I talk to several
ethicists who say it's time to stop focusing on the unauthorized practice issue and instead worry about how best to regulate such companies in a way that best serves consumers.
There are, however, only a few
ethicists who can do this work well because it is an inherently nondisciplinary challenge and the ethicists must be willing to dig into the scientific and economic controversies entailed by climate change as they unfold.
In writing about the policy, I spoke to pediatricians and
ethicists who laid out their reasons for the advice:
Medical
ethicists who started as theologians seem especially attached to this precept.
The social gospel spawned
ethicists who became social scientists, or at least read social science, in the interest of social transformation.
The «realists» spawned
ethicists who became moral philosophers, clarifying moral questions in medicine and business and, in their spare time, keeping alive the «God question.»
They address the argument of
ethicists who say that war is an extreme phenomenon that is beyond the boundaries of political reason.
The same
ethicists who gave John Coates» AOC a clean bill of cultural health now sit in judgment of Cricket Australia.
Any ethicist who would have us value ignorance over knowledge is suspect.
He is a theological
ethicist who teaches and writes on economic justice and poverty.
I completely agree with Tobias Winright, a theological
ethicist who used to work in law enforcement, who explains why the use of pepper spray in this situation appears to be excessive:
Neither can there be
an ethicist who performs the same function.
However, this would be a theme both for a poet and for
an ethicist who would defend marriage.
«There was a difference,» insists Klaus Peter Rippe,
an ethicist who is president of the committee.
That paper is by Clive Hamilton, an Australian environmental
ethicist who chastised me and others for proposing that a «good» path could be found in this era of human - dominated Earth systems, and Jacques Grinevald, a historian focused on the interface of environment and technology and member of the Anthropocene Working Group.
There was, for example, the legal
ethicist who turned to writing haiku.
Perhaps the most vocal critic of exploitative apps is Tristan Harris, the former Google
ethicist who has created a movement around the concept of «Time Well Spent.»
Not exact matches
Tristan Harris, a former Design
Ethicist at Google,
who The Atlantic Magazine called the «closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,» currently heads the Center for Humane Technology.
One scholar
who champions this perspective is
ethicist Peter Singer.
Still others, like the Aristotelian virtue
ethicists Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Hauerwas, worry that human beings
who do unpleasant deeds are more likely to do them again.
This fact was not lost on Julian Savulescu, the Oxford
ethicist and student of Peter Singer,
who asked: If Charlie's life is not worth living, why shouldn't we directly kill him?
None of this, though, is well understood or appreciated by Pollock or most of the American scholars
who want to make Rosenzweig an
ethicist.
On a personal note, I am very happy to write because we as a family have much to thank Dr. Abraham for - a man
who as a pastor to us lived out the principles that he teaches as a theological
ethicist.
Included in the Niebuhr teaching dynasty were his late brother, H. Richard, the eminent Yale
ethicist; his late sister, Hulda,
who taught education at McCormick Seminary; and his nephew, Harvard theologian Richard Reinhold Niebuhr.
Christians
who are concerned with the liberation of the oppressed must listen to the voices of such
ethicists; they must begin to hear the demand that we see the wrongfulness in the mistreatment of nonhuman animals — ...
And I include many
who look to economists and
ethicists for guidance without reflecting much for themselves.
Gustafson, a leading Christian
ethicist and former student of Niebuhr's at Yale, uses the occasion to scathingly attack those
who have found Niebuhr's typology flawed or dangerously misleading.
Christian
ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people
who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen).
I was confronted by a prominent
ethicist the other day
who wasted no time in asking, «Is the Old Testament Christian scripture or not?»
Ethicist James B. Nelson goes much too far when he argues that «we
who call ourselves Christians bear major responsibility for the problems created by the AIDS crisis....
In October about 200 Christian
ethicists issued a statement «about the erroneous use of Christian rhetoric to support the policies of empire,» as it was put by one signer, Glen Stassen,
who holds an endowed chair at Fuller Theological Seminary.
I reported here a few weeks ago that the NYT's Dear Abby - type column, «The
Ethicist,» was holding an essay contest to descsribe why eating meat is ethical — judged by Peter Singer —
who I noted elsewhere, has no business judging anyone's ethics — and other anti meat activists!
The resident
ethicist at the New York Times even offers a guide to fully eunuchizing sex, advising a man
who hopes to open his marriage without endangering it: «This may be an argument for the sin of Onan, where there's only yourself to fall in love with.»
And while the analysis that addresses these issues can be indebted to Christian tradition, the theologian
who thinks about such issues may well be so innovative in relation to historic Christian reflection that his or her work on these topics is indistinguishable from that of the ecologist, the secular
ethicist, or the economic theorist (cf. CNT 253).
To that end, AAAS, in coordination with an advisory council, will identify and coordinate
ethicists and a multi-disciplinary team of highly qualified scientists
who have experience conducting prevalence studies in vulnerable and marginalized populations.
But Leemon McHenry, a medical
ethicist at California State University in Northridge
who has investigated the use of ghostwriters on articles about other drugs, thinks that the practice stretches beyond these high - profile cases.
Dr. Salomon,
who helped organize the workshop with Alan Langnas, DO, of the University of Nebraska, noted that it is important to involve a wide range of stakeholders — including physicians and surgeons, government officials, patients and families,
ethicists, and legal scholars — in discussions on how to define that line.
NSF doesn't necessarily know what a university is doing, notes medical
ethicist Elizabeth Heitman of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas,
who co-authored a recently published study of how research - intensive universities are implementing the RCR mandate from NSF.
«We learned things that we wish had not occurred,» says Ruth Faden, an
ethicist from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
who chaired the commission.
The first part of the pattern constitutes a novel perspective on self - control, whereas the second part is «consistent with previous theorizing on why good people behave badly,» notes Ann Tenbrunsel, an
ethicist at Mendoza College of Business
who was not part of the study.
Medical
ethicists and the public alike accept that a mentally competent adult
who is terminally ill or in intractable pain has the right to choose to be removed from a ventilator or to refuse tube feedings and hydration — a view which American courts have so far upheld.
Reactive bioethicists reveal their unexamined alliance with the scientists,
who are left free to define society's needs, to make all the decisions during the research process, and to set the bioethics agenda, leaving
ethicists to attempt to tidy up the consequences.
On 11 August,
WHO convened a panel of medical
ethicists, scientific experts, and lay people from the affected countries to assess the role of experimental therapies in the Ebola outbreak response.
The FDA's announcement several months ago that it would hold a public hearing on the subject elicited an outcry from scientists,
ethicists and religious groups,
who say the technology raises grave safety concerns and could open the door to creating «designer» babies, whose eye color, intelligence and other characteristics are selected by parents.
Three current and former astronauts, including Scott Kelly
who just set a new U.S. record for a long duration (340 days) spaceflight, NASA's Chief Medical Officer, and a medical
ethicist, testified.
Criticizing an
ethicist for making moral judgments would be like taking to task a movie reviewer
who makes aesthetic judgments about the latest films.
That's to be expected, says educational
ethicist Meira Levinson,
who has written at length about the ethical dilemmas educators face when responding to controversy.
There's been a * bit * of discussion in regards to Randy Cohen, writer of the «
Ethicist» column at the New York Times
who advised someone that had downloaded a pirated eBook of a Stephen King book he already owned that ethically he had done an «okay» thing.
I asked a few folks about facets of this, among them Peter Singer, the
ethicist at Princeton
who's written for ages on animal rights and environmental values on a finite planet.
She has, however, quoted the eminent
ethicist Dr Gleick preaching — perhaps you are confused about
who said what?