Ethics Consultation: The Least Dangerous Profession?Giles R. Scofield,John C.Fletcher,Albert R. Jonsen,Christian Lilje,Donnie J. Self &Judith Wilson Ross -1993 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 (4):417.detailsWhether ethics is too important to be left to the experts or so important that it must be is an age-old question. The emergence of clinical ethicists raises it again, as a question about professionalism. What role clinical ethicists should play in healthcare decision making – teacher, mediator, or consultant – is a question that has generated considerable debate but no consensus.
Herstory as an Important Force in Bioethics.Stephen Sodeke,Faith E.Fletcher,Virginia A. Brown,John R. Stone,Cynthia B. Wilson,TenéHamilton Franklin,Charmaine D. M. Royal &Vence L. Bonham -2022 -Hastings Center Report 52 (S1):83-88.detailsHastings Center Report, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S83-S88, March‐April 2022.
The ethics of genetic control: ending reproductive roulette.Joseph F.Fletcher -1974 - Garden City, N.Y.,: Anchor Press.details"The patriarch of medical ethics explains why some accepted ethical values need to catch up with the science of human reproduction and why newer reproductive methods can be more "natural" and humane than those they replace." -- from Publisher's site.
Sentimental value.GuyFletcher -2009 -Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (1):55-65.detailsFor many people, among the first experiences they have of things as being valuable are experiences of things as possessing sentimental value. Such is the case in childhood where treasured objects are often among the first things we experience as valuable. In everyday life, we frequently experi- ence apparent sentimental value belonging to particular garments, books, cards, and places. Philosophers, however, have seldom discussed sentimental value and have also tended to think about value generally in a way that makes it (...) difficult for sentimental value to be a real kind of value. (shrink)
No Self to be Found: The Search for Personal Identity.JamesGiles -1997 - University Press of America.detailsThis book is a exploration of the notion of personal identity. Here it is shown how the various attempts to give an account of personal identity are all based on false assumptions and so inevitably run aground. One of the first Western thinkers to realize this was David Hume, the 18th century empiricist philosopher who argued that self was a fiction. A new interpretation of Hume's no-self theory is put forward by arguing for an eliminative rather than a reductive point (...) of view of personal identity, and by approaching the problem in terms of phenomenology, Buddhist critiques of the notion of the self, and the idea of a constructed self-image. No Self to Be Found explores the problem of personal identity from the most basic level by raising the question of the existence of personal identity itself. (shrink)
Brown and Moore's value invariabilism vs Dancy's variabilism.GuyFletcher -2010 -Philosophical Quarterly 60 (238):162-168.detailsCampbell Brown has recently argued that G.E. Moore's intrinsic value holism is superior to Jonathan Dancy's. I show that the advantage which Brown claims for Moore's view over Dancy's is illusory, and that Dancy's view may be superior.
Uneasy companions.GuyFletcher -2009 -Ratio 22 (3):359-368.detailsA critical notice of Terence Cuneo's The Normative Web and Hallvard Lillehammer's Companions in Guilt: Arguments for Ethical Objectivity.
Mill, Moore, and Intrinsic Value.GuyFletcher -2008 -Social Theory and Practice 34 (4):517-32.detailsIn this paper, I examine how philosophers before and after G. E. Moore understood intrinsic value. The main idea I wish to bring out and defend is that Moore was insufficiently attentive to how distinctive his conception of intrinsic value was, as compared with those of the writers he discussed, and that such inattentiveness skewed his understanding of the positions of others that he discussed and dismissed. My way into this issue is by examining the charge of inconsistency that Moore (...) levels at the qualitative hedonism outlined by J. S. Mill in Utilitarianism. Along the way I suggest that there are a number of ways in which Moore was unfair in rejecting qualitative hedonism as inconsistent. I close by relating the issues that arise in discussion of Moore to contemporary debates on value and reasons. (shrink)
Contribution to an Analysis of the Daily Life of African Women.Tanella Boni &JohnFletcher -1998 -Diogenes 46 (184):71-90.detailsI'll say first why I write. It intrigues me, I wonder why I write. How it is that I write and why it's so important. I take this as an act of life. One thing that scares me as a writer is a Lari song “ndombi ku ndombi sadidi mukanda komanda diandi Matsoua Ndele.” That can be translated as “even a black can write, hey, things are progressing. “ In the beginning going to school was considered an enormous act, it (...) was civilization, it was the very center of civilization, and writing a letter for a black person, a poor black, was a grandiose thing. It was in Matsoua's time, in the forties, that people sang this song in the pool to make rubber. (shrink)
On Hatzimoysis on sentimental value.GuyFletcher -2009 -Philosophia 37 (1):149-152.detailsDespite its apparent ubiquity, philosophers have not talked much about sentimental value. One exception is Anthony Hatzimoysis (The Philosophical Quarterly 53:373–379, 2003). Those who wish to take sentimental value seriously are likely to make use of Christine Korsgaard’s ideas on two distinctions in value. In this paper I show that Hatzimoysis has misrendered Korsgaard’s insight in his discussion of sentimental value. I begin by briefly summarising Korsgaard’s idea before showing how Hatzimoysis’ treatment of it is mistaken.
Basic Theatrical Understanding.James R.Hamilton -2007 - InThe Art of Theater. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 71–90.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: Minimal General Success Conditions for Basic Theatrical Understanding Physical and Affective Responses of Audiences as Non‐Discursive Evidence of Understanding The Success Conditions for Basic Theatrical Understanding Met by Moment‐to‐moment Apprehension of Performances “Immediate Objects,” “Developed Objects,” and “Cogency” Objects of Understanding having Complex Structures Generalizing Beyond Plays The Problem of “Cognitive Uniformity”.
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Fragments de Philosophie, Tr. Par L. Peisse.WilliamHamilton -2018 - Wentworth Press.detailsThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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)
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Might there be legal reasons?Richard PaulHamilton -2004 -Res Publica 10 (4):425-447.detailsIn this paper, I consider and question an influential position in Anglo-American philosophy of action which suggests that reasons for action must be internal, in other words that statements about reasons for actions must make reference to some fact or set of facts about the agent and her desires. I do so by asking whether legal requirements could be considered as reasons for actions and if in so considering them one must translate statements about legal requirements into statements about the (...) psychological state of the agent fulfilling those requirements. Since such a process of translation seems neither necessary nor desirable, I suggest that the crudest forms of the internalist position are found wanting. I discuss a more sophisticated form of internalism put forward by Bernard Williams and criticised by John McDowell. I extend McDowells argument to cover legal reasons and suggest that Williams argument fails to recognise that reasons for action entail standards of correctness that are irreducible to facts about individual character and motivation. I conclude with a brief description of the justificatory status of legal requirements. (shrink)
Natural citizens: ethical formation as biological development.Richard PaulHamilton -2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.detailsContributing to the naturalistic virtue ethics tradition, Natural Citizens applies recent work in the life sciences to develop a form of ethical naturalism that aspires to be non-reductive yet empirically responsible.
Taxonomy and Why History of Science Matters for Science.AndrewHamilton &Quentin Wheeler -2008 -Isis 99 (2):331-340.detailsThe history of science often has difficulty connecting with science at the lab-bench level, raising questions about the value of history of science for science. This essay offers a case study from taxonomy in which lessons learned about particular failings of numerical taxonomy in the second half of the twentieth century bear on the new movement toward DNA barcoding. In particular, it argues that an unwillingness to deal with messy theoretical questions in both cases leads to important problems in the (...) theory and practice of identifying taxa. This argument makes use of scientific and historical considerations in a way that the authors hope leads to convincing conclusions about the history of taxonomy as well as about its present practice. (shrink)
Theatrical Enactment: The Guiding Intuitions.James R.Hamilton -2007 - InThe Art of Theater. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 58–69.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: Enactment: Something Spectators and Performers do The Crucial Concept: “Attending to Another” What it is to “Occasion” Responses Audience Responses: Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Acquired Beliefs, or Acquired Abilities Relativizing the Account by Narrowing its Scope to Narrative Performances.
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The Myth in Plutarch'sDe Genio.W.Hamilton -1934 -Classical Quarterly 28 (3-4):175-182.detailsIn a former paper I endeavoured to show that the myth in Plutarch's de facie is a conscious imitation on a small scale of the Timaeus of Plato, and that therefore we might conclude that Plutarch, who regarded the Timaeus as serious philosophy, intended the main point of his own myth, the derivation of mind, soul and body from the sun, moon and earth respectively, to be taken literally. This conclusion will be equally true of the myth of the de (...) genio, if it can be shown, first, that the two myths present what is essentially the same psychological theory, and, secondly, that there is no internal inconsistency in the myth of the de genio, such as to justify von Arnim in concluding that it consists merely of two incompatible doctrines from different sources arbitrarily placed by Plutarch in juxtaposition. The present paper is an attempt to establish these two points. (shrink)
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