The Work of ASBH’s Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs Committee: Development Processes Behind Our Educational Materials.George E.Hardart,Katherine Wasson,Ellen M. Robinson,Aviva Katz,Deborah L. Kasman,Liza-Marie Johnson,Barrie J. Huberman,Anne Cordes,Barbara L. Chanko,Jane Jankowski &Courtenay R. Bruce -2018 -Journal of Clinical Ethics 29 (2):150-157.detailsThe authors of this article are previous or current members of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs (CECA) Committee, a standing committee of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). The committee is composed of seasoned healthcare ethics consultants (HCECs), and it is charged with developing and disseminating education materials for HCECs and ethics committees. The purpose of this article is to describe the educational research and development processes behind our teaching materials, which culminated in a case studies book called (...) A Case-Based Study Guide for Addressing Patient-Centered Ethical Issues in Health Care (hereafter, the Study Guide). In this article, we also enumerate how the Study Guide could be used in teaching and learning, and we identify areas that are ripe for future work. (shrink)
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Ethics consultation volume at U.S. children's hospitals: A cross-sectional survey.George E.Hardart &Mindy Lipson -2016 -AJOB Empirical Bioethics 7 (1):64-70.detailsBackground: There is growing interest in credentialing hospital ethicists. Consult volume is being incorporated into credentialing criteria, although few data supporting this approach are available...
The Pope and the Possibilities of the Path Less Traveled.George E.Hardart -2020 -Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 63 (3):544-548.detailsPope Francis’s Address to the participants of the conference “Yes to Life! Taking Care of the Precious Gift of Life in its Frailty” that was held at the Vatican in May 2019 powerfully touches on multiple important aspects of the care of children experiencing “extreme frailty.” It is a deeply moral account of the challenges that health-care providers, families, and patients confront in the technologically sophisticated and confusing world of modern medicine, particularly when seen through the prism of what he (...) calls the dominant “throw away culture” of today.The Pope’s speech poignantly brings to mind a case from several years ago. Considering this case in light of the Pope’s speech may help provide a more nuanced... (shrink)
Credentialing the Clinical Ethics Consultant: An Academic Medical Center Affirms Professionalism and Practice.Cathleen A. Acres,Kenneth Prager,George E.Hardart &Joseph J. Fins -2012 -Journal of Clinical Ethics 23 (2):156-164.detailsIn response to national trends calling for increasing accountability and an emerging dialogue within bioethics, we describe an effort to credential clinical ethicists at a major academic medical center. This effort is placed within the historical context of prior calls for credentialing and certification and efforts currently underway within organized bioethics to engage this issue. The specific details, and conceptual rationale, behind the New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s graduated credentialing plan are shared as is their evolution and ratification within the context of (...) institutional policy. While other programs will design their credentialing schema consistent with their local context and demographics, the description of one such effort is offered to be instructive to others who want to bring additional standardization to the assessment of the readiness and credentials of those who will engage in the practice of clinical ethics case consultation. (shrink)
Enrolling Brain-Dead Humans in Medical Research: Stakeholder Opinions.Marilyn C. Morris,Tanya Sachdeva &George E.Hardart -2014 -AJOB Empirical Bioethics 5 (4):22-29.detailsBackground: Brain-dead humans retain many of the physiologic functions of living humans, but they are legally dead and cannot be physically harmed by participation in research. Stakeholder opinions...
Are Artworks More Like People Than Artifacts? Individual Concepts and Their Extensions.George E. Newman,Daniel M. Bartels &Rosanna K. Smith -2014 -Topics in Cognitive Science 6 (4):647-662.detailsThis paper examines people's reasoning about identity continuity and its relation to previous research on how people value one-of-a-kind artifacts, such as artwork. We propose that judgments about the continuity of artworks are related to judgments about the continuity of individual persons because art objects are seen as physical extensions of their creators. We report a reanalysis of previous data and the results of two new empirical studies that test this hypothesis. The first study demonstrates that the mere categorization of (...) an object as “art” versus “a tool” changes people's intuitions about the persistence of those objects over time. In a second study, we examine some conditions that may lead artworks to be thought of as different from other artifacts. These observations inform both current understanding of what makes some objects one-of-a-kind as well as broader questions regarding how people intuitively think about the persistence of human agents. (shrink)
Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas.George E. McCarthy -1997 - Rowman & Littlefield.detailsIn this unique and comprehensive book,George McCarthy examines the influence of Greek philosophy, literature, arts, and politics on the development of twentieth-century German social thought. McCarthy demonstrates that the classical spirit vitalized thinkers such as Weber, Heidegger, Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, Gadamer, and Habermas. With the romancing of antiquity, they transformed their understanding of the modern self, political community, and Enlightenment rationality. By viewing contemporary social theory from the framework of the classical world, McCarthy argues, we are capable of (...) thinking beyond the limits of modernity to new possibilities of human reason, science, beauty, and social justice. (shrink)
Heraklit, seine gestalt und sein künden.Georg E. Burckhardt -1925 - Zürich,: Orell Füssli.detailsIn diesem Buch beschreibt Georg Burckhardt die Philosophie von Heraklit. Heraklit gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vorsokratiker und seine Philosophie hatte großen Einfluss auf die Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften der Antike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute (...) this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. (shrink)
The Madness and Genius of Post-Cartesian Philosophy: A Distant Mirror.George E. Atwood,Robert D. Stolorow &Donna M. Orange -2011 -Psychoanalytic Review 98 (3):363-285.detailsIf the task of a post-Cartesian psychoanalysis is understood as one of exploring the patterns of emotional experience that organize subjective life, one can recognize that this task is pursued within a framework of delimiting assumptions concerning the ontology of the person. In this paper, we discuss these assumptions as they have emerged in the thinking of four major philosophers on whom we have drawn: Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger. Our purpose in what follows is to (...) describe essential ideas of these various thinkers and to identify the formative personal contexts within which their key insights into human life took form. By psychologically contextualizing philosophical assumptions, we hope to make progress toward discerning the particularization of scope that may be associated with these assumptions, and hence to begin a further opening up of the horizons of understanding that inevitably encircle psychoanalytic inquiry. (shrink)
Philosophical writings.George Berkeley &T. E. Jessop -1952 - [Edinburgh]: Nelson. Edited by T. E. Jessop.detailsThis edition provides texts from the full range of Berkeley's contributions to philosophy, and sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.
Kierkegaard's authorship: a guide to the writings of Kierkegaard.George E. Arbaugh -1968 - London,: Allen & Unwin. Edited by George B. Arbaugh.detailsFirst published in English in 1968, Kierkegaard's Authorship begins with a brief account of the life and meaning of Kierkegaard and concludes with the brief treatment of his relation to multifaceted existentialism. By reviewing the total authorship and by making available much of the fruit of widespread research, this work throws into relief Kierkegaard's central purposes and makes it possible to avoid some of the dubious interpretations which have grown out of more narrowly selective study. This critical introduction and guide (...) is especially important because Kierkegaard's style was deliberately indirect and distorted and even more because half of the works are actually antagonistic to Kierkegaard's own views. By the pseudonymous works he intended to lead into truth through a process of frustration, provoking the reader into existence. In another sense, the body of the book is also a biography for, in a degree perhaps without parallel in world history, the library which he created was his deed and life. This is an important read for scholars and researchers of Philosophy specially existentialism. (shrink)
Plato and Aristotle in agreement?: Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry.George E. Karamanolis -2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.detailsGeorge Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining the interplay of the two main schools of thought, Platonism and Aristotelianism, from the first century BC to the third century AD. Arguing against prevailing scholarly assumption, he argues that the Platonists turned to Aristotle only in order to elucidate Plato's doctrines and to reconstruct Plato's philosophy, and that they did not hesitate to criticize Aristotle when judging him to be at odds with Plato. Karamanolis (...) offers much food for thought to ancient philosophers and classicists. (shrink)
The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics.George E. Marcus -2002 - Pennsylvania State University Press.detailsThis book challenges the conventional wisdom that improving democratic politics requires keeping emotion out of it. Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided and leads contemporary theorists to misdiagnose the current state of American democracy. Instead of viewing the presence of emotion in politics as a failure of rationality and therefore as a failure of citizenship, Marcus argues, democratic theorists need to understand that emotions are in (...) fact a prerequisite for the exercise of reason and thus essential for rational democratic deliberation and political judgment. Attempts to purge emotion from public life not only are destined to fail, but ultimately would rob democracies of a key source of revitalization and change. Drawing on recent research in neuroscience, Marcus shows how emotion functions generally and what role it plays in politics. In contrast to the traditional view of emotion as a form of agitation associated with belief, neuroscience reveals it to be generated by brain systems that operate largely outside of awareness. Two of these systems, "disposition" and "surveillance," are especially important in enabling emotions to produce habits, which often serve a positive function in democratic societies. But anxiety, also a preconscious emotion, is crucial to democratic politics as well because it can inhibit or disable habits and thus clear a space for the conscious use of reason and deliberation. If we acknowledge how emotion facilitates reason and is "cooperatively entangled" with it, Marcus concludes, then we should recognize sentimental citizens as the only citizens really capable of exercising political judgment and of putting their decisions into action. (shrink)
An Information-Processing Theory of Mental Imagery: A Case Study in the New Mentalistic Psychology.George E. Smith &Stephen M. Kosslyn -1980 -PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1980:247 - 266.detailsA particular research program on mental imagery is defended against certain sweeping methodological criticisms that have been advanced against it. The central claim is that the approach taken in the program is an appropriate response to the problem of doing empirical research in a theoretical vacuum, and that when it is viewed in this perspective, the criticisms are not merely unfounded, they are inappropriate. The argument for this claim is developed by first describing the program and then analyzing the methodological (...) rationale behind it. (shrink)
Librarians in Search of Science and Identity: The Elusive Profession.George E. Bennett -1988 - Scarecrow Press.detailsTo find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Reconsidering the Democratic Public.George E. Marcus &Russell Hanson (eds.) -1993 - Pennsylvania State University Press.detailsThis book offers a re-examination of the evidence about citizens' capacity for self-governance and what it means for the future of democratic politics, from both empirical and normative perspectives. Are ordinary citizens capable of governing themselves? For more than three decades, social scientists have accumulated evidence of the undemocratic propensities of many ordinary citizens. This has caused some to worry about the stability of existing democratic institutions, while others argue that the institutions themselves are the problem: politics needs to be (...) democratized further, giving citizens more opportunities to practice democratic politics and acquire democratic values. The thirty-three contributors to this volume enter this debate with new evidence on citizens' capacity for deliberative politics. They argue that previous methods of investigation significantly underestimate people's ability to govern themselves, and that the prospects for democracy are better than conventional wisdom suggests. Realization of these prospects will depend on citizens grasping the interplay of emotions and reason in political life, creating new opportunities for citizen deliberation, and reinvigorating the institutions of representative government. Theories of democracy in turn will have to accommodate this changing reality as citizens show themselves to be self-determining in their political activities. (shrink)
Marx's Moral Skepticism.George E. Panichas -1981 -Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7 (Marx and Morality):45-66.detailsThis paper considers the theoretical and methodological origins of Marx's beliefs and attitudes towards classical moral theories and then their implications for two basic questions: (1) In what way, if any, was Marx suspicious and dismissive of classical moral theories (e.g., utilitarianism or Kantianism), and (2) what sort of moral theory can a proponent of Marx's moral views support? Here it is argued that there is a clear sense in which Marx would not have been automatically suspicious of moral ideas, (...) conceptions, discourse and the rest. But there is an equally clear sense in which he was. It is in the latter respect that Marx’s views must be explicated in terms of his theory of historical development, and it is only here that the full richness and impact of Marx’s views on moral philosophy can be understood and appreciated. (shrink)
What's different in speed/accuracy trade-offs in young and elderly subjects.George E. Stelmach &Jerry R. Thomas -1997 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (2):321-321.detailsWe question whether Plamondon & Alimi's model is useful in accounting for the nonsymmetrical and multiple-peaked velocity profiles observed in young and elderly subjects for ballistic aiming tasks. For these subjects, both data and observation suggest that a central representation initiates the movement in an appropriate direction but that multiple adjustments are made, both early and late, to achieve spatial accuracy.