‘Risky’ research and participants' interests: the ethics of phase 2C clinical trials.Sarah Chan,Ying-Kiat Zee,GordonJayson &John Harris -2011 -Clinical Ethics 6 (2):91-96.detailsBiomedical research involving human participants is highly regulated and subject to stringent ethical requirements. Clinical research ethics, regulation and policy have tended to focus almost exclusively on the protection of participants' interests against harms that might result from taking part in research. Less consideration, however, has been given to the interests that patients may themselves have in research participation, even in trials that may be beyond the bounds of current clinical research practice. In this paper, we consider the case of (...) a suggested extension to clinical trial protocols to explore the ethics of participation in ‘risky’ research. We argue that patients may have a strong interest in taking part in research, and that even when greater-than-usual risks may be present, such research can be both ethically and scientifically justified. Finally, we suggest that there might be scope in some cases to assert a right to participate in research, and that the possibility of such a right merits further consideration. (shrink)
Conceptualization and Measurement of Virtuous Leadership: Doing Well by Doing Good.Gordon Wang &Rick D. Hackett -2016 -Journal of Business Ethics 137 (2):321-345.detailsDespite a long history in eastern and western culture of defining leadership in terms of virtues and character, their significance for guiding leader behavior has largely been confined to the ethics literature. As such, agreement concerning the defining elements of virtuous leadership and their measurement is lacking. Drawing on both Confucian and Aristotelian concepts, we define virtuous leadership and distinguish it conceptually from several related perspectives, including virtues-based leadership in the Positive organizational behavior literature, and from ethical and value-laden leadership. (...) Then, two empirical studies are presented that develop and validate the Virtuous Leadership Questionnaire, an 18-item behaviorally based assessment of the construct. Among other findings, we show that the VLQ accounts for variance in several outcome variables, even after self-assessed leader virtue and subordinate-rated social and personalized leader charisma are controlled. (shrink)
Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political.JamesGordon Finlayson &Fabian Freyenhagen (eds.) -2010 - New York: Routledge.detailsHabermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly because their work comes from different traditions—roughly the European tradition of social and political theory and the Anglo-American analytic tradition of political philosophy. In this volume, contributors re-examine the Habermas-Rawls dispute with an eye toward the ways in (...) which the dispute can cast light on current controversies about political philosophy more broadly. Moreover, the volume will cover a number of other salient issues on which Habermas and Rawls have interesting and divergent views, such as the political role of religion and international justice. (shrink)
Thomas Hobbes as philosopher, publicist.George EdwardGordon Catlin -1922 - Oxford,: Blackwell.detailsThis book provides an in-depth analysis of Thomas Hobbes's philosophy and political writings. The author argues that Hobbes was not only a philosopher, but also a publicist who played an important role in shaping political discourse in his time. This is an essential resource for anyone interested in political philosophy and the history of ideas. 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)
In Defense of Not Defending Kant’s Religion.Gordon E. Michalson Jr -2012 -Faith and Philosophy 29 (2):181-192.detailsThis essay underscores the significant contribution Firestone and Jacobs make through the very thorough way their book surveys the wide range of recent scholarship bearing on Kant’s Religion. The essay then argues, however, that the complex scaffolding designed to summarize and categorize the varied responses to Kant has the effect of muting the authors’ own very bold interpretive stance. This point is particularly true with respect to their account of the compatibility of Kant’s Religion with the Christian tradition. In addition, (...) the essay suggests that the judicial metaphor of “defense” is overplayed, forcing certain interpretations of Kant into potentially misleading positions for the sake of the interpretive scheme. (shrink)
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Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion. HCC 2016. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 474.David Kreps,Gordon Fletcher &Marie Griffiths (eds.) -2016 - Cham.: Springer Nature.detailsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC12 2016, held in Salford, UK, in September 2016. -/- The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers deal with the constantly evolving intimate relationship between humans and technology. They focus on three main themes: ethics, communications, and futures.
(1 other version)Jean‐Luc Nancy's Conception of Listening.Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon &Megan Jane Laverty -2025 -Educational Theory 74 (6):915-941.detailsIn this article Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon and Megan Jane Laverty discuss Jean-Luc Nancy's conception of listening as presented in his seminal work, À l'écoute. The authors argue that Nancy uses the term “listening” to refer to the experience of coming to an idea of sound(s) initially encountered as puzzling. They illustrate Nancy's conception with teaching/learning situations involving a pianist and teacher, Deborah Sobol, and two aspiring players, Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon and Rosalie Romano. The article has four parts. In part 1, (...) the authors ask: Do we see Deborah trying to make meaning of Sophie's performance on October 2, 1998? In part 2, they ask: Do we see Sophie trying to make meaning of Deborah's words and demonstrations on the same occasion? In parts 3 and 4, they explore Sophie's and Rosalie's listening when they are coached by Deborah on January 15, 1999. In so doing, Haroutunian-Gordon and Laverty illustrate Nancy's conception of listening and demonstrate its usefulness for theorizing about and studying actual situations. (shrink)
Mary Astell's Epistemology.JessicaGordon-Roth &Nancy Kendrick -forthcoming - In Matthias Steup Kurt Sylvan,Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, Third Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.detailsMary Astell (1666-1731) is often described as a Cartesian—and for good reason. Many of her philosophical positions align with Descartes’. Nonetheless, it is possible to overstress the similarities between Astell’s philosophy and Descartes’. This entry focuses on the ways their views diverge in order to get a fuller understanding of Astell’s epistemology. Her approach to meditation, the emphasis she places on social dimensions of inquiry, her commitment to cultivating intellectual virtues, and her insights concerning what we would now call “epistemic (...) injustice” are among the elements that distinguish her philosophy from Descartes’ and mark her as a significant early modern epistemologist. (shrink)
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Dwelling Poetically: Educational Challenges in Heidegger's Thinking on Poetry.ḤayimGordon (ed.) -2000 - Rodopi.detailsThis book philosophically discusses the educational challenges of dwelling poetically, which, according to Martin Heidegger, means learning from great poems how to live a worthy life and relate authentically to beings and to Being. The gifts of great poetry are carefully described and concrete approaches are presented that the educator can adopt.
Existential philosophy and the promise of education: learning from myths and metaphors.MordechaiGordon -2016 - New York: Peter Lang.detailsTeachers as Absurd Heroes : Camus' Sisyphus and the Promise of Rebellion -- Education as Empowerment : Exploring Dostoyevsky's Notion of "the Underground" -- Kafka's The Metamorphosis and the Challenge of Relating to Strangers -- Negotiating Contingency : Sartre's Nausea and the Possibility of Losing Control in a Technological World -- Nietzsche on the Significance of Learning about the Past -- Martin Buber's Metaphor of "Starting from Above" and the Issue of Educational Authority -- Hannah Arendt's Concept of the "Banality (...) of Evil" : On Thoughtlessness in Education -- Maxine Greene, Opening Spaces and Education for Freedom. (shrink)
Locke on Midwifery and Childbirth: A Glimpse of a Sexist Epistemology?JessicaGordon-Roth -2021 - In Jessica Gordon-Roth & Shelley Weinberg,The Lockean Mind. New York, NY: Routledge.detailsIn this chapter I explore whether what’s come to be known as Locke’s ‘Midwifery Notes’ reveals that Locke has a tendency toward a sexist epistemology. I argue that it doesn’t appear as if Locke is challenging women as epistemic agents per se in this document, but rather the efficacy of midwives. I then consider whether Locke has the kind of attitude that undergirds the eventual divide between obstetrics and midwifery as it arises in the US—a divide taken to be teeming (...) with sexist assumptions on the obstetrics’ side. I argue that this kind of reading is ruled out given what Locke says about the practices of midwives in the ‘Midwifery Notes’ and what he says about medical practice more generally in ‘Anatomia.’ Nevertheless, there is something different about Locke’s tone in the ‘Midwifery Notes’ and it’s worth considering how the trope of the ‘meddling’ or ‘useless’ woman is playing a role in this often overlooked text. (shrink)
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