"The lesson," he adds, "is to find a significant pain and solve it in a unique, defensible way".
Whilst a system of national assessment might provide a more defensible way to rank students for Foundation Programme jobs, it also has the opportunity to clearly define a level of expected undergraduate medical knowledge.
First off, it's a relatively defensible way to pay out healthy bonuses.
This is obvious when it comes to an issue like sexual predation: men may have strong sexual urges, but most of those cannot be acted on in a morally defensible way.
"They are, and in a completely defensible way, artistic in their exhibition and their execution," Willson says about cars that are truly beautiful.
For example, in Wallach and Allen's book Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong (2010), the authors present ideas for the design and programming of machines that can functionally reason on moral questions as well as examples from the field of robotics where engineers are trying to create machines that can behave in a morally defensible way.
Formula determined funding seems a morally defensible way to pay various contractors for identical services.
"Some of the processes have really had to be unpicked and put back together again in a much tighter, defensible way.
By separating expert responses and the identity of experts, the Classical Model of SEJ provides a means for experts to quantify scientific uncertainties on important societal issues without the risk of political confrontation, and for policy makers to utilize this information to make risk-based decisions in a transparent and defensible way.
