Technology and Values

Kristin Shrader-Frechette is distinguished research professor at the University of South Florida. She received her undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics, followed by a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1971. She has also done postdoctoral work in biology, economics, and hydrogeology, and is currently editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series "Environmental Ethics and Science Policy." Most of Shrader-Frechette's work is in philosophy of science, environmental ethics, probabilistic risk assessment, and science policy. From 1971 until 1985, her theoretical research was on methodological and ethical problems associated with high-energy physics and welfare economics. Since 1984 her theoretical work has focused on methods in hydrogeology and in community ecology. Her more applied research deals with applications of probabilistic risk assessment and community ecology to environmental and technological problems. As a result, Shrader-Frechette's work addresses issues in nuclear ethics, environmental ethics, and the general ethics of technology.