ethicist

American  

[eth-uh-sist] / ˈɛθ ə sɪst /

Also ethician

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of ethicist

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

AI ethicist and author Olivia Gambelin told the BBC OpenAI limiting further use of Dr King's image was "a good step forward".

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

She contacted colleague Cansu Canca, an ethicist who is director of Responsible AI Practice at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025

That policy “cannot withstand critical scrutiny,” say the authors of the editorial, David Shalowitz, a gynecologic oncologist and bioethicist at West Michigan Cancer Center, and Franklin Miller, an ethicist at Weill Cornell Medicine.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

And he is, much more certainly, the only thoroughly emancipated, the only thoroughly modern and scientific ethicist that ever lived.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph