Carl F. Cranor

Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., UCLA, 1971

HMNSS 3220
carl.cranor@ucr.edu
(951) 827-2353

Education:

University of Colorado, B.A. 1966 (Cum Laude, Mathematics and General Studies)
Major: Mathematics; Minor: Physics

University of California, Los Angeles
Cand. Phil., 1970 (Philosophy)
Ph.D., 1971 (Philosophy)

Yale Law School
Master of Studies in Law (MSL), 1981

Employment:

7/99-6/2000	Special Assistant to the Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
7/94 - 6/99	Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
6/93 -7/94	Interim Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
9/90 - 7/93	Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
9/86 - 11/87	Consultant, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment
9/85 - 8/86	Congressional Fellow ( U.S., Congress, Office of Technology Assessment)
7/83 - 8/89	University of California, Riverside , Chair, Philosophy Department
7/71 - present	University of California, Riverside , Assistant, Associate, Full Professor (IX)

Area of Specialization:

Legal and Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Law and Science, Philosophy of Risk Assessment

Research Interests:

Honors and Awards:

Grants Received:

U.C. Regents' Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1974

U. C. Regents' Humanities Institute Fellowship, Spring 1976

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship, 1976

Institute on Law and Ethics (NEH and Rockefeller sponsored), Summer 1977 and Spring 1979

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1980-81

Institute on Kantian Ethical Thought (NEH sponsored), Summer 1983

Congressional Fellowship, American Philosophical Association, 1985-86

University of California, Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program for the “UCR Carcinogen Risk Assessment Project” ($242,000, no overhead), Principal Investigator, 1987-90

Grant from IBM Corporation to install the UCR Philosophy Dept. Logic Lab, July 1989 ($165,000 no overhead; equipment and funds)

National Science Foundation Grant, “Evidentiary Procedures for Carcinogen Risk Assessment,” ($71,660, w/overhead), 1990-1993), Principal Investigator

University of Houston Law Center , Environmental Liability Project ($7,500 no overhead)

University of California Humanities Research Institute, ($150,000), for Ethical Issues in Genetics and Genetic Technologies, 15-week in-residence Faculty Seminar, 1991 (Organizer and Convenor).

University of California , Biotechnology Research and Education Program, “Ethical Issues in Genetics and Genetic Technology” ($50,000 no overhead) Co-Principal Investigator with Mark Rose, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute, for 1991.

National Science Foundation Grant, “An Evaluation of the Desirability of Evidentiary Procedures for Identifying Carcinogens,” ($77,927, w/overhead), 1994-1996), Principal Investigator

National Science Foundation Scholars Award, “The Normative Foundations of Comparative Risk Judgments,” ($65,000, w/overhead) (NSF # SBR-9512060), 1996-1998.

University of California , Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, $7,500 (1999-2000)

National Science Foundation, “A Philosophic and Scientific Investigation of the Use of Scientific Evidence in Toxic Tort Law,” 160,000 (2000-2004) (NSF #99-10952) (Supplement with a Research Experience for Graduate Student--$4,000; 2002-2003)

University of California , Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, $10,000 (2001-present)

University of California , Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, “Understanding and Evaluating Expert Testimony in Toxic Tort Law,” dissertation support for David Strauss, $23,289 (2003-4)

National Academy of Sciences Committees:

National Academy of Sciences Panel to Czechoslovakian Academy of Science, “Pesticides and Agriculture: Risks and Alternatives,” April 3-15, 1990

Institute of Medicine Committee to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental Health, and Safety Regulation, 2004-2006.

Science Advisory Panels:

State of California Proposition 65 Science Advisory Panel (1989 - 92)

Science Advisory Panel, Electric and Magnetic Fields Program, California Department of Health Sciences and the Public Health Institute (1999-2002)

University of California Systemwide Committees (Selected):

Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (1983-84)

Executive Committee, University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program (1989-2002)

University of California's President's Committee on the Humanities Initiative (1993-99)

University of California Oversight Committee of the National Laboratories, Environmental Health and Safety Subcommittee (1994-97)

Peer Review Panels (Selected):

Coordinating Board, University of California Water Resources Center (1987-1993)

National Science Foundation, Ethics and Value Studies (1992-1994)

U.C. Biotechnology Research and Education Program (1995-96)

National Science Foundation, Population Biology, Human Genome Diversity Project (1996)

National Science Foundation, Site Visit Team, University of Chicago 's Science and Technology Center (January, 1999)

Executive Committee, University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program (1989-present)

National Science Foundation, Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnology, 2003

Scholarly Activities

Selected Publications (from most recent)

Books/Monographs:

Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of the New Genetics, ed. C. Cranor. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994) (271 pp.)

Reviewed in

Choice (1995)
Medical Humanities Review Vol. 9 (1995)
Finnish Journal of Social Medicine (1995)
History and Philosophy of Life Sciences (1996)

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) (277 pp.). (Paperback 1997)

Reviewed in

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (1993),
Nature (1993)
The Environmental Forum (1993)
Ecology Law Quarterly (1993)
Choice (1993)
Shepard's Expert & Scientific Evidence Quarterly (1993)
Issues in Science & Technology (1993)
Law and Social Inquiry (1993)
Journal of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (1994)
Risk: Issues in Safety & the Environment (1994) (with reply)
The Times Higher Education Supplement (1994)
Human and Experimental Toxicology (1994)
Chemical & Engineering News ( 1994)
Ethics (1995)
Environmental History Review (1995)
Journal of Applied Philosophy (1996)
Jurimetrics: Journal of Law, Science and Technology (1997) (with reply, 1998)
Northwestern University Law Review (1998)

Eric Reichard, Carl Cranor, Robert Rancher, Giovanni Zapponi, Groundwater Risk Assessment: A Guide to Understanding and Managing Uncertainties (International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 1990) (204 pp.).

Office of Technology Assessment, Identifying & Regulating Carcinogens (U.S. Government Printing Office, Nov. 1987) (co-author of the report) (251 pp.).

Articles:

“Scientific Inferences in the Laboratory and the Law”, forthcoming in the American Journal of Public Health (37 ds. ms. pp.)

"The Science Veil over Toxic Tort Law: How Should Scientific Evidence Be Used in Toxic Tort Law?" forthcoming in Law and Philosophy, 2004.

“ Assessing Some of the Regulatory Approaches to Transgenic Plants: What Can We Learn from the Regulation of Other Technologies?” Envrionmental Biosafety Research 3 (2004) 29-43.

“Some Legal Implications of the Precautionary Principle: Improving Information Generation and Legal Protections,” the European Journal of Oncology, Library Vol. 2 (2003), pp. 31-51. [Invited]

“Toward Understanding Aspects of the Precautionary Principle,” the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (In press for 2004).

“How Should Society Approach the Real and Potential Risks Posed by New Technologies?” Editor's Choice Series in Agricultural Ethics, Plant Physiology, pp. 3-9 (2003). [Invited]

“Science in the Law in the U.S. : Some Philosophic Issues and Recent Legal Trends,” Politeia: Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche, Anno XIX, N. 70 (2003), pp. 95-106.

“ Daubert and the Acceptability of Legal Decisions,” the Law and Philosophy Newsletter November, 2003.

"Justice, Inference to the Best Explanation and the Judicial Evaluation of Scientific Evidence,” Topics in Contemporary Philosophy: Vol III: Law and Social Justice, ed. Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and David Shier ( Cambridge , MA :MIT Press, In press for 2004) (63 ds. ms. pp.) [Invited]

“What Could Precautionary Science Be? Research for Early Warnings and a Better Future,” in Precaution: Environmental Science and Preventive Public Policy, ed. Joel A. Tickner ( Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2003), pp. 305-320. [Invited]

“Scientific Expertise and Policy Decisions in a Technological Society: Finding Appropriate Scientific Support for Public Health Protections,” Risk in Contemporary Society, ed. J. L. Lujan (forthcoming, Madrid : Biblioteca Nueva, 2004) (61 ds. ms. Pp.) [Invited].

"Learning from the Law to Address Uncertainty in the Precautionary Principle," Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 7, (2001), pp. 313-326.

“The Regulatory Context for Environmental and Workplace Health Protections: Recent Developments,” The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics, ed. Norman Bowie (Oxford, UK and Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 77-101 [Invited]

“Scientific Ignorance and Reliable Patterns of Evidence in Toxic Tort Causation: Is There a Need for Liability Reform?” (with David A. Eastmond) Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol.64, No. 4 (Autumn 2001), pp. 5-48. [Invited].

Cited in

Amicus Briefs, Rider v. Sandoz, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (2001)

Blanchard v. Eli Lilly & Co., 207 F.Supp.2d 308 (D.Vt, Mar 29, 2002 )

"Risk Assessment, Susceptible Subpopulations and Environmental Equity," The Law of Environmental Justice, ed. Michael B. Gerrard (The American Bar Association: 1999), pp. 307-356. [Invited]

"Asymmetric Information, the Precautionary Principle and Burdens of Proof in Environmental Health Protections," Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle, ed. Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel Tickner (Washington, D.C., Island Press: 1999), pp. 74-99 [Invited].

"Empirically and Institutionally Rich Legal and Moral Philosophy”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol. XXIII, pp. 286-311. [Invited]

"Discerning the Effects of Toxic Substances: Using Science without Distorting the Law" Jurimetrics: Journal of Law, Science and Technology Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 545-552 (1998).

“Eggshell Skulls and Loss of Hair from Fright: Some Moral and Legal Principles that Protect Susceptible Subpopulations,” Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Vol. 4, pp. 239-245 (1997) [Invited]

"The Precautionary Principle: Scientific Uncertainty and Type I and Type II Errors," John Lemons, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, and Carl Cranor, Foundations of Science, Vol. 2, pp. 207-236 (1997).

“The Normative Nature of Risk Assessment: Features and Possibilities,” 8 Risk: Health, Safety and Environment, pp. 123-136 (Spring 1997) [Invited].

"A Philosophy of Risk Assessment and the Law: A Case Study of the Role of Philosophy in Public Policy," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 85, pp. 135-162 (1997). [Invited]

"Judicial Boundary-Drawing and the Need for Context-Sensitive Science in Toxic Torts after Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical ", (with David A. Eastmond and John G. Fischer), 16 The Virginia Environmental Law Journal, pp. 1-77 (1996)

Cited in

Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner , 953 S.W.2d 706, 40 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 846 (July 9, 1997)

Respondents Briefs, General Electric v. Joiner , Case No. 96-188, U.S. Supreme Court (1997).

Blanchard v. Eli Lilly & Co . , 207 F.Supp.2d 308 (D.Vt, Mar 29, 2002)

“Some Generic Strategies for Addressing Uncertainty in Risk Assessment” in Assessing and Managing Health Risks from Drinking Water Contaminants: Approaches and Applications, ed. Eric G. Reichard and Giovanni A. Zapponi (Wallingford, England: International Association of Hydrological Sciences Press, IAHS Publication #233, 1995), pp. 195-207. [Invited]

“The Use of Comparative Risk Judgments in Risk Management,” in Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Principles, Methods and Applications, ed. Fan, A.M. and Chang, L.W. (Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1995), pp. 817-833. [Invited]

“Toxic Substances and Agenda 21: Ethical and Policy Issues in the Science and its Implementation,” Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Policy, ed. John Lemons and Donald A. Brown (Kluwer Publishing Co., 1995), pp. 215-253. [Invited]

“The Social Benefits of Expedited Risk Assessment,” Risk Analysis Vol. 15, No. 4, June, 1995, pp. 353-358.

"Improving the Regulation of Carcinogens by Expediting Cancer Potency Estimation," with Sara M. Hoover, Lauren Zeise, William S. Pease, Louise E. Lee, Mark P. Henning, Laura B. Weiss, and Carl Cranor, Risk Analysis Vol. 15, No. 2, April, 1995, pp. 267-280.

"Learning from the Law for Regulatory Science," Law and Philosophy Vol. 14, pp. 115-145 (1995). [Invited]

“Comment on Daubert v. Merrell-Dow, Shepard's Expert and Scientific Evidence Quarterly Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 741-751 (1995). [Invited]

“Cranor's Reply,” Risk: Health, Safety and the Environment, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 1994, pp. 81-86. [Invited]

"Public Health and Uncertainty," in Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Research Ethics, (Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), pp. 169-185. [Invited]

"Genetic Causation," in Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of the New Genetics, ed. C. Cranor (Rutgers University Press, 1994) (pp. 125-141).

"Science Courts, Evidentiary Procedures and Mixed Science Policy Decisions," Risk: Issues in Health and Safety, Vol. 4, pp. 113-132 (1993). [Invited]

“Scientific and Legal Standards of Statistical Evidence in Toxic Tort and Discrimination Suits” (with Kurt Nutting), in Law and Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1990) pp. 115-156.

“Some Moral Issues in Risk Assessment,” Ethics, Vol. 101 (October 1990) pp. 123-143.

“Scientific Conventions, Ethics and Legal Institutions,” Risk: Issues in Health and Safety, Vol 1, No. 2, (1990) pp. 155-184. [Invited]

“Some Public Policy Problems with the ‘Science' of Risk Assessment,” invited symposium paper at the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, October 27-28, 1988, and published in Philosophy of Science 1988, pp. 467-488. [Invited]

“Patenting Body Parts: A Sketch of Some Moral Issues,” in Owning Scientific and Technical Information: Values and Ethical Issues, ed. V. Weil and J. Snapper (Rutgers University Press, 1989). [Invited]

“Political Philosophy, Morality and the Law,” 95 The Yale Law Journal, pp. 1066-1086 (1986). [Invited]

“Joint Causation, Torts and Regulatory Law in Workplace Health Protections,” 2, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, pp. 59-84 (1985), (ed. Albert Flores), reprinted in Ethics and Risk Management in Engineering (New York: University Press of America, 1989), pp. 117-142. [Invited]

“Justice in Workplace Health Protections,” 6, Logos , pp. 131-147 (1985); reprinted in Poverty, Justice and the Law: New Essays on Needs Rights, and Obligations (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986) pp. 131-149. [Invited]

“Collective and Individual Duties to Protect the Environment,” 2, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 243-259 (1985).

“Epidemiology and Procedural Protections for Workplace Health in the Aftermath of the Benzene Case,” 5 Industrial Relations Law Journal pp. 372-401 (1984).

“On Respecting Human Beings as Persons,” 17, The Journal of Value Inquiry, pp. 103-177 (October 1983).

“Limitations on Respect-for-Persons Principle,” Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol, XXXI, pp. 45-60 (1982). [Invited]

“Kant's Respect-for-Persons Principle,” International Studies in Philosophy, pp. 19-39 (1980).

“Legal Moralism Reconsidered,” Ethics, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 147-164 (January 1979).

“The Justification of Attitudes,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XVI, No. 2, pp. 21-33 (Summer 1978).

“Toward a Theory of Respect for Persons,” The American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 309-319 (October 1975).

In Progress:

“Case Studies in Law and Science,” (with David Strauss) (49 ds. ms. pp.) (Submitted)

“Toward a Non-Consequentialist (Non-Utilitarian) Theory of Acceptable Risks” (in progress)

The Science Veil Over the Toxic Tort Law (tentative title)

Morality, Technology and Risk (contract with Ashgate Press for 2006 delivery)

Invited Presentations (Selected Bibliography from most recent):

“Precautionary Information Strategies for Scientific Research,” Uncertainty and Precaution in Environmental Management, Copenhagen, DN, Invited Keynote Address, June 7-9, 2004 (funded by the European Environmental Agency and Technical University of Denmark).

“The Foundations of the Precautionary Principle,” presented at “Living with Risks”, sponsored by The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (U.S. and London), Cambridge, MA, May 20-22, 2004.

“Global Ethical and Legal Issues Regarding Toxic Substances: Continuing the Tragedies,” International Medical Ethics Symposium, May 7-8, 2004.

“The Dual Legacy of Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals: Replacing Junk Science with Insidious Science,” Clean Science Symposium, University of Maryland School of Law , April 16, 2004.

“Different Perspectives on Risk Perception,” U. C. Irvine, Urban Water Institute, October 10, 2003.

“Burdens of Proof and Precautionary Policies,” Workshop on “Approaches to Identifying Targets of Concern for Environmental Public Health Tracking and Related Policy Purposes,” School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, September 15, 2003 (Project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and UC. Berkeley).

“How Can Biologists Contribute to Public Policy?” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Vienna , Austria , July 16-20, 2003.

“The Genomic Revolution and Intra-national and Inter-national Equity,”presented at Trading Genes: The Power of the Market in Shaping a New Genomic Order, Goodenough College, London, England, March 27, 2003.

“Scientific Inferences in the Laboratory and the Law,” for the Scientific Evidence and Public Policy Project, San Diego, California, March 10-11, 2003, Sponsored by the Tellus Foundation.

“Risks and Acceptable Risks: Toward a Non-Consequentialist Theory of Acceptable Risk”, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, February 28, 2003

“The Legal Arena for Environmental and Workplace Health Protections Before and After Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical ,” Georgetown Law School (Sponsored by the Science and Environmental Health Network and the Georgetown Law School 's Center for Environmental Policy), Washington, D.C., February 27, 2003.

Keynote Speaker, Iowa State University Bioethics Program Winter Faculty Retreat on the Precautionary Principle (two lectures), Ames , IA , January 10, 2003 .

• "What Could Precautionary Science Be? Research for Early Warnings and a Better Future."
• “Some Legal Implications of the Precautionary Principle: Expediting Information-Generation and Legal Protections.”

“Some Legal Implications of the Precautionary Principle: Improving Information-Generation and Legal Protections ”, presented to International Scientific Conference. The Precautionary Principle: Implications for Research and Prevention in Environmental and Occupational Health at the Collegium Ramazzini, Bologna, Italy, October 23-24, 2002 (sponsored by the Collegium Ramazzini and the European Environmental Agency).

“Risking Justice and Truth: the Judicial Admissibility of Science Subsequent to Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical ,” Wayne State University Law School and Philosophy Department, September 13-14, 2002.

“Acceptable Risk and the National Academy of Sciences Report on the Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants,” The Goodenough Chevening Conference on Risk, Goodenough College, London, UK, April 11-12, 2002.

"Case Studies, Inference to the Best Explanation and Judicial Review of Scientific Evidence,” Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Law and Social Justice, April 5-6, 2002.

"Case Studies, Inference to the Best Explanation and Judicial Review of Scientific Evidence,” UCLA Law and Philosophy Seminar, March 23, 2002.

“Serving Neither Justice Nor Truth: The Judicial Admissibility of Science in the Aftermath of Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical, The International Public Interest Law Conference, University of Oregon Law School, March 6-7, 2002.

“Overview of Changes in the Law in the Aftermath of Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical,” Science and Environmental Health Network Workshop, Chicago November 15-16, 2001.

“Scientific Expertise and Policy Decisions in a Technological Society,” "Risk Society and Scientific Knowledge" Conference, Menéndez Pelayo International University, Valencia, Spain, November 5-9, 2001.

“What Could Precautionary Science Be? Orienting Scientific Research to Anticipate and Prevent Harm.” International Conference on Precautionary Science, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, September 20-22, 2001.

“The Assignment of Burdens and Standards of Proof in Implementing the Precautionary Principle,” given at “Putting Precaution into Practice,” Boston, Massachusetts, December 2, 2000.

“Scientific Ignorance and Reliable Patterns of Evidence in Toxic Tort Causation: Is There a Need for Liability Reform?” Symposium on Causation in Toxic Tort Law, Duke University Law School, November 10-11, 2000.

“Discerning the Effects of Toxic Substances: Using Science without Distorting the Law,” UC Irvine Medical School , Community and Environmental Medicine, Program in Toxicology, October 6, 2000.

Presentation to symposium, "The Human Genome Project" at the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, April, 5-7, 2000. (Invited)

"Carcinogen Risk Assessment, its normative Nature and Social Uses", delivered to Professional Conference on Environmental Sciences for Moldova State University, March 1, 2000

"Legal Strategies for Addressing Uncertainty," delivered to a symposium "The Precautionary Principle: When is it appropriate to assume "guilty until proved innocent?” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 17-22, 2000 . (Invited)

“Ethical Issues in Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Risk Communication,” Keynote Speaker, Iowa State University Bioethics Program Winter Faculty Retreat, “Ethical Issues in Risk communication: GM Crops as a Case Study,” January 4 and 5, 2000.

"Some Philosophic Issues in the Admissibility of Scientific Evidence in Toxic Tort Suits," UCLA Law and Philosophy Discussion Group, December 13, 1999.

"Avoiding Overreactions to Problems of Junk Science," Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee, Eighth Annual Spring Meeting, March 11-13, 1999.

"Risk Assessment, Susceptible Subpopulations and Environmental Justice," UCLA Law and Philosophy Discussion Group, October 26, 1998.

"The Need for Context-Sensitive Science in Risk Assessment," Inaugural Meeting of the Annual University of California Conference on Risk Assessment, April 14-15, 1998.[Invited]

"The Use of Science and the Law in Regulating Toxic Substances" University of California Humanities Research Institute, one of three featured sessions at the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Humanities in the University of California, April 2, 1998.

"Genetic Mistakes as Pollutants," presented as part of a special symposium sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine: "Eugenics" American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 27-29, 1998 [Invited]

"Electromagnet Fields and Environmental Justice," California Department of Health Services Workshop, March 24-25, 1998.

"Asymmetric Information, Burdens of Proof and the Precautionary Principle," Implementing the Precautionary Principle, an International Conference at the Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, Wisconsin, January 25-27, 1998.

"Regulating Toxic Substances Through and Glass Darkly: Using Science without Distorting the Law." UCR Distinguished Humanist Achievement Lecture, November 20, 1997.

“Eggshell Skulls and Loss of Hair from Fright: Some Moral and Legal Principles that Protect Susceptible Subpopulations," California Baptist College , April 21, 1997 and UCR Environmental Toxicology Program May 19, 1997.

"The Normative Foundations of Comparative Risk Judgments and Risk Communication," Los Alamos National Laboratory, April 16, 1997.

Invited presentation to the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, "Author Meets Critics" on my Regulating Toxic Substances , March 27-29, 1997.

"Asymmetric Information, Risk Assessment and Burdens of Proof in Environmental Health Protections" to be presented to the inaugural meeting of the Risk and Policy Association in Washington, D.C., March 6-7, 1997.

"The Need for a Context-Sensitive Science in the Aftermath of Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical, Inc. " Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, in New Orleans, LA, December, 1996.

“Eggshell Skulls and Loss of Hair from Fright: Some Moral and Legal Principles that Protect Susceptible Subpopulations” at UC Davis' Symposium, "Genetics, Disease and the Environment," October 11, 1996.

“Eggshell Skulls and Loss of Hair from Fright: Some Moral and Legal Principles that Protect Susceptible Subpopulations” at the Susceptibility and Risk Symposium, Third Annual National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, September 24-27, 1996.

“Moral Philosophic Issues Concerning Genetically Susceptible Sub-Populations,” delivered at the NEH and NSF sponsored Institute, "Scientific, Ethical and Social Challenges of the Contemporary Genetic Technology," July 7- August 2, 1996.

“Risk Assessment and the Law: A Case Study in the Role of Philosophy in Public Policy,” Invited Symposium Paper, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Seattle, Washington, April 3-6, 1996.

“Risk Assessment as a Policy Tool: Possible New Directions,” Annual Meetings of the Inhalation Section of the Society of Toxicology , Anaheim, California, March 12, 1996 (Invitation from Daniel Costa, U.S. EPA, Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina).

“Risk Assessment and Proposition 65 in California,” Annual Meetings of the Society for Risk Analysis, Honolulu , Hawaii , December 3-6, 1995.

“Ethics in Occupational Medicine,” Conference on Occupational Medicine at the at the University of California , San Francisco Medical School, October 26, 1995, with Linda Morse, M.D.

“The Occupational M.D. as Scientist and as Public Health Official,” Grand Rounds in Occupational Medicine, the University of California, San Francisco Medical School, October 5, 1995.

“Risk Assessment Issues in Toxics” Conference, University of California , Santa Barbara . Delivered presentation “The California Comparative Risk Project and a Different Paradigm for Risk Assessment,” March 31, 1995.

NSF Workshop on Democracy and Science: Law and Biology, Arizona State Law School . Lead Discussant for the section on Environmental and Conservation Issues: Conflicting Issues.

“Some Normative Presuppositions of Risk Assessment”; presented to the National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values in Science Division, November 12, 1994.

“Some Normative Presuppositions of Risk Assessment,” presented (in absentia) to the Joint Meetings of the History of Science Society, the Philosophy of Science Association, and the Society for Social Studies of Science 1994 Annual Meetings in New Orleans , LA , September 12-16, 1994.

“Some Generic Strategies for Addressing Uncertainty in Risk Assessment” presented to the International Symposium, “Managing Health Risks from Drinking Water Contamination: Approaches and Applications” sponsored by the International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and Istituto Supeirore di Sanita, Rome, Italy, September 13-15, 1994.

“Ethical Issues in Expert Testimony in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,” presented to the American Statistical Association's Conference, “ Ethical Issues in Statistics in Expert Testimony,” January 14-15, 1994 (Washington, D.C.)

“Scientific Uncertainty, Ethics, Environmental Protection, and the United Nations Agenda 21,” presented at the Plenary Session on Ethical Questions Embedded in Hazardous Waste Provisions of U.N. Agenda 21, January 13-14, 1994

"Scientific Uncertainty, Environmental Law, and the Precautionary Principle," Earth Day, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, April 20-21, 1993.

"The Use of Scientific Evidence in the Law," 4th Annual Long Beach State University Philosophy Symposium, April 27-28, 1993.

“Comparative Risk Judgments,” Protecting Drinking Water at the Source, University of California Water Resources Center , April 4, 1991.

"The (Un)scientific(?) Basis of Carcinogen Risk Assessment," invited presentation, 4th Annual Research Symposium, University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, October, 1991.

“Assessing the Acceptability of Urban Pesticide Spraying,” Charting a course for Public Health Protection, California Environmental Protection Agency, October 2-4, 1991.

“Chemical Risks in the 1990's: Effective Action in California ,” invited presentation, Jan. 7-9, 1990, California Department of Health Services, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA.

“Voluntary/Involuntary Risks Related to Food Safety,” Conference of the California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers and Association, December 5, 1989.

“Scientific Conventions, Ethics and Legal Institutions,” Conference on Public Participation in Risk Management: Ethics, Science, and Law, held at the Franklin Pierce Law School, October 13-14, 1988.

“Some Public Policy Problems with the ‘Science' of Carcinogen Risk Assessment,” invited Symposium paper at the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, October 27-28, 1988.

“The Moral Presuppositions of Regulatory science: the Case of Epidemiology,” invited symposium paper, Pacific Division Meetings, American Philosophical Association, March 25-27, 1987.

“Joint Causation, Torts and Regulatory Law in workplace Health Protections,” invited paper for the Third Annual Conference on Engineering Ethics, May 22, 1985, held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

“Damages and Supervening Impossibility in Contracts and Promises,” invited symposium paper for the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division meetings, March 25-27, 1982.

“Limitations on Respect-for-Persons' Theories,” Tulane University, Conference on Respect for Persons, November 20-21, 1981.

“Self-Respect and Political Institutions,” International Society of Political Psychology, Boston, MA, June 4-7, 1980.

“On Respecting Human Beings as Persons,” read at the Annual California State University, Fullerton, Philosophy Conference, February 22, 1980.

“Respecting the Terminally Ill as Persons: An approach to the Topic,” the Brown University Medical Ethics Conference on Caring for the Incurable, April 22-23, 1977.

 

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