Sentences with phrase «so ethicists»

To teach it, Michael created machine - learning algorithms so ethicists can plug in examples of ethically appropriate behavior.

Nonetheless, scientists could develop means that are morally acceptable (some, in fact, already exist), and so ethicists need to begin thinking about the ends that these enhancement technologies might serve.

Not exact matches

From what has been said so far, it should be clear that land ethicists and animal rightists differ.

So stated, theology appears to be a set datum that the ethicist may assess to find implications for the practical life.

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.

Because virtue ethicists tend to trace their lineage back to Aristotle, when they discuss the connection between ethics and metaphysics they also tend to do so in Aristotelian terms, specifically in terms of a natural teleology that tries to determine which functional properties are essential for a full human life.

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

A law forbidding all abortion after 14 days would have potential support from embryologists and ethicists, so it would be a solid basis for presenting to legislators.

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).

The theological rationale for withdrawing feedings from the so «called «vegetative» person was first provided by such ethicists as Father Kevin O'Rourke, now director emeritus of The Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Louis.

But ethicists already worry about a day when implants are so effective that even healthy people elect to upgrade, lest they fall behind like some obsolete computer.

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.

Stem cell technology has advanced so much that scientists can grow miniature versions of human brains — called organoids, or mini-brains if you want to be cute about it — in the lab, but medical ethicists are concerned about recent developments in this field involving the growth of these tiny brains in other animals.

So, an applied ethicist needs to know about philosophy, but he or she also needs to know about medicine if they are going into medical ethics, something about environmental science if they are going into environmental ethics, and something about engineering and the way it's practiced if they are going into the ethics of neural engineering.

After a seven - year hiatus from the screen, is it so wrong that someone would be disappointed with the return of horror cinema's premier self - proclaimed ethicist?

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.

So he asked The New York Times Magazine's ethicist, Randy Cohen, what do you think?

Though no legal ethicist myself, I am inclined to agree with Professor Woolley general point that a lawyer's advocacy need not be anchored in a personal commitment to a cause — but only so far as advocacy on behalf clients is concerned.