Michigan State University

Department of Philosophy

Paul Thompson

W.K. Kellogg Chair
in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics

Degree:

Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Teaching Areas:

Ethics, philosophy of technology, social and political philosophy and continental philosophy

Interests:

Professor Thompson is the author of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics; The Ethics of Aid and Trade; Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, and co-editor of The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. He has served on many national and international committees on agricultural biotechnology and contributed to the National Research Council report The Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants. He is a Past President of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Society for Philosophy and Technology, and is Secretary of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. He has continuing interests in environmental and agricultural ethics.

Address:

526 S. Kedzie Hall
Michigan State University
Department of Philosophy
East Lansing, MI 48824-1032
Email:  thomp649@msu.edu
Telephone: (517) 432-8345

330 Natural Resources
Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies
Telephone: (517) 432-0317

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