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Friday, March 15, 2019

FACEBOOKS CONTINUING WAR ON MY MATERIAL...


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FACEBOOK IS NOW BLOCKING A NEWSLETTER FROM THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION. HERE ARE 3 BLOCKS FROM TODAY. IT GOES AGAINST THEIR "COMMUNITY STANDARDS." OF COURSE THEY DON'T TELL YOU HOW. 
(BY THE WAY, I HAVE BEEN POSTING THESE NEWSLETTERS FOR YEARS.)
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Member Groups: Philosophers 
outside academia Newsletter. 
Submission deadline for the 2019 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize
Friday, March 15, 2019

Nomination deadline for the 2019 Gittler Award
Friday, March 15, 2019

Nomination deadline for the 2019 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest
Monday, April 15, 2019

Nomination deadline for the 2019 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Nomination deadline for the 2020 Danto/ASA Prize
Friday, May 31, 2019

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Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks. BBC NEWS.

(The following was taken from the BBC reports on the Mass Shootings that took place at MOSQUES IN THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND. As you can see, Far Right Fanaticism is not just a problem in the U.S. I was first made aware of this horrific event by a high school classmate and friend who is a resident of the city.)

Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks.





Media captionChristchurch was put into lockdown as events unfolded

Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terrorist attack and one of New Zealand's "darkest days". It is the nation's deadliest attack.
A gunman identifying himself as an Australian live-streamed the rampage at Al Noor mosque to Facebook.
A man in his late 20s has been arrested and charged with murder. Two other men and one woman were also detained.
Firearms and explosive devices were recovered, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said. One of those detained was later released.
The gunman live-streaming the attack from a head-mounted camera said he was a 28-year-old Australian called Brenton Tarrant. The footage showed him firing indiscriminately at men, women and children from close range inside the Al Noor mosque.
Police called on the public not to share the "extremely distressing" footage online. Facebook said it had removed the gunman's Facebook and Instagram accounts and was working to remove any copies of the footage.
The suspect who was charged appeared to have published a document before the attack outlining his intentions and in which he espoused far right and anti-immigrant ideology. He is due in court on Saturday morning.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the man as an "extremist, right-wing" terrorist. Police Commissioner Bush confirmed that the man was not known in advance to either New Zealand or Australian security services.
New Zealand police said that officers had gone to a property in the city of Dunedin in connection with the attack in Christchurch.
"It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack," Prime Minister Ardern said in a press conference.
In a tweet, she said: "What has happened in Christchurch is an extraordinary act of unprecedented violence. It has no place in New Zealand. Many of those affected will be members of our migrant communities - New Zealand is their home - they are us."
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION. RETHINKING HEALTH CARE ETHICS.



Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska. Rethinking Health Care Ethics. Palgrave Pivot/Springer, 2018. Available Open Access (free download): 

“a powerful and deeply reasoned critique of teaching and practice in contemporary bioethics, and a timely, compelling, and humane proposal for rethinking values and ethics in the care of patients.”

– Allan M. Brandt, Department of the History of Science, and former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
If Rethinking Health Care Ethics had a subtitle, it would be “Philosophical Ethics Meets the Real World.” The book identifies a gap between philosophical approaches to normative and professional ethics, especially as embodied in the American bioethics movement, and the actual world of professional practitioners, where ethical problems are encountered, and solved as best as possible, day by day, minute by minute. The book is, in effect, an extended exploration of this gap between theory and practice, and of how to address it.

An easy way of understanding the setting for the book is by relating an anecdote by the former co-editors of a major medical journal. They were working as visitors at a university-affiliated hospital, and they described (to the resident “ethicist”) “an everyday clinical decision (one of very many).” The ethicist replied, “That would take days—even weeks—for me to analyze properly.” Moreover, he added, “If the end results of [their] decision were harmful,” the two doctors “would have been unethical.” The problem, of course, is that health professionals—and virtually anyone working in any profession—need to make these decisions quickly, often immediately. And they often even make these decisions more or less automatically, without thinking. How can that be?

The book is nontechnically written in order to make it accessible to non-philosophers, ranging from undergraduate students to practicing professionals. It is potentially useful in undergraduate and graduate courses in professional ethics, in courses offered in professional schools, and for practicing professionals. The book also raises, indirectly, important questions about the limits of philosophical ethics and about how one should teach moral philosophy, and with what goals and expectations in mind.

Stephen Scher, PhD, JD (sscher@mclean.harvard.edu) is Senior Editor of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and former Senior Editor of the American Journal of International Law. Kasia Kozlowska, MBBS, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney Medical School.

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