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  • Elizabeth Escalante, Uterus Transplants as an Ethical Alternative to Commercial Surrogacy August 30, 2020 -

    Research Report for the Marvin and Kathleen Stone Fellowship This is not the report I thought I would be writing; my hope was to be able to produce a work that drew clear conclusions from my research and instead I am beset with more and broader questions surrounding reproductive technologies in general and the pervasive […]

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  • Natacha Guyot, Stone Fellowship Report August 30, 2019 -

    One of the greatest strengths of the doctoral program in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas is its interdisciplinary nature; and the Stone Fellowship allowed me to deepen this aspect of my studies. While technically my major is in Aesthetic Studies and my minor in History of Ideas, I considered both […]

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  • Rebekka Michaelsen, Stone Fellowship Report -

    Initially, I applied for the Marvin and Kathleen Stone Fellowship to complete my thesis. The “Values Lab” Seminar for the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology has evolved that goal into two journal articles for future publication. Both articles will explore the intersectionality of race and mental illness in the nineteenth century. These […]

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  • The ethics of using unethical research May 13, 2014 -

    (Part II of Fergal’s series on citing Nazi and other unethical research. Continued from Part I.) Initially I thought that the ethical question of whether it is acceptable to cite or use Nazi research data would be enough. However as I researched this topic and read more about the ethics of using data from previous […]

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  • Twitter’s Racial Diversity: The Role of Black Twitter (continued) -

    (Continued from here.) It is natural for like-minded people to want to come together to discuss issues of common interest. The internet has made it much easier for us to form communities with people who we would not ordinarily have access to. Previously, we were able to meet and discuss issues with people in our […]

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  • Twitter’s Racial Diversity: The Role of Black Twitter (Introduction) May 6, 2014 -

    An Introduction… The internet has presented many new opportunities for research. With the development of social networks, people are able to interact in the digital world and form online communities that they would not be able to form offline. Just as we’re able to gather demographic information about people in real-world communities, we can now […]

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  • Nazi Research – to use or not to use? May 2, 2014 -

    Human experimentation by Germans during the Nazi regime has become notorious owing to their barbarity. Unethical behaviour is just the first charge that could be levelled against these acts. Most people turn away from these experiments and want nothing to do with them. However it struck me that there is the possibility that not all […]

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  • Struggles with Truthfulness December 13, 2011 -

    In ‘Science, Religion, and Democracy’ Kitcher calls for us to ” do our best to tell schoolchildren the truth.”  This truth of course entails conveying scientifically based facts.  This also entails dismissing any religious beliefs that have been instilled in our students.  I wonder if Kitcher understands what an emotional blow this could represent for […]

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  • Heideggarian Philosophy of Science & Technology -

    As I was initially interested in analyzing Heidegger’s philosophy of science with regards to the debate on values our discussions never lent themselves to a phenomenological approach to the question of science & values- particular the value of human freedom.  I hope to eventually give more time to this subject in later courses of my doctoral […]

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  • The Cool Scientist December 8, 2011 -

    I must admit I have never really been inerested in the natural sciences.  I’ve always been more interested in the social sciences.  I guess it is because of  the bohemian and care-free lifestyle of the social scientist fits more my personality (yes, I can be sociable believe it or not).  I have ignorantly bought into the stereotype of the […]

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