Sentences with phrase «moral philosophers such»

Darwinian moral philosophers such as George Williams reject the notion that evolution should be a direct guide to ethics or to education.

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As a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policy.

But contemporary moral and political philosophers rarely offer sustained arguments against the metaphysical project as such.

There, well - known philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented by climate change.

To illustrate my position, Dr. Lawrence Torcello, a philosopher at the Rochester Institute of Technology, put it succinctly: ``... Some issues are of such ethical magnitude that being on the correct side of history becomes a cipher of moral character for generations to come.