Sentences with phrase «of ethicists»

While one advocate calls the aversion to allowing machines to kill the «yuck» factor, a panel of ethicists and philosophers illuminated what this difference is really about: the skeptics (like myself) are advocating a utilitarian ethical scheme (the greatest good for the greatest number), while the proponents are applying Kant's categorical imperative that no human being should be used as an instrument.

A small but growing group of ethicists has begun to investigate the prospect of geoengineering as a response to climate change.

People (the public, the media, and so forth) naturally wonder, if only 1 percent of all ethicists, spiritual leaders, moral philosophers, other philosophers, «wise women and men», and so forth are speaking out in ethical / moral terms, then those ethical / moral arguments must truly be «not all that important», or «highly controversial and not broadly accepted», or «only held by theoretical folks», or whatever.

Now a committee of ethicists has devised a set of recommendations for federal and state legislators that could help protect people like DeMark from genetic discrimination.

The FDA also announced in June that a new committee of ethicists, journalists, and marketing specialists would advise the agency on communicating drug risks to the public.

A panel of ethicists convened by the U.S. National Academies of Medicine and Science also staked out that position in February, ruling that human germline engineering might someday be permissible for correcting diseases, but only if there are no alternatives and not for enhancements.

As far as I am concerned, however, the hiring of ethicists in medical schools and business schools to lecture to students about what it means to be ethical or to teach values is to try to cure the illness with but another form of the disease.

The escalating attention to the biblical - era empire has been amplified by the open lament of some ethicists, church leaders and politicians that the U.S. has assumed aspects of an empire — complete with religious imagery to assure skeptics of its benevolent motives.

They address the argument of ethicists who say that war is an extreme phenomenon that is beyond the boundaries of political reason.

This is purely in the Greek spirit — yet not Socratic, for Socrates was too much of an ethicist for that.

The problem of values is the province of the ethicist or theologian.

The analysis resulted in the identification of three categories related to the experience of decision - making: the impact of healthcare decision - making on individual and family well - being, the effectiveness of healthcare professionals in supporting families, and the role of the ethicist.

Not exact matches

Speaking of the blurry line between humans and AI, ethicists have explored questions such as whether it's OK to inflict violence on robots.

Recently, I interviewed Dr. Kate Darling, a robot ethicist from MIT's Media Lab as part of our streaming interview series and podcast, The Convo.

First popularized by the tech ethicist Tristan Harris, the goal of sticking to shades of gray is to make the glittering screen a little less stimulating.

He has now teamed up with ex Google ethicist Tristan Harris in the creation of The Center for Human Technology — an alliance of Silicon Valley notables dedicated to «realigning technology with humanity's best interests.»

«They've created the attention economy and are now engaged in a full - blown arms race to capture and retain human attention, including the attention of kids,» said former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris.

The same ethicists who gave John Coates» AOC a clean bill of cultural health now sit in judgment of Cricket Australia.

That Facebook failed to immediately disclose the handoff of profile data by developer Aleksandr Kogan was an ethical misstep, said Peter Jaworski, a business ethicist at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.

The Wall Street Journal has called him «vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate» while The Gospel Coalition has referred to him «one of the most astute ethicists in contemporary evangelicalism.»

An ethicist and theologian by background, Moore is also an ordained Southern Baptist minister and the author of several books including Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel.

Hundreds of Catholic theologians (including ethicist Charles Curran, whose permission to teach as a Catholic theologian Rome would later rescind) signed a public statement that questioned the teaching.

Ironically to the extent that Christian ethicists and theologians have abandoned the church because of its suburban captivity» they too have had little that is interesting to say to our society.

In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

Recasting the virtues to take into account contemporary understanding of psychological development, she enters into conversation with feminists, narrative ethicists like MacIntyre and Hauerwas, and epistemologists like Wittgenstein and Anscombe.

It reminds us that one of the essential tasks that the theologian - ethicist at the seminary performs is to help pastors, and through them congregations like Broadway, to appreciate the significance of their common acts.

John Kavanaugh, a brilliant ethicist, went to live for three months in Mother Teresa's House of the Dying in Calcutta on a personal pilgrimage to find guidance and a clear vision for the rest of his life.

In fact, as John Fletcher, ethicist at the University of Virginia, has said, «You don't have to be religious to realize that there ought to be a debate about....

The Colloquium is a group of Jewish and Christian theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and scholars that meets periodically to consider questions of morality, religion, and public life.

I too, as a virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism as Leah is, can only ponder tha Kantean imperitives of vanilla dualism by mean of the French feminist approached to hermaneutics.

Indeed, in a complex society where no one can grasp more than a few of the details, some of the most important practical theology will have to be done by specialists in medicine, law or business, or by theologians and ethicists whose training equips them for specialized roles in those institutions.

He's not saying — and no Christian ethicist I know of would say — that lusting is morally the same as adultery, or similarly that anger is the moral equivalent of murder (see Matt.

Senator Moynihan rightly concedes that one's ethnicity or nationality can be a legitimate source of pride, but warns, using the words of the Christian ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr, that it can also be a form of collective egotism, potentially very destructive.8

These three figures are arguably among the most influential Protestant social ethicists of 20th - century America, and in any case offer a representative spectrum of opinion.

As the experience grew in me, I found my commitments stronger than ever and, at the same time, I knew that I could not, in the words of womanist ethicist Katie Cannon, «keep on keepin» on.»

«It's the height of epistemic arrogance,» says Adrienne Asch, an ethicist at Wellesley College, of Singer's approach.

This is the line of thinking of many medical professionals and ethicists.

I am particularly suspicious of situation ethicists like Sinks when they plead the «Great Commandment as a basis for ending a marriage «in order that the individual might flourish.»

Ethicists have always worried about «borderline situations,» in which clear rules do not yield clear direction, or about the «perplexed conscience,» which leaves a person bewildered in the midst of difficult decisions.

Rather, I became an ethicist because I was (and am) interested in the intellectual issues associated with the truthfulness of Christian discourse.

Moreover, medical ethics tempts the ethicist to think of the discipline primarily as dealing with particular quandaries.

Rolston is representative of most environmental ethicists in encouraging us to recognize the inherent worth of nature.

Recognizing that the concerns of animal rightists pertain for the most part to animals subjected to human captivity, Birch and Cobb demonstrate that these concerns can be combined with those of the land ethicist into a single environmental ethic.

Whereas land ethicists are systems - oriented, animal rightists are individual - oriented; whereas land ethicists are concerned with the stability, integrity, and beauty of ecosystems, animal rightists are concerned with suffering; whereas land ethicists are concerned with the fate of flora, rivers, and mountains, animal rightists emphasize fellow fauna.

Such a self - definition moves Lifton the psychiatrist much closer to the pastoral counselor, the ethicist and the spiritual director, and away from the «technicist» view of psychiatry so dominant at the moment.

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

Ethicists today consider their area not just the normative task of what people ought to do and why but also the analytic and descriptive enterprise of how and why people in fact do act.

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

The ethicist is a more noble fellow than the materialist, but still lacks a true sense of God.

In light of your three categories, would you say that the materialist or the ethicist can believe in Jesus for eternal life?