Kristin Shrader-Frechette is distinguished research professor in philosophy and in environmental sciences and policy at the University of South Florida. She holds degrees in mathematics, physics, and philosophy. She is the author of numerous books, including Ethics of Scientific Research (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994). Laura Westra is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Windsor and the author or editor of numerous books, including An Environmental Proposal for Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), Faces of Environmental Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), Perspectives on Ecological Integrity (Kluwer), The Greeks and the Environment (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and Technology and Values (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). Bill Lawson is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.
12 Ebooks door Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Ethics of Scientific Research
Challenging long-held theories of scientific rationality and remoteness, Kristin Shrader-Frechette argues that research cannot be ‘value free.’ Rather, any research will raise important moral issues …
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette & Laura Westra: Technology and Values
Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors …
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€124.39
Roger M. Cooke: Experts in Uncertainty
This book is an extensive survey and critical examination of the literature on the use of expert opinion in scientific inquiry and policy making. The elicitation, representation, and use of expert …
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Environmental Justice
Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed …
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Tainted
Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a …
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette: What Will Work
What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable …
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€31.71
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Environmental Justice
Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed …
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€45.52
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Taking Action, Saving Lives
In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60, 000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 …
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€25.93
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: What Will Work
What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable …
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€32.92
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Risk Analysis and Scientific Method
Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and …
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€57.14
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology
If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public …
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€163.42
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Nuclear Power and Public Policy
This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human- ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec- tion Agency in 1976 and 1977. As a result of the generosity of these two …
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