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Kevin C. Elliott
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Roles for Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science in Environmental Policy
In recent years, philosophers of science have taken renewed interest in pursuing scholarship that is “socially engaged.” As a result, this scholarship has become increasingly relevant to public policy. In orde...
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The Future of Adverse Outcome Pathways: Analyzing their Social Context
This chapter places the development of adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) in their social context. It begins by highlighting the intense social and political polarization that currently exists around environmenta...
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Value Judgments in Environmental Risk Assessments
Risk assessments play an important role in decisions about how to regulate environmental pollutants that contribute to climate change as well as to other human and environmental health threats. While the proce...
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Climate Geoengineering
Climate geoengineering is in many ways a “poster child” for the value of the argumentative approach to decision analysis. It is fraught with so many different kinds of uncertainty that the reductive approach d...
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Risk, Precaution, and Nanotechnology
One of the primary concerns regarding emerging technologies is the ecological and human health impacts that engineered chemicals and materials can have when released into the environment. In this chapter, Kevi...
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Ethical and Societal Values in Nanotoxicology
This chapter has explored a variety of ways that ethical and societal values associated with environmental policy making move “upstream” into the practice of policy-relevant scientific research. In the case of...
