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ethicist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ethician |
| Type of | philosopher |
| Derivation | ethicism, ethics |
Examples of ethicist
ethicist
I was an ethicist for a medical school's panel reviewing human experimentation.
From the forbes.com
His daughter, he said, had just gotten a good job as an ethicist at a hospital.
From the nation.time.com
So the board turned for advice to its professional ethicist, Michael Gillette.
From the latimes.com
Harvard's Andrew L. Kaufman, a law school ethicist, refuses to take paying clients.
From the businessweek.com
The editors arranged to have the ethicist Peter Singer rebut Posner's piece.
From the theatlantic.com
One medical ethicist says trying to wipe polio out may not be the best goal.
From the cnn.com
Gopal Sreenivasan, a medical ethicist at Duke, studies disparities in care.
From the newsobserver.com
The ethicist had spoken, then, about the ways that a life acquires meaning.
From the nytimes.com
Talk with Arizona State University's Marianne Jennings, a renowned business ethicist.
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- A philosopher who specializes in ethics
- (ethicism) a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important; "his ethicism often led him to moralize"
- An ethicist is one whose judgment on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by a specific community, and (importantly) is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgement. ...
- Randy Cohen is an American Emmy Award-winning writer and humorist known since 1999 as the author of The Ethicist column in The New York Times Magazine. Cohen's column is syndicated throughout the U.S. and Canada.
- An ethicist is one whose judgment on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by a specific community, and (importantly) is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgement. Following the advice of ethicists is one means of acquiring knowledge (see argument, argument from authority).
- A person, especially a philosopher, who studies principles governing right and wrong conduct; A person who advocates a particular set of principles governing right and wrong conduct
- (ethicism) The application of ethics; The use of ethics to create competitive advantage in business
- (ethicists) People who spend time thinking about ethics, that is, about values related to human conduct.
