Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today.J. E.Elliott -2022 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2022 (200):131-152.detailsIThe so-called enterprise or commercial-bureaucratic university has been with us for some time. To its advocates, it has set higher education on a rational footing and demystified the folkways of cosseted intellectuals. To its detractors, it galls the kibe. For observers and stakeholders alike, the age of the office has introduced a new way of thinking and speaking in campus boardrooms and action sessions. The idiom of markets and corporations—How competitive are we? What are the anticipated returns on investment? Where (...) can payroll efficiencies be found?—frames an instrumental, quantifiable understanding of the vita academica. Corporate clients need to decide…. (shrink)
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For Whom the Advantage Tolls: Institutional Racism and the Prospective Legacies of SFFA v. Harvard.J. E.Elliott -2023 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (204):145-154.detailsExcerptFew U.S. Supreme Court decisions in living memory have combined a widespread expectation in verdict with a broad aggrievement of impact as dynamically as SFFA v. Harvard. Anyone remotely concerned with the fortunes of higher education in North America would have had good reason to believe, on or before June 29, 2023, that the “special consideration” of race in university admissions had reached its best-buy date. The key predictive decisions twenty years earlier—Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger—tolled the clock. (...) In the Bollinger cases, several justices opined that, a quarter century out, affirmative action policies might no longer be necessary in university admissions to even the score for the racially disadvantaged. The majority in SFFA changed might to must with five years to spare. (shrink)
The Picture Talk Project: Starting a Conversation with Community Leaders on Research with Remote Aboriginal Communities of Australia.E. F. M. Fitzpatrick,G. Macdonald,A. L. C. Martiniuk,H. D’Antoine,J. Oscar,M. Carter,T. Lawford &E. J.Elliott -2017 -BMC Medical Ethics 18 (1):34.detailsResearchers are required to seek consent from Indigenous communities prior to conducting research but there is inadequate information about how Indigenous people understand and become fully engaged with this consent process. Few studies evaluate the preference or understanding of the consent process for research with Indigenous populations. Lack of informed consent can impact on research findings. The Picture Talk Project was initiated with senior Aboriginal leaders of the Fitzroy Valley community situated in the far north of Western Australia. Aboriginal people (...) were interviewed about their understanding and experiences of research and consent processes. Transcripts were analysed using NVivo10 software with an integrated method of inductive and deductive coding and based in grounded theory. Local Aboriginal interpreters validated coding. Major themes were defined and supporting quotes sourced. Interviews with Aboriginal leaders were facilitated by a local Aboriginal Community Navigator who could interpret if necessary and provide cultural guidance. Participants were from all four major local language groups of the Fitzroy Valley; aged 31 years and above; and half were male. Themes emerging from these discussions included Research—finding knowledge; Being respectful of Aboriginal people, Working on country, and Being flexible with time; Working together with good communication; Reciprocity—two-way learning; and Reaching consent. The project revealed how much more there is to be learned about how research with remote Aboriginal communities should be conducted such that it is both culturally respectful and, importantly, meaningful for participants. We identify important elements in community consultation about research and seeking consent. (shrink)
Medical and bioethical considerations in elective cochlear implant array removal.Maryanna S. Owoc,Elliott D. Kozin,Aaron Remenschneider,Maria J. Duarte,Ariel Edward Hight,Marjorie Clay,Susanna E. Meyer,Daniel J. Lee &Selena Briggs -2018 -Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (3):174-179.detailsObjectiveCochlear explantation for purely elective (e.g. psychological and emotional) reasons is not well studied. Herein, we aim to provide data and expert commentary about elective cochlear implant (CI) removal that may help to guide clinical decision-making and formulate guidelines related to CI explantation.Data sourcesWe address these objectives via three approaches: case report of a patient who desired elective CI removal; review of literature and expert discussion by surgeon, audiologist, bioethicist, CI user and member of Deaf community.Review methodsA systematic review using (...) three scientific online databases was performed. Included articles addressed the benefits and/or complications of cochlear implantation in young children, CI explantation with or without revision surgery and the ethical debate between the medical and Deaf communities on cochlear implantation and explantation.ConclusionsThe medical and audiological perspectives identify a host of risks related to implant removal without reimplantation, including risk from surgery, general anaesthesia, cochlear ossification and poor audiometric outcomes. The member of the deaf community and bioethicist argue that physicians need to guide the principles of beneficence, non-maleficence and patient autonomy. Taken together, patient desires should be seen as paramount, if the patient is otherwise fit for surgery and well informed.Implications for practiceSimilar to the case of device implantation, device explantation should be a multidisciplinary and collaborative decision with the patient and the family’s desires at the centre. While every case is different, we offer a CI explantation discussion to assist in clinical decision-making, patient counselling and education. (shrink)
Ethics Across the Curriculum—Pedagogical Perspectives.Elaine E. Englehardt,Michael S. Pritchard,Robert Baker,Michael D. Burroughs,José A. Cruz-Cruz,Randall Curren,Michael Davis,Aine Donovan,DeniElliott,Karin D. Ellison,Challie Facemire,William J. Frey,Joseph R. Herkert,Karlana June,Robert F. Ladenson,Christopher Meyers,Glen Miller,Deborah S. Mower,Lisa H. Newton,David T. Ozar,Alan A. Preti,Wade L. Robison,Brian Schrag,Alan Tomhave,Phyllis Vandenberg,Mark Vopat,Sandy Woodson,Daniel E. Wueste &Qin Zhu -2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.detailsLate in 1990, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology (lIT) received a grant of more than $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to try a campus-wide approach to integrating professional ethics into its technical curriculum.! Enough has now been accomplished to draw some tentative conclusions. I am the grant's principal investigator. In this paper, I shall describe what we at lIT did, what we learned, and what others, especially philosophers, can learn (...) from us. We set out to develop an approach that others could profitably adopt. I believe that we succeeded. (shrink)
The Sexual revolution: history--ideology--power.Peter J.Elliott -2023 - San Francisco: Ignatius Press.detailsBishopElliott's book is a great tool for defending Catholic sexual ethics as humane and reasonable. His experience representing the Holy See at the United Nations has given him a ring-side seat in the battles showing just how radical the sexual revolutionaries really are. He offers a rare combination of sound theology and practical experience." -- Jennifer Roback Morse [taken from back cover].
Nature History State: 1933–1934 By Martin Heidegger London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, pp.203, £14.99 ISBN: 978-1-4411-1617-8. [REVIEW]Richard J.Elliott -2017 -Philosophy 92 (1):129-135.detailsReview of Martin Heidegger's 1933 - 1934 seminars, with accompanying essays by Slavoj Zizek, Robert Bernasconi, Peter E. Gordon, Marion Heinz, and Theodore Kisiel.
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(1 other version)A Two-Part Defense of Intuitionistic Mathematics.Samuel R.Elliott -2021 -Stance 14:26-38.detailsThe classical interpretation of mathematical statements can be seen as comprising two separate but related aspects: a domain and a truth-schema. L. E. J. Brouwer’s intuitionistic project lays the groundwork for an alternative conception of the objects in this domain, as well as an accompanying intuitionistic truth-schema. Drawing on the work of Arend Heyting and Michael Dummett, I present two objections to classical mathematical semantics, with the aim of creating an opening for an alternative interpretation. With this accomplished, I then (...) make the case for intuitionism as a suitable candidate to fill this void. (shrink)
Index.Jorge J. E. Gracia -2008 - InLatinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 239–252.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: Two Dilemmas Four Basic Questions about Identity The Familial—Historical View of Latino Identities Ethnicity and Nationality Latino Identities.
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Marketplace: Survival and Flourishing.Jorge J. E. Gracia -2008 - InLatinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 77–94.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: General Philosophical Goals The American Philosophical Community General Consequences and Effects on Latinos Economic Survival and Intellectual Flourishing.
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Nocebo effects on informed consent within medical and psychological settings: A scoping review.Nadine S. J. Stirling,Victoria M. E. Bridgland &Melanie K. T. Takarangi -2023 -Ethics and Behavior 33 (5):387-412.detailsWarning research participants and patients about potential risks associated with participation/treatment is a fundamental part of consent. However, such risk warnings might cause negative expectations and subsequent nocebo effects (i.e., negative expectations cause negative outcomes) in participants. Because no existing review documents how past research has quantitatively examined nocebo effects – and negative expectations – arising from consent risk warnings, we conducted a pre-registered scoping review (N = 9). We identified several methodological issues across these studies, which in addition to (...) mixed findings, limit conclusions about whether risk warnings cause nocebo effects. (shrink)
Numerical Continuity in Material Substances.Jorge J. E. Gracia -1979 -Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10 (2):73-92.detailsThis paper investigates the problem of numerical continuity in thomistic metaphysics and attempts to point out the principle of identity in material substances. it has three parts: the first clarifies the issue and presents the possible alternatives; the second rejects various solutions which have been proposed by interpreters of thomas aquinas such as matter, form, accidents, and substance; and the third part argues that within thomistic metaphysics it is only existence ("esse") that may be considered as an acceptable candidate for (...) this ontological role. (shrink)
Canon: Place and Future.Jorge J. E. Gracia -2008 - InLatinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 158–184.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: Philosophical Canons The Place of Latino Philosophy in the Canon Reasons for the Exclusion of Latino Philosophy from the Canon Philosophical Canons and Philosophical Traditions Philosophical Canons in the United States Latino Philosophy and the Western Philosophical Tradition Incorporating Latino Philosophy into the Philosophical Canon Latin America, Globalization, and the Future of Latino Philosophy Latino Philosophy and the Canon.
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Linguistic Rights: Language and Children.Jorge J. E. Gracia -2008 - InLatinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 112–125.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: Linguistic Rights for Latinos Pogge's Argument for English—first A Worrisome Suspicion Language Priority in the Education of Latino Children.
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Response to My Critics.P. J. E. Kail -2010 -Hume Studies 36 (1):97-107.detailsI am extremely grateful to all my commentators for their very careful engagement with my book.1 Some disagreements, I think, may stem from my failure to be sufficiently clear and so are only apparent. Other objections are not and seem to be spot on. I will not be able to give fully adequate answers to all the objections, since some require sustained discussion of some very fundamental issues that is simply impossible in this forum.Schliesser's comments concern my discussion of philosophical (...) and natural relations and their connection with reason, and my reading of Hume's attitude regarding the external world.In my reading of "reason" in Hume I make some abstract distinctions. We can think of reason as a. (shrink)
Virtue and Vice.P. J. E. Kail -2011 - In Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson,The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.detailsThis article analyses the conception of virtue and vice in early modern Europe. It explains that there were two movements in conceptions of virtue during this period. The first is the Cartesian tradition wherein virtue is intimately related to the control of the passions and the other is the continuation of this theme in Britain in a more aesthetic version. This article describes how the concepts of virtue and vice were softened by an awakening interest in the social emotions and (...) in the relationship between moral goodness and happiness. (shrink)