Professor Deryck Beyleveld's Outputs (4)

Inclusive governance over agricultural biotechnology: risk assessment and public participation (2017)
Journal Article
Beyleveld, D., & Jianjun, L. (2017). Inclusive governance over agricultural biotechnology: risk assessment and public participation. Law, Innovation and Technology, 9(2), 301-317. https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2017.1377908

A public outcry opposing the use of genetic modification of rice has produced a governance deadlock in China, which threatens to undermine attempts to reap the benefits that modern agricultural biotechnology can offer to the Chinese people. It is arg... Read More about Inclusive governance over agricultural biotechnology: risk assessment and public participation.

Sheffield Natural Law School (2017)
Book Chapter
Beyleveld, D. (2017). Sheffield Natural Law School. In M. Sellers, & P. Kirste (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the philosophy of law and social philosophy (1-18). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_58-1

“The Sheffield Natural Law School” (SNLS) designates the work of a group of scholars influenced by Beyleveld and Brownsword (1986), who use the moral theory of Gewirth (1978), according to which the Principle of Generic Consistency (PGC) (see below)... Read More about Sheffield Natural Law School.

What Is Gewirth and What IS Beyleveld? A Retrospect with Comments on the Contributions (2017)
Book Chapter
Beyleveld, D. (2017). What Is Gewirth and What IS Beyleveld? A Retrospect with Comments on the Contributions. In P. Capps, & S. D. Pattinson (Eds.), Ethical rationalism and the law (233-255). Hart Publishing

Transcendental Arguments for a Categorical Imperative as Arguments from Agential Self-Understanding (2017)
Book Chapter
Beyleveld, D. (2017). Transcendental Arguments for a Categorical Imperative as Arguments from Agential Self-Understanding. In J. P. Brune, R. Stern, & M. H. Werner (Eds.), Transcendental arguments in moral theory (141-159). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110470215-008

This chapter construes Kant’s contention that a categorical imperative is a synthetic a priori principle as equivalent to Gewirth’s claim that such an imperative is a dialectically necessary principle (a strict requirement of agential self-understand... Read More about Transcendental Arguments for a Categorical Imperative as Arguments from Agential Self-Understanding.