Ethics and Risk Communication

Paul Thompson

Saturday, 14 May 2011 at 11:00 am – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union

Professor Thompson is the author of 13 books and editions, such as 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. Part of the Summer Symposium on the Ethical Challenges of Communicating Science within Political Controversies.

Cosponsored By:

• Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
• Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
• Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)