Sentences with phrase «when ethicists»

What sorts of oppressions, for example, are being supported in novels of traditional realism, and what sort of «meaning» is being canonized when an ethicist writes that «the unity of the self is like the unity exhibited in a good novel»?

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When the controversial ethicist Peter Singer was hired by Princeton, there were protests over his views on euthanasia.

I'm was reading Traci West's (a womanist ethicist at Drew University) Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter.

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.»

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.

In September 2002, when a hundred scholars and ethicists signed a petition that read, «As Christian ethicists, we share a common moral presumption against a preemptive war on Iraq by the United States,» Elshtain was not numbered among the signatories.

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....

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.

This becomes patently clear when consultations are called to bring together scientists and ethicists on such issues as nuclear power or genetic engineering.

We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business schools hire business ethicists.

I don't doubt there are safe and compassionate hospitals out there or even compassionate doctors in hospitals that generally aren't, but when a large portion of women are looking for homebirth because their hospital experiences were the antithesis of compassionate, these ethicists need to be looking at what they are suggesting.

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.

«When assessing whether or not to pursue de-extinction, calculating the conservation costs and benefits is not sufficient,» Northeastern University ethicist Ronald Sandler argues in an accompanying commentary.

If drugs could ease the pain, when should we use them, asks neuro - ethicist Brian D. Earp

In 2004 Blackburn and ethicist William F. May made headlines when the Bush administration ousted them from the President's Council on Bioethics for their strong public support of human embryonic stem cell research.

But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.

The magazines Ethicist columnist on weighing sacrifice against benefit when.

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.

When students engage in protests, civil disobedience, or any other form of activism, it's important for school leaders to listen to their concerns and to support their right to protest, says educational ethicist Meira Levinson.

When it enters the room, even ethicists lose the ability to think straight.»

The first is that legal ethicists (including me) tend to focus on the limits on lawyer conduct, on the things that lawyers ought not to do when representing clients.

But when you talk to actual ethicists, as Ricardo Bilton of Digiday did, you'll learn that «questioning the ethics of ad blocking ignores that neither publishers nor their digital advertising partners are exactly on firm ethical ground either.»

The meeting, which featured former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris, who has argued that Silicon Valley deliberately plays on consumer psychology, comes at a time when tech giants are already in hot water on Capitol Hill.