farm Animal Welfare,” in Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships. E. McKenna and A. Light, Eds. Bloomington, IN: 2004, IndianaUniversity Press, pp. 140-159. P. B. Thompson, “Research Ethics for Animal Biotechnology,” in Ethics for Life Scientists. M. Korthals and R. J. Bogers, Eds. Dordrecht: 2004, Springer. pp. 105-120. P. B. Thompson, “The Ethics of Molecular Silviculture,” in The Bioengineered Forest: Challenges for Science and Society. S. H. Strauss and H. D. Bradshaw, Eds. Washington, D.C.: 2004, Resources for the Future, pp. 101-111. P. B. Thompson, “The Legacy of Positivism and the Role of Ethics in the Agricultural Sciences,” in Perspectives in World Food and Agriculture 2004. C. G. Scanes and J. A. Miranowski, Eds. Ames, IA: 2004, Iowa State University Press, pp. 335-351. R. Anthony and P. B. Thompson, “Biosafety, Ethics and Regulation of Transgenic Animals,” in The GMO Handbook: Genetically Modified Animals, Microbes and Plants in Biotechnology. S.R. Barekh, Ed. Totoway, NJ: 2004, Humana Press, pp. 183-206. P. B. Thompson, “Unnatural Farming and the Debate over Genetic Manipulation,” in Genetic Prospects: Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics and Public Policy. V. V. Gehring, Ed. Lanham, MD: 2003, Rowman and Littlefied, pp. 27-40. P. B. Thompson, “The Environmental Ethics Case for Crop Biotechnology: Putting Science Back into Environmental Practice,” in Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice. A. Light and A. de-Shalit, Eds. Cambridge, MA: 2003, The MIT Press, pp. 187-217. P. B. Thompson, “Expanding the Conservation Tradition: The Agrarian Vision,” in Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground. B. A. Minteer and R. E. Manning, Eds. Washington, DC: 2003, Island Press, pp. 77-92. P. B. Thompson, “Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMO’s in the Food Supply,” in Technology and Cultural Value on the Edge of the Third Millennium P.D. Herscock, M. Stepaniants and R. Ames, Eds. Honolulu: 2003, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 222-235. P. B. Thompson, “Putting Pragmatism to Work?” Teché: Journal of the Society for the Philosophy of Technology. 7(1, Spring 2003): http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n1/thompson.html P. B. Thompson, “Pragmatism, Discourse Ethics and Occasional Philosophy,” in Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture. J. Keulartz, M. Korthals, M. Schermer and T. Swierstra, Eds. Dordrecht, NL: 2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 199-216. P. B. Thompson, “Why Food Biotechnology Needs an Opt Out,” in Engineering the Farm: Ethical and Social Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology. B. Bailey and M. Lappé, Eds. Washington, DC: 2002, Island Press, pp. 27-44. G. Gaskell, P. B. Thompson and N. Allum. “Worlds Apart? Public Opinion in Europe and the USA,” in Biotechnology: The Making of a Global Controversy, M. W. Bauer and G. Gaskell, Eds. Cambrdge, UK: 2002, Cambridge University Press, pp. 351-375. P. B. Thompson, “Bioethics Issues in a Biobased Economy,” in Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology, Michael Ruse and David Castle, Eds. Amherst, NY: 2002, Prometheus Books, pp. 68-76; reprinted from The Biobased Economy of the 21st Century: Agriculture Expanding into Health, Energy, Chemicals and Materials, Allan Eaglesham, William F. Brown and Ralph W. F. Hardy, Eds. NABC Report 12. Ithaca, NY: 2000, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, pp. 113-125. P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues in Food Biotechnology,” in Ethical Issues in Biotechnology, R. Sherlock and J. D. Morrey, Eds. Lanham, MA: 2002, Rowman& Littlefield, pp 231-246; excerpted from Food Biotechnology in Perspective, 1997. T. A. Ten Eyck, P. B. Thompson and S. H. Priest. “Biotechnology in the United States: Mad or Moral Science?” in Biotechnology 1996-2000: The Years of Controversy. G. Gaskell and M. W. Bauer, Eds. London: 2001, The ScienceMuseum, pp. 307-318. P. B. Thompson, “Social Acceptance of Nanotechnology,” in Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mihail Rocco and William Sims Bainbridge, Eds. Norwell, MA: 2001, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 251-256; also published Arlington, VA: 2001, National Science Foundation, pp. 198-202. Vietor, D., H. H. John and P. B. Thompson, “Higher Education in Agriculture: The Setting and the Need for Change,” in Revolutionizing Higher Education in Agriculture: Framework, Principles and Agenda for Action, H. O. Kunkel and C. L. Skaggs, Eds., Ames, IA: 2001, Iowa State University Press, pp. 7-20; revised version of D. M. Vietor, H.H. John, P.B. Thompson and H.O. Kunkel, “Higher Education in Agriculture: The Setting and the Need for Change,” in Revolutionizing Higher Education in Agriculture, H.O. Kunkel, Ian L. Maw and C.L. Skaggs, eds. (Ames, IA: 1996, Robson & Associates Publishers), pp 6-16. P. B. Thompson and H. O. Kunkel, “Thinking through Higher Education in Agriculture: Content, Values and Purpose,” in Revolutionizing Higher Education in Agriculture: Framework, Principles and Agenda for Action, H. O. Kunkel and C. L. Skaggs, Eds., Ames, IA: 2001, Iowa State University Press, pp. 21-38; revised version of H.O. Kunkel and P. B. Thompson, “Thinking Through Higher Education in Agriculture: Content, Values, and Purpose,” in Revolutionizing Higher Education in Agriculture, H.O. Kunkel, Ian L. Maw and C.L. Skaggs, eds. (Ames, IA: 1996, Robson & Associates Publishers), pp 17-40. P. B. Thompson, “Globalization, Losers and Property Rights,” Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 9:602-609 (2000). P. B. Thompson, “Farming as Focal Practice,” in Technology and the Good Life? E. Higgs, A. Light and D. Strong, Eds. Chicago, IL: 1999, University of Chicago Press, pp. 166-181. T. C. Hilde and P. B. Thompson. “Agrarianism and Pragmatism,” in The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism, P. B. Thompson and T. C. Hilde, Eds. Nashville, TN: 2000, Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 1-21. P. B. Thompson, “Agrarianism as Philosophy, in The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism, P. B. Thompson and T. C. Hilde, Eds. Nashville, TN: 2000, Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 25-50. P. B. Thompson, “Thomas Jefferson and Agrarian Philosophy,” in The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism, P. B. Thompson and T. C. Hilde, Eds. Nashville, TN: 2000, Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 118-139. P. B. Thompson, “Approaches to Risk and Risk Assessment,” in Incorporating Science, Economics, and Sociology in Developing Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards in International Trade, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council. Washington, D.C.: 2000, National Academy Press, pp. 238-245. P. B. Thompson, “Discourse Ethics for Agricultural Biotechnology: Its Limits and Its Inevitability—A Response to Jamieson,” Science and Engineering Ethics 6 (2): 275-278 (2000). P. B. Thompson and S. A. Strauss, “Research Ethics for Molecular Silviculture,” in Molecular Biology of Woody Plants, Vol. 2. S. M. Jain and S. C. Minocha eds. Dordrecht: 2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 485-511. P. B. Thompson, “Commentary on ‘Rhetoric, Technical Writing and Ethics’ by Michael Davis,” Science and Engineering Ethics 5(1999): 484-486. P. B. Thompson, “Environmentalism, Feminism and Agrarianism: Three Isms In Search of Sustainable Agriculture,” Agriculture and Human Values 12(1998): 170-176. P. B. Thompson, “Biotechnology policy: four ethical problems and three political solutions,” in Animal Biotechnology and Ethics, A. Holland and A. Johnson, eds. (London: 1998, Chapman and Hall), pp. 243-264. P. B. Thompson, “Agrarian Values: Their Future Place in U.S. Agriculture,” in Visions of American Agriculture, W. Lockeretz, ed. (Ames, IA: 1997, Iowa State University Press), pp. 17-30. P. B. Thompson, “The Varieties of Sustainability in Livestock Farming,” in Livestock Farming Systems: More than Food Production, J. T. Sørensen, Ed. (Wageningen, The Netherlands: 1997, WageningenPers) pp. 5-15. P. B. Thompson, “Sustaining Animal Agriculture and Environmental Quality in the South: What Happened and Why? —Discussion.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 29 (July 1997): 73-75. P. B. Thompson, “Pragmatism and Policy: The Case of Water,” in Environmental Pragmatism, A. Light and E. Katz, eds. (London and New York: 1996, Routledge Publishing Co.) pp. 187-208. P. B. Thompson, “Markets, Moral Economy and the Ethics of Sustainable Agriculture,” Rural Reconstruction in a Market Economy: Mansholt Studies 5, W. Heijman, H. Hetsen and J. Frouws, eds., Mansholt Institute, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1996, 39-54. P. B. Thompson, “Technological Values in the Applied Science Laboratory,” in New Directions in the Philosophy of Technology, J. Pitt, ed. (Dorchrecht: 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers) pp. 139-151; earlier version published in The Technology of Discovery and The Discovery of Technology Joseph C. Pitt and Elena Lugo, eds. (Blacksburg, VA: 1991, The Society for Philosophy and Technology) pp. 319-328. P. B. Thompson, “Reply to Heyboer,” in New Directions in the Philosophy of Technology, J. Pitt, ed. (Dorchrecht: 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers) pp. 159-162. P. B. Thompson, “Risk and Responsibilities in Modern Agriculture,” in Issues in Agricultural Bioethics, T. B. Mepham, G. A. Tucker, and J. Wiseman, eds. (Nottingham: 1995, Nottingham University Press) pp. 31-45. P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues and BST,” in Bovine Somatotropin and Emerging Issues: An Assessment, M.C. Hallberg, ed. (Boulder, CO: 1992, Westview Press) pp. 33-50; republished, 2019, New York: Routledge. P.B. Thompson, “Aid and Trade: Conflicts of Interest, Conflicts of Value,” in Ethics and Agriculture, C. Blatz, ed. (Moscow, ID: 1991, Idaho University Press) pp. 340-350. P.B. Thompson, “The Bumpers Amendment: Aid and Trade Issues for U.S. Agriculture,” in The Social Science Agricultural Agenda Project, (East Lansing, MI: 1991, Michigan State University Press) pp. II-106-113. P.B. Thompson, “Philosophy in the Social Science Agricultural Agenda,” in The Social Science Agricultural Agenda Project, (East Lansing, MI: 1991, Michigan State University Press) pp. IV-93-99. P.B. Thompson, “Comment on ‘Biotechnology and Economic Development: The Role of the States,’ by John Portz and Peter Eisinger,” Politics and the Life Sciences 10(1):78-80, (1991). G.L. Johnson and P.B. Thompson, “Ethics and Values Associated with Agricultural Biotechnology,” in Agricultural Biotechnology: Issues and Choices, B.R. Baumgardt and M.A. Martin, Eds. (W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue Research Foundation) pp. 121-137. P.B. Thompson, G.L. Ellis & B.A. Stout, “Values in the Agricultural Laboratory,” in Beyond the Large Farm, P.B. Thompson and B.A. Stout eds., (Boulder, CO: 1991, Westview Press) pp. 3-31, republished by Routledge, 2018.. P.B. Thompson, G. Varner & D. Tolman, “Environmental Ethics and Agricultural Research Policy,” in Beyond the Large Farm, P.B. Thompson and B.A. Stout eds., (Boulder, CO: 1991, Westview Press) pp. 217-236, republished by Routledge, 2018. B.A. Stout and P.B. Thompson, “Beyond the Large Farm” in Beyond the Large Farm, P.B. Thompson and B.A. Stout, eds., (Boulder, CO: 1991, Westview Press) pp. 265-279; republished by Routledge, 2018. P. B. Thompson, “Biotechnology, Risk and Political Values: Philosophical Rhetoric and the Structure of Political Debate,” in Biotechnology: Assessing Social Impacts and Policy Implications, D. J. Webber, ed. (New York: 1990, Greenwood Press), pp. 3-16. P.B. Thompson, “Nuclear Weapons and Everyday Life,” in Technology as a Human Affair, L. Hickman, ed. (New York: 1990, McGraw-Hill), pp. 223-236. P.B. Thompson, “The Philosophical Rationale for U.S. Agricultural Policy,” in U.S. Agriculture in a Global Setting: An Agenda for the Future, M. A. Tutwiler, ed. (Washington DC: 1988, Resources For the Future) pp. 34-44. P.B. Thompson, “Why Do We Need a Theory of Corporate Responsibility,” in Shame, Responsibility and the Corporation, H. Curtler, ed. (New York: 1986, Haven Publishing) pp. 113-135. P.B. Thompson, “Technological Mediation and Nuclear Weapons,” Philosophy, Technology and Human Affairs, L. Hickman, ed. (College Station, TX: 1985, Ibis Press) pp. 117-127. P.B. Thompson and W.J. Parkinson, “Situation Specific Indicators for Distinguishing Between High-Consequence/ Low-Probability Risk and Low-Consequence/High-Probability Risk,” in Low-Probability/High-Consequence Risk Analysis, R. Waller and V. Covello, eds. (New York: 1984, Plenum Press) pp. 551-567. P.B. Thompson, “Ethics and Probabilistic Risk Assessment,” in Beyond Whistleblowing: Defining Engineering Responsibilities, V. Weil, ed. (Chicago: 1983, Illinois Institute of Technology and the National Science Foundation) pp. 114-126. Book Reviews: “Todd LaVasseur, Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place: From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture (2017)” Journal for the Study of Nature, Religion and Culture 13.3 (2019): 392-394. “Beth A. Dixon, Food Justice and Narrative Ethics: Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism, (2018)” Journal of European Popular Culture 10 (2019): 167-170. “Howard Markel, The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek (2017)” Agriculture and Human Values 35(2018): 737–738. “John Crowe Ransom, Land: The Case for an Agrarian Economy. Ed. J. Peters, with an Introduction by Jay T. Collier, (2017)” Agriculture and Human Values 35(2018): 739-740. 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Lusk, Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Animal Welfare (2011),” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 26 (2013): 517-521. “Aaron Sachs, Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (2013),” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44 (2013): 270-272. “Hugh P. McDonald, Ed. Pragmatism and Environmentalism (2012),” Environmental Values 22 (2013): 555-557. “Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher, Connie Falk, Ed. (2010),” Agricultural History 85(2011): 254-255. “Jeffrey E. Foss, Beyond Environmentalism: A Philosophy of Nature, (2009)” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14 (2010): 163-165. “Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth, 2nd Edition (2008),” Environmental Ethics 31(2009): 327-330. “Gail M. Hollander, Raising Cane in the ‘Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida. (2008)” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 22 (2009): 615-615. “John Ikerd, Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture (2008),” Great Plains Research 19 (2009): 130-131. ‘Marcel Mazoyer and Lawrence Roudart, A History of World Agriculture from the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis, James H. Membrez, Tr. (2006).” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 22 (2009): 101-104. “Sarah Franklin, Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (2007),” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (2008): 385-388. “Jason Peters, Ed., Wendell Berry: Life and Work (2007),” Organization & Environment 21: 213-214, (2008). “Sir Albert Howard, The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture, republished with an Introduction by Wendell Berry, (2006); Julie Guthman, Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (2004),” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21(2008): 297-301. “Paul Cloke, Terry Marsden and Patrick H. Mooney, Eds. Handbook of Rural Studies (2006),” Agriculture and Human Values 25(2008): 137-138. “Robert Frenay, Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things (2006),” Organization & Environment 20(2007):115-117. “Gregory E. Pence, The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-first Century (2002),” Ethics 116: 448; January 2006. “Phillip Cafaro, Thoreau’s Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Nature (2004),” Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy #101, June 2005, pp. 29-34. “Scott L. Pratt, Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy (2002),” Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy #98, June 2004, pp. 73-76. “Andrew Kimbrell, ed. The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, (2002),” Politics and the Life Sciences 22(20)(2003): 50-51. “William Conlogue, Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture (2002),” Rural History 14(1): 115-116 (2003). “Finn Bowring, Science, Seeds and Cyborgs: Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life (2003),” Nature Biotechnology 21 (2003): 987-988. “Steven A. Moore, Technology and Place: Sustainable Agriculture and the Blueprint Farm (2001),” Agriculture and Human Values 19: 369-371 9 (2002). “Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel Tickner, Eds. Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle (1999),” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14: 351-354 (2001). “Gary L. Comstock, Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case against Agricultural Biotechnology. (2000),” Agriculture and Human Values 18: 341-345 (2001). “Michael C. Appleby, What Should We Do about Animal Welfare? (1999),” Applied Animal Behavior Science 73:81-82 (2001). “Tarla Rae Peterson, Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development (1997),” Agriculture and Human Values 17:407-408 (2000). “Ruth Schwartz Cowan, A Social History of Technology (1997),” Agriculture and Human Values 17:409-410 (2000). “J. F. MacDonald, ed. Genes for the Future: Discovery, Ownership and Access (1995),” Field Crops Research 49:279-283(1997). “Hugh Lehman, Rationality and Ethics in Agriculture (1995),” Canadian Philosophical Reviews 16(3): 185-187, (1996). “Kristen Shrader-Frechette, Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste (1993)” The Environmental Professional 17:86-87 (1995). “H. W. Lewis, Technological Risk (1990); Debora Mayo and Rachelle Hollander, eds. Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management (1991); and K.S. Shrader-Frechette, Risk and Rationality (1991);” Research in Philosophy and Technology 12:312-320 (1994). 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"Michael Heim, Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing, (1987)," Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 8(1988): 483-486. "Nicholas Rescher, Risk: An Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management (1983)," Environmental Ethics 9(1): 91-95 (1987). "Jeremy Rifkin, Declaration of a Heretic, (1985)," Agriculture and Human Values 3(4):58-61 (1986). "E. J. Kahn, The Staffs of Life, (1984)," Agriculture and Human Values 3(3): 61-62 (1986). "Baruch Fischhoff, et al. Acceptable Risk (1981); Mark Sagoff, Risk-Benefit Analysis in Decisions Concerning Public Safety and Health (1985); and K.S. Shrader-Frechette, Risk Analysis and Scientific Method (1985)," Environmental Ethics 8(3): 277-285 (1986). "K.M. Sayre & K. Goodpaster, Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century (1979)," Cross Currents 32(1): 114-116 (1982). "L. Hickman & A. Al-Hibri, Technology and Human Affairs (1980)," Cross Currents 31(4): 500-502 (1981-82). "K.S. Shrader-Frechette, Nuclear Power and Public Policy (1980)," Cross Currents 30(2): 228-230 (1980). Popular Articles, Staff Papers, Proceedings, Encyclopedia Entries, Abstracts and Other Ephemera: C. Kendig, T. Selfa and P.B. Thompson. “Letter: Biotechnology Ethics for Food and Agriculture,” Science 376 (2022): 1279-1280. P.B. Thompson, “Industrial Agriculture,” in The Routledge Companion to Environmental Philosophy, B. Hale, A. Light and L. Lawhon, eds. New York: 2022, Routledge, pp. 470-480. P.B. Thompson, “Standards in Engineering,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering, D. Michelfelder and N. Doorn, eds. New York: 2021, Routledge, pp. 569-579. P.B. Thompson, “Beyond Shiny Clickety-Clack Technologies,” Techné: Research in Philosophy of Technology 24(2020) No.4: 29-30. P.B. Thompson, “McDermott as a Colleague,” The Pluralist 15(2020): 95-97. P. B. Thompson, “Talking about Gene Edited Crops,” in “Forum,” Issues in Science and Technology, 35(2), 2019: https://issues.org/forum-41/ P. B. Thompson and Z. Piso. “Dewey and Environmental Philosophy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Dewey. S. Fessmire, Ed. New York: 2019, Oxford University Press, pp. 713-746. P. B. Thompson, “Food Production,” in The Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics, J. Drydyk and L. Keleher, eds. New York: 2018, Routledge, pp. 226-233. P. B. Thompson, “GMOs,” in Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. D. Poff and A. Michalos (eds), Dordrecht, NL: 2018, Springer online at https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-23514-1_343-1 P. B. Thompson, “ABSTRACT: Socio-Technical Imaginaries for Future Food Systems,” in Professionals in Food Chains: Ethics, Roles and Responsibilities, Svenja Springer & Herwig Grimm, eds. Proceedings of EURSAFE 2018. Wageningen, NL: 2018, Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 187-191. P. B. Thompson, “Worried about Eating GMOs? That’s Not the Real Problem,” leapsmag June 8, 2018, https://leapsmag.com/worried-about-eating-gmos-thats-not-the-real-problem/ S. Ammons, N. Creamer, P. B. Thompson, H. Francis, J. Friesner, C. Hoy, T. Kelley, C. M. Porter and T. P. Tomich, A Deeper Challenge of Change: The role of land-grant universities in assessing and ending structural racism in the US food system.Inter-Institutional Network for Agriculture, Food and Sustainability. February 22, 2018. http://asi.ucdavis.edu/networks/infas/a-deeper-challenge-of-change-the-role-of-land-grant-universities-in-assessing-and-ending-structural-racism-in-the-us-food-system P. B. Thompson, “Farming, the Virtues and Agrarian Philosophy,” The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, A. Barnhill, M. Budolfson, and T. Doggett, eds. New York: 2018, Oxford University Press, pp. 53-66. P. B. Thompson, “Sustainability,” The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, M. Rawlinson and C. Ward, Eds. New York and London: 2017, Routledge. Pp 219-229. P. B. Thompson, “Abstract: Four Archetypes for Future Food,” in C. Taluğ, N.Y. Yalim, P. Ataman and A. Kurtoğlu, Eds., Tarim ve Gida Etiği Kongresi: Uluslarasi Katilimli, Ankara, 2017, p. 111. P. B. Thompson, “Philosophy of Technology and the Environment,” Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, S.M. Gardener and A. Thompson, Eds. New York: 2017, Oxford University Press, pp. 438-448. P. B. Thompson, “The Ethics of Food Animal Production,” Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, L. Kaloff, Ed. New York: 2017, Oxford University Press, pp. 364-379. P. B. Thompson, “Cage-Free Sounds Good, but Does It Mean a Better Life for Chickens?” The Conversation, Nov. 9, 2016, https://theconversation.com/cage-free-sounds-good-but-does-it-mean-a-better-life-for-chickens-62083 P. B. Thompson, “How We Got to Now: Why the U.S. and Europe Went Different Ways on GMOs,” The Conversation Nov. 17, 2015 https://theconversation.com/how-we-got-to-now-why-the-us-and-europe-went-different-ways-on-gmos-48709 P. B. Thompson and M. List. “Standards,” In Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource Ed. J. Britt Holbrook. Vol. 4. 2nd ed. (Farmington Hills, MI: 2015, Macmillan Reference) pp. 252-253. P. B. Thompson and S. Noll. “Agricultural Ethics,” In Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource Ed. J. Britt Holbrook. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. (Farmington Hills, MI: 2015, Macmillan Reference) pp. 35-42. World Health Organization (WHO)/Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)/Foundation of the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). The Guidance Framework for field testing genetically engineered mosquitoes. TDR, June, 2014,169 pp. ISBN: ISBN 978 92 4 150748 6 Available at: http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/year/2014/guide-fmrk-gm-mosquit/en/ P. B. Thompson, “Egg Production: Ethical Issues,” in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics P. B. Thompson and D. M. Kaplan, Eds. New York: 2014, Springer Reference, pp. 951-957. P. B. Thompson, “Food Safety,” in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics P. B. Thompson and D. M. Kaplan, Eds. New York: 2014, Springer Reference, pp. 551-559. P. B. Thompson, “Agricultural Ethics,” in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics P. B. Thompson and D. M. Kaplan, Eds. New York: 2014, Springer Reference, pp. 54-61. P. B. Thompson, “Gene Technology in the Animal Kingdom,” in The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk, S. Krimsky and J. Gruber, Eds. New York: 2014, Skyhorse Press, pp. 329-339. P.B. Thompson and S. Noll. “Agricultural Ethics and Social Justice,” In: Neal Van Alfen, editor-in-chief. Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems, Vol. 1, San Diego: Elsevier; 2014. pp. 81-91. P. B. Thompson and M. List, “Agriculture” in Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles and Practices (Detroit, MI: 2014, Macmillan Reference) pp. 10-18. P. B. Thompson, “Thomas Jefferson on Sustainability,” Integrated Network on Social Sustainability (INSS), University of North Carolina Charlotte, March 25, 2013, http://eng-resources.uncc.edu/inss/2013/03/thomas-jefferson-on-sustainability/ P. B. Thompson, “Exploring Agriculture and Environmental Philosophy: An East-West Exchange,” HIS Newsletter, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science, National Taiwan University, June, 2012, pp. 1-9. P.B. Thompson, 2012. Agriculture, food and society—Philosophy to nanotechnology. WCDS Advances in Dairy Technology, 24: 53-65. P.B. Thompson, “Genetically Modified Food: Ethical Issues,” eLS (Wiley Online Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences) 2012: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0024153 P. B.  Thompson, “Sustainability: Ethical Foundations.” Nature Education Knowledge 3(10) (2012):11. http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/sustainability-ethical-foundations-71373239 P. B. Thompson, “What Approaches Are Most Likely to Encourage Best Management Practices? Process Standards as Responses to Collective Action Dilemmas,” Panel Contribution to National Research Council, A National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide Resistant Weeds, Washington DC, May 10, 2012, Summary Online: http://nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit/files/2012/05/09e_Thompson_updated.pdf P. B. Thompson, “The GMO Salmon Struggle,” Science Progress Sept. 23, 2011, http://scienceprogress.org/2011/09/the-gmo-salmon-struggle/ P. B. Thompson, “Economics,” in The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism, S. Pihlström, ed. London and New York: 2011, Continuum International Publishing Group, pp. 173-182. P. B. Thompson, “Is Our Agricultural Technology Innovation System Up to 21st Century Challenges?” Science Progress Nov. 24, 2010, http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/11/agricultural-innovation-21st-century-challenges/ P. B. Thompson, "Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI)." Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication. Susanna Priest, Ed. London & New York: 2010, SAGE Publications. <http://www.sage-ereference.com/scienceandtechnology/Article_n97.html> P. B. Thompson. "Specifying animal welfare standards: ethical issues," Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges, EURSAFE Proceedings, Carlos M. Romeo Casabona and Leire Escajedo San Epifanio eds. Wageningen, NL: (2010) Wageningen Academic Publishers.. p. 329. P. B. Thompson, “Paul B. Thompson,” in Sustainability Ethics: 5 Questions R. Raf,faelle, W. Robison and E. Selinger, eds. Milton Keynes, UK: 2010, Automatic Press VIP, pp. 243-260. P. B. Thompson, “Informing the Genetically Engineered Crop Debate,” Science Progress, Sept. 7, 2010,http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/09/informing-the-genetically-engineered-crop-debate/ P. B. Thompson, “Ethical and Practical Implications of Food Animal Agriculture,” in Proceedings: Sustaining Animal Agriculture: Balancing Bioethical, Economic and Social Issues, R. Reynnells, and L. M. Chimenti, eds., Washington, DC/Ames, IA, 2010: USDA and Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, pp. 49; 288-294. P. B. Thompson and W. Hannah, “Agricultural Biotechnology, Food Safety, Risk, Consent, and Ethics,” Encyclopedia of Industrial Biotechnology: Bioprocess, Bioseparation, and Cell Technology M. Flickinger, Ed. Published Online: 15 APR 2010 Revised & Updated version of same title, Ency. Of Legal & Ethical Issues in Biotechnology New York: 2000, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 17-26. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470054581.eib016/full P. B. Thompson, “Philosophy of Agricultural Technology,” in Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 9 A. Meijers, ed. Amsterdam: 2009, Elsevier North-Holland, pp. 1257-1273. P. B. Thompson, “Agrifood Nanotechnology: Is This Anything?” in Ethical Futures: Bioscience and Food Horizons, K. Millar, P. Hobson West, and B. Nerlich, eds. Wageningen, NL: 2009, Wageningen University Press, pp. 34-37. J. A. Mench, J. C. Swanson and P. B Thompson Laying hen production systems: welfare and social sustainability. World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA), Beekbergen, Netherlands, World Poultry Science Association (WPSA), Proceedings of the 8th European Symposium on Poultry Welfare, Cervia, Italy, 18-22 May, 2009, 2009, pp 1. P. B. Thompson, “Agrifood Nanotechnology: Is This Anything New?” in SPT 2009: Converging Technologies, Changing Societies, Enschede, NL: 2009, The University of Twente, pp. 93-94. P. B. Thompson, “Agriculture,” in The Spirit of Sustainability: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 1, W. Jenkins, ed. Great Barrington, MA: 2009, Berkshire Publishing Group, pp. 11-14. P.B. Thompson, “Bioethics,” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, J. K. B. Olsen, S. A. Pedersen and V. F. Hendricks, Eds. New York: 2009, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 397-401. P. B. Thompson, M. Joseph and M. Nestle, “Dialogue: The Ethics of Food,” Lahey Clinic Journal of Medical Ethics Spring 2009, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp 6-8. P. B. Thompson, “Farm Feelings and Farm Evidence,” Science Progress, June 16, 2009, http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/06/factory-farming-ethics/ P. B. Thompson, “Agricultural Biofuels: Two Ethical Issues,” NABC Report 20: Reshaping American Agriculture to Meet its Biofuel and Biopolymer Roles A. Eaglesham and R. W. F. Hardy, Eds., Ithaca, NY: 2009, NABC, pp. 158-167. P. B. Thompson, “Can Agricultural Biotechnology Help the Poor?” Science Progress, June 8, 2009: http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/06/ag-biotech-thompson/ J. A. Mench, E. A. Pajor, H. James and P. B. Thompson. The Welfare of Animals in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Technical Report to the Pew Commission on Industrial Animal Production, 2008. http://www.pcifapia.org/_images/212-7_PCIFAP_AmlWlBng_FINAL_REVISED_7-14-08.pdf P. B. Thompson, “Is the GMO Controversy Relevant to Computer Ethics?” ACM Ubiquity Vol. 9, Issue 2, Jan. 15, 2008, Online at: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i2_thompson.html  P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Bases of Sustainability,” in Sustainable Food Production and Ethics: Preprints of the 7th Congress of the European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics, W. Zollitsch, C. Winkler, S. Saiblinger and A. Haslberger, Eds. Wageningen, NL: 2007, Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 63-68. P. B. Thompson, “Technological Ethics in University-Industry Partnerships: The Best of Both Worlds?” NABC Report 18: Agricultural Biotechnology: Economic Growth Through New Products, Partnerships and Workforce DevelopmentA. Eaglesham and R. W. F. Hardy, Eds., Ithaca, NY: 2007, NABC, pp. 199-207. P. B. Thompson, “Shall We Dine? Confronting the Strange and Horrifying Story of GMOs in Our Food,” in Food and Philosophy: Eat, Think and Be Merry, Fritz Allhoff and Dave Mason, Eds. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2007, pp. 208-220. Ethical Issues in Cloning and Genetic Engineering of Animals. Report available on the Pew website: http://pewagbiotech.org/newsroom/announcements/030607.php; Streaming video of Oct, 2006 workshop: http://pewagbiotech.org/events/1018/ P. B. Thompson, “Foreword,” Robert L. Zimdahl, Agriculture’s Ethical Horizon,New York: 2006, The Academic Press, pp. xi-xviii. P. B. Thompson, “The Ethics of Livestock Production,” Livestock Horizons: CSIRO Livestock Industries Research Magazine 2(1): 10-12, February 2006. P. B. Thompson, “Agricultural Ethics,” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, Vol. 1, Carl Mitcham, Ed. Detroit: 2005, Thomson-Gale, pp.41-47. P. B. Thompson, “Untitled,” in Exploring the Moral and Ethical Aspects of Genetically Engineered and Cloned Animals Summary of a Multi-Stakeholder Workshop, The Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, Rockville, MD, December, 2005, pp. 14-19. Jeffrey Burkhardt, Gary Comstock, Peter G. Hartel, and Paul B. Thompson. “Agricultural Ethics,” CAST Issue Paper Number 29, February 2005. Council on Agricultural Science and Technology, Ames, IA, 12 pp. P. B. Thompson, “Justice, Human Rights and Ethics Issues In Science And Technology Policy,” from Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net] [Retrieved June 29, 2005] 12 pp. P. B. Thompson, “Animal Rights, Animal Welfare and Animal Well-being: How to Communicate with the Outside World,” in Local and Global Considerations in Animal Agriculture: The Big Picture, R. Reynnells, Ed. Washington, DC: 2004, USDA/CSREES/PAS, pp. 22-31. P. B. Thompson, “Agriculture and Food Issues in the Bioethics Spectrum,” Medical Humanities Report May 2004, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, pp. 1-4. P. B. Thompson, “Sustainable Agriculture: Philosophical Framework,” in Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. R. M. Goodman, Ed. New York: 2004, Marcel Dekker, pp. 1198-2000. Online at www.dekker.com P. B. Thompson and Toby Ten Eyck, “Perception and Ethics as Considerations Relating to Genetic Engineering of Food and Biomass Crops,” Applications of Biotechnology to Mitigation of Greenhouse Warming: Proceedings of the St. Michaels II Workshop, April 2003. N. J. Rosenberg, F. B. Metting and R. C. Izaurralde, Eds. Columbus, OH: 2004, Battelle Press, pp. 159-178. P. B. Thompson, Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics. In Deconstruction and Reconstruction J. Ryder and K. Wilkoszewska, eds. Leiden: 2004, Brill. pp. 81-88. P. B. Thompson, “City and Country: The Continuing Tension—Challenges in Defining Urban Agriculture and Opportunities for Expanding Conventional Definitions,” Proceedings of the Symposium Urban Agriculture: Emerging Opportunities in Science, Education and Policy. Tim D. Davis and Victor Gibeault, Eds. Dallas, TX, 2002 pp. 13-20. P. B. Thompson, “Balancing the Requirements of Society, Pig and Producer,” 2002 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference V. 29, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, pp. 192-194. P. B. Thompson, “Preface,” Swine Care Handbook Des Moines, IA: 2002, National Pork Board, pp. i-ii. P. B. Thompson, “The Legacy of Positivism and the Role of Ethics in the Animal Sciences (Abstract)” Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science, Midlothian, UK: 2002, BSAS, pp. 242-243. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, Urban and Agricultural Communities: Opportunities for Common Ground. Ames, IA: CAST, R138. May 2002. 124 pp. P. B. Thompson, “Ethics Perspective”, in Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Ecological and Societal Aspects of Transgenic Plantations, S.H. Strauss and H.D. Bradshaw, eds., Corvalis OR: 2001, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, p. 201, www.fsl.orst.edu/tgerc/iufro2001/eprocd.pdf P. B. Thompson, “Bioethics and Public Confidence: Concerns for Biotechnology at the Turn of the Century,” Biotechnology International 3(2001): 61-65. P. B. Thompson, “Property Rights: A Philosophical Perspective,” in Property Rights: A Primer. Neil Meyer, Ed. University of Idaho Cooperative Extension Bulletin 834, September 2001, pp. 19-22. P. B. Thompson, “You Are NOT What You Eat,” BREIF: Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis Report 2002, pp. 61-88. P. B. Thompson, “Land and water,” in A Companion to Environmental Philosophy, D. Jamieson, Ed. Oxford and Malden, MA: 2000, Basil Blackwell, pp. 460-472. P. B. Thompson. Food and Agricultural Biotechnology: Incorporating Ethical Considerations. Ottowa: 2000, Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, 40 pp. Also available in French: Intégration de facteurs d’éthique à la biotechnologie alimentaire et agricole. Ottowa: 2000, Comité consultative Canadien de la biotechnologie. J. Burkhardt, P. B. Thompson, and T. R. Peterson. “The First European Congress on Agricultural and Food Ethics and Follow-up Workshop on Ethics and Food Biotechnology: A US Perspective,” Agriculture and Human Values 17(2000): 327-332. P. B. Thompson, “Agricultural Biotechnology, Ethics, Food Safety, Risk, and Individual Consent,” in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, T. J. Murray and M. J. Mehlman, eds. New York: 2000, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 17-26. P. B. Thompson, “Consumer Acceptance of Biotechnology: Can It Be Assured?” Agricultures Magazine 3(3) Summer 2000, p. 24. P. B. Thompson, “The Reshaping of Conventional Farming: A North American Perspective,” EurSafe 2000 Preprints Paul Robinson, Ed. Copenhagen, DK: 2000, Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, pp. 53-60. P. B. Thompson, “Privacy, Secrecy and Security,” Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry—Proceedings for CEPE 2000. D.G. Johnson, J.H. Moor, and H.T. Tavani, Eds. Hanover, NH: 2000, Dartmouth College, pp 305-316. P. B. Thompson, “Agriculture,” in International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, J. Barry and E. G. Franklin, Eds., London: Routledge, pp. 7-10. P. B. Thompson, “Dust Bowl,” in International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, J. Barry and E. G. Franklin, Eds., London: Routledge, p. 132. P. B. Thompson, “Jefferson, Thomas,” in International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, J. Barry and E. G. Franklin, Eds., London: Routledge, p.294. P. B. Thompson, “Hardin, Garrett,” in International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, J. Barry and E. G. Franklin, Eds., London: Routledge, pp. 260-261. P. B. Thompson, “The Ethics of Gene Technology: The Emergent Paradigm of Consumer Concerns,” Proceedings: Genetically Engineering and Cloning Animals: Science Society and Industry, Park CityUtah, June 17-20, 2000, 2 pp, unpagenated. A. Schmid and P. B. Thompson, Against Mechanism: Methodology for an Evolutionary Economics Michigan State University Department of Agricultural Economics Staff Paper No. 99-39, 1999, 15 pp. P. B. Thompson, "Revitalizing Agrarian Values," Agrarian Advocate Winter 1999, p 3, 20. Contributions to J. M. Shuman, Ed., Ethical Issues in Biotechnology, Boston, MA: 1998, The Foundation for Nutritional Advancement. P. B. Thompson, “Report of the NABC Ad-Hoc Committee on Ethics,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10(1998): 105-125. P. B. Thompson, "A Revitalized Production Ethic for Agriculture," Earth Ethics 9(3&4): 1, 3-5; Spring/Summer 1998. http://www.crle.org/pub_eeindex_spr98.asp P. B. Thompson, “Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not,” Agro-ecology News and Perspectives 7(1):1-8 (1998). P. B. Thompson and L. E. Lanyon, “Manure Management and Moral Community,” Purdue Core 4: Conservation for Agriculture’s Future, 1998. http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/Core4/Nutrient/ManureMgmt/Paper1.html P. B. Thompson and L. E. Lanyon, “Manure Management and Moral Community,” in Manure Management in Harmony with the Environment and Society Extended Abstracts of Papers and Posters Presented Feb. 10-12, 1998, Ames Iowa, The Soil and Water Conservation Society, pp. 8-11. P.B. Thompson, “Ethics and Food Safety,” in Social Construction of Safe Food: Health, Ethics and Safety in Late Modernity Workshop Report No. 5/97,Center for Rural Research, Trondheim, Norway, April 5, 1998, pp. 71-92. P. B. Thompson, Final Report, Project SBE-9121770, The National Science Foundation, March 26, 1998, 19 pages. P. B. Thompson, “Public Understanding and Acceptance: Ethical Issues,” in Transgenic Animals and Food Production, Proceedings from an International Workshop in Stockholm, May 1997, A. Nilsson, ed. Stockhom: 1997, Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, pp. 145-151. P. B. Thompson, “Toward a Discourse Ethics for Animal Biotechnology,” Biotechnology International F.Fox and T.H.Connor, eds. (San Francisco: 1997, Universal Medical Press), pp. 35-39. P. B. Thompson, “Conceptions of Sustainability and the Industrialization of Livestock Farming,” LUDUS VITALIS: Revista de Filosofía de lasCiencias de la VidaNúmero especial 2, 1997, (Memorias de Tecnología, DesarrolloEconómico y Sustenatabilidad, la IX ConferenciaInternacional de la Society for Philosophy and Technology, Puebla, Mexico, 1996) pp. 143-156. Task Force on Animal Well-being, The Well-being of Agricultural Animals, Council on Agricultural Science and Technology, Task Force Report No. 130, September 1997. P. B. Thompson and A. Nardone, “Sustainable Livestock Production: Methodological and Ethical Challenges: Abstract,” Book of Abstracts of the 48th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, (Wageningen, The Netherlands: 1997, Wageningen Press), p 188. P. B. Thompson, “The Cloning Debate,” Center for Science and Technology Policy Newsletter, May-June 1997, 6(6): 1-4. P. B. Thompson and A. P. Thurow, “Toward a Conceptual Framework for Analysis of Animal Agriculture and Environmental Quality Issues,” Center for Science and Technology Policy Newsletter, March-April 1997, 6(5): 1-4. P. B. Thompson, “Tying It All Together,” Agricultural Biotechnology: Novel Products and New Partnerships, NABC Report 8, R. W. F. Hardy and J. B. Segelken, Eds. Ithaca, NY: 1996, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, pp 13-22. L. E. Lanyon and P. B. Thompson, “Changing Emphasis of Farm Production,” in Animal Agriculture and the Environment: Nutrients, Pathogens and Community Relations, Proceedings from the Animal Agriculture and the Environment North American Conference, Rochester, New York, December 11-13, 1996, Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service, NRAES-96, pp. 15-28. P.B. Thompson, “Plant and Animal Biotechnology’s Challenge to Cultural Integrity and Individual Consent,” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics Discussion Paper CBPE 96-12, December 1996. P.B. Thompson, “Biotechnology Policy: Four Ethical Problems and Three Political Solutions,” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics Discussion Paper CBPE 96-5, June 1996. W.H. Neill, D. M. Vietor and P. B. Thompson, “Learning Systems: One Scenario for Systemic Change,” in Revolutionizing Higher Education in Agriculture, H.O. Kunkel, Ian L. Maw and C.L. Skaggs, eds. (Ames, IA: 1996, Robson & Associates Publishers), pp 95-101. Ad Hoc Conference on Science, Technology and Democracy, P. Thompson, Chair. Science, Technology and Democracy: Research on Issues of Governance and Change prepared for the National Science Foundation, 1995. P. B. Thompson, “Balance, Diversity and Ethics in Public Policy Education.” in Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies-1994, S. A. Halbrook and T. E. Grace, eds. (Oak Brook, IL: 1995, Farm Foundation) pp. 5- 17. P. B. Thompson, “The Moral Significance of Land,” Institution for Social and Policy Studies Report, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1995 pp. 20 & 22. P. B. Thompson, “Food Security and Technocentrism in Agriculture,” in An Environmental Ethics Perspective on Canadian Policy for Sustainable Development, The Institute for Research on Environment and Economy, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 1995, pp 205-216. P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Worldviews and Decision Making in Agriculture,” in Decision Making and Agriculture: The Role of Ethics, K. Beesley, S. Burns, M. Campbell and P. Sanger, Eds. Truro, Nova Scotia: Rural Research Centre, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, 1995, pp. 3-17. D. M. Vietor, A. F. Johnson, B. L. Harris, M. L. Wolfe, and P. B. Thompson, “Probabilistic Tools for Assessing and Minimizing Risks to Water Quality,” Clean Water, Clean Environments for the 21st Century: Working to Protect Water Resources, Proceedings of a Conference March 5-8, 1995, Kansas City, MO.. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural Engineering, 299-302. P. B. Thompson, “Ethics,” in The Encyclopedia of Agricultural Science, Volume 2 Charles A. Arntzen, ed. (New York: 1994, Academic Press) pp. 107-116. P. B. Thompson, “Environmental Responsibility and the Ecology of the Virtues,” in Ecology and Democracy: The Challenge of the 21st Century, I. Hanousková, M. Lapka and E Cudlinová, eds. NEBE s.r.o., Krajinská 7, 370 01 Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic, 1994, pp 40-42. P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues and Animal Biotechnology,” in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Animal Biotechnology Issues, M. McGloughlin, Ed. The Biotechnology Program, University of California, Davis, April 1994, 38-9. P. B. Thompson, “Environment, Development and the Rhetoric of International Consensus,” in Proceedings of the Conference on Communication and Our Environment, J. G. Cantrill and M. J. Killingsworth, Eds. (AuSable, MI: 1994, Northern Michigan University), pp. 179-185. P.B. Thompson, R. Stricklin, P. Siegel, A. Rowan, and B. Rollin, “Well-Being of Production Animals: A Diversity of Viewpoints,” Proceedings of Fair ‘95 Symposium on Food Animal Research Priorities, Kansas City, Missouri, October 18-20, 1992 (published 1993). P. B. Thompson and J. C. Swanson, “Public Issues and Concerns,” in Food Animal Well-Being. West Lafayette, IN: USDA and Purdue University, 1993. P. B. Thompson, “A New Agenda for the Humanities in Development,” White Paper Prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation, Arts and Humanities Division, October 1993. E. M. Leigh, D. M. Vietor, P. B. Thompson, and M. L. Wolfe, “Probabilisitic Risk Assessment for Dairy Waste Systems,” Proceedings of the American Society of Agricultural Engineering, St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Summer 1993, 24 pp. P. B. Thompson, “Ethics and Agricultural Biotechnology,” Science of Food and Agriculture 5(1):8-9, Jan. 1993. P. B. Thompson, “Food Labels and Biotechnology: The Ethics of Safety and Consent,” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics, Texas A&M University. Discussion Paper CBPE 93-1, Jan. 1993. P.B. Thompson and J.A. Shadduck, “NABC 4: Animal Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges: An Overview,” NABC News 5(1):6, Summer 1992. P. B. Thompson, “Concepts of Property and the Biotechnology Debate,” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics, Texas A&M University. Discussion Paper CBPE 92-11, Nov. 1992. W. P. Browne, J.R. Skees, L.E. Swanson, P.B. Thompson, and L.J. Unnevehr, “Stewardship Values: Still Valid for the 21st Century?” Choices. Third Quarter: 20-25, 1992. P. B. Thompson, “Emphasizing the Humanities and Social Sciences,” Agriculture and the Undergraduate. National Research Council, 1992, Washington, DC, pp. 208-219 P. B. Thompson, “Animal Welfare and Animal Rights: An Overview.” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics, Texas A&M University. Discussion Paper CBPE 92-1, March 1992. J. Murray, P.B. Thompson and R. Piggott, “Transgenic Animals,” National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Report 3: Agricultural Biotechnology at the Crossroads: Biological Social and Institutional Concerns, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Ithaca, NY: pp. 38-43, 1992. F. M. Byers and P.B. Thompson, “Animal Growth Biotechnology In a Quandary,” National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Report 3: Agricultural Biotechnology at the Crossroads: Biological Social and Institutional Concerns, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Ithaca, NY: pp. 264-299, 1992. P.B. Thompson, “Constitutional Values and the Costs of American Food,” in Understanding the True Costs of Food: Considerations for a Sustainable Food System. (Greenbelt, MA: 1991, Institute for Alternative Agriculture, Inc.) pp. 64-74. P.B. Thompson, “Risk: Ethical Issues and Values,” in Agricultural Biotechnology, Food Safety and Nutritional Quality for the Consumer, J. F. MacDonald, ed. National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC) Report 2, (Ithaca, NY: 1991, NABC) pp. 204-217. P. B. Thompson, “Philosophies of Property and Their Relevance to Biotechnology,” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics, Texas A&M University. CBPE 91-11, Dec. 1991. P. B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues and BST,” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics, Texas A&M University. Discussion Paper CBPE 91-8, June 1991. G.L. Johnson and P.B. Thompson, “Ethical Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural Biotechnology Leaflet Series, B.R. Baumgardt and M.A. Martin, eds., Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station, 1991. P. B. Thompson, “Agricultural Biotechnology and Food Safety: Ethical Issues in the Evaluation of Risk.” Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics, Texas A&M University. Discussion Paper CBPE 91-1, Jan. 1991. P. B. Thompson, Social and Ethical Problems in Desert Locust Eradication for Africa, White Paper submitted to the Office of Technology Assessment, U. S. Congress, Jan. 1989. W. Lacy, J.L. Compton, R. Freed, L Johnson and P.B. Thompson, Joint Indo-U.S. Impact Evaluation, Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University and Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidayalaya, to the United States Agency for International Development, Nov. 1987. P. B. Thompson, “Philosophy of Social Science and Ethics,” Proceedings of the Phase I Workshop, Social Science Agricultural Agenda Project, June 9-11, 1987, Neill Schaller, compiler, available from Resources and Technology Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. P. B. Thompson, “A Syllabus for Agricultural Ethics,” FP 86-9, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, July 1986. P. B. Thompson, “Writing and Thinking in Agricultural Ethics,” FP 86-6, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 1986. P. B. Thompson, “Teaching Agricultural Ethics in the Agricultural Economics Curriculum,” FP 86-5, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 1986. P. B. Thompson, “On the Nature of Ethics and Values with Application to Agricultural Issues,” FP 86-1, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, January 1986. Selected Presentations: “Respondent, Food, Fields, Forks and Farmers: Paul B. Thompson’s Philosophy of Agriculture,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, Denver, March 10, 2023. “Food Ethics: Is It Time to Get Back to Basics,” Online Keynote Presentation, 3rd Tarim ve Gida Etiği Kongresi: Uluslarasi Katilimli, University of Ankara, Nov. 6, 2021. “Sustainability & Sustainable Development Goals,” Online Keynote Presentation, Energy Masters Alumni Conference, TU Berlin, Sept. 24, 2021. “Greentopia: The Agrarian Vision,” Greentopia Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, October 11, 2019. “Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in Agriculture,” Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA, Nov. 15, 2018. “Crop Production: Farmers, Fishers and Ranchers or Confessions of a Romantic Agrarian,” CHOOSE FOOD Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, November 5, 2018. “Archetypes for Food Justice,” World Parliament of Religions, Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 2, 2018. “When we talk about risk, what are we talking about?” Feminist Epistemology, Methodology, Metaphysics and Science Studies (FEMMSS), Oregon State University, Corvallis, August, 2, 2018. “Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems,” Keynote Address, Asia-Pacific Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics, Taiwan National University, Taipei, May 12, 2018. “Competing Paradigms of Sustainability,” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, November 14, 2017. “The Bioethics of Metabolism: A Bridge to the Future?” Keynote Address, Frontiers in Metabolism Conference, École Polytechniche Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzterland, October 24, 2017. “Socio-Technical Imaginaries and the Future of Food,” Society for Philosophy and Technology Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany, June 16, 2017. “Archetypes for Food Ethics, Keynote Address, Tarim ve Gida Etiği Kongresi: Uluslarasi Katilimli, University of Ankara, March 10, 2017. “Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems,” and “Social Amplification of Risk,” The Harold Stoner Lectures, 2017, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, Feb. 21, 2017. “The Impact of What We Eat: From Science and Technology to Eating Local,” Science and Food Project, University of California at Los Angeles, March 8, 2016. “Author Meets Critics: From Field to Fork,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Portland OR, March 4, 2016. “Food for the Future: Ethical Archetypes for Future Food Systems,” Department of Philosophy, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, December 9, 2015. “The Emergence of Food Ethics,” Ihde Prize Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, December 2, 2015. “The Ethics of Soil,” Japanese Society of Soil Science Annual Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, September 5, 2015. “Engaging Ethics and Economics,” Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 28, 2015. Keynote Address, Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society Annual Meeting, Omaha, Feb. 6, 2014. “Is It Possible to Have an Ethics in the Food and Agricultural System?” SupAgro "CultureSciences" Lecture Series in partnership with Agropolis Foundation, CIRAD and the Unesco Chair World Food Systems. Montpellier, France, May 12, 2014. “Agricultural Ethics: Then and Now,” Centre for Bioethics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, March 24, 2014. “Food Safety, Food Security and the Social Amplification of Risk,” Keynote Address, Asia-Pacific Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics Inaugural Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 28, 2013. “The Changing Context for Farmed Animal Welfare Ethics”, Raymond H. and Sandra M. Cypess Speaker, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, Nov. 21, 2013. “Food Nanotechnology as Emerging Technology: Framing the Ethical Issues,” Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Sept. 26, 2013. “"My consumption makes no difference": individual responsibility for collective problems,” Panel Discussant, European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics, Uppsala, Sweden, Sept. 13, 2013. “Farm Animal Welfare and Ethics,” College of Natural Sciences, Linyi University, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China, May 14, 2013. “Hopes and Dreams for a Sustainable Food System: What Does the Future Hold?” Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, April 22, 2013. “Philosophers on Science Advisory Panels,” Workshop Session, Public Philosophy Network Conference, Emory University, March 15, 2013. “Three Challenges in Food Ethics: Security, Obesity and Cultural Identity,” Department of Philosophy, Smith College, Northampton, MA, Oct. 25, 2012. “Animal Ethics and the Evolution of Standards for Laying Hens in the United States,” Center for Animal Welfare, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, AU, June 18, 2012. “The Fundamental Problem in Food Ethics,” Center for Applied Philosophy and Practical Ethics, Canberra, AU, June 14, 2012; Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 19, 2012. “Three Problems in Food Ethics,” Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, Aug. 3, 2011; also delivered as the K. Schilling Memorial Lecture, Pennsylvania State University, August 29, 201i, and at American University, Washington, DC, October, 3, 2011. “Genetic Pollution,” Biotechnology in Agriculture Study Group, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 19, 2011. “Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change,” Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, April 13, 2011. “The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics,” Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT, March 29, 2011. “Food, Technology and the Philosophy of Agriculture,” Food: An MIT Boot Camp, The Knight Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, March 23, 2011. “After the Animal: Posthumanism and the Habit of Hunting,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA, March 11, 2011. “The Future of Philosophy: Panel Presentation,” A New Practice of Philosophy: Taking Philosophy Beyond Disciplinary Bounds Conference, North Texas University, Denton, TX, March 7, 2011. “Author Meets Critics: The Agrarian Vision,” Association for Professional and Practical Ethics Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, March 4, 2011. “The Fundamental Problem of Agricultural Ethics,” Frontiers in the Ethics of Science and Technology Research, Free University, Amsterdam, Feb. 23, 2011. “The Gap between Productivity and Sustenance: Making the Ethics Case for Agricultural Research,” Glasscock Lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Jan. 31, 2011. “From GMOs to Nano and Synbio: Lessons on the Ethics of Emerging Technology,” School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 23, 2011. “The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics,” Willson Center Distinguished Lecture, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Jan. 21, 2011. “The Not Very Sexy but Ethically Important Issues in Synthetic Biology,” Bioethics Symposium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Jan. 14, 2011. “Animal Welfare Standards,” National Research Council Board on Agriculture Workshop, Washington, DC, Nov. 9, 2010. “Public Philosophy,” Panel Presentation, The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA, Nov. 5, 2010. “What Makes Food Good? A Conversation with My Wife,” 46th Nobel Conference, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter Minnesota, October 6, 2010. “Agricultural Biotechnology: What Are the Ethical Issues?” Minnesota Science Museum, St. Paul, MN, October 3, 2010. “What Happened to Food Nanotechnology? A Case Study in Private Sector Science Policy,” Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Waterville Valley, NH, August 12, 2010. “Social Sustainability and Public Acceptability in Egg Production,” Poultry Science Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, July 14, 2010. “Ethical Issues in Animal Biotechnology,” Council on Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Congressional Staff Briefing, Longworth Building, Washington, DC, June 7, 2010. “Ethics and Agricultural Intensification,” Workshop on Diversity and Germplasm, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, April 14, 2010. “Animal Welfare Ethics and Public Expectations: The North American Outlook,” Swimming with the Tide: An Animal Welfare Symposium, American Veterinary Medical Association and Association for Veterinary Medical Education, East Lansing, MI, Nov. 9-11, 2009. “Conceptualizing Sustainability Science: The Role of Values,” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Alexandria, VA, Oct. 29-31, 2009. “Agrifood Nanotechnology: Is This Anything?” Keynote Address, European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics, Nottingham, UK, July 3, 2009. “Biotechnology’s Contributions to Sustainability,” 8th Annual Bioethics Forum, Biopharmaceutical Technology Center, Madison, WI, April 23, 2009. “Food Aid: Does it Help or Hurt?” Food for Thought Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, April 11, 2009. “Ethics and Food Production,” University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez, April 12, 2009. “The Ethics of Communicating Risk for Emerging Technology: Settled Norms, Open Questions and Enduring Controversies,” Workshop on Risk Communication and Emerging Technology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Jan. 8, 2009. “Ethical and Policy Analysis of Linkages between Public Perception and Oversight of Emerging Technologies,” (with J. Kuzma, U. Minnesota), Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. 9, 2008. “Panel Presentation: The Future of Food: Toward a Bioethics of Food,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, Oct. 24, 2008. “Social and Ethical Issues in Agricultural Nanotechnology,” RENANOSOMA, Natal, Brazil, October 13, 2008. “The GMO Debate,” Genome British Columbia Executive Council Retreat, Vancouver, BC, June 14, 2008. “Agricultural Biofuels: Two Key Ethical Issues,” Annual Meeting, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Columbus, Ohio, June 5, 2008. “The Green Revolution,” International Society for Environmental Ethics Meeting, Highlands Camp, CO, May 28, 2008. “Where is Agrifood Nanotechnology?” (with Bill Hannah), Conference on Consuming Nanotechnology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, May 19, 2008. “The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem,” Bioethics Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 15, 2008. “Emerging Technology and the Problem of Risk,” University of North Carolina-Charlotte, April 12, 2008. “Rethinking Sustainability,” Muskegon Community College, Muskegon, MI, April 4, 2008. “The Emergence of Food Ethics,” Swedish Food Agency, Uppsala, Sweden, March 18, 2008. “Harnessing Agriculture for Energy: The Ethical Issues,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, MA, Feb. 15, 2008. “The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem,” and “What Can Nanotechnology Learn from GMOs,” Presentations at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Nanotechnology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Oct. 19, 2007. “Ethical Bases of Sustainability,” European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics Meeting, Vienna, Austria, September 14, 2007. “Panel Participant on Biofuels,” World Agricultural Forum, St. Louis, MO, May 9, 2007. “The Opposite of Human Enhancement,” Workshop on Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April 14, 2007 “Author Meets Critics Commentary on Albert Borgmann’s Real American Ethics,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, April 7, 2007. “Animal Ethics 101,” Ethics and Animal Biotechnology Workshop sponsored by Michigan State University and the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, The National Press Club, Washington, DC, Oct. 18, 2006. “Ethical Bases of Sustainability,” European Association for Animal Production Meeting, Antalya, Turkey, September 17, 2006. “Sustainability in an Agrarian Key,” Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN, Aug. 9, 2006. “Connecting Economics with Ethics,” American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, July 25, 2006. “Ethics and Animal Biotechnology Revisited in Light of Bush Administration Science Policy,” American Association of Animal Science Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 12, 2006. “SEIN in NNIN,” Institute of Food Technologists Post Conference Workshop on Nanotechnology, Orlando, FL, June 29, 2006. “Ethical Issues in Industry/University Cooperation,” National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Annual Meeting, Ithaca, NY, June 16, 2006. “Food and Community,” Central European Pragmatist Forum, Szeged, Hungary, May 30, 2006. “Biotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem,” Presidential Lectures Series, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Feb. 14, 2005. “Mark Sagoff’s Kantian Environmental Philosophy,” American Philosophical Association, New York, NY, Dec. 29, 2005. “Ethics and Animal Well-being: Frontiers of Research,” Frontiers of Animal Agriculture Conference, CSIRO, Surfer’s Paradise, Australia, Oct. 12, 2005. “Exclusion Cost, Alienability and Rivalry: Three Institutional Factors for Technical Design,” Presidential Address, Society for Philosophy and Technology, Technical University-Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, July 21, 2005. “Science and Value Judgments in Assessing Risks from GM Crops,” Philosophy of Science Association, Austin, TX, Nov. 20, 2004. “Ethics, Hunger and GM Crops,” Homer Babcock Workshop on Ethics and World Hunger, CornellUniversity, Nov. 18, 2004. “Technological Innovation and Institutional Change,” American Philosophical Organization Conference on Philosophy and Technology, Newark, DE, Oct. 24, 2004. “Animal Rights, Animal Welfare and Animal Well-Being: How to Talk to the Outside World,” Future Trends in Animal Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture, Jefferson Auditorium, Washington D.C., September 22, 2004. “Ethics and Social Issues for Transgenic Insects,” Biotech Bugs: A Look at the Science and Public Policy Surrounding Release of Transgenic Insects, Pew Initiative on Food and Agricultural Biotechnology, Washington D.C., September 20, 2004. “Moral Economy and the Dark Side of Social Capital,” Panel Presentation, American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, August 2, 2004. “Animal Welfare and Animal Rights,” Heifer International, Little Rock, AK, July 29, 2004. “Polanyi and Pragmatism,” Central European Pragmatist Forum, Potsdam, Germany, June 4, 2004. “Values in Risk Assessment: The Case of GM Crops,” Department of Philosophy, University of Delft, Deft, The Netherlands, May 10, 2004. Visiting Scholar Lecture Series on Agricultural Biotechnology, WageningenUniversity and ResearchCenter, The Netherlands, May 12-June 2. “Value Judgments in Biotechnology Risk Assessment,” University of California at Davis, April 14, 2004. Panel Presentation, Genetic Prospects, Association for Professional and Practical Ethics, Cincinnati, OH, Feb. 28, 2004. Value Judgments and Risk Assessment for GM Crops, Iowa State University, Mar. 2, 2004. “Ethics and Agricultural Intensification,” FAO Conference on Ethics and Agricultural Intensification, Wye College, Imperial University, Wye, United Kingdom, Jan. 10, 2004. “Thomas Jefferson and Agrarian Philosophy,” (plus two other lectures), Taiwan National University, Taipei, December 8-11, 2003. “Technological Commodification,” American Political Science Association National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 30, 2003. “Rationality, Egoism and Ethics: Are They Equivalent?” American Agricultural Economics Association, July 28, 2003. “Research Ethics and Animal Biotechnology,” Presentation at the FRONTIS Workshop on Professional Ethics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, May 20, 2003. “Getting Pragmatic about Farm Animal Welfare,” Pacific Sociology Association meeting, Pasadena, CA, April 3, 2003. “The Labeling Issue as a Risk Management Approach,” Panel Presentation GE3LS Symposium 2003, Montreal, Canada, Feb. 8, 2003. “Biotechnology and the Natural: Extra-Medical Sources of Interpretation,” Paper Presentation, American Bioethics and Applied Humanities Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore Maryland, Oct. 25, 2002. “Discourse Ethics and Occasional Philosophy,” East European Pragmatist Forum, Krakow, Poland, June 12, 2002. “You Are NOT What You Eat,” Invited Plenary Address, Eat, Drink and Be Merry? A Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 5, 2002. “Shifty Risk Comparisons: Genetically Engineered and Conventionally Bred Crops,” Tanner Symposium, Utah State University, March 15, 2002. “Agricultural Biotechnology, Public Participation and Risk,” Panel Presentation, Association for Professional and Practical Ethics, Cincinnati, OH, March 1, 2002. “Ethical Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2002. “Animal Welfare, Cloning and Transgenics,” National Research Council Workshop on Animal Biotechnology, Washington, D.C. Nov. 18, 2001, excerpted on National Public Radio Morning Edition, Dec. 4, 2001. “Ethical Issues in Research Management: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology,” Invited Presentation, EUAGRI Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 18, 2001. “What Is ‘What You Eat’?” Convivium Satellite Session, American Philosophical Association Central Division, Minneapolis, MN, May 4, 2001. “Ethics and Agricultural Biotechnology: Why Is Everybody So Mad at Us?” College of Agriculture Symposium, Feb. 27, 2001; “Conceptualizing Risk: Issues for Interpretation, Communication and Public Involvement,” Environmental Policy Symposium, Feb. 28, 2001, both Ohio State University, Columbus. “Agricultural Biotechnology: Ethical and Cultural Issues,” Gordon Research Conference on Agricultural Science, Ventura Beach, CA, Feb. 11, 2001. “Agricultural Biotechnology, Justice and the Good,” Symposium on Governing GMO’s, President’s Centennial Series, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 1, 2001. “The Reshaping of Conventional Farming: A North American Perspective,” Invited Address, 2nd Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 26, 2000. Panel Presentation, The Precautionary Principle in Food Safety, The Embassy of France to the United States, Washington, DC, July 20, 2000. “Privacy, Secrecy and Security,” Conference on Computer Ethics and Philosophical Enquiry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, July 15, 2000. “Pragmatism and Biotechnology,” Summer Institute on American Philosophy, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, July 12 & 13, 2000. “Ethical Issues for Gene Technology: The Emerging Paradigm of Consumer Concerns,” Conference on Cloning and Transgenic Animals, Utah State University, June 19, 2000. Workshop Reporter, Transatlantic Platform on International Trade and Consumer Concerns, Lelystad, The Netherlands, June 16-17, 2000. “Bioethics Issues for the Biobased Economy,” National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 13, 2000. “GMO’s in Our Food,” Panel Presentation, National Consumer League Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, May 1, 2000. “Religious Tolerance and GMO’s,” Association of Popular Culture Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 21, 2000. “Understanding Consumer Attitudes and Values,” Institute for Animal Agriculture Inaugural Meeting, Corpus Christi, TX, April 11, 2000. “What’s the Problem with Animal Agriculture?” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, April 6, 2000. Panel Presentation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Providence R. I. April 1, 2000. “Ethics and Consumer Acceptance,” Conference on The Science and Controversy of GMO’s, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, March 4, 2000. “How Technology Changes Rights: The Case of Mechanization,” Department of Agricultural Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, March 3, 2000. “Walk a Mile in the European Consumer’s Shoes,” Delaware Governor’s Conference on Agriculture, Dover, DE, Feb. 27, 2000. “Cultural Integrity vs. Individual Consent: Further Thoughts on GMO’s in the Food System,” East-West Philosophy Conference, University of Hawaii, Jan. 13, 2000. “Defining the Agrarian Tradition,” Social Science History Association, Ft. Worth, TX, November 13, 1999. “Contentious Issues in Animal Agriculture: The Broader Context of Social and Environmental Concerns,” College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 1999. “Ethical Implications for International Trade Standards,” Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, November 2, 1999. “Against Mechanism,” (with A. A. Schmid) American Association of Agricultural Economics Annual Meeting, Aug. 10, 1999, Nashville, TN. “The Environmental Ethics Case for Crop Biotechnology,” Meeting of the Society for Applied Ethics, Oxford University, June 28, 1999; American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, May 7, 1999; University of Missouri, Columbia, May 25, 1999. “Consumer Acceptance of Biotechnology: The Ethics of Optimization and Consent,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1, 1999. “Envisioning the Future,” Panel Presentation, First European Congress on Agriculture and Food Ethics, Wageningen, The Netherlands, March 5, 1999. “Jefferson and Agrarianism,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Eugene OR, Feb. 26, 1999. “Conceptualizing Risk for Food Safety,” National Research Council Working Group on Science and Trade, Irvine, CA, Jan. 26, 1999. “Food Safety and the Ethics of Consent,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, CA, January 22, 1999. “Ethics and Biotechnology,” Cornell University, October 2, 1998. “The Ethics of Livestock Cloning,” American Society of Animal Science/American Dairy Science Association Meeting, Denver CO, Aug. 3, 1998. “Ethical Issues,” Workshop on Biotechnology, The Foundation for Nutritional Advancement, The Johns Hopkins University Center, Bologna, Italy, Nov. 17, 1997. “Can Modern Farming Recapture the Spirit of the Soil?” Keynote Address, The Soul of Agriculture Conference, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 14, 1997, sponsored by the Center for Respect of Life and the Environment. “Sustainable Livestock Production: Methodological and Ethical Challenges,” European Allied Animal Production Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Aug. 26, 1997. “From a Philosopher’s Perspective, What Should Animal Scientists Do to Meet the Challenge of Contentious Issues,” American Animal Science Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, July 31, 1997. “Consumer Acceptance: The Final Stage of Technology Acceptance: Ethical Issues,” Workshop on Transgenic Animals, Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, Stockholm, Sweden, May 23, 1997. “Value Frames and Ethics for Resource Management,” Invited Address, Confluences Conference ‘97, Oregon State University, at Newport, OR, May 17, 1997. “Ethics and Food Safety,” Ph.D. Workshop on the Social Construction of Food, Centre for Rural Studies Research, Norwegian Science and Technological University, Trondheim, Norway, April 14, 1997. “Three Teaching Cases for Natural Resource Management,” Association for Professional and Practical Ethics, Washington, D.C., March 9, 1997. “Value Frames and Natural Resource Management,” Society for Range Management, Rapid City, S.D.Feb. 9, 1997. “Animal Biotechnology: Social and Ethical Issues,” The Third Asia Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Prachuab Kirikhan, Thailand, November 11, 1996. “Sustainability as a Norm,” Society for Philosophy and Technology, Puebla, Mexico, October 30, 1996. “Food Biotechnology’s Challenge to Cultural Integrity and Individual Consent,” Inaugural Jesselson Symposium on Technology, Ethics and Judaism, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, October 7, 1996. “The Varieties of Sustainability in Livestock Farming,” 4th International Livestock Farming Systems Symposium, Research Centre Foulum, Denmark, August 22, 1996. “Markets, Moral Economy and the Ethics of Sustainable Agriculture,” Symposium on Rural Reconstruction in a Market Economy, Mansholt Institute, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, December 14, 1995. “Farming as Focal Practice,” Conference on Technology and the Character Contemporary Life, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 30, 1995. “Moral Economy in The Grapes of Wrath,” Agriculture, Food and Human Values Annual Meeting, Tuskegee University, AL, June 10, 1995. “Biotechnology, Food Labels and the Ethics of Consent,” Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 24, 1995. “Ethics, Prediction and Environmental Science,” ISPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on the Environment, Yale University, April 14, 1995. “Technological Responsibility: Imperative or Oxymoron?” North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, March 27, 1995. “The Moral Significance of Land,” Program on Agrarian Studies Seminar, Yale University, March 4, 1995. “Sustainability from Seed to Nation State,” American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Feb. 17, 1995. "Balancing Diversity and Values in Public Policy Education," Keynote Address at National Public Policy Education Conference, Boise, ID, Sept. 1994. University of Nebraska, 3 lectures: "What's Holistic About Holism," "Ethical Issues in Biotechnology," and "Workshop on Ethics and Agricultural Research." Oct. 2-4, 1994. “Animal Biotechnology and Ethical Issues,” University of California, Davis, CA, April 12, 1994. "Conceptions of Property and the Biotechnology Debate," American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, February 1994. "Social Consequences," presentation at the African Workshop on Biosafety, USAID, Cairo, Egypt, January, 1994. "Ethical Worldviews and Decision Making and Agriculture" Keynote Address at Decision Making in Agriculture: The Role of Ethics, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 20-22, 1994. "Risks and Responsibilities in Modern Agriculture," International Conference on Issues in Agricultural Bioethics, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, England, September 13-17, 1993. "Environment, Development and the Rhetoric of International Consensus," Conference on Communication and Our Environment, Big Sky, Montana, July 23-25, 1993. "Is Sustainable Agriculture a Fascist Ideology?" annual meeting of the Agricultural Food and Human Values Society, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1993. "Social and Ethical Issues in Biosafety," Latin American/Caribbean Biosafety Workshop, sponsored by USAID, Oracabessa, Jamaica, May 10-13, 1993. "Agricultural Philosophy: A Ten Year Look," American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 22, 1993. "Food Security and Technocentrism in Agriculture," An Environmental Ethics Perspective on Canadian Policy for Sustainable Development, Institute for Research on Environment and Economy, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 2, 1992. "Biotechnology: Problem or Solution?" Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala, Sweden, Aug. 17, 1992. "Normative Studies of Agricultural Science," Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, Aug. 15, 1992. "Some Common Elements of Ethical Choices," Conference on Ethics in Agricultural Research, The Rockefeller Foundation USDA/CSRS, Bellagio, Italy, April 8, 1992. "Designing Animals: Ethical Issues for Genetic Engineers," American Dairy Science Association National Meeting, Utah State University, Logan, UT, Aug. 13, 1991. "Agrarianism and American Thought," American Studies Institute, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, July 3, 1991. "Animals in the Agrarian Ideal," International Conference on Farm Animal Welfare: Ethical, Scientific and Technological Perspectives, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Queenstown, MD, June 7-10, 1991. "The Varieties of Sustainability," Agriculture Food and Human Values Society Presidential Address, Asilomar CA, May 12, 1991. "Values in the Applied Science Laboratory," Society for Philosophy and Technology Meeting, Reciento Universidad de Mayaguez, University of Puerto Rico, March 10, 1991. "Ethical Issues in Biotechnology: Ice Minus, BST and Other Inventions," Cornell University, March 7, 1991. "Constitutional Values and the American food System," Institute for Alternative Agriculture, Washington, DC, March 6, 1991. "Foreign Aid, Agricultural Trade, and the True Interests of U.S. Agriculture," Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Jan. 28, 1991. "Ethical Dimensions of Agricultural Research and Education" The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Nov. 26, 1990 "Internalizing Values for Agricultural Research," American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 17, 1990. "Animal Welfare and Animal Rights," to Ohio Dairy Farmers Federation Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, Jan. 15, 1990. "Biotechnology and the Political Evaluation of Risk," University of Missouri, Columbia, Dec. 7, 1989. "Values in Food Production," Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology International Conference, University of Guelph, Ontario, Oct. 15, 1989. "Agricultural Biotechnology and the Politics of Risk," University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Sept. 15, 1989. "Burke, Bentham, and Biotechnology," Society for Philosophy and Technology, International Meeting, University of Bordeaux, July 1, 1989. "Risk Objectivism and Risk Subjectivism: When Are Risks Real?" Public Participation in Risk Management: Ethics, Science and Law, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, Oct. 13, 1988. "Agriculture, Biotechnology, and the Political Evaluation of Risk," Panel Presentation, National Meeting, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, Sept. 3, 1988. "Ethical Issues in Agriculture: The Importance of Recognition and Debate," The University of Wyoming, Feb. 19, 1988. "Philosophical Aspects of the Concept of Risk," Resources For the Future, Washington, DC, Dec. 4, 1986. "Welfare and Rights," Department of Animal Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Nov. 19, 1986. "Ethics and Myth in Agricultural Sustainability," Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 28, 1986. "The Social Goals of Agriculture from Thomas Jefferson to the 21st Century," GTE Symposium on Agriculture in the 21st Century, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, Oct. 28, 1985. "Of Cabbages and Kings," Society for Value Inquiry, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, April 28, 1985. "Teaching the Problems of Agricultural Technology," Fifth International Conference on Teaching Philosophy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, Aug. 14, 1984. "Technological Risk Assessment and Ethical Policy Decision Making," Conference on Ethics in the Professions, University of Northern Kentucky, Oct. 5, 1982. "Why Subways Have to Be Safer Than Highways," National Conference on Engineering Ethics, RPI, June 14, 1980. Grants and Contracts: Lead PI unless otherwise noted National Science Foundation, Michigan Animal Agriculture Alliance, “Development of low cost biometrics of sow body composition and locomotion to improve individual sow health and welfare.” MAAA 18-025. Madonna Benjamin, Lead PI, $50,000. Funded August 2018. Michigan Animal Agriculture Alliance, “Attitudes toward Animal Agriculture: Understanding and Influencing Attitudes Using Experiential Learning,” $50,000 funded November, 2015. National Institute for Standards and Technology, “Fostering Standards Literacy at an R1 Institution,” 70NANB15H339, $74,997, funded September 2015 National Institute for Standards and Technology, “Toward Standards-Literate Citizens: Curricular Materials and Educational Strategies.” 60NANB12D254, $25,000 funded September 2012. Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University, Portland, OR. Personal Services Contract, Consulting on environmental philosophy and on interdisciplinary research with the IGERT on Ecosystem Services in Urbanizing Regions, $60,000 finalized Oct. 1, 2011. National Science Foundation, “Anticipatory Workshop on Biosensors in the Agrifood Sector,” SES-1055542 Lead P.I. $50, 689, Funded Aug. 2010. World Health Organization/Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, “Contract for Contributions to a Framework for Field Testing Transgenic Mosquitoes,” $10,000, funded April, 2010. The Sloan Foundation, Ethics and Synthetic Biology, Collaborating P.I. with the J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, $174,439 funded Aug. 2009. U.S. Department of Agriculture/CSREES. “Social Sustainability in Egg Production,” (Co. P.I. with Janice Swanson and Joy Mench) $400,000, funded Aug. 2007. National Science Foundation, “NIRT: Building Capacity for Social and Ethical Research and Education in Agrifood Nanotechnology,” $1,720,000, SES-0403847 funded Aug. 2004. Genome BC, Vancouver BC, Contract for advice on structure and review of social and ethical issues research portfolio, September 2007, $7500. MSU/Pew Initiative on Food and Agricultural Biotechnology Collaboration. “Ethical Issues in Animal Biotechnology and Cloning,” $2000 MSU, $180,000 Pew, Jan. 2005-March 2007. National Science Foundation, “Third Party Certification in Food and Agriculture: A Study in Values and Science,” (Co P.I. with Lawrence Busch, Lead P.I.), $250,000, funded July, 2004. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Contract for multiple projects on intensification and biotechnology, US$20,000. Approved, February, 2003. Purdue Research Foundation, “Transnational Cosmopolitanism,” Dissertation Research Award for J. Todd Ferguson, $28,500, funded Aug. 2002. Genome Canada, Contract for Review of Research Proposals, US$7,000. Approved January, 2002. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Contract for White Paper/Expert Consultation on Ethics, Food Safety and the Right to Food, $6000. Approved December, 2001. Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Commission, White Paper on Ethical Issues in Food Biotechnology, CA$23,000, Contract Approved June 15, 2000. Purdue Center for Information Assurance and Security, Ethics in Education for Computer Professionals, $15,000, funded June 2000. Purdue Center for Information Assurance and Security, Philosophical Issues in Information Technology, $18,500, funded June 1999. Purdue Research Foundation, “Morality of the Group,” Dissertation Research Award for Mary Lyn Stoll, $27,400, funded Aug. 1998. National Science Foundation, “Ethical Issues for Food Biotechnology: A North America-Europe Comparison,” SBR9602968, $49,797, funded April 1997. Texas Advanced Technology Research Program, “Improving and Implementing Risk Assessment, Part II,” $49,000, funded Sept. 1995. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, Grant for Three Satellite Teleconferences on Agricultural Ethics (with A. Powell), $19,000, funded Sept. 1994. Texas Advanced Technology Research Program, "Improving and Implementing Risk Assessment of Agricultural Practice," (with D. Vietor) $59,300 funded Sept. 1993. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Service, "Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Managing Dairy Waste," (with D. Vietor and B. Harris) $150,000 funded Sept. 1993. National Science Foundation, Ethics and Value Studies, "Sustainability as a Norm," $88,000 funded Oct. 1992, renewed June 1994, $25,000, renewed April 1995, $10,000. The Rockefeller Foundation, Division of Arts and Humanities, "Ethics and Agricultural Development," $23,701 funded Sept. 1992; $37,780 renewed Dec. 1992; $15,000 renewed April 1993. The National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Contract to support NABC Conference at Texas A&M, $25,000 approved Feb. 1992. Texas Advanced Technology Research Program, "Assessing and Integrating Risks of Agricultural Practice" (With D. Vietor and M.L. Wolfe) $95,621 funded Oct. 1991. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Higher Education, Grant for Developing AG*SAT Broadcast of agricultural ethics course, (With D. Vietor) $59,000, funded Oct. 1991. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Higher Education, Grant for Development of Case Studies in Agricultural Ethics (With D. Vietor, co-P.I.) $43,000 funded Oct. 1990. Texas Advanced Technology Research Program, "Risk Assessment for Agricultural Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Considerations" (With B. Stout, co-P.I.): $89,000 funded Oct. 1989. The National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values Studies, Grant to study the social and ethical goals of agricultural research decisions (With B. Stout, co-P.I.): $112,599 funded Aug.1988. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, Grant for research on conflicts of interest between U.S. agricultural producers and farmers in the developing world: $6000 funded July, 1988. The Rockefeller Foundation, Grant to support international travel for Council on Foreign Relations IAF Fellowship: $19,500 funded Jan. 1987. Council on Foreign Relations, through funds of the MacArthur Foundation, salary stipend for International Affairs Fellowship: $30,000 funded Sept. 1986. College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, Departmental Development Grant for workshops on agriculture and business ethics: $7000 funded Dec. 1985. W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Grant for curriculum development in agriculture and liberal arts: $99,184 funded Sept. 1984. Texas Committee for the Humanities, The Land Myth in Texas Agriculture symposium: $7,135 funded Sept. 1984. Franklin J. Machette Foundation, seminar on artificial intelligence: $1300 funded July 1984. Major Professional Affiliations: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Member American Philosophical Association, Member, Central Division Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Member Society for Agriculture, Food and Human Values, Member, President 1991-1993 Society Philosophy and Technology, Member; Vice-President, 2002-2003; President, 2004-2005 International Society for Environmental Ethics, Member, Secretary, 2003-2006. Society for Risk Analysis, Charter Member International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Member European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics, Member Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Member Paul B. Thompson Vita 3/13/2024 2