Food, Genetic Engineering and Philosophy of Technology Magic Bullets, Technological Fixes and Responsibility to the Future /

• Main Author: Scott, N. Dane (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 28
• Subjects: Ethics.; Agriculture.; Genetic engineering.; Agricultural Ethics.; Genetic Engineering.

This book describes specific, well-known controversies in the genetic modification debate and connects them to deeper philosophical issues in philosophy of technology. It contributes to the current, far-reaching deliberations about the future of food, agriculture and society. Controversies over so-c...

Table of Contents:

• Genetically Engineering and Philosophy of Technology: Technological Fixes, Magic Bullets and the Faustian Bargain
• Chapter 1: "Four Keys Concepts for Understanding the Biotechnology Dilemma: Magic Bullets, Technological Fixes, Faustian Bargains and Big Science"
• Chapter 2: "At the Crossroads of Philosophy Technological: Optimism, Pessimism or Pragmatism"
• Chapter 3: "Magic Bullets and Productionist Paradigm: Biotechnology or Agroecology"
• Chapter 4: "Technological Fixes: Golden Rice and Social Change"
• Chapter 5: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice meets Chicken Little: Risk versus Precaution"
• Chapter 6: "Scientists, Can we trust them? Biotechnology, Big Science and Vested Interests"
• Chapter 7: "Science, Agriculture and the Good Life: Biotechnology at the Crossroads to the Future"
• Chapter 8: "The Faustian Bargain: Realism and Idealism in the GM debate.