ethicist

Also e·thi·cian

[eth-uh-sist]

noun

1. a person who specializes in or writes on ethics ethics or who is devoted to ethical principles.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ethicist¹

First recorded in 1890–95; ethic + -ist

Example Sentences

Dr. Dugdale is a physician and ethicist at Columbia University and the author of “The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom.”

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“It raises questions about who has leverage over public institutions when private dollars intervene,” one ethicist told reporters.

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Some, inspired by technologists and ethicists like Sebo — who will advocate for an expansive moral circle that includes sentient AI — are likely to argue that consciousness, wherever it arises, deserves moral respect.

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“Then, I just flopped back down on my back and experienced this overwhelming feeling of absolute bliss,” Leier, an ethicist at the University of Alberta in Canada, told Salon in a phone interview.

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As an ethicist, her role was to ask questions, including uncomfortable ones: “Is this a good thing?”

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