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Moral conflict in agriculture: Conquest or moral coevolution?

Moral conflict in agriculture: Conquest or moral coevolution? Moral Conflict in Agriculture: Conquest or Moral Coevolution? Philip T. Shepand Phil Shepard is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Lyman Briggs School and Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. He has taught Philosophy of Technology for over 10 years and is currently starting up a two-year research project supported by the Ethics and Values in Science and Technology Program at the Na- tional Science Foundation (EVlST) to map value systems in agricultural controversy. Agriculture today finds itself at the FACTS AND VALUES focus of numerous moral controversies, for example: whether increases in The traditional demand to distinguish productivity morally justify a facts from values provides a familiar decreased quality of rural life and starting point. We habitually think concentration of rural economic and that facts are irrefutable descrip- political power in the hands of a few tions of actual states of affairs in large agri-businesses; to what extent, the world. They are the objective and if any, it is morally permissible that ultimate touchstones of science, short term increases in production independent of opinion and preference. jeopardize long run sustainability; Values, however, are subjective, whether researchers bear some moral slippery and soft, endlessly variable responsibility for the social and unverifiable. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Moral conflict in agriculture: Conquest or moral coevolution?

Shepard, Philip
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 1 (4) – Apr 5, 2005
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Springer Journals
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1007/BF01535975
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Moral Conflict in Agriculture: Conquest or Moral Coevolution? Philip T. Shepand Phil Shepard is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Lyman Briggs School and Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. He has taught Philosophy of Technology for over 10 years and is currently starting up a two-year research project supported by the Ethics and Values in Science and Technology Program at the Na- tional Science Foundation (EVlST) to map value systems in agricultural controversy. Agriculture today finds itself at the FACTS AND VALUES focus of numerous moral controversies, for example: whether increases in The traditional demand to distinguish productivity morally justify a facts from values provides a familiar decreased quality of rural life and starting point. We habitually think concentration of rural economic and that facts are irrefutable descrip- political power in the hands of a few tions of actual states of affairs in large agri-businesses; to what extent, the world. They are the objective and if any, it is morally permissible that ultimate touchstones of science, short term increases in production independent of opinion and preference. jeopardize long run sustainability; Values, however, are subjective, whether researchers bear some moral slippery and soft, endlessly variable responsibility for the social and unverifiable.

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Published: Apr 5, 2005

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