Benjamin Sachs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3993830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Sachs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sachs |
| SIGNATURE | SACHS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Tulane accelerated physician training program (TAP-TP): A novel combination of scholarship and service
INTRODUCTION: In spite of a projected shortage of physicians in the USA, the relatively long time and duration of training and high expense, the education of U.S. physicians has changed little over the past 120 years. METHODS: To address these issues, Tulane University developed a program, the Tulane accelerated physician training program (TAP-TP). This unique program allows selected Tulane undergraduate students to complete two years of undergra…
Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications
Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism
The limits of fair equality of opportunity
The Status of Moral Status
This paper investigates whether moral status talk gets us anywhere in our search for answers to questions in the ethics of marginal cases. I consider the usefulness of moral status talk first on the assumption that an individual's possession of moral status is not a further fact about that individual, and then on the assumption that it is. Finally, I offer an expressivistic interpretation of moral status talk. In each case, I argue that such talk…
Consequentialism's Double-Edged Sword
Recent work on consequentialism has revealed it to be more flexible than previously thought. Consequentialists have shown how their theory can accommodate certain features with which it has long been considered incompatible, such as agent-centered constraints. This flexibility is usually thought to work in consequentialism's favor. I want to cast doubt on this assumption. I begin by putting forward the strongest statement of consequentialism's fl…
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Health of Our Nation Series
Health of Our Nation Series Eleanor Sachs, and Benjamin Sachs CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.33.11.1364 Published Online: August 29, 2011
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Health of Our Nation Series
Health of Our Nation Series Eleanor Sachs, and Benjamin Sachs CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.33.11.1364 Published Online: August 29, 2011
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Consequentialism's Double-Edged Sword
Recent work on consequentialism has revealed it to be more flexible than previously thought. Consequentialists have shown how their theory can accommodate certain features with which it has long been considered incompatible, such as agent-centered constraints. This flexibility is usually thought to work in consequentialism's favor. I want to cast doubt on this assumption. I begin by putting forward the strongest statement of consequentialism's fl…
The Status of Moral Status
This paper investigates whether moral status talk gets us anywhere in our search for answers to questions in the ethics of marginal cases. I consider the usefulness of moral status talk first on the assumption that an individual's possession of moral status is not a further fact about that individual, and then on the assumption that it is. Finally, I offer an expressivistic interpretation of moral status talk. In each case, I argue that such talk…
The limits of fair equality of opportunity
Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications
Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism
The Tulane accelerated physician training program (TAP-TP): A novel combination of scholarship and service
INTRODUCTION: In spite of a projected shortage of physicians in the USA, the relatively long time and duration of training and high expense, the education of U.S. physicians has changed little over the past 120 years. METHODS: To address these issues, Tulane University developed a program, the Tulane accelerated physician training program (TAP-TP). This unique program allows selected Tulane undergraduate students to complete two years of undergra…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethics (2 works) · Ethics & Moral Philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Methodology (2 works) · Normativity (Ethics) (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works)