Professor Paul B. Thompson
Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D. is W.K. Kellogg Chair
in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy,
Michigan State University.
Paul 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 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.
Paul’s professional interests include:
- American pragmatist approaches in practical ethics
- Environmental ethics
- Risks and ethics of agricultural and food biotechnology
- Science policy
- Philosophy of technology
- Philosophy of economics
Paul earned his B.A. at Emory University in 1974, his M.A. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980.
Read Ask the Experts: Paul Thompson Interview, Old Food Meets New Technologies, Leaves Food For Thought, and The new bioeconomy not without ethical quandaries.
Read his LinkedIn profile.
