Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture

Dr. Samantha Noll is an Assistant Professor in The School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (PPPA) at Washington State University. She is also the bioethicist affiliated with the Functional Genomics Initiative, which applies genome editing in agriculture research. Her research agenda focuses on teasing out ethical, social, and environmental implications of agriculture biotechnology, food systems, and other food-related technological innovations. Noll publishes widely on values and agriculture, food sovereignty and food security, food related policy, and local food movements.Dr. Zachary Piso is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Sustainability Scholar through the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton. His work explores the social and ethical values at stake in environmental science, especially in interdisciplinary environmental research that draws on the social sciences in explanations of environmental change and resilience. Recently he is exploring ethical and epistemic questions arising in food systems research, including an ongoing study of ecological citizenship and environmental governance in Rust Belt urban agriculture. These public philosophical engagements emphasize stakeholder engagement and participatory methodologies that tie together interests in environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, and American pragmatism.

• Thompson’s Pluralist Philosophy: Fields, Farmers, Food, and Forks.- Methods for Engaged Philosophy.- Sustainability as cultural repertoire.- Through forks to fields: Backcasting workshops in Japan for designing sustainable local food systems.- The promise in disasters: Reducing epistemic deficits of foods systems for sustainability.- Sustainability, agrarian ideals, and focal practices.- What do we mean by ‘industrial agriculture’? The examples of the Irish and UK dairy sectors.- Philosophy of agricultural science and biotechnology: products, processes, and standards.- Functions of pragmatism: Adding food and agricultural valuation to the philosophy of technology.- Social imaginaries and archetypes: What are we talking about?.- Food, focal practices, and decolonial agriculture.- The opposition to animal enhancement.- Agriculture and Agrarianism.- Futures of Food Ethics.- Reflection.