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Taft's thesis topic was "The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness" accepted in 1913 by the Philosophy department at the University of Chicago. It was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1916 with a note acknowledging her "indebtedness to Professor James H. Tufts and Professor George H. Mead for their advice ...
According to consequentialism, the morality of any given action is judged solely by its consequences. [1] Consequentialist ethics raises the dichotomy of immediate foreseeable consequences versus unforeseeable potential consequences; for example, in the story of Johann Kühberger saving a young Hitler from drowning, the immediate positive consequences of saving a person's life was the ...
Although the media would refer to Brown as a "test tube baby", [2] her conception actually took place in a Petri dish. Purdy was the first to see Brown's embryonic cells dividing. [3] Louise Joy Brown was born on 25 July 1978 at Oldham's General Hospital, via a planned C-section performed by John Webster. [4]
Religion and sexuality and various related topics. Role of women in religion, Religious feminism, and related topics; Separation of church and state; Satanism; Sathya Sai Baba – enduring dispute about the amount of space devoted to describing the views of proponents and critics as published on their homepages; Scientology; Seventh-day ...
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
Having given up her initial thesis topic, she returned to a question that Jerome Kagan had posed in Diamond's first year in graduate school: "If infants all over the world show the same cognitive changes at roughly the same time, those changes cannot be due entirely to learning or experience, because their experiences are too diverse; there ...
Dads tend to have the most fun hobbies — fishing, golfing, bird watching, and, if you're my father-in-law, storytelling.He tends to be an incredibly fun person to shop for this time of year, but ...
McKellar was born in La Jolla, California. [5] She moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her mother, Mahaila McKellar (née Tello), was a homemaker; her father, Christopher McKellar, is a real estate developer; her younger sister, Crystal (b. 1976), is a lawyer. [6]