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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Cranor, Carl F

Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Philosophy


Biography

 

Degrees

Ph.D. Philosophy 1971

University of California, Los Angeles

Awards

1980 American Council of Learned Societies; Legal Philosophy
2001-present University of California, Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program ($10,000).
2000-present National Science Foundation Grant, "A Philosophic and Scientific Investigation of the Use of Scientific Evidence in Toxic Tort Law" ($160,000).
1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science; Societal Impacts of Science & Engineering
1994-1996 National Science Foundation Grant, "An Evaluation of the Desirability of Evidentiary Procedures for Identifying Carcinogens," ($77,927), Principal Investigator.
1996-1998 National Science Foundation Scholars Award, "The Normative Foundations of Comparative Risk Judgments," ($65,000).
1991 University of California, Biotechnology Research and Education Program, "Ethical Issues in Genetics and Genetic Technology" ($50,000), Co-Principal Investigator with Mark Rose, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute.
1990-1993 National Science Foundation Grant, "Evidentiary Procedures for Carcinogen Risk Assessment" ($71,660), Principal Investigator.
1987-90 University of California, Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program for the "UCR Carcinogen Risk Assessment Project" ($242,000), Principal Investigator.
1976 National Endowment for the Humanities


Research Area

Legal Philosophy; Philosophic Issues in Science and the Law; Moral Philosophy; Regulatory Policy; Political Philosophy

Publications

Books and Collections:

Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of the New Genetics (ed.), Rutgers University Press, 1994

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

Recent Articles:

"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.

"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, 2002).

"What Could Precautionary Science Be? Research for Early Warnings and a Better Future." in Towards a Science of Caring and Foresight: Integrating Environmental Science, Precaution and Preventive Public Policy (tentative title), ed. Joel Tickner (forthcoming, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002)

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

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

"Risk Assessment, Susceptible Subpopulations and Environmental Equity," The Law of Environmental Justice, ed. M.B. Gerrard, The American Bar Association, pp. 307-56, 1999

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

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

"Eggshell Skulls and Loss of Hair from Fright: Some Moral and Legal Principles which Protect Susceptible Subpopulations," Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Vol. 4, pp. 239-45, 1998

"The Normative Nature of Risk Assessment: Features and Possibilities," Risk: Health, Safety, and Enrivonment, Vol. 8, pp. 123-36, 1997

"A Philosophy of Risk Assessment and the Law: A Case Study of the Role of Philosophy in Public Policy," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 85, pp. 135-62, 1997


"Judicial Boundary-Drawing and the Need for Context-Sensitive Science in Toxic Torts after Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical," The Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 16, pp. 1-77, 1996

"Toxic Substances and Agenda 21: Ethics and Policy Issues in the Science and its Implementation," in Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Policy, J. Lemons & D. Brown, eds., Kluwer, pp. 215-53, 1995

"The Social Benefits of Expedited Risk Assessment," Risk Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 353-58, 1995

"The Use of Comparative Risk Judgments in Risk Management," in Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Principles, Methods and Applications, ed. A.M. Fan and L.W. Chang, Marcel Dekker, Inc., pp. 817-33, 1995

Empirically and Institutionally Rich Legal and Moral Philosophy," Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol. XXIII, pp. 286-311, 1995

"Improving the Regulation of Carcinogens by Expediting Cancer Potency Estimation," Risk Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 267-80, 1995

"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.

"Science Courts, Evidentiary Procedures, and Mixed Science Policy Decisions," Risk: Issues in Health and Safety, Vol. 4, pp. 113-32, 1993

"Some Moral Issues in Risk Assessment," Ethics, Vol. 101, pp. 123-43, 1990

"Kant's Respect-for-Persons Principle," International Studies in Philosophy, pp. 19-39, 1980

"Toward a Theory of Respect for Persons," The American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 309-19, 1975